Treasure Trove of Vintage Wodehouse Illustrations!

[wotwotleigh.livejournal.com]

OMG you guys, OMG OMG OMG! Remember my series of vintage Wodehouse illustration posts? (The last one I did is here, and I think that has links to all of them.) Well, I just found an amazing website that not only has transcripts of pretty much every Wodehouse work published in a periodical before 1923, but they also include all the original illustrations. Check it out.

Believe it or not, I think I have actually found an illustrator who has an even worse grasp of what Bertie is supposed to look like than old Skidmore.  Meet Tony Sarg, illustrator of a couple Jeeves and Bertie stories published in the Saturday Evening Post. Yep . . . Bertie is the slouchy one with the glasses. 

Comments

[dragonsquill.livejournal.com]

I loved those posts! I'm so glad you linked to them again. :)

And, wow. Tony Sarg. That's just...impressively awful. It's amazing that they apparently never let these artists actually read the stories they illustrated!

[haikitteh.livejournal.com]

Very cool! What an amazing find. I love those old illustrations. Even when the conception of my beloved characters is pretty far off from how I imagine them. ;)

[erynn999.livejournal.com]

That Sarg chap... I have to wonder what drugs that boy was on. Seriously. That? As Bertie? I might maybe buy that as Gussie, but he's not nearly rail-thin enough for my headcanon.

[cosmosmariner.livejournal.com]

Yes, I always think of Gussie as being ridiculously thin, too. A nose on a stick, if you will.

[cosmosmariner.livejournal.com]

...that's supposed to be Bertie? The one with a large baked potato for a head? Oh my stars.

Yeah, I'm sticking with the Raleigh illos. :P

[hazeltea.livejournal.com]

What a fantastic find! Thank you!

[godsdaisiechain.livejournal.com]

Perhaps Sarg thought Bertie was using 'willowy' in a sort of trenchantly facetious way?