An (unattributed) image that manages to be delightful in half a dozen different ways. Courtesy group fashion-history blog La Mode Illustree.
Another set of comparisons between images with a common subject matter. This time: the biblical tableau of Judith and Holofernes! I love depictions of this scene. It’s a pleasant bit of evil to see a woman inflicting the violence for once.
Depictions are split between the actual beheading and the triumphal head-displaying; I favored the first one, but have included my favorite sassy head-trophy interpretation.
Tom Gauld again, aptly demonstrating (for Museums Journal) why I do narrative illustration instead of conceptual art.
And here is another page. There’s some more personal complication coming up – one surgery (not on me), the final dregs of a move (guys I own so many books and so many cats), the looming con season, several other projects which will come into maturity any moment now and demand all the attention, etc, but DAMMIT HERE IS A PAGE.
With a barn swallow. Or a bit of one, anyway.
In the meantime, because I’m too harried to come up with many salient words right now, I’ve been occasionally dropping interesting pictures in my long-neglected Tumblr account. If you enjoy pedantic imagery of the past, heave to!
