{"id":249217,"date":"2026-05-31T03:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T03:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/249217\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T03:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T03:56:08","slug":"of-dahl-seuss-quentin-blake-of-illustration-kings-queens-the-daily-cartoonist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/249217\/","title":{"rendered":"Of Dahl & Seuss & Quentin Blake, Of Illustration Kings (& Queens) \u2013 The Daily Cartoonist"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It is the Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration<\/a>. The treasury of illustration art was years in the making<\/a> and is scheduled to open next week on June 5, 2026. Stuart Hertage for The Guardian reports:<\/a> <\/p>\n

Spread across a sprawling 17th-century industrial complex in London\u2019s Clerkenwell, the Quentin Blake<\/a> Centre for Illustration, which opens next month, is being billed as the largest institution of\u00a0its kind anywhere in the\u00a0world: a permanent national home for an art\u00a0form that shapes everything from children\u2019s books and political cartoons to animation, fashion, advertising and digital\u00a0culture. Part museum, part gallery and part creative laboratory, the centre represents an extraordinary attempt to drag illustration out of the margins and finally place it at the heart of British cultural life. <\/p>\n

\"\"Quentin Blake<\/p>\n

Eventually the centre will become home to Blake\u2019s own enormous archive: 40,000 drawings created by one of the UK\u2019s best-known and most immediately recognisable artists. Now 93, Blake has spent three-quarters of a century bringing the words of some of our most beloved authors to life. Roald Dahl is the big one, of course \u2013 it\u2019s impossible to think of Dahl without seeing Blake\u2019s energetic, dip-pen pictures \u2013 but the list also includes Michael Rosen, John Yeoman, Sylvia Plath and Voltaire, as well as Blake\u2019s own books. <\/p>\n

\"\"The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler<\/p>\n

For years, illustrators have been overlooked, seen as people who come in and do the decorating after the house has been built. But this couldn\u2019t be further from the truth. <\/p>\n

Heritage interviews a number of illustrators including Quentin Blake himself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Skip to comments It is the Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration. The treasury of illustration art was years…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":249218,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9902,9905,9909,9898,9899,9908,9904,9901,9903,9,24,9907,63,122,124,123,9906,9900],"class_list":["post-249217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-animation","tag-cartoonists","tag-comic-pages","tag-comic-strips","tag-editorial-cartoonists","tag-funny-pages","tag-gag-and-panel-cartoons","tag-graphic-novels","tag-magazine-cartoonists","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-newspaper-comics","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-syndication","tag-webcomics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}