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Right out of the top drawer

Quentin Blake is perhaps Britain�s leading illustrator. As he brings a collection of his work to Scotland, he speaks to Sarah Urwin Jones .

If Quentin Blake were to be summed up in the sensational terms of a red-top, he would be "Britain's favourite illustrator!" Even the broadsheets call him a "national institution".