Here is a spread I did for Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, a book that I talked about in the 2009 Falmouth forum. So I am only showing you just two slides from this particular book.
I thought a new take on the book would be to more-or-less exclude Alice’s appearance in the illustrations. I wanted to illustrate according to a notion of her thoughts and view of the world.
I wanted Alice to be somewhat disembodied during her dream state. This approach might give the reader a different feeling to a familiar story that has been illustrated hundreds of times. So I hoped to make the reader see the story with fresh eyes. If Alice does not appear in the illustrations her conversation is highlighted in blue in the text. Having her voice highlighted in this way perhaps gives her a different kind of presence that is not evoked in the illustrations.