Books &Errol Le Cain &Illustration 06 Sep 2007 08:05 am
Errol LeCain – Puffin
– I need not tell you that I’m a fan of the work of Errol LeCain. I have a good collection of his illustrated books.
To remind you, he’s the artist who led the design and stylization of the BG’s for Dick Williams’ Cobbler and the Thief feature. He worked at Dick’s Soho Square studio until his death. Something in his style always held me captive. I suspect this is what initially drew me to Richard Williams‘ work.
I’ve gotten my hands on this 1976 “Puffin’s Pleasure” book. It’s sort of a sampler of piece by the artists and writers who’ve done many of Puffin’s books. (Puffin is the children’s book division of Penguin Books.)
Within this book, Errol LeCain has a three page spread. The first image below covers the first page of his piece. This is all the text the article gives us.
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I’ve done a number of posts featuring LeCain’s art.
You can view them here:
____The Snow Queen_______________-____Aladdin
____Growltiger_________________________Thorn Rose
____Pied Piper of Hamelin_______________12 Dancing Princesses
____Have You Seen My Sister____________Hiawatha’s Childhood
- Just for my own amusement here are a couple of setups from Dick Williams’ film,
The Cobbler and the Thief. Errol LeCain did the backgrounds.
Thanks to Garrett Gilchrist for these images.______
If you haven’t seen Jaime Weinman‘s article on Ed Benedict (actually Amid Amidi’s Animation Blast article with some stills added), check it out.
on 14 Sep 2010 at 4:56 am 1.Roland de Groot said …
Wonderfull site! as a great fan of errol le cain I would like to know more of his life, is there a bio? kind regards, Roland
on 27 Dec 2014 at 10:16 am 2.MarÃa Elena Rábago said …
Me encanta este sitio. Soy gran admiradora de Errol Lecain!
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