The Stranger/Outsider: Albert Camus

"House of Illustration and The Folio Society have launched an exciting new competition with the chance to win a prestigious Folio commission illustrating Albert Camus’s The Outsider. This inaugural online competition, launched today, will require entrants to submit three illustrations and a binding design. Entrants must be over the age of 18 and not already Folio Society published illustrators."

This is a brief that I hope to spend the next week working on now that my entry for the Northern Sequential Arts competition is out of the way (But I've certainly not finished tweaking that either.)

I've currently only managed to read the wiki article on the book, but it does sound like a rather interesting plot line. The story it's self is quite straight forward. The protagonist is an unfeeling atheist who can not tell a lie and through a series of events kill's man and finds himself in prison. There he realises just how much freedom he had in his life before the murder and it took such a terrible act to see all this.

Current and Past covers:

I'm not sure why, but I really like this one. I think it's the illustration itself.

I have no idea what's going on here. I'm under the assumption they're dressed as Nefertiti? Why...err? Meursault (The protagonist...or anti hero if you will) was a Pied-Noir (black foot) — a Frenchman born in the Maghreb, the northernmost crescent of Mediterranean Africa then the heart of France's African colonies.