European Graphic Novels++

Continuing on from THIS introduction, here’s another case of Steadman taking Tenniel’s art to the cleaners, so to speak. We have some rather exquisite line-work, combined with the usual touches of vulgarity and madness, altho rather subtley done this time. The white king’s face gives it away, though.

John Tenniel was the original artist for Lewis Carroll’s* “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” (1865), and its sequel “Through the Looking-Glass” (1871). *pen-name for Victorian-era renaissance-man Charles Lutwidge Dodgson