Isn't it funny how the Iron Man has more humanity in him than the flesh and blood inhabitants of the society he crash-lands into? Ted Hughes explores a lot of issues we have as a society with inclusion and acceptance, and the story is full of what it means to be human. I love this story regardless but Laura Carlin's illustrations for it bring the 'human' element to the fore I feel. Her crowd scenes manage this particularly well, because there is so much to look at and Laura focuses on the small gestures in her work. I have also noticed that she adopts the 'visual list' approach like William Grill in one illustration of the Iron Man's various parts. This style seems very effective with children's literature as there's so much to look at (maybe that's why the Where's Wally books do so well...)
Carlin's printerly style in these illustrations would be something that could be a very suitable style for animating with. It shares textural and block colour elements with Jonathan Hodgson's work, but I think the key is that it has character.
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