M dad was a boxer, so he had this fierce, physical presence.
From Anthony Browne
I've always felt that I was a bit of an outsider to the British children's-book illustration scene, because I don't work in line and wash.
As a child, I'd always liked cowboys and Indians stories where there were two layers - gruesome in the foreground but funny in the background.
From 17 to 21, I was obsessed by sport and art. In art, I loved the pre-Raphaelites and Rembrandt first. Then I discovered Salvador Dali, and it was like finding something I already knew.
I use a little brush only for really small details. Over the years, I've started to use a much larger brush.
Everyone can draw when they're five. Most of us lose the ability.
A lot of my characters are underdogs or sad or lonely, but I had a comfortable, golden sort of childhood.
Picture books are being marginalised. I get the feeling children are being pushed away from picture books earlier and earlier and being told to look at 'proper' books, which means books without pictures.
I didn't have picture books - there weren't many around when I was a child.
Stories come to me and I don't know where they come from, but afterwards I can look back and say, 'Oh yes, that's got a little bit of me, or a little bit of my own son in it'. That's where ideas come from.
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