Francis Vallejo on illustrating the Folio edition of Anansi Boys

Award-winning American artist Francis Vallejo was chosen by Neil Gaiman himself to illustrate the Folio edition of Anansi Boys, and the result has to be one of Folio’s most joyous creations.

Francis says: “This project gave me the most cool stuff to work on that I’ve ever had… hopefully it got conveyed in the art that I did, because I had a blast doing it.”

As well as vivid spiderwebs on the page tops and five superb full-colour illustrations, the Folio edition of Anansi Boys features a very special tactile pictorial slipcase and a binding that nods to the dual nature shared by the characters Fat Charlie and Spider. Inside, fully illustrated, original black-and-white chapter headings tell their own folktale – all of which are especially fitting for a book about the power and vitality of stories.

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