immonen illustrations

La Guerre Infernale, written and illustrated in 1908 by Pierre Giffard and Albert Robida, was a serialized children’s novel, predicting a global aerial war among Germany, Britain, the USA and Japan in the 20th Century. Robida’s drawings are magnificent (when not xenophobic and racist), and indicate an ease with the mundane as well as the fantastic. Think Miyazaki illustrating Wells, but more French.

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Posted by Stuart on Friday, July 23rd, 2010 and is filed under diversion, found, illustration, technique, www. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.