Perhaps the first time I consciously went out to report on something through illustration – as opposed to just incidentally sketching – was when I went to see Richard Ratcliff on hunger strike outside the Foreign Office in Westminster.
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Reportage illustration: going out into the world, seeing things, and drawing them. This is journalism, as much as anything I ever did as a writer on newspapers and magazines.
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I still have a few sets of postcards left over, and limited edition books.