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Paul Buckley:
We produce Penguin Classics Deluxe Editions when we want to make a splash about something; maybe it is a writer’s important anniversary, or we have a new translation and-or introduction by a modern scholar resulting in a far more updated and enjoyable read, or it may be a book that we had never published here at Penguin and we want to make some noise about it now that we are. As always, my goal is to make this material attractive to a modern audience... some of these stories may take place in another time and place, but they are still universal human stories, just the props are different. They always have lovely production values, various special papers, bits of foil on occasion, rough fronts, and always french flaps. This is the closest I get to Art Direction nirvana, as my instructions to artists are always the same - I really want you to go for it, I will keep the powers that be at bay, have fun, shock us, make us laugh, make us go ohhhh my god. And generally it works... we get amazing results and there is an agreement with editorial to not nitpic these and do not try to bring anything into the series that has a conservative author or estate on the other end.
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Art Noma Bar
Design & Art Direction Paul Buckley
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Art & Design C. C. Askew
Art Direction Paul Buckley
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Art & Design Jillian Tamaki
Art Direction Paul Buckley
Art & Design
La Boca
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Art Direction
Paul Buckley
Art & Design
R. Kikuo Johnson
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Art Direction
Paul Buckley
Art
Juan Gómez aka Bakea
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Design & Art Direction
Paul Buckley
Art & Design
Malika Favre
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Art Direction
Paul Buckley
Art & Design
Mario De Meyer
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Art Direction
Paul Buckley
Art
Brian Rea
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Design & Art Direction
Paul Buckley
Art & Design
Adam Simpson
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Art Direction
Paul Buckley
Art & Design
Roman Muradov
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Art Direction
Paul Buckley
Art & Design
Roman Muradov
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Art Direction
Paul Buckley
Art & Design
Aron Wiesenfeld
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Design & Art Direction
Paul Buckley
Art
Romy Blümel
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Design & Art Direction
Paul Buckley
Art & Design
Siobhán Gallagher
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Art Direction
Paul Buckley
Art
Frank Miller
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Design & Art Direction
Paul Buckley
Art
Tomer Hanuka
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Design
Paul Buckley & Tomer Hanuka
Art Direction
Paul Buckley
Art
Mike Mignola
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Design & Art Direction
Paul Buckley
Art
Michael Cho
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Design & Art Direction
Paul Buckley
Art & Design
Zohar Lazar
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Art Direction
Paul Buckley
Art
Travis Louie
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Design & Art Direction
Paul Buckley
Art & Design
S. Kolakovic
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Art Direction
Paul Buckley
Art & Design
Neil Gower
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Art Direction
Paul Buckley
Art & Design
Ivan Brunetti
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Art Direction
Paul Buckley
Art & Design
Jordan Crane
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Art Direction
Paul Buckley
Art & Design
Art Spiegelman
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Art Direction
Paul Buckley
Art & Design
Ross MacDonald
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Art Direction
Paul Buckley
Art & Design
Tim Lane
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Art Direction
Paul Buckley
Art & Design
Patrick Killoffer
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Art Direction
Paul Buckley
Art & Design
Daniel Clowes
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Art Direction
Paul Buckley
Art & Design
Charles Burns
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Art Direction
Paul Buckley
Art
Ted Stearn
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Art Direction
Paul Buckley
Art & Design
Tony Millionaire
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Art Direction
Paul Buckley
Art & Design
Sammy Harkham
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Art Direction
Paul Buckley
Art & Design
Joe Sacco
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Art Direction
Paul Buckley
Art & Design
Jason
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Art Direction
Paul Buckley
Art
Lilli Carré
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Design & Art Direction
Paul Buckley
Art & Design
Chester Brown
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Art Direction
Paul Buckley
Art & Design
Julie Doucet
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Art Direction
Paul Buckley
Art & Design
Richard Sala
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Art Direction
Paul Buckley
Art & Design
Audrey Niffenegger
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Art Direction
Paul Buckley
Art & Design
Audrey Niffenegger
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Art Direction
Paul Buckley
Art & Design
Tom Gauld
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Art Direction
Paul Buckley