the hunting of the snark

Fitfully illustrating Lewis Carroll & other graphic agonies

Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Leave no snark behind

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Still talking Jubjub and you’d better pay attention because our lecturer, the Butcher, is explaining it all in a popular style. And just wha...
Sunday, June 27, 2010

Felonious monk

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In today’s fast-paced urban lifestyle, even the most ordinary Butcher can demonstrate the mathematical properties of the Song of the Jubjub ...
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Thursday, June 24, 2010

The sound of one hand snarking

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Many comix artists posting their work on-line like to liven things up for the kiddies with a bit of well-intended blather concerning Process...
Monday, June 21, 2010

A confederacy of jubjubs

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One can never know too much about Jubjub birds, don’t you agree? They constitute an important nexus in the entire Carrollian Multiverse, occ...
Friday, June 18, 2010

I heard the Jubjub call my name …

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Lewis Carroll compared the voice of the Jubjub to a pencil that squeaks on slate. This is a peculiarity of Carrollian English, the word bein...
Tuesday, June 15, 2010

painted jubjub

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The scream referred to above is the legendary Song of the Jubjub, that paradisical bird which figures so prominently in Fit the Fifth of The...
Saturday, June 12, 2010

The fall of the house of snark

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If you’ve ever spent years of your life and several gallons of thick, gooey, tepid cafeteria-style India ink in illustrating The Hunting of ...
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Wednesday, June 9, 2010

Snark, Strangeness & Charm

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Over at The Comics Journal, Dave Mazzucchelli’s Asterios Polyp has been taken hostage and been given a good tickling with a lead-weighted ...
Sunday, June 6, 2010

Where’s Kiki de Montparnasse when you really need her?

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Know thyself is easier said than done when you’re a Snarkhunter equipped with the cerebral capacity of a concussed bee. We see here the Bel...
Thursday, June 3, 2010

Happy Birthday, Yamini!

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Since yesterday was my daughter Yamini’s birthday and since she is a Francophile sans pareil and furthermore, since she is far away in the C...
Monday, May 31, 2010

She’s a 21st-century snark, yeah!

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This artist’s recent entry in Will Schofeld’s Rousselian contest (accompanying text is here ) will have to make do for today’s Snarkian mus...
Friday, May 28, 2010

Martin Gardner

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The news of Martin Gardner’s death on May 22nd, 2010 marks the end to a spectacular era in not only Snarkian but Carrollian studies, perhap...
Tuesday, May 25, 2010

The roar of the greasepaint, the smell of the snarks!

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The above drawing from Fit the Sixth, the Barrister’s Dream, is suffused with the gentle melody of protracted litigation, the dream of every...
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Saturday, May 22, 2010

Nonsense ex Machina

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The Machines rule, their word is law and their rendition of The Hunting of the Snark is nonsense of the highest order — nonsense without a ...
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Wednesday, May 19, 2010

The Big Sleep

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They say that the sleep of reason produces monsters but what does the sleep of monsters produce? The denizens of Alice’s Wonderland and the ...
Sunday, May 16, 2010

Love, Actually

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We already had a rousing go at Dante Alighieri a while back, using good ol’ Witold Gombrowicz in his customary role as the curmudgeonly cudg...
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