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[applea.livejournal.com]

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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[haikitteh.livejournal.com]

He definitely uses the word willowy. It's when he's describing how he got tricked at the Drones into falling into the pool (which he never really seems to get over!)

I found this quote from Thank You Jeeves:
But I don't look like old Glossop. We're built on different lines. Me – slender and willowy; him ... well, I don't wish to say anything derogatory concerning one who is bound to the aunt of an old friend by ties warmer than those of ... well, what I'm driving at is that you couldn't by any stretch of the imag. call him slender and willowy.

[storyfan.livejournal.com]

That just goes to show that Fry and Laurie were perfectly cast in the roles. :)

Thanks for the quote from Thank You, Jeeves. Now I'm going to dig through my collection and read it.