Jan 10, 2022
Charlie and Edward Carey (B: A Year in Plague and Pencils; The Swallowed Man) discuss his epic drawing project wherein he undertook to create a sketch each day of the pandemic, the various individuals whose lives became a part of the wider picture, and finish on a completely different but relevant subject - the literary and social history of Pinocchio.
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The Harry Ransom Centre
Edward's Twitter
Edward's Instagram
The Tombow B pencil
Robert Louis Stevenson's The Land Of
Counterpane
Xavier de Maistre's A Journey Around
My Room
Theodor Kittelsen
Pesta is the personification of the Black Death
The Parco di Pinocchio
Carlo Collodi
Wikipedia's article on the original
story of Pinocchio
The oak tree in Collodi where
Pinocchio was hanged
Robert Coover's Pinocchio in
Venice
The Foundling Hospital Museum, London
The Ospedale degli Innocenti
Question Index
00:53 Was there a defining moment in your life
when you realised you wanted to write and illustrate?
02:25 (Asking about Edward's role at the
University of Texas)
04:24 Plague and Pencils: why did you start the
project?
07:58 Was there any day's work/a couple of days'
work that defines the project for you in terms of the actual
drawings?
10:11 How many pencils did you get through?
10:54 Can you tell us about your art supplies and
the pencils you use?
12:14 If you ever ran out of the Tombow Bs, what
would be the next best pencil?
13:01 You often drew people who wrote in isolation
or quarantine...
17:08 Was there a particular reason for the dates
of the drawings not being included in the book?
19:53 You drew for 500 days; when did you know you
had finished?
23:16 You've said you'd never written a diary, but
you have now effectively got one. Do you think you might consider
doing anything similar again?
23:58 If we can funnel what's been said already,
what effect did this project have on you?
25:15 Your latest book is The Swallowed Man. Can
you introduce it to us?
33:44 You wrote a stage adaptation of
Pinocchio?...
Purchase Links
B: A Year In Plague And Pencils:
Amazon UK
Amazon US
Waterstones
Hive
Barnes & Noble
IndieBound
Indigo Chapters
The Swallowed Man:
Amazon UK
Amazon US
Amazon Canada
Waterstones
Hive
Barnes & Noble
IndieBound
Indigo Chapters
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Photograph used with the permission of the marketing team. Credit: Elizabeth McCracken.