Then                                                                               Now■  Bread and dripping                                                ■  Sourdough and olive oil This greasy treat probably wasn’t kind to arteries.        Artisan bakers and delis have changed o...

walking, talking, beret - wearing dog! What's the thinking behind limited colour palette you use? The black, white, grey, red and pink colour just arrived in my sketchbook with Claude! He lives in a slightly retro sort of a world - quite 1950s/60s

Heffley.What was your childhood like? I grew up in Washington DC, in a sort of average middleclass household. My father was a military analyst, my mother was an educator. I have an older sister, and an older brother and a younger brother, but I felt like a

in a leafy Dublin suburb, where Orla lived with her parents and three siblings in a modern 1950s-style house that was filled with colour. “My childhood was lovely,” she says. “We had lots of friends, and it was very free. Of course, it was Ireland, so

And Language Of Schoolchildren by Iona and Peter Opie,” recalls Allan Ahlberg. “It’s a collection of playground rhymes from the 1930s into the 1950s. It was the idea that you could hide things in the pictures and then reveal them. It’s a very simple text