With Tim Burtons Alice in Wonderland being released soon, I thought it worth posting them again.
Sigh...I wish they were bigger and better quality.
Anyway.
These are college illustrations.
I set the story in a hospital.
The Cheshire Cat was a vast obese thing.
The March Hare and the Mad Hatter were in the looney bin.
the Caterpillar was based on an interview I saw with the dying writer, Dennis Potter.
These are better designs than in Burton's film! That last interview with Potter has stuck in my mind too-especially Potter's twisted, arthritic fists & how he managed to like cigarettes. Melvyn Bragg was the interviwer no?
ReplyDeleteThat's exactly it.
ReplyDeleteI was struck by the man who knew he was dying of lung cancer so was just going to smoke and smoke and smoke.
And thanks : )