Illustrations by Walter Molino.

Walter Molino (1915–1997) was a master illustrator whose speciality was disaster. In his works, a moment of chaos is frozen and depicted in detail. Often, the mayhem appears to be fatal for one or more of Molino’s characters. These moments are violent to a gratuitous extent, but there is also something almost peaceful about the way their disasters never complete, and remain frozen in a halfway state that viewers can behold again and again.