Milimbo III

 

A wordless storytelling book by the genius's of Milimbo, using photographs of scenic collages in this case to illustrate Red Riding Hood, but this large format book as other illustration styles for each classic fairytale. 

Paloma Corral

Spanish illustrator, Paloma Corral's wolf with the bonny evidence of his previous misdemeanors in his insides.

Helena Perez Garcia

Spanish artist Helena Perez Garcia's interpretation of Little Red from 2017.

Bárbara Alonso

Spanish illustrator Bárbara Alonso's 'Little Red' made in a bright, highly patterned, graphic design.

Carmen Saldana

Spanish illustrator and textile designer; Carmen Saldana's winter wolf.

Marta Altés

A wondrous autumn, leaf cut, 'Little Red Riding Hood' by Marta Altés who is always so clever in her use of found or waste materials.

Javier Jaén

A wonderful peg assemblage by Spanish designer Javier Jaén.

Marta Sevilla

An illustration by Spanish illustrator Marta Sevilla of a sheep in wolves clothing as opposed to the wolf in sheep's clothing.

Efealcuadrado

This piece by Spanish illustrator Efealcuadrado is called independent it is a hybrid creature with characteristics of a wolf, badger and fox. Efealcuadrado gets great variety in her marks and textures in her work giving them great charisma and warmth.

Eduardo Flores Marco

Spanish Illustrator Eduardo Flores Marco's Little Red Riding Hood has been illustrated with a rich autumnal palette and has beautiful intricate details hidden within the pictures that after you have seen the story bring you back to look again and see other narratives. (Thank you)

Julio Antonio Blasco I

A wonderful eclectic mix of media and techniques is used by Julio Antonio Blasco to illustrate Arnal Txabi's 'La Ladrona De Sellos' (The Stamp Theif) is a very original and tender sequel to the original story. I love the use of stamps print and layered sketches it is vibrant and exciting.

Adolfo Serra

Adolfo Serra's 'Caperucita Roja' is a wordless book exploring ideas of where fear dwells and has some wonderful merging of the wolf into other pictorial ingredients such as Grandma's house and Little Red's hair.

References
http://adolfoserra.blogspot.co.uk/

Terresa Bellon

A lovely interpretation of Little Red by Spanish illustrator Terresa Bellon.

Carles Porta

                         Fig 1,2,3 (Above): Opening Puck Cinema Caravana 2011 from Carles Porta on Vimeo.

A tiny but beautiful animation by Carles Porta for 'Puck' the smallest cinema on earth. 

                                         Fig 4 (above) Puck Cinema 

Puck is a cinema 'camping trailer' that sits an exclusive audience of seven people and shows short animations.

Carles Porta is a Spanish illustrator, animator and graphic designer born in Madrid and trained in Barcelona.

References:

Fig 1,2,3 Carles Porta https://vimeo.com/19001702

http://www.carlesporta.com/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/carlesporta/sets/72157622861038181/

Milimbo II

'Better to eat you with' by Milimbo in collaboration with Raquel Saiz is a book/game with a folding 'mask of characters for peeping through, poking fingers through or shadow play. Versatility is a strong element of Milimbo's books and toys, they are designed to let the imagination free to roam, play, invent and reinvent. This folding game allows the characters to be repositioned and have different dialogues and create new stories.

References:

Fig 1,2,3, 'Better to eat you with' by Milimbo and Raquel Saiz http://www.milimboblog.blogspot.co.uk/

Milimbo I

A story book and a game all beautifully printed and tactile in a wonderful oversized matchbox style box, this is Little, Little Red by Studio Milimbo.
Spanish publisher Milimbo uses lots of traditional fairy tales, with Red Riding Hood a firm favourite. Milimbo's unique storytelling is through games, play and textless, beautiful books using code and map forms in a similar way to Warja Honegger-Lavater. As Juanjo say's; "We will not tire of Little Red Riding Hood".

References:

Fig 1,2,3 Little,Little Red by Milimbo http://www.milimbo.com/index.php/editorial/little-little-red/
https://www.etsy.com/shop/milimbo?page=2
http://www.milimboblog.blogspot.co.uk/

Raquel Aparicio I

Raquel Aparicio's stamp werewolf or Red Riding Hood has a super imposed red wolf over a boy/ girls face in a postage stamp form. Raquel is a Spanish illustrator who works producing illustrations for editorials, patterns for textiles and children's illustrations.

"I try to tell different stories with my drawings. I try to connect with the viewer telling tales." Raquel Aparicio

There is a blurry line between the mythology of werewolves and Little Red Riding Hood which increases or decreases according to public tastes and different interpretations of the tale, something I will be exploring later.

References:

http://cargocollective.com/raquelaparicio/
http://www.gallerynucleus.com/artist/raquel__aparicio_

Raul Nieto Guridi II

Fig 1(above): Un clásico...by Raul Nieto Guridi

Spanish illustrator Raul Nieto Guridi's fantastic portfolio is full of inventive and creative Red Riding Hood illustrations and interpretations. This image 'Un clásico' layers photography, print and illustration with a meter rule becoming the path or map of the adventure.

References: 

Fig 1: Classic by Raul Guridi http://guridi.blogspot.co.uk/2012/02/un-clasico.html

http://guridi.blogspot.co.uk/
https://www.facebook.com/GuridiRaul

Raul Nieto Guridi I

Fig 1 (above): Fin ¿Dónde está caperucita? Con Cecilia Moreno illustrated by Raul Guridi  

Fig 2 (above) : Cover of ¿Dónde está caperucita? Con Cecilia Moreno illustrated by Raul Guridi

Fig 3 (above) An elderly Red Riding Hood by Raul Guridi

Raul Guridi is a smiling Spanish illustrator from Saville. His mother was a painter and his father a draughtsman so it was natural that Guridi trained in and now teaches art at secondary school, and works as an illustrator and graphic designer. Often reworking classics with his own unique eye and humour using print, collage and a mixture of other medias.
Fig 4, Below: 'Fin' by Raul Guridi

References:

Fig 1: Final page from ¿Dónde está caperucita? by Cecilia Moreno illustrated by Raul Guridi 
         http://guridi.blogspot.com.es/2013/08/fin.html
Fig 2: Cover of ¿Dónde está caperucita? Con Cecilia Moreno illustrated by Raul Guridi
         http://guridi.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/donde-esta-caperucita-con-cecilia-moreno.html
Fig 3: An elderly Red Riding Hood by Raul Guridi 
          https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=616750325040106&set=pb.100001154315756.-2207520000.1420230158.&type=3&theater
Fig 4: 'Fin' by Raul Guridi http://guridi.blogspot.com.es/2012/11/fin.html

http://guridi.blogspot.co.uk/
https://www.facebook.com/GuridiRaul

Miguel Tanco, Caperucita Roja

Fig 1(above): Miguel Tanco, Caperucita Roja 2009

Miguel Tanco shares some of his thoughts, decisions and working methods used when approaching this classic tale for Edelvives in 2009. Caperucita Roja written by Pepe Maestro, illustrated by Miguel Tanco was part of an interesting collection, written and illustrated reinterpretations of children's classics.

"I guess the first thing we do when we were commissioned a classic is to see the different versions that have been made, especially the most original and daring. There will be hundreds, thousands of versions in different countries, including the vision of Gustave Doré, Kveta Pakovska, Nicoletta Ceccoli or Annalaura Cantone, and the very remarkable conceptual work with pictograms by Honegger-Lavater Warja."

The best way to start is that proposed by Maurice Sendak:

"An illustrator in my own mind — and this is not a truth of any kind — is someone who so falls in love with writing that he wishes he had written it, and the closest he can get to is illustrating it. And the next thing you learn, you have to find something unique in this book, which perhaps even the author was not entirely aware of. And that’s what you hold on to, and that’s what you add to the pictures: a whole 'Other Story' that you believe in, that you think is there." Maurice Sendak

Fig 2 (above): Miguel Tanco, Caperucita Roja 2009

"There's something that disturbed me in caperucita. I guess that by now everyone knows that riding hood is a history of oral tradition and then told-changed by Perrault and later Grimm. At first it was a story to warn teenagers of the trickery of men, hence the archetype of the black wolf to symbolize the adult male wild, evil in the world, perhaps a touch of racism the black man.
I explored the stereotypes of good and evil, and above all, the colors assigned to the characters. I heeded the advice of M. Sendak and decided from there that the wolf would not be black, it would be white and caperucita would perhaps African black carnation.
Talking to the publishing company the thinking was that it was best to develop the character as a gypsy. More close to us,  a part of our culture.
This opened a new door and gave the story a twist." 

Fig 3 (above): Miguel Tanco, Caperucita Roja 2009

"The characters would all be gypsies with their wagons, brightly colored traditional dresses and ornaments. It would also be a paradox that have no fixed home and are nomads, a roaming characteristic that is usually the wolfs.
Before I started the drawings, I looked for information on the Roma people, I read about racism and persecution, I explored their history.
As a ritual I keep a plastic folder which I label with the name of the book, to which I add any material remotely related, the history, photos, ads, pieces of colored paper, fabrics . . ."  Miguel Tanco

                         Fig 4 (above): Miguel Tanco, Caperucita Roja 2009

References

Fig 1,2,3,4: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Caperucita-Little-Riding-Colorin-Colorado/dp/8426371779

http://migueltanco.com/
http://www.edelvives.com/
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Maurice_Sendak