Treasure Trove of Vintage Wodehouse Illustrations!

Jul 27, 2013 00:25

OMG you guys, OMG OMG OMG! Remember my series of vintage Wodehouse illustration posts? (The last one I did is here, and I think that has links to all of them.) Well, I just found an amazing website that not only has transcripts of pretty much every Wodehouse work published in a periodical before 1923, but they also include all the original ( Read more... )

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dragonsquill July 27 2013, 05:45:37 UTC
I loved those posts! I'm so glad you linked to them again. :)

And, wow. Tony Sarg. That's just...impressively awful. It's amazing that they apparently never let these artists actually read the stories they illustrated!

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haikitteh July 27 2013, 06:25:05 UTC
Very cool! What an amazing find. I love those old illustrations. Even when the conception of my beloved characters is pretty far off from how I imagine them. ;)

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cosmosmariner July 27 2013, 14:58:25 UTC
Yes, I always think of Gussie as being ridiculously thin, too. A nose on a stick, if you will.

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cosmosmariner July 27 2013, 14:57:28 UTC
...that's supposed to be Bertie? The one with a large baked potato for a head? Oh my stars.

Yeah, I'm sticking with the Raleigh illos. :P

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hazeltea July 27 2013, 17:39:22 UTC
What a fantastic find! Thank you!

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