Hey! Look what we just got in the mail! My latest illustration job for the Writer’s Chronicle:
The cover article is called “Lunacy & Longing: Don Quixote & Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.” The basic idea is that there are parallels in the the approach of using a Sancho Panza/Huck Finn character to draw attention to a movement from romanticism (as represented by Don Quixote/Tom Sawyer) to realism.
And thus, Huck’s eye-rolling at Don Quixote’s windmill tilting.
I got a bonus illustration for another article, “Berlin Alexanderplatz & the Music of Novels” – partly about the musicality of language, partly about the character of cities.
This one was just a fun mash-up of the different landmarks from cities mentioned in the piece: the Addis Ababa train station, the main square in Brussels, the Badshahi Mosque in Lahore, the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial church in Berlin, the Chrysler building in New York, and the Washington Monument. I also threw in some smokestacks from a futuristic machine-city. It was super fun.
Thanks, editor Supriya Bhatnagar, for throwing me the job, and for being so great to work with!
