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James Nunn | |
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| Occupation(s) | Illustrator and print maker |
| Known for | Book cover artist |
| Website | jamesnunn |
James Nunn (born in 1973 in Yorkshire) is a British illustrator, print maker, and book cover artist. [1] He is best known for the panda artwork on the cover of Lynn Truss's bestseller Eats, Shoots & Leaves , [2] [3] and for creating many of the covers in the Shortest History book series. [4] He also created The Corbyn Colouring Book, a colouring book themed on Jeremy Corbyn, [3] [5] [6] [7] and illustrated Colouring the Tour de France (2016), written by William Fotheringham. [2] [8] [9] His artistic practice focuses on drawing and printmaking. [10] In 2024, he won the Academy of British Cover Design's award in the young adult category for the cover of Federico Ivanier's Never tell anyone your name. [11] [12]
if you must insist on buying an adult colouring book, make it James Nunn's The Corbyn Colouring Book (Old Street), not least because it will doubtless soon become a collector's item
The book cleverly taps into the newly discovered fascination among adults to colour things in and, of course, you are now all expecting a joke about the colour red, aren't you? It occurs to Atticus, however, that given the amount of infighting and fisticuffs among Corbyn's vicious bunch of lefties, the colours black and blue may be more useful.
With an adult colouring book we can create our own such books, providing hours of endless drawing fun. Two sporting versions of the format that stand out are Colouring the Tour de France by James Nunn and William Fotheringham with its attention to historic detail. And Richard Mitchelson's Grand Tour...
Thankfully, not everyone is taking it [the trend for adult colouring books] too seriously. Last week James Nunn, the illustrator who drew the panda on the grammar book Eats, Shoots and Leaves ... revealed a Jeremy Corbyn colouring book ("red pencil not included"). In dozens of scenes, the Labour leader appears as Moses, parting the Red Sea, and as a bearded Mona Lisa.
The Jeremy Corbyn colouring book ("red pencil not included") has gone down such a storm in Labour HQ that there's talk of them bulk ordering 500 copies to give away to fans and supporters ... The book, drawn by James Nunn, features the Labour leader, among other things, parting the Red Sea and as a collection of Russian dolls. ... One of the drawings, however, catches the attention a bit more than the others. It's a reinterpretation of Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling fresco, with Jezza as Adam and Karl Marx as God.
There is a metamodernism underlying new socialism—a temperament outlined by Vermeulen and van den Akker (2010) as 'characterized by the oscillation between a typically modern commitment and a markedly postmodern detachment'. It is this sentiment that led to supporters holding life-sized cut outs of Corbyn; of chanting Corbyn riffs or buying Corbyn colouring books. It speaks of an ironic self-awareness that would not have been given to Foot in the 1980s, or Nye Bevan, say, in the 1950s (see, for example, the Corbyn colouring book, cut-out book, comic book, and annual—Nunn 2017; Mackie 2015; Rowson 2017; Goodwin 2017, respectively). And yet this ironic self-awareness is itself ironised—for what is wanted is not clever apathy, but knowing commitment.
James Nunn's tongue-in-cheek book-cover design, which transforms the volume into a mildewed Soviet school textbook, is a delightful sots-art contribution.
They ... splashed out on the then fashionable illustrator, James Nunn – his previous work included that megaselling work of non-fiction, Eats, Shoots and Leaves – to add a bit of pictorial pep to my empurpled prose.
James Nunn's illustrations capture Yun Yun's naiveté and youth, reflecting her narrative with a simple directness.
This unusual Chinese YA novella, with its striking black-and-white brush-stroke illustrations is a fascinating glimpse into a different culture.
Blacklock has gone to the trouble of commissioning drawings, by James Nunn, to illustrate [the four boys'] wonderfully divergent responses to an exercise their father sets them during their sea voyage, to chart the SS Tacoma's course.
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