the hunting of the snark

Fitfully illustrating Lewis Carroll & other graphic agonies

Friday, December 31, 2010

Snark First!

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Gosh, those illegal immigrant foreign words, they have no respect for the law, huh? They’re even showing up in our GN version of Lewis Carro...
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Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Machiavelli’s Snark

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I’ve always maintained that Lewis Carroll’s Hunting of the Snark is perfectly suitable for young people, or at least young people who prefe...
Saturday, December 25, 2010

Remembrance of snarks past

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I’ve never cared for Watteau the painter although Watteau the draftsman is sublime, as is the case with most French Baroque artists. No matt...
Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Snark Mask Replica

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Snarks behind every door is an easy enough proposition to illustrate, and when tackling the above stanzels in Lewis Carroll’s Hunting of the...
Sunday, December 19, 2010

Let a hundred flowers bloom, a hundred schools of snark contend

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The above picture is an excellent example of how we like to do things in our graphic novel version of Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of th...
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Thursday, December 16, 2010

Foucault's Snarkulum

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For a few weeks I've been linking to various other Snark postings of mine around the internet. This was to create a sensation of overwh...
Monday, December 13, 2010

Also Sprach Snarkathustra!

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One of the best things about illustrating Lewis Carroll's Hunting of the Snark is the many opportunities it provides for acting one...
Friday, December 10, 2010

Snark the herald angels sing!

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What does this picture remind you of? Seaside bathing in the salad days of Queen Victoria? Standing around with an umbrella waiting for the ...
Tuesday, December 7, 2010

I'm just a snark-hunter from Muskogee …

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The proprietor and master voleur at Biblioklept, Edwin Turner, has very kindly posted a lengthy interview he did of me on the subject of tur...
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Saturday, December 4, 2010

A wild and crazy snark!

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Since the publication of my Snark GN, I’ve been quite busy with the time-consuming but necessary work of marketing it. Of course, in our mo...
Wednesday, December 1, 2010

One flew over the snark's nest

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Today's commentary on my Hunting of the Snark has fled its birdcage and gone to roost at MobyLive, a somewhat better furnished blog whe...
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Sunday, November 28, 2010

Kon Snarki Tiki

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People stop me on the street quite often and ask me: hey, Mahendra, your GN version of Lewis Carroll’s Snark that Melville House has just p...
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Thursday, November 25, 2010

Platos retreat, snarks advance …

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If you’re in the USA, you’ll be reading this in a postprandial, Thanksgiving Day stupor. My favorite sort of reader, in fact, eyes glazed an...
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Monday, November 22, 2010

The Snarking of the Hunt

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In an earlier exegesis of this stanzel (see the THOTS link below) I waxed eloquent on the colonial and post-colonial nuances of the Baker’s ...
Friday, November 19, 2010

How green was my snark …

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It’s been a busy week here at Chez Snark but not so busy that we can’t take a quick peek at the on-going struggles of the Baker, struggles w...
Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Turn on, tune in, snark out!

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Despite those pesky so-called appearances everyone's so hung up about, The Hunting of the Snark is a classic of the psychedelic canon,...
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Freelance illustrator, designer and author in Montreal, contact me at mahendra373 at hotmail dot com.
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