Hmm... what (more) to say about my work?..

Here's a few things some other people have said:

'Joel Stewart's talent for telling is every bit as insightful as his drawings.' The Guardian.

"..Conviction and craft defying sense and logic and creating enchantment." Books For Keeps.

(Of the Adventures of a Nose). 'The pictures are beautiful and ingenious.' The Observer.

(Of Underwater Farmyard). "One of those rare books that make you very glad something so strange and beautiful exists'. The Independent.

So that's nice. From my end I suppose I can say that I am trying to make the kinds of images and picture books I thought, or half remembered existed, but couldn't quite find when I went and looked. Of course they come out some other way again than that, but maybe one day other people will half remember them.

This is the best way I've ever had it put:

"Joel Stewarts dear Figuerlein, its melancholisch swung flowers and even its geheimnisumwitterten night shapes turn the cheerful and peculiar one out. They do not va rnish anything. But they stand as dezent and in a spirit of mutual confidence beside the bad texts as a good friend, into whose heart one can pay its grief and which will bring one perhaps back to the laughter." (Google translation from the German newspaper Die Zeit).