The Art of Roman Muradov

Roman Muradov is an Armenian artist whose work has appeared in The New Yorker and the New Statesman, and on book covers from Penguin Random House and Knopf. He currently serves as Art Director at Notion.

During our Platypus Press days, Roman collaborated with us on the cover images for the first two years of our Shorts fiction series. (A few examples appear below.) We’ve always been grateful and wanted to celebrate his distinctive and evocative aesthetic in this celebratory issue of wildness.

Who or what are your main influences?

Mostly Hans Arp, Olivier Schrauwen, Tove Jansson, but many others too.

What does a typical day look like for you?

Just sit home and draw, go for walks, nothing particularly exciting.

What are you currently working on?

Working on a longer graphic novel about the creative class, while improvising some shorter, sillier comics about a terrible father.

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