Gabriel Alborozo

Illustrator and Cartoonist, Gabriel Alborozo, talks to Giuseppe Castellano about the anxiety-inducing choice to be a children’s book author and illustrator; why he sometimes sees the agent-illustrator relationship as “owner-pet”, how he handled rejections from agents for being “just a cartoonist”; what your big social media following says about you and your art (hint: not much); and how Gabriel dreamt of being a matte painter after watching Star Wars in 1977—and why it never happened.

To learn more about Gabriel, visit alborozo.co.uk.

Here are a few of the illustrators we mention: E.H. Shepard, Quentin Blake, Edward Ardizzone, Ronald Searle, Jean-Jacques Sempé, Gerald Scarfe, André François, Ralph Steadman, Harrison Ellenshaw, Frank Ordaz, Christoper Evans, and Ralph McQuarrie

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