Christopher Carroll has two books published and is working on two more. These books are written and illustrated by Christopher, and are available for purchase at the links below.
Paris
Del Milion editions, 2013
- Marie Antoinette Spread
- Paris inside sample
- Paris – Cover
Paris is a delightful alphabet book by Christopher Carroll, illustrating his love affair with the city of Paris. Carroll has set a sharp eye and wicked sense of humor to work on some of his favorite iconic locations and the charismatic characters that inhabited them. You will encounter Ho Chi Minh in the kitchen of Auguste Escoffier; Oscar Wilde in battle with the wallpaper at the Hotel D’Alsace; and the Surrealist photographer Dora Maar playing a bloody game of “truth or dare” with a kitchen knife.
The original drawings are in the collection of The Stanford University Library.
Long Ago a Moonboat
Silver Dog Press, 1974
- Moonboat – sample 1
- Moonboat – sample 2
- Moonboat – Cover
The title houses three tales: The Message of Queen Clausetta (a bizarre little story of an AWOL queen and the chaos of kingdom that ensues), Stories for Little Elmo (a selection of three tales and a drawing of recent likeness) ~ Ennui in the Nursery, At Court, and L’Amour, and finally, the namesake, Long Ago a Moonboat. The story actually begins on the cover.
Long Ago a Moonboat was blown through the dark night toward a range of razor-sharp mountains. The ship crashed on the highest pinnacle and over the years was transformed into a lofty city known as the Kingdom of Roon. In this kingdom lived the group of very strange people known as Macaroons.
The tale goes on and we meet the king, who likes to throw parties and send out “movable-toe-and-finger-counting machines” to search for other life forms. When the strange Macaroons are discovered by a group of anthropologists from The New World (who happen to be on a scouting mission looking for the missing bones of the ape-man), the anthropologists announce their discovery and the royal family of Macaroons are paraded around for all The New World to see. This totally freaks the king et al out and they return to their moonboat city and set sail away in a giant storm, relocating on another peak, leaving The New World to believe the civilization is lost forever.
Books currently in the works:
Civilization by Moonlight
Black drawings of civilizations through history with Shakespeare Sonnet 55.
Marlene
A saga about a praying mantis country and western star.