Illustrating Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky
Jabberwocky is a nonsense poem written by Lewis Carroll in his 1871 novel Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There, a sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. The book tells of Alice's adventures within the back-to-front world of a looking glass. In this world Alice comes across a book and starts reading one of the poems, but finds the nonsense verse as puzzling as the odd land she has passed into.
'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
Toves
Illustrating Jabberwocky gave me the opportunity to create my own version of Lewis Carroll's characters. Carroll attempted to explain some of the nonsense words and describe his curious creatures in Through the Looking-Glass, through the character of Humpty Dumpty. These explanations, though, differ from the ones in his notes and personal commentary in Mischmasch, a periodical that he wrote and illustrated for the amusement of his family. This may be Carroll's intention for his readership. The poem is, after all, part of a dream. So this is my dream.
Borogove
Hero
The Jubjub Bird and the Bandersnatch
My version of the Jabberwocky is still in progress.
It started off as a University project.
