the hunting of the snark

Fitfully illustrating Lewis Carroll & other graphic agonies

Monday, May 30, 2016

12 Angry Snarks

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 With a nightmarish fanfare of snores and snorts, Fit the Sixth of Lewis Carroll’s cri-de-cœur, AKA The Hunting of the Snark, now heaves ...
Monday, May 23, 2016

Gosford Snark

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 The preternaturally alert reader will instantly recognize the decor of this panel as a quintessentially English bit of inkery lifted who...
Monday, May 16, 2016

Snark, a Vagrant!

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 The attentive reader will notice that in this panel, as in the last two panels, we have been undergoing what specialists in this sort of...
Monday, May 9, 2016

The Snark of a Thousand Faces

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 May we conjecture that in this melodramatic passage of verse (redolent of Tennyson’s more sentimental confections) the poet Lewis Carrol...
Monday, May 2, 2016

The Unbearable Lightness of Drawing Snark

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Dear readers, if Lewis Carroll was alive today, he would never get into print. He would have no comps to be measured against, a shocking e...
Monday, April 25, 2016

Bavarian Snark!

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 Our Hunting of the Snark resumes its Jubjubian subplot for yet another stanzel; Lewis Carroll regales us here with a spirited descriptio...
Monday, April 18, 2016

Eat, Drink, Prey!

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In lieu of slandering Lewis Carroll here's a delicious, kitchen-tested recipe for curried Snark … if your butcher doesn't stock S...
Thursday, April 14, 2016

American Candide …

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American Candide by Mahendra Singh (Rosarium, 2016, ISBN 978-0996769211) 200 pgs., 31 illustrations by the author NB. Should be availab...
Monday, April 4, 2016

Bohemian Snark Rhapsody

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“But it knows any friend it has met once before: It never will look at a bribe: And in charity-meetings it stands at the door, And colle...
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Tuesday, March 29, 2016

Caliban Goes Art-School Confidential!

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This is NOT what most publishers expect from minority/POC illustrator-authors The most popular posts I've done on this blog were ...
Tuesday, March 22, 2016

The snark from another planet

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We are very pleased to bring you this startling mental picture of a Jubjub, fleshed out, as it were, from the grease-stained and tattere...
Tuesday, March 15, 2016

Snark is Icumen In

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Lewis Carroll is too polite to say so but I’m going to give the kiddies a scare by telling ‘em that Natural History is an unnatural cons...
Monday, March 7, 2016

All quiet on the Western snark

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This baffling stanzel of The Hunting of the Snark (known to Continental snarkologists as the Pons Asinorum) presents the Carrollian ...
Tuesday, March 1, 2016

Ceci n'est pas un dessin

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This is not a medically approved mathematical operation … This is not an insight into the Essence of the Number Three … This is not the R...
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Monday, February 22, 2016

Paradise Snark'd

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It’s not often that one finds Lewis Carroll, St. Anthony the Great, Hieronymus Bosch and the late Dr. Hunter S. Thompson mentioned in th...
Monday, February 15, 2016

Beat it, snark, here come the Copts!

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Strange, creepy creatures are the bane of modern life and both Lewis Carroll and myself have seen fit to embellish this crucial stanzel ...
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