Brunetti is a critically acclaimed cartoonist and illustrator ... an easily accessible body of work, or one book that made it really big—makes Aesthetics a fascinating read.

The lo-fi silk screen print aesthetic continues ... "Though no single book can do justice to the ever expanding field of illustration, American Illustration remains, in my opinion, the gold ...

each was published with profuse illustrations, and in each case the author relied on the artwork not only to enhance the aesthetic appeal of the book but to add meaningfully to the story.

The illustration in the center ... images that sometimes seem to convey less about the book itself than about the power of the series’ aesthetic. “They’re sensibility-forward,” Mendelsund ...

(Courtesy New York Review Books ... ersatz-Victorian illustrations have for more than a half-century captivated audiences with their eccentric aesthetics and macabre sense of humor.

While technically the illustrations belong to books targeted at children ... Work seemingly directed at children has long evoked the aesthetics of the socio-political climate.

The illustrations were so elegant and her ... inside a furnished dollhouse I created inside an armoire. Those books were an aesthetic education that sparked my imagination." David Alhadeff ...