Snarkapalooza

Join this Webinar on March 29.

Noon Pacific / 3:00 PM Eastern / 8:00 PM UK

Join us as we celebrate the 150th anniversary of The Hunting of the Snark with entertaining and enlightening talks, plus some surprises! Pre-show starts a half hour before showtime.

Need to review some Snark basics? Or maybe you just can’t get enough Snark! Either way, tune in 30 minutes before our official start time for a fairly-faithful, 19-minute animated adaptation of THOTS, plus some Snark-inspired music. After which, our presenters will be ready to charm you with smiles and soap:

View the Snarkapalooza program for complete info on your presenters and talks.

Comic book creator Macy Grove – Playing in Nonsense: The Joy of Adapting T.H.O.T.S.

Macy shares her adventure from first encountering the poem to imagining variations and subplots and creating the visual world of characters and creatures. She’ll discuss how the self-published project came to life with the help of artists, friends, family—and a healthy dose of creative bumbling, incidental discoveries, and fortunate accidents.

2024 Wonderland Award Winner Elijah Granet – Snark Raving Mad: Law in “The Barrister’s Fit”

Amidst the delightful silliness and nonsense in the Barrister’s Fit, Carroll included a lot more legal truth than many readers might realize. In the wild world of English legal history, ometimes the funniest absurdities are the actual state of the law! From pigs committing crimes to sleeping judges, this talk discusses how English law is as satirical in reality as in Snark.

Illustrator & Writer David Elliot – Beyond the Tulgey Wood

The imaginative wanderings of both writers and illustrators often extend far beyond the confines of their published works. David Elliot attempts to deconstruct the greater world of The Hunting of the Snark and explores alternative mechanisms for its depiction. Followed by Q&A with Snarkologist editor Dayna Nuhn.

About Your Speakers

Macy Grove (she/her) rediscovered her love of Lewis Carroll’s poetry after receiving Jabberwocky and other Nonsense Poems as a gift. She quickly became captivated by The Hunting of the Snark and set out to bring the story— and the images it sparked in her imagination— to life, leading to the creation of Macy Grove Comics. She lives on the Olympic Peninsula with her loving spouse and three loyal hounds. She can be found hunting her Snark in the mountains and on the sea—reliably meeting, traveling, and adventuring with some of the most interesting and enjoyable characters one could ever hope to know.

Elijah Granet is an attorney at the Colorado bar, with law degrees from England and the US, as well as the editor of Legal Style Blog. He is also admitted to practice law in the British Antarctic Territory, so please send any penguin clients his way. Elijah was the winner of the University of California’s Wonderland Award in 2024.

David Elliot is an internationally recognized writer and illustrator for children. He has provided illustrations for bestselling authors in the UK and USA (most notably Brian Jacques’ Redwall series). David’s relationship with Lewis Carroll’s Hunting of the Snark dates back to his schooldays. This is manifest in two significant publications, the hand-printed Hunting of the Snark (Otakau Private Press) and his own Snark, Being a True History of the Expedition that Discovered the Snark and the Jabberwock and Its Tragic Aftermath (University of Otago Press). Both books have been well-received within and beyond the Carrollian communities around the world, Snark winning the New Zealand Childrens literature Book of the Year in 2014. David lives in Port Chalmers, a small harbour settlement in New Zealand’s deep south.

About Your Hosts

Heather Simmons is the LCSNA virtual events chair and creator of the website/podcast Alice Is Everywhere.

Dayna Nuhn is the editor of The Snarkologist and a frequent LCSNA contributor.

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