Dimensions: 10 x 17 cm
Signed and dated along the edge: 'E.S.Pawel '88'
Biography
After graduating from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw in 1974, she was offered a job at "Swiat Młodych". For the next 24 years she was closely associated with the editors of "ŚM" and then its successor, "Smile Number." One of her teachers in cartooning was Papcio Chmiel, who accused her of taking too much inspiration from the drawings of Walentynowicz (the creator of the illustrations to "Koziołek Matołek"). In turn, she herself recalls that at first she "drew scurrilously," but had "delicious fun with twisting well-known fairy tales so that the ending was surprising." As a cartoonist, she worked in the fields of book and newspaper illustration, comics, cartoon humor, satirical commentary, artistic drawing and painting. She has published more than a thousand cartoon episodes in the press, many of which have appeared as booklets. Her most famous characters are Kleks, along with Jonka and Jonk, and Winnie the Infernal, whose adventures were set during the economic crisis of the 1980s. Meanwhile, the Toronto-based magazine AKT featured Kleks' adventures in an adult version!
