....but I am scared of the story that he comes from, Alice in Wonderland. It does not make a lot of sense to me then, that it is the artwork of Sir John Tenniel in the original book that drew me into children's book illustration early on.
And you really can't say that my style is similar to Tenniel's or Beatrix Potters, but they are at the very core of the artist part of me, and where I get my inner desire to be be a better artist from. But the Alice story....it frightens me! Maybe because before ever trying to read the book, I saw the 1938 movie version and that truly gave me the creeps. Anyone who knows me will not understand how I can barely watch TV the rest of the year, but at Halloween time (all the month of October for me!) I become fixated on horror movies. And I love a good scare or ghost story. But Alice's decent into Wonderland, where the most normal character is the White Rabbit and even he can't be relied on, leaves me uneasy. But at the same I like the feeling it creates at a safe distance.
And it is great that we have such a story. A story that so much has been read between the lines that we all gave up trying to figure it out and just let ourselves keep being curiouser and curiouser.
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