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 I've long been a fan of Lewis Carroll's ALICE books. I've also been a fan of the many intepretations of the work by illustrators over the years. Here are some of my favorites.



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"Dozens of artists, from all decades, all parts of the world, and all styles have illustrated Lewis Carroll's literary legend over the last 100 years. The Art of Alice in Wonderland is the definite work on the subject, bringing together this remarkable art for the first time, More... and illuminating a book that will forever influenced children's literature and adult imagination. With a stunning eight-page fold-out of artwork and 150 other delightful and important photographs and illustrations, this book is like a rich gallery of Alice art. Organized by character, the book takes the reader on a guided tour through the Wonderland of the Cheshire Cat, the White Rabbit, the Queen of Hearts, the Mad Hatter, and the other beloved characters who have entered every child's and adult's imagination. All the while, the authoritative yet accessible text informs the reader about the fascinating symbolic meaning of this enduring tale."

 Since I was a kid I've often considered creating my own images for Alice In Wonderland but still haven't gotten around to it. Maybe some day.

not a book but a brilliant intepretaton just the same, Czech animator Jan Svankmajer's ALICE. In this clip Alice enters the Court and meets the Queen of Hearts.

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I've long been a champion of George Grosz' New York work which I've always felt was too easily dismissed. One of my first Drawger posts was a collection of street scene watercolors he painted for a 1930s issue of Vanity Fair. Though his reputation will always rest on the Berlin work, if you look at his New York period with fresh eyes you may find much to admire.



I decided to do this post after stumbling across this catalog during a recent visit to a bookstore. I had no idea it existed. I completely missed the recent exhibit at David Nolan. Consider this an art consumer alert. "The Dada caricaturist, draughtsman and painter George Grosz (1893-1959) spent more than half of his creative career--27 years--living and working in the United States. The effects of this emigration upon his art were once widely deemed to be wholly negative, since it seemingly marked a rejection of aggressively political satire: "I had simply lost all interest in human weaknesses and individual foibles," wrote Grosz in his autobiography, "and the further I drew away from them, the closer I felt to nature." Grosz was particularly passionate about the art of watercolor--so much so that shortly before his death in 1959 he began to write a book on watercolor technique--and his innovations in this area, alongside his caricatures of New York life and his more apocalyptic war paintings, have at last been retreived from the respective shadows of Grosz's own earlier work and of American Abstract Expressionism, which reigned supreme during Grosz's American years. This is the first book devoted to this crucial phase in his life."



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R. CRUMB The Bible Illuminated R. Crumb's Book of Genesis March 4 through April 24, 2010 David Zwirner 519 West 19th Street New York, NY 10011 212-727-2070

David Zwirner



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Not illustration but I love these covers just the same. Not that there weren't illustrations in the magazine. There were plenty including work by George Grosz, Marcel Vertes, George Price, Otto Soglow, Ludwig Bemelmans, Ervine Metzl, James Thurber, Peggy Bacon and many others. Perhaps that's a post for another time.



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 from the Watergate era. Brilliant work in my view. The top one is by Robert V. Engle, photo by Matt Sultan.



 The second is by Welbeck Studios, Photos by Wally McNamee-Newsweek and Matt Sultan. The Art director for both is Alfred Lowry.

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 Here are some more from what I think of as my FACES series though they're not strictly faces. I do these for myself and stick them in a drawer. I haven't shown them much in the past but Drawger offers a nice opportunity to bring them out into the public. These were done over the past week. The above piece was done (mostly) from a single issue of GOTHAM (below). Some times I like to make an image from a single magazine source and sometimes I don't. I guess the general idea for these is complete freedom. I'm not a believer in "personal work." All of my work, whether for publication, private commision or to be tossed in a drawer, is personal. It's all done by me personally.  The derby is from a different source. It had been on the floor under my table for some time. I don't remember which magazine it was cut from.



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