The Pacific Sun is the alternative paper in Marin County, California. Their Best of Marin 2010 awards and their March 26th issue are fully Alice themed this year. Mark Burstein… [read full post]
Alice in Marinland
The Blog of the LCSNA
Author: James Welsch
-Blogger for the Lewis Carroll Society of North America
-Editor at www.itwaslost.org (O it was lost for ever! and we found it not) an art & music weblog.
Contrariwise’s Rejecting Apology; or, Did Lewis Carroll burn his secret collection of Lolicon manga?
Our post on the controversies and pseudo-controversies surrounding Carroll’s character generated some small discussion (“teach the controversy”, as the Kansas School Board might advocate). The folks at Contrariwise continued with a… [read full post]
Tea Party gone mad
It seemed inescapable that at some point someone would compare the Tea Party movement to Lewis Carroll’s famous tea party. Richard Kim’s article “The Mad Tea Party”, which will appear… [read full post]
Special Report: Was Lewis Carroll a gay Mormon and were the Alice books written by J.D. Salinger?
This blog doesn’t regularly deal with certain questions (italics mine, as was the rest of that sentence.) And the new lewiscarroll.org’s FAQs don’t go there. Contrariwise, Mark Burstein usually starts… [read full post]
Twitter Interview with Stickfiguratively Speaking creator Jamison Odone
Your Far-Flung bloggers used Twitter to conduct an interview with Jamison Odone, who illustrated and retold Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland with his stylish stick figure art. (Stickfiguratively Speaking is available… [read full post]
Disney’s 1957 Mock Turtle
This cartoon cel of Disney’s Mock Turtle is from LCSNA member Matt Crandall’s collection (featured in an interesting article on the “official” Disney fan site, D23.) Although the Mock Turtle… [read full post]
Announcing: Twitter Interview with AAIW Illustrator Jamison Odone, Monday at 18:00 GMT
Please join the Far-Flung bloggers on Twitter tomorrow morning for a short interview in short format (140 characters) with Jamison Odone, who has recently issued an Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland… [read full post]
Susan Sanford’s Dreaming Alice
Susan Sanford, an artist from Oakland, California, has a lovely book out called Dreaming Alice. Her humble biography: “The author has read many books and looked at many pictures, and… [read full post]
A few Carroll letters at the Rosenbach: “a very small portion of brain”
The website Letters of Note has two Lewis Carroll correspondences up today, both to Isabel Seymour in 1869. They are part of the Rosenbach Museum & Library’s collection in Philadelphia,… [read full post]
“Algebra in Wonderland” in Sunday’s New York Times
I’m curious what members of the LCSNA think of this article on the Sunday New York Times Opinion Page, “Algebra in Wonderland” by Melanie Bayley. The author is a “doctoral… [read full post]