Jun16
Intermission #2: Alice’s Journey
on June 16, 2012 at 12:00 amChapter: Intermission
Characters: Alice Liddell
Here starts the beginning of book 3! Can you believe we’ve made it this far?
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Even though knowing more about Alice will be interesting HOW CAN YOU LEAVE US HANGING CONCERNING SCARCROW’S FATE?!?!?!?
or Scarecrow for that matter. *facepalm*
My kingdom for an edit button…
Always my pet peeve on websites: no edit button.
I know you can look it up in the archives, but you might think of linking to the first intermission when you put up a new one. Just to help readers who don’t quite remember what’s going on in that story line to catch up again.
Wow, awesome design. I don’t recognize the tale, but I love how the girl on the right carries this huge scissor on her back like some two-handed weapon. XD The bird is cute too.
she looks like she could either be Arriety from the Borrowers or Thumbalina
Oh, I hadn’t even thought of Thumbalina! Good call!
Oops! *Thumbelina
Maybe it’s just me, but she looks like the Modern day Alice namesake honestly…
Yeah, that’s Alice in Wonderland. There’s this whole sequence in the book where there’s a bottle with the label “Drink Me” on it, and a cake(?) that says “Eat Me”. Alice had to navigate her way through a hallway with a bunch of different sized doors using the cake and the drink.
But who’s the second girl?
Probably Edith, Alice’s sister. She was mentioned in the first intermission, “The Three Sisters”
I’m guessing that’s Alice shrunk down small enough to fit inside the bottle, but is that Arrietty from the Borrowers standing outside of it?
They’re only using public domain stories, so it’s more likely a reference to the shrinking part of Alice in Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass or the Thumbelina fairy tale.
OMG ASDFGHJKL;!!! ALICE!
What. I’m totally not biased and easily distracted by Alice stories.
I’m beginning to hate Isameg >.<
This is a beautiful page. I can’t wait to see where it leads.
Definately Thumbelina. In Thumbelina, she rode the sparrow to escape marrying a mole, whereas The Borrowers had no instance of riding around on a bird.
Plus, we can’t use the Borrowers anyhow since that’s still copyrighted. Isa and I will be very old women when that story is public domain.
No offence of anything, but why is everybody saying that’s Thumbelina? The girl inside the bottle is probably Alice Liddell (As in, “the First [Wonderland] Alice”) and the girl outside is without a doubt the most recent, apparent-leader-of-Calliope Alice. So tecnically BOTH of them are Alice. Hence the title “Alice’s Journey”
I thought modern-day Alice was blonde.
Um. Calliope Alice is blonde, not brunette. Besides the haircut she doesn’t even look like Calliope Alice…
“Can you believe we’ve made it this far?”
Why not? It’s a good story with a good art. You have everithing to go even further!
Just got my book in the mail today. Wonderful job!
Little ticked that the postman stuffed it into my mailbox, so it arrived creased. Ah well..
A little bit of backtracking (as I’m sure someone mentioned this before) was Karen the Namesake of the story of the deadly-dancing-shoes, or some other story and merely came across the shoes later. Given her love of music I assumed she was the dancer.
And are there more than one Namesake-eatting ghosts, or is the one that plagued the original Alice the same one inhabiting Emma?
Thanks again for the awesome book.
You’re just going to leave that cliffhanger up in the air for an entire chapter at least aren’t you? :p
I like the subtle details in this drawing, such as the drop of liquid still remaining on the bottom of the bottle that has stained Alice’s hem.
I also like the way you went against the popular culture trend of making Alice fair-headed (something probably originating with the early illustrators of the tale, such as Sir John Tenniel) something which really irks me, since the real life Alice Liddell had very dark hair.
Also, while that is clearly Thumbelina, I like the way the Borrowers are however referenced (both the 1997 movie and Miyazaki’s version) in her choice of equipment and clothing style, down to the predominantly red color scheme…
just started reading a few weeks ago and i went back to read up and some where in chap 8 where they use the portals for the first time there are a whole bunch of broken images i was wondering if you could help
I had the same problem
But no one seems to be answering sadly :/
Thanks, for some reason our site emails have stopped working. We’re also switching servers, and I think this might have a problem to do with that. I’ll fix stuff as soon as I get home from work in an hour. Sorry about that!
Happy Belated Father’s Day to all you Dads (like me) who read Namesake.
Maybe I’m the only Dad who reads Namesake?
Nope. Not drinking THAT. *lol*
This illustration in particular makes me want a tarot deck from Isa. Any chance? (I know it’s a big project).