The wonderful illustrator Mahendra Singh has a new edition of The Hunting of the Snark fresh out in time for Christmas. Mahendra describes this as a ‘graphic novel version’. We haven’t peeked inside yet, but the cover looks entirely intriguing don’t you think. Is the Snark itself actually going to make an appearance? Will anyone who opens this book softly vanish there and then?
Mahendra’s blog has more details.
Thanks for your kind remarks. The cover is an illo of the feathery, biting vs whiskery scratching Snarks … it’s meant to evoke Satan, AKA Lucifer the Fallen Angel AKA Old Scratch. he’s lounging around in Pandemonium on his day off, shuffling around in his bedroom slippers
The unequal toes (talons?) became a bit of a go at certain notions of numerology:
3 toes plus 4 toes equal 7 toes. To truly prove the existence of a Snark one needs three of them (Bellman’s Rule of Three) from which one derives 3 Snarks, multiplied by their feet, 2, equals 6 feet in all. The 7 toes times 6 feet equals 42, the Snarkian Number of Perfection in All Things. Any flaw in this scheme is the responsibility of that Boojum of Logic which numerologists so disdain.
Any flaw in this argument is of the same order as certain numerological
November 29, 2010 @ 4:32 pm
Very fascinating images. How were they made originally?
December 5, 2010 @ 9:46 am