Alice in Wonderland by Parragon books.

This here is a hardcover collection of both Alice in Wonderland and Alice through the looking glass.

It was published by Parragon in the UK in 2003. It was illustrated bby June Goulding.

Alice grows in the hall of doors.

In the White Rabbits house.

Alice shrinks after eating the pebble cakes.

The argument with the pidgedon.

Chaos at the court.
Not much to say about this version. The art is upper average. Its good but a bit too cutesey for my taste.

Campfires Alice in Wonderland comic

I allready had some very good Alice comics here in this blog.
This here is not so much good...

It was published in 2009 by Campfire, and indian (!) publisher that has specialiced on retelling classic stories in comic form. Illustrator is and indian guy named Rajesh Nagulakonda, frankly, he didn´t do a quite good job here...

The whole artwork of this comic looks weird, the drawings look off, the colours are muddy and the paneling is chaotic. The worst part is Alice herself, that has to be one of the most ugliest versions of Alice I´ve evers seen. Its not that bad on this page thou.

Alice shrinks tiny. Again the panels in this page are too random, too chaotic. Its tedious to read that.

Alice grows big. At least the growing and shrinking looks quite good here.

And she gets small again and falls into the lake of tears. Note how strange Alice looks in some panels.

In the white rabbits house. The perspective is seriously wrong in some panels.

Even worse perspective on this page!

Those animals look awfull. Also last panel: Whats wrong with her face?

This looks all so awfully off. Perspective, proportions...

Whats wrong with her face?

 

Her neck looks like a curly Fleischwurst...

Doin´ it rite.

Growing in the courtroom. Why is that mouse purple? Whats wrong with her face?!?

Wait, what? Excuse me, Mr. Nagulakonda, but how does panel one work? This panel doesn´t make any sense. Whats wrong with her face?!?!?!?!

The perspectives are really awfull.

Is it me or do the characters look worse the longer this comic goes on?

WHATS! WRONG! WITH! HER! FACE?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
Awfull. Truely terrible. This has got to be one of the worst Alice in Wonderland comics to date. If I didn´t knew it better I´d say the Indians are taking revenge on Britain for the oppression in the colonial era by f*cking up one of ntheir most beloved childrens classics. Its almost as bad as the Classics Illustrated version I reviewed earlier. Only that there the artist didn´t give a damn while here the artists simply is not good. At all. I don´t know which is worse... However, when you see this comic, well buy it only is your collection needs completation.

Lynx editons Alice in Wonderland

Today I will write about the illustrations with size changes in Lynx Editions Alice in Wonderland which was published in the UK in 1988. Illustrator is Justin Todd, who went for a surreal approach to the story in his illustrations.

You can see this very good in the "Hall of doors" illustration. Alice big and small at the same time gives you a good idea of the surreal feeling of the story.

 Note that the design of Alice is closely reselmling the look of the real Alice Pleasance Liddell, who was Carrolls main inspiration for the character in the books. She did look completely different from the blonde girl in the blue dress Tenniel and Disney popularised.

The white rabbits house. I love the idea with the cut-through of the showing what is happening inside and on the outside. On a side note, that celing must be really sturdy to carry Alice at that size. ^^

No size changes in this one, only Alice being tiny, but HOLY SH*T, THAT PUPPY! Its tripping balls!

Alice and the pidgedon. Todd did a similar effect to show movement in this one as he pid with that freaked out puppy before. Looks quite trippy and cool.

All this book got on alice in the court room. Its an interesting, almost minimalistic approach, that expects the reader to know what is happening in this image. I do like it thou.
This is one of the best artistic interpretations of the story. I really wonder why it is not more widely known.

Alice im Wunderland by Splitter

Here is a very neat french comic version published by the german publisher Splitter Comics last year.

 

The artists name is Xavier Collette. He gave the comic a dark, kinda steampunkish-gothy mood, yet the dynamic of his drawings reminds in some scenes in Grafitti.

Alice shrinks. Her outfit looks very neat in this comic.

I like the way she grows here. Also that she can´t fit completely into the panel at the bottom give a good feeling of her bigness.

I like her purple eyes. The design of the white rabbit is also interesting.

Nice sequence of Alice shrinking small again.

The White Rabbits house: To actually not show her growth, but to show the white rabbits house from the outside, and then just see her arm hanging out is an very interesting idea. Its different from most other interpretations of the scene I´ve seen so far.

She is so big that she wrecks the interior of the house just by moving in it.

And she shrinks small again.

 

Alice tastes the mushroom and zips smaller.

The squished look as she shrinks is very funny.

Arguing with that stupid bird...

Getting back to (relatively) normal.

Back in the hall of doors, doin it rite this time.

 

Alice begins to grow at the court.

Alice gets to her evidence. Again the nice idea of showing her size by making her too big for the frames of the panel.

Some nice POV-perspective in the last panel.

I really love the last panel of this page. The warm colours are great.

And the pack of cards attacks her. One thigs I really like about this comic is the incredible dynamic of the drawings. Just look at the central panel!
All in all this is a great comic. I can recommend it.

Ladybird Children´s Classics Alice in Wonderland

A quick one.

Alice in Wonderland by Ladybird Children´s Classics. Published in 1986 the story was retold by Joan Collins (wait, what?) and it was illustrated by Debbie Boon-Jenkins.

Alice in the hall of doors. Odd choice of colour for her outfit, also this is one of the few versions in which Alice is appearantly a ginger.

Alice tastes the shroom. The Illustrations are aquarelles that were pretty obviously drawn of photos, you can see that by how the art styles of Alice and the other characters differ from each other. This book has no scene in the White Rabbits house, which is really a shame

Alice starts to grow in the court room.

Alices evidence. Again note how Alice differs from the rest of the characters. It probably wasn´t intentional, but I think this gives a good impression in how Alice is an alien, a foreign body in wonderland. Dunno, I probably read too much into it.
All in all a cute little book, but I probably woulnd´t have bought it, if it wouldn´t have been a bargain for 1 cent at Amazon...