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- About two years ago, Charlie Mackesy, an artist in South London, began posting pen-and-ink drawings about a little boy and his animal friends. One of their earliest appearances, in January 2018, was a simple depiction of the child and a mole sitting together, each wrapped in a blanket, looking into each other’s eyes.
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Oct 6, 2021 · Three years ago, Charlie Mackesy uploaded a drawing of a boy and a mole to his Instagram account. The boy looks young, barely a toddler, barely the size of the mole, and the mole looks slightly concerned; it adds to the cuteness.
Charlie Mackesy: the true story behind the Boy, the Mole, the Fox and me. The artist, illustrator and author didn’t find himself until his fifties — when his poignant drawings struck a chord. He tells the story behind each character and how they saved him.
In 2022 the BBC made a documentary about Mackesy, the book and the making of the film, titled Charlie Mackesy: The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, the Horse and Me. It featured contributions from Bear Grylls, who was a childhood friend of Mackesy's, Richard Curtis, Oprah Winfrey, J. J. Abrams and Tom Hollander. [11]
- He Likes to Do Calisthenics Between Drawings
- He’S Become More Open in The Second Half of His Life
- He’S Working on An Animated Film
- He’D Like to Make A Book About The Last Year
During the interview, Joe spots some rings hanging from Charlie’s ceiling, so Charlie explains that he likes to do little bits of exercise between drawings. “I’m really bad at organised exercise… so I do it randomly when I feel like it,” he says. “When I get bored of drawing, I’ll just take two steps to the left and just hang from the rings.” He la...
While Charlie says that much of his early life was spent in emotional confusion, asking why things happened, he says as he’s aged (he’s now 59) he’s become much more focused on talking about things. “The second half of my life, I’ve just really enjoyed having conversations that are open,” he says. “By having those conversations, you can encourage o...
After being brought to two-dimensional life in a book, Charlie tells Joe that the boy and his friends are due to be given an extra dimension in an upcoming animated film. And that’s involved looking at them in a whole new way. “I’ve had to think about them a lot more and work out what they’re like from every angle, which has been interesting,” he s...
Charlie says he’d like to produce more books, “because I know the characters have more to say. They’ve definitely been through a storm this year.” He wants to make a book that tackles what the whole of humanity has been through during the pandemic: “I’d like to make something that’s quite retrospective about what we’ve been through. We need to reme...
Jan 2, 2021 · It’s the touching tale of a curious boy and his journey with a cake-obsessed mole, a world-weary fox and a wise horse that is told through the conversations between these four unlikely companions, their adventures brought to life by the author’s own exquisite illustrations.
Dec 14, 2020 · His drawings are ubiquitous – maybe you’ve seen them in the streets, in schools and hospitals, online, or in his bestselling The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse – but the book’s author, Charlie Mackesy, is a somewhat less omnipresent figure.
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse is a 2019 illustrated book by Charlie Mackesy. It follows the developing friendship between the four titular protagonists.
