I recently submitted this piece to the Neoflux Production, What is the Use of a Book Without Pictures?

The same folks who brought Night of The Living Dead: Reanimated are collecting an illustration for each paragraph of Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland and posting them on effbook.  I was lucky enough to be assigned a really fun point in the text:

‘At any rate I’ll never go there again!’ said Alice as she picked her way through

the wood, ‘It’s the stupidest tea-party I ever was at in all my life!’

Just as she said this, she noticed that one of the trees had a door leading right

into it. ‘That’s very curious!’ she thought, ‘But everything’s curious today. I think

I may as well go in at once.’ And in she went.

The Hatter kept cutting off Alice and presenting half thoughts with no conclusion of purpose. Alice finally got offended and stormed off from the Tea Party. 

She walks for a big and comes to a tree which appears to have a door into it. ( She will later discover this is the path to the queen’s garden ).

Since the illustration was required to be in black and white, I went back to the ol’ scratchboard, completely frying my eyes once again.  Here is a progression of how this puppy came to be…

Alice in Wonderland Paragraph 248, Scratchboard