Charles Geer (1922 – 2008) est un illustrateur états-unien qui a travaillé principalement dans la littérature jeunesse et les couvertures de romans sentimentaux. Dans le premier cas, il a un trait vif et enlevé qui a été très populaire et qui me rappelle étrangement certains illustrateurs soviétiques pour enfants ou européens en général. Je préfère largement son travail couleurs aux illustrations noir et blanc que je trouve quelques fois un peu confuses.
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Mais un trait de couleur et son noir et blanc est sauf.
C’est sur le fil,mais tout dégage un charme considérable.On en retrouve trace chez beaucoup,bande dessinée comprise,mais sans cette rigueur discrète,une discipline manifeste.
Oui, dès qu’il pose une couleur, ça tient beaucoup mieux.
Des retrouvailles…Quand Morris illustrait Paul Berna, ou un pan de l’œuvre tout aussi vivante, pleine de santé de Noël Gloesner quelques heureuses connivences et parentés…
Ça fait du bien de se replonger dans son monde particulièrement à l’aise dans la bichromie…
Alors là, c’est du pointu de pointu. Pas trouvé une seule image de ce Cheval sans tête illustré par Morris. J’ai dû croiser du Gloesner sans le savoir.
On trouve des images dans un bouquin de Delporte”la face cachée de Morris” sorti vers 1992/93 mais il n’a pas grand chose.
Il me semble bien en avoir vu d’autres sur un site, ah oui lequel, consacré au journal Spirou…
Il faudrait que je pose la question sur un groupe fan de Morris.