Roobarb And Custard

600 pages of the beloved 1974 British cartoon series. 600 pages! The format is incredibly ambitious but super easy to understand. In the middle of the book, running over 400 pages is the full five minutes long first ever episode playing as a flip book; 200 right hand pages play half of the episode and 200 left hand pages play the second half (upside down – you need to rotate the book). Then there are 100 pages before the flip book and another 100 pages after it; these 200 pages contain every single visual element from the first series of what was 30 episodes.

Roobarb & Custard was a British animated children’s TV series created by Grange Calveley. If you are too young for classic R&C (it was 1974, after all) then start your eduction here – the theme tune is an all-time earworm classic 🙂