In a brilliant and thought-provoking caricature, Peruvian artist Walter Toscano offers a unique portrait of legendary French writer Jules Verne, one of the founding fathers of science fiction, as we’ve never seen him before.
This is not a portrait that merely captures his face — it delves into the depths of his imagination, revealing a man who didn’t just dream of the future, but wrote it as if he had lived it. Here, Verne is not simply seated at his desk — he appears within the world he created.
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| Jules Verne .. Caricature by Walter Toscano |
From the shadows, a massive octopus arm emerges from the shadows, gently coiling around him, as if stepping out from one of his novels to help him write, it’s a surreal moment, yet entirely fitting for a man who made the impossible believable, this caricature is more than illustration, it is a window into the mind of a writer whose imagination ran deeper than the sea, and wider than the boundaries of his time.
✍️ Jules Verne .. The Man Who Wrote Tomorrow
Born in France in 1828, Jules Verne is considered one of the pioneers of science fiction literature, he wrote over 60 visionary novels that predicted submarines, space travel, and aviation decades before their invention, his most famous works include Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Journey to the Center of the Earth, and Around the World in Eighty Days.