The illustrator Chris Judge enters the lobby of the Gresham Hotel in Dublin and apologises for the state of his hands. The Dubliner’s palms are smudged with blue paint from painting earlier in the day.
As befits an artist who has been working for more than two decades, Judge’s output crosses various media, but we are meeting to discuss his children’s book Evil Duck and the Feather of Fortune, which is a riot of primary colours. In the book the main characters, the twins Eddie and Flo, discover a secret chamber in their grandad’s attic and all hell breaks loose when they accidentally defrost a duck.
This is Judge’s first graphic novel but he has worked on more than 30 children’s books as either
