Saturday, 6 April 2019


The Lady with the Lilacs



































































Arthur Hughes's Lady with Lilacs /Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll's) illustration of Alice for the original Alice's adventures Underground manuscript. 

More on Carroll's friendships with the Pre Raphaellites in this essay by Stephanie Graham Pina.

Friday, 5 April 2019


when she looked down at her feet, they seemed to be almost out of sight, they were getting so far off. `Oh, my poor little feet, I wonder who will put on your shoes and stockings for you now, dears? I’m sure I shan’t be able! I shall be a great deal too far off to trouble myself about you: you must manage the best way you can.
Art by Alison Jay for Carroll's Alice's adventures in Wonderland


But the beard seemed to melt away as she touched it, and she found herself sitting quietly under a tree -- while the Gnat (for that was the insect she had been talking to) was balancing itself on a twig just over her head, and fanning her with its wings. 
Art by Peter Newell for Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass

Coraline Illustrations by Projecto Gráfico


NOTE JANUARY 2025: NEIL GAIMAN IS AN ABUSER, I WROTE THIS PIECE FAR BEFORE ANYONE KNEW. PLEASE READ THE SIDE OF NEIL GAIMAN HIS FANS NEVER SAW, BY LAUREN STARKE (TRIGGER WARNINGS APPLY)



Projecto Gráfico is an Brazillian illustration collective. In 2018, they put together a theoretical set of illustrations for Neil Gaiman's Coraline.


Their work can be found here (along with a lot of Neil Gaiman's text translated into Portuguese!) 

Intriguingly as the content of the book gets darker tonally, the illustrations start turning from white to grey to black!