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Under a Medieval Sky
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summerfields, mailed out our childhood copies of the Beebo and Mop books. I'm going to scan them in, if possible. Thanks, Anney!
The art was just as remarkable and beautiful and strange as I remembered. Full of gears and stairways and strange devices and passageways and melancholy beauty. I've scanned in some samples at 300 dpi. Click through to see them. The artist was Alain Grée.
Beebo, a middle-aged inventor and artist, has just been fired from his job on the Paris Metro. Here, he's returning to his attic apartment. He lives in a jumble of ancient apartments, with modern highrises going up to a clouded sky in the distance.
Beebo inherits a ruined house. He and his friend Mop (and Mop's hamster) turn it into something of a cross between the House on the Rock and The Best Thing Ever. Note the sky. When I was about 12 years old, I read The Hideous Strength by C.S. Lewis, wherein he describes a "yellow sky" like a medieval parchment. There it is.
Just part of an image of the inside of the house, on a magical night when Beebo is dozing by the fire. I'm missing the most interesting bit, which spills over on the other page - the throwaway details of hall ways and hanging staircases leading to rooms and rooms and rooms... I've dreamed of those staircases more than once.
Later, Beebo and Mop are threatened with eviction, and built a dragon out of old cars.
It's not all whimsical. Beebo's nightmare is straight out of Hieronymus Bosch.
I will be scanning the complete books as time allows.
summerfields, mailed out our childhood copies of the Beebo and Mop books. I'm going to scan them in, if possible. Thanks, Anney!The art was just as remarkable and beautiful and strange as I remembered. Full of gears and stairways and strange devices and passageways and melancholy beauty. I've scanned in some samples at 300 dpi. Click through to see them. The artist was Alain Grée.
Beebo, a middle-aged inventor and artist, has just been fired from his job on the Paris Metro. Here, he's returning to his attic apartment. He lives in a jumble of ancient apartments, with modern highrises going up to a clouded sky in the distance.
Beebo inherits a ruined house. He and his friend Mop (and Mop's hamster) turn it into something of a cross between the House on the Rock and The Best Thing Ever. Note the sky. When I was about 12 years old, I read The Hideous Strength by C.S. Lewis, wherein he describes a "yellow sky" like a medieval parchment. There it is.
Just part of an image of the inside of the house, on a magical night when Beebo is dozing by the fire. I'm missing the most interesting bit, which spills over on the other page - the throwaway details of hall ways and hanging staircases leading to rooms and rooms and rooms... I've dreamed of those staircases more than once.
Later, Beebo and Mop are threatened with eviction, and built a dragon out of old cars.
It's not all whimsical. Beebo's nightmare is straight out of Hieronymus Bosch.
I will be scanning the complete books as time allows.
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