Robin Allan has been reading a newly published edition of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. It contains previously unpublished illustrations from the Disney archives by David Hall, and has an Afterword by Brian Sibley.
Brian Sibley, Methuen and Justin Knowles are to be congratulated on the publication of a newly illustrated Alice; as Brian Sibley points out in his Afterword, “the close relationship between Carroll’s words and Tenniel’s pictures make it very difficult for other artists to succeed in illustrating the stories but there has never been any shortage of those willing to try”. The David Hall pictures, beautifully reproduced in this edition, a model of good production, reveal the extraordinary dimension of his talent. Not only are they exceptionally mobile and fluent and reveal the film artist’s knack of capturing movement with pen or pencil, but they add an original dimension all their own, funny, ironic, disturbing and horrifying by turns.
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