I first exhibited Serge’s work in my 2010/2011 show Monsters and Miracles: A Journey Through Jewish Picture Books at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles. That exhibit featured several original works by Maurice Sendak, Eric Carle, William Steig, the Reys, Simms Taback, Donald Sultan, Mordecai Gerstein, Nonny Hogrogian, Jill Pinkwater, Lisa Brown, Art Spiegelman and my dear friend Uri Shulevitz among others.
I produced the show with The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art and The Skirball Cultural Center.
Serge was also part of the panel organized for the show in LA with Caldecott Winner Mordecai Gerstein. It was a great experience. I later featured Serge in a workshop for adults and children at the St. Louis International Film Festival in partnership with Professor Gerald Early's Center for Humanities at Washington University in St. Louis. We are staging another children's workshop together at the Starz Denver Film Festival on November 4 in partnership with The Tattered Cover and the Arts Student League of Denver.
I am certain you have seen Serge's work. His illustrations appear frequently in The Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune, The New York Times, and Los Angeles Times, as well as Time and New York Magazine.
His children’s series Max and Lili sells 1.5 million copies a year and he has two children's TV shows, SamSam (created by some of the same folks who made the blockbuster Despicable Me) and Toto. SamSam is seen by over 200 million people worldwide.
Serge's book The Enemy was exhibited by the United Nations and Amnesty International. He has been honored with numerous distinctions including a Gold Medal by the Society of Illustrators in 2005, the Bologna Ragazzi award in 2007, as well as the Best Book Award in Taiwan in 2010.
He currently serves as Art Director for Bayard in Paris, France. Sterling (which is owned by Barnes and Noble) publishes a popular series by Serge that includes Butterflies in My Stomach and Other School Hazards and You Are What You Eat and Other Mealtime Hazards.
Serge also illustrated and designed the recent book by acclaimed comedian Steve Martin, The Tweets of Steve Martin, The Underwear Salesman by 2011 US Children's Poet Laureate J. Patrick Lewis and a new book with Kundo Koyama, script writer for the Oscar winning film Departure.
Serge's children's series Zouk was serialized in 2012 for Spider Magazine in the United States. Serge has illustrated hundreds of books worldwide.
Here are his websites, they are a great deal of fun:
http://www.sergebloch.net/blog/ and http://www.sergebloch.net
