#Leo Dillon

[undergroundrockpress]

The Fox by Leo Dillon (1967)

[garadinervi]

Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness, Cover art by Leo and Diane Dillon, Ace Publishing Corporation, New York, NY, 1969

[thefugitivesaint]

Diane Dillon (1933-) & Leo Dillon (1933-2012), ''Spectrum'', 1994 Last page for ''The Sorcerer's Apprentice'' by Nancy Willard, 1993

[humanoidhistory]

The ocean world of Jules Verne's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon.

[gameraboy2]

The Odyssey, paperback cover by Leo and Diane Dillon, 1969

[basicallyanotherwitchesthing]

‎Françoise Mallet-Joris - The Witches - Farrar, Straus & Giroux - 1969 (jacket design by Diane and Leo Dillon)

[tomoleary]

Diane Dillon (1933-) & Leo Dillon (1933-2012) The Abhorsen Trilogy (2003) Source

[bobbole]

Leo Dillon - illustration for "The Back of Our Heads" by Stephen Barr

[incorrectclassicbookquotes]

Boy: There is something that happened to me when I was eighteen years old and my life took a strange direction, just for a little bit, because I realized there's something I want to be with my life that's not the norm. There's something that's off the beaten path. I wanna be a fucking criminal. I'm not kidding I wanted to do crimes. I woke up one day at eighteen years old and said "You know what I have to do? I have to do a B and E." I'm talking about breaking and entering and I wanted to do one. I made the decision and I called my buddy Leo because when you do a B and E you need an accomplice and the key is you always need to bring somebody with you who does not want to go. They have to hassle you the whole time and make it difficult for you to enjoy the B and E. I called Leo and I go...*In the past during the story* Hey dude, check it out bro, where going on an adventure tonight.

Leo Dillon, nervously: What? I don't like adventures. What?

Boy: I need you to drive and come with me *whispering* we're doing a B and E.

Leo Dillon whining: No! Whatever your thinking of doing...no! No!

Boy: Dude, you come over and pick me up right now or our fucking friendship is over forever. I will not even talk to you in the next life. Come over! *hangs up phone* *Back to the present where he is telling the story* Leo comes over. Next thing you know we're in the car. *Back in the past* Drive around the community. I wanna find the perfect house to do my B slash E.

Leo Dillon, while driving: Don't do this. Why would you even do this?

Boy: Because I need to. It's a quest and I'm on it.

Leo Dillon: You're gonna get in fucking trouble, dude.

Boy: I know, I'm looking for trouble. Now pull over around this corner. *Pointing at different houses* Not that house. Nope that one feels weird. *Finally finding a house* That's the house right there, Leo. That's the house I'm doing a B and E.

Leo Dillon: *Shaking his head nervously*

Boy: I don't know what that means, but I'm doing it. *Back in the present* He pulls about sixteen blocks away from the target because you always have to park about way to fucking far and then you have to go through backyards, you have to hop over fences and shit. It's part of the fun right and you always have to get caught on that one chainlink fence where your like...*Back in the past*

Leo Dillon, stuck in the fence: Fuck, what the fuck dude. Dude, this is my favorite shirt.

Boy: Well you shouldn't be wearing your favorite shirt on a fucking B and E. Wear your second favorite shirt, you dunce.

*Getting to the house*

Boy: You ready to do this?

Leo Dillon: Wait, dude, I hear a car.

Boy: Yeah, the world's full of them. You're gonna hear a lot of them for the rest of your life. If you hear a humpback whale, that's weird, tell me that shit. Then I'll stop. *Back in the present* I get to that door. I'm three steps away. My heart is racing. I step up, one, two, three and I stop. *Back in the past* Wait a minute, I don't know if I can do this. I got it. *Kicks in door* *Back in the present* And I felt fantastic. So here's what happened. The second that my foot connected and that door flew in, I took two steps into that house and I realized at that very moment that I did not want to do a B and E. No, I just wanted to kick a door in.

[cambot77]

I recognize the first one!

a couple years ago the eric carle museum of picture book art had an exhibit on diane & leo dillon who are responsible for so many iconic illustrations. i went back twice just to see the collection again. this is a sliver of their work— it’s hard to find high res images.

[undergroundrockpress]

Leo Dillon, 1967.

[70sscifiart]

Let's take a break from the space bars with a fantasy-themed Space Crowd Saturday: Leo and Diane Dillon's 1993 cover for The Sorcerer's Apprentice, by Nancy Willard. Delightful critters here.

[makemerainbows]

Leo & Diane Dillon covert art for LP: Reading Rainbow Songs (1984).

@thewalrusandmeman

[thefugitivesaint]

Top: Diane Dillon (1933-) & Leo Dillon (1933-2012), ''Cathleen Nesbitt – Little Wildrose and Other Andrew Lang Fairy Tales'', 1973 Bottom: Diane Dillon (1933-) & Leo Dillon (1933-2012), ''Tales of Witches, Ghosts and Goblins'' Told by Vincent Price, 1972

[a-book-of-creatures]

In love with Leo and Diane Dillon’s Greek mythology art, from the 60s Classical Greece book by Time-Life

[diioonysus]

black women + art