But it was the more than two dozen picture books he worked on - full of guns, blood, crime, oppression and tenderness - that not only gained him the most fame during his lifetime, but perhaps best expressed his political and artistic vision in its fullness and deep humanity. Many of his picture books were brought back into print by Phaidon in gorgeous editions.Īfter his death, Fantagraphics announced that it would rerelease his controversial illustrated books for adults. Late in his life, a resurgence of interest in his jaw-dropping artistic range, and his adorably outre personality, led to a cult-favorite documentary and a show at the Drawing Center that let the public see how the children’s books were part of a whole body of work whose boldness still astounds.
Ungerer also made celebrated political posters, toys, drawings and books for adults, and bondage-themed erotica that, discovered by the nation’s librarians in the 1970s, made him persona non grata in the children’s books world for over a decade.
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