Monday 8 September 2008

Tove Follow-Up

Just a quick addendum to yesterday's Tove Jansson post: here's that edition of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland which she illustrated.



And here are some of the other interior illustrations:







These images were taken from this wonderful (but possibly copyright-defying) site, which has all of the interior illustrations online. It also shows Tove's illustrations for a number of other books, including these great ones from Tolkien's The Hobbit.







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4 comments:

  1. Levi Stahl8 September 2008 at 20:28

    Wow. Those are incredible, especially considering what strong images we already have associated with those books in our minds. To be able to give Alice and The Hobbit a new and interesting twists is a remarkable accomplishment. I love the hints of Gorey in the Tolkien illustrations--or is it possible that I'm tracing the lines of influence backwards?

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  2. JRSM8 September 2008 at 21:22

    Good question--there are definitely some common elements, but then 'The Hobbit' illustrations are originally from 1962. Perhaps it's whatever you would call the artistic equivalent of convergent evolution.

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  3. Anonymous28 September 2008 at 07:30

    Good Job! :)

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  4. JRSM28 September 2008 at 16:02

    I thank you!

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