the hunting of the snark

Fitfully illustrating Lewis Carroll & other graphic agonies

Monday, October 31, 2016

Profiles in Nonsense: My Favorite Martin

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The Encyclopedia Snarkiana defines a Barrister as someone who tries to appeal to the Beaver’s pride, vainly citing a number of cases in whi...
Monday, October 24, 2016

Profiles in Nonsense: Nietzsche's in Drag and I'm Feelin' Blue

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We continue my GN Snark's Dramatis Personae with this week's specimen … the Maker of Bonnets and Hoods, or as he's known to t...
Monday, October 10, 2016

Profiles in Nonsense: Snark-fishing in the Yemen with the Bellman

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I've been remiss with my Snark blog and I apologize. As penance, I present what I call "Profiles in Nonsense," a series of p...
Monday, September 12, 2016

Illustrating The Gentleman … I ink, therefore I am

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Another process post for one of the 17 pictures I did for Forrest Leo's novel, The Gentleman … Books about books are always fun...
Tuesday, September 6, 2016

A Slap in the Face: the illustrative process behind The Gentleman

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Instead of the usual Snark blather, I think that a process post would make a nice change. I recently did 17 illustrations for Forrest Leo...
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Monday, August 15, 2016

The snark in the grey flannel suit

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Wipe the smirk from your face, dear reader, stifle the groan in your throat … yes, we are punning today and the punnee is a legal suit an...
Monday, August 8, 2016

The color of money is SNARK

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The coin of the realm these postlapsarian days seems to be the last and greatest bastion of that very same unblinking faith in the unseen...
Monday, July 25, 2016

Make America Snark Again!

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 Page 42 of any work of literature will always be redolent of the highest Carrollian vibes imaginable; to wit, the well-known mojo of the...
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Monday, July 4, 2016

Every Fourth Deserves a Fifth

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Too pooped for the usual Snark GN blather today, so I thought it better-than-best to celebrate America's birthday, the Fourth of July,...
Monday, June 27, 2016

The Snark Without Qualities

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If you’ve been assiduously following our graphic novel version of The Hunting of the Snark, you will have noticed a steady accumulation ...
Monday, June 20, 2016

The Conqueror Snark

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 Melodramatic courtroom scenes are the crack cocaine of modern cinema and television; the average viewer must have a regular dose at cert...
Monday, June 13, 2016

The sleep of reason produces snark!

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And on the sixth Fit, the Barrister slept. Played here by the notorious Continental steamer, Martin Heidegger, (right Zeit up and left S...
Monday, June 6, 2016

Snarkness at Noon

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 Well, isn’t this jolly, all of us having our tiffin in this lovely English garden waiting for the sun, and if the sun don't come, w...
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...
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