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Hello hello, it's me again!

I search through all of the discussion tag, and I didn't find anything along these lines so I'm going to ask.

What exactly do canon Bertie and Jeeves look like?

I'm sure we've all got our pictures in out heads, Jeeves with his dark hair and head that bulges in the back, Bertie with his willowy physique and somewhat beaky nose, but what lines of text do these pictures originate from? Goodness knows the illustrators all had different ages everywhere, as well as various affinities for monocles and facial hair.

Edited to add: This question is three parts curiosity, wanting to get an closer match in this fic I'm writing, and also because I'm trying to commission the talented Tracy J. Butler to draw our boys. She's the spiffing artist who creates Lackadaisy, which is about booze-running cats in 1920's Louisiana. She drew a couple of her characters in human form, and they sort of match our boys. Made me long for a drawing of her's actually about our lovely lads.

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Yeah, in one story Bertie says that Jeeves' head sticks out at the back, but in another it's a "bulging forehead" (boy, he starts to sound like a hammerhead shark...) The bowler hat is book canon.

In that story about the communists Bertie is described as "that tall thin one who has a face like a motor mascot". So, a bit silly, I guess? Hugh Laurie somehow fits that description perfectly ;)

The other thing is that everything is, of course, told from Bertie's POV. He may think his nose is big, but that doesn't mean you have to draw him with a big, hooked nose. At some point he talks about his own "clear-cut face", but I can't figure out what that's supposed to mean.
And he often uses "finely chiseled" as a substitute for "face" in general, and on pretty much any male, so that's not much help.

The good news is that it really doesn't matter too much how you draw them, you just have a lot of freedom.

I just googled 1920's Motor Mascot, and it seems to be the hood ornaments of the day. Back then, they tended to be silver angeles or classic beautiful sculptures. So can we assume Bertie is a looker, classically speaking?

Could be, but it's not used as a compliment, more an insult...

I googled it at some point, I remember, and what I got was mostly funny little rodents with spanners or the Michelin man - as in, mascots for a certain brand.

Ah, but that's our modern versions. In the 1920's it seems to be mostly winged Johnny's, although I did spot a few horses so maybe that's where the insult comes in? But to be fair, I also spotted a few owls so who knows. Mostly beazels with wings and a limited amount of clothing, and a lot of statues of Hermes.