Inktober 2016

Illustrations based on Gabriel García Márquez’s novel One Hundred Years of Solitude

"It was an absurd journey. After fourteen months, her stomach corrupted by monkey meat and snake stew, Ursula gave birth to a son who had all of his features human. She had travelled half of the trip in a hammock that two men carried on their shoulders, because swelling had disfigured her legs and her varicose veins had puffed up like bubbles."

Inktober 2016

Illustrations based on Gabriel García Márquez’s novel One Hundred Years of Solitude

Colonel Aureliano Buendia made a bonfire in the courtyard of the dolls of Remedios which had decorated their bedroom since their wedding. The watchful Ursula realised what her son was doing but she could not stop him.

"You have a heart of stone," she told him.

"It is not a question of a heart," he said. "The room's getting full of moths."

Inktober 2016

These illustrations are based on Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude.

"Ten minutes later he returned with the notched spear that had belonged to his grandfather. At the door to the cockpit, where half the town had gathered, Prudencio Aguilar was waiting for him. There was no time to defend himself. Jose Arcadio Buendia's spear, thrown with the strength of a bull and with the same good aim with which the first Aureliano Buendia had exterminated the jaguars in the region, pierced his throat."