Books by W Heath Robinson
Railway Ribaldry
by W Heath Robinson
They’re cartoons, but they’re also diagrams of machines. They’re funny, but they always work. You can see instantly what the machine does. They look overly complex, and they are, but there’s no decoration in them. It’s all storytelling. This book had a huge influence on me.
Interviews where books by W Heath Robinson were recommended
The Best Comic Books, recommended by Tom Gauld
The cartoonist and illustrator says the relationship between words and pictures is an interesting one. A bad picture book would say “this is an apple”, a good one “this is not a pipe”
