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The third in a five part series, The Devil’s Horde.

Simón the rabbit planted a lot of carrots, but someone suggested he try lettuce, someone else tomatoes, someone else eggplants… and the vegetable patch grew, and had not just vegetables but some very special gardeners: the rat, the hen, the goat, the piglet, the vixen… The 10th International Composteia Prize for illustrated books honours collaborative work, and living in contact and harmony with

Global risk is one of the central problems facing humanity: since 9/11 we have become clearly aware of how vulnerable our societies are; many ecological catastrophes are a fait accompli and others are on the horizon, such as climate change or the social disasters brought about by the economic crisis.

This book proposes a profound revision of graphic illustration from the period 1800 to 1870, examined here as a problematic body of images frequently assigned contradictory meanings, plagued by anachronisms and ill-adjusted with respect to some of the stylistic and ideological principles of the historical view of 19th-century art.