Meet the author

Blexbolex.

Writer & illustrator · France

French artist whose silkscreen-style fantasy The Magicians is part graphic novel, part picture book, part art object — a bold, beautiful reading experience like nothing else on the shelf.

Blexbolex is the pen name of French artist Bernard Granger, a screen-printer by training whose highly stylised, silkscreen-like illustration has made him one of the most distinctive picture-book makers working today. For older children he is the creator of The Magicians, an action-packed fantasy in which three young shapeshifting magicians burst from hiding and scatter on their own journeys, pursued by a fierce Huntress and her mechanical lion-dragon. Every page is built from layered spot colours in a festive, vintage-circus palette, with the text running beneath the images like film subtitles, so the youngest can lose themselves in the movement while readers of nine and up follow the headlong chase. Part graphic novel, part picture book, part art object, Blexbolex's work is bold, beautiful and genuinely singular, made to be pored over as much as read.