I think I missed a number of literary allusions, considering how many seemed familiar. Every chapter opens with an excerpt from some famous work, and the format is about as close to epistolary as I’ve seen anything illustrated get (hence all the narration). It’s frequently the point, said straight out at the beginning. I did enjoy the juxtaposition of a realistic style with some of the more outlandishly caricatured characters.Īs for the story, if you have an issue with deus ex machina then this may not be the best read for you. Of course, it does still have panels, and there’s still a fair bit of ink where characters need to be outlined, scenes need to be set, all that good stuff. There are occasional panels that aren’t like this-where the ink takes over-always to a particular effect, for instance to show alienation, or a dramatic moment, and it’s interesting how smooth the transition between the dreamier watercolors and these more concrete moments are (except for the one place where it’s deliberately abrupt). Speaking of the artwork: it’s not just about the watercolor, although that’s certainly the majority, and used to all its strengths: dripping, splotches, splashes, those wonderful crusty edges you get when you layer in a little more paint and turn the brush the right way. Yes, there are dialogue balloons and the occasional onomatopoeia, but they’re solidly dominated by the narration + fantastic artwork. This comes pretty close to being an illustrated novel.
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The color plates to Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens by Arthur Rackham made the book immediately popular, and drew attention to Rackham, who was not well-known before then. The Peter Pan chapters were extracted and published as a separate work in 1906. Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens was originally part of an earlier work, The Little White Bird by J.M. Arthur Rackham : *** Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens *** Art Passions Art Prints More Arthur Rackham Art FAQ Search Site Map Arthur Rackham's Illustration to J.M. She has been a featured guest of many NPR shows, including multiple appearances on the Brian Lehrer Show and On Being, and some television, such as Hardball MSNBC and Huffington Post Live. in The History of Science and European Cultural History, from Columbia University and has taught history and poetry widely including in the graduate programs at the New School and Columbia. Hecht's poetry and prose appear in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The New Republic, Poetry, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Politico, The American Scholar, and Vox. Her book, Stay, is a history of suicide and a secular argument against it (Yale, 2013). Listen to her On Being conversation, Suicide, and Hope for Our Future Selves. Hecht has three award-winning books of poetry, including Who Said (Copper Canyon, 2013) and Funny (Wisconsin, 2005) and four books of history and philosophy, including the bestseller, Doubt (HarperOne, 2003), a history of unbelief all over the world, through history. Doubt : a history : the great doubters and their legacy of innovation, from Socrates and Jesus to Thomas Jefferson and Emily Dickinson / Jennifer Michael Hecht. Jennifer Michael Hecht is the author of Stay: A History of Suicide and the Philosophies Against It, Doubt: A History, and Who Said. Her new book on poetry and how we live is The Wonder Paradox: Embracing the Weirdness of Existence and the Poetry of Our Lives, is out with Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. Jennifer Michael Hecht is a poet, historian, and commentator. The Wonder Paradox is out in the world! Order now! |