Tuesday, December 7, 2010

I'm just a snark-hunter from Muskogee …



The proprietor and master voleur at Biblioklept, Edwin Turner, has very kindly posted a lengthy interview he did of me on the subject of turning Lewis Carroll's Hunting of the Snark into a GN … big, gallumphing ideas are bandied about, such as Gateway Surrealism …

"It’s hard to illustrate an idea and oddly enough, the Snark is really a poem of ideas, couched in the form of a tragic epic and then declaimed by a master comedian … I wanted to avoid … doing literal drawings of the scenes in it.

I wanted the Snark to constantly bring up a stream of associations, references, insinuations, all of them triggering more and faster allusions, what I call a Gateway Surrealism that leaves readers hopelessly addicted and desperate for more! Don’t say no, kids!"

For more, go here

7 comments:

  1. Mahendra! So good to hear from you! I love this snark stuff.

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  2. Thanks, Sommer, And I'm glad you are having the "integrated internet presence" over at the Rumpus, where readers who need a laugh are urged to check out your latest list of funny things women do in rok (pace, Lou Stathis)

    check it out here:
    http://therumpus.net/2010/12/funny-women-40-music-quiz/

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  3. let me get that URL right:

    http://therumpus.net/2010/12/funny-women-40-music-quiz/

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  4. Nice gateway to The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. They got the bird, not the Snark (but a Boojum?). That adds to Henry Holiday's Gateway to Gustave Doré.

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  5. Gustave Doré is a name which is held in the highest regard by this Snark Hunter! What an amazing, theatrical talent!

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  6. Götz, your snark hunt will never end! It is mathemtically & logically impossible for it to end … in fact, I think you are on a Möbius-strip path.

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