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'There's no such thing as a Brusselo!'

Axel Scheffler, the illustrator behind the Gruffalo, has created an image for the Guardian to demonstrate his support for Britain remaining in the EU

The Brusselo
Axel Scheffler says he might never have come to Britain and worked with the author Julia Donaldson on books including The Gruffalo, were it not for the EU. But he doesn’t necessarily expect that to convince Brexit supporters. “One online commentator has already said ‘he is taking away the work of our British illustrators’.”
The Brusselo image plays on the original Gruffalo cartoon in which the little mouse uses a phantom bogeyman – the Gruffalo – to scare away all his adversaries. In this parody, the Brusselo is wielded as a Euro-menace to scare Britons into voting for Brexit.
Axel Scheffler says he might never have come to Britain and worked with the author Julia Donaldson on books including The Gruffalo, were it not for the EU. But he doesn’t necessarily expect that to convince Brexit supporters. “One online commentator has already said ‘he is taking away the work of our British illustrators’.”
The Brusselo image plays on the original Gruffalo cartoon in which the little mouse uses a phantom bogeyman – the Gruffalo – to scare away all his adversaries. In this parody, the Brusselo is wielded as a Euro-menace to scare Britons into voting for Brexit.
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