Welcome to newsletter number eight. At the moment I'm very distracted by thoughts of lunch, and also am tired as a bear because I thought it would be a good idea at 11pm last night to reorganise the entire studio. Turns out I have a lot of paper... a lot. I guess you know things are going well as a papery-illustrator when you run out of storage space and you have to buy more drawers to put said paper in, so you can repeat the process ad infinitum. Let's begin.
THINGS THAT HAPPENED ON THE BLOG THIS WEEK:
This quote (below), that quote, and I mumbled a bit about 'yinshi'.
BOOK-RELATED NEWS:
I heard news from the Italian translator (who is actually adorable) that the Italian edition of Lost in Translation has just been reprinted a 7th time. It's bonkers and I don't think anyone saw that coming.
Things have also been going well in Japan, with their edition. They're taking over Instagram and sending me the cutest emails. So I need to go to Japan and I need to go now.
THINGS NOBODY ELSE HAS SEEN, EVER:
1. This rather green colour-way of my only illustrated (and much beloved) map.
2. Continuing the green theme, a little collage I made while living in Switzerland. It may or not have been inspired by the time when we demolished the liquor cabinet (which contained some deadly Swiss concoctions nobody should ever consume). The morning after I travelled 11 hours on a train to Vienna (it was more awful than words can describe).
3. Turns out I totally lied about only having done one illustrated map, because I just found this guy.
The end.
There we have it, the newsletter hath come to an end. I'm now going to sort through all my everyday-sort-of-boring paperwork and put it into sections, because I like to do fun things on a Saturday. Though I'm not a total recluse (yet), because this evening I'm going to the first UK performance of an Edith Piaf concert, and I'm already mentally prepared to cry, a lot.
Wait, I've just realised something monumental: I love culture that makes you cry. Or maybe I just cry very easily. Either way, breakthrough.
Farewell, see you next sometime.
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