Simon Winchester, author of the excellent book The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary, is back with a book… [read full post]
The Blog of the LCSNA
Month: March 2011
Batman Through the Looking Glass
Here’s the cover for Issue #3 of the new comic series The All-New Batman: The Brave and the Bold, which was launched after the success of the Cartoon Network show… [read full post]
New L.A.-themed Retelling of Alice Serialized Online
Coming up from the “performance art subculture burgeoning in Downtown LA,” Jenka Gurfinkel is releasing a new Alice-inspired “fiction project” (formerly known as a ‘novel’) in serialized installments online, at… [read full post]
See Max Ernst’s Lewis Carroll Illustrations on YouTube
Here’s a nice YouTube video of Max Ernst’s illustrations for Lewis Carroll’s Wunderhorn (“Miracle Horn,”) 1970, and “Die Jagd nach dem Schnark” (“The Hunting of the Snark,”) 1969. The music… [read full post]
Lewis Carroll accused of being on… crack? That’s a new one.
We normally let this type of article slip by unremarked, but this one was too good. Jerry Della Femina, who writes a column called “Jerry’s Ink” for the Long Island… [read full post]
Wonderland vs. Wonderland on Broadway?
Wonderland: A New Musical (formerly known as Wonderland: A New Musical Adventure) started previews today, March 21st, at the Marquis Theatre on Broadway. It stars Janet Dacal, who created the role… [read full post]
Meg Hunt’s Classy “Picture Book Report” of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Illustrator Meg Hunt has some cool Alice in Wonderland illustrations on her website www.meghunt.com. “For 2010, I decided to curate a big narrative project with several friends entitled Picture Book Report,”… [read full post]
The Royal Winnipeg Ballet in Wonderland
The Royal Winnipeg Ballet has just finished their premiere run of a new “Wonderland” choreographed by Shawn Hounsell at Winnipeg’s Centennial Concert Hall. It was there till March 13th, but it… [read full post]
The Daguerreotype that was not Dodgson or The High Price of Mistaken Identity
Dr Michael Pritchard, a regular contributor to the British Photographic History Blog, has alerted us to his cautionary tale about the uncertain world of eBay bidding. The above daguerreotype, which… [read full post]
Atomic Antelope detonates another amazing Alice app
Atomic Antelope’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland digital pop-up book for the iPad was not just a best selling app for the new tablet device, it was also one of the… [read full post]