I agree with you on Skidmore's Bertie, he looks like a depressed basset hound or something.
I also think a lot of Skidmore's drawings fail to capture the craziness of the stories. Like the twins and Marion in the third picture from the top. There's nothing wrong with it, exactly, but you don't really get a sense of the utter inappropriateness of the Wooster twins and the desperation of Marion in having to deal with these two bimbos. His style just seems so, I don't know, literal? Like he has to illustrate something really obviously wacky (like Claude & Eustace getting expelled--which I do love) to make it funny, instead of using body language or stylistic choices to make an illustration funny.
The Mills' picture of Claude and Eustace glaring at each other over Bertie's bedrailing is a perfect example of making exaggeration and just the sheer inappropriateness of a situation work. I am liking Mills' Bertie more and more. :D
On a sidenote, is "Britisher" even a word? I thought it was "Briton"? Wow, and Wodehouse is the only one? Poor Noel Coward . . .
Also, those spats, dear God. DEAR GOD, BERTIE. YOU HAVE SUCH TERRIBLE TASTE.
I am rapidly becoming fascinated by how these various artists draw the Wooster feet. Raleigh gave him positively petite, girly trotters.
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Date: 2011-12-17 07:42 am (UTC)I agree with you on Skidmore's Bertie, he looks like a depressed basset hound or something.
I also think a lot of Skidmore's drawings fail to capture the craziness of the stories. Like the twins and Marion in the third picture from the top. There's nothing wrong with it, exactly, but you don't really get a sense of the utter inappropriateness of the Wooster twins and the desperation of Marion in having to deal with these two bimbos. His style just seems so, I don't know, literal? Like he has to illustrate something really obviously wacky (like Claude & Eustace getting expelled--which I do love) to make it funny, instead of using body language or stylistic choices to make an illustration funny.
The Mills' picture of Claude and Eustace glaring at each other over Bertie's bedrailing is a perfect example of making exaggeration and just the sheer inappropriateness of a situation work. I am liking Mills' Bertie more and more. :D
On a sidenote, is "Britisher" even a word? I thought it was "Briton"? Wow, and Wodehouse is the only one? Poor Noel Coward . . .
Also, those spats, dear God. DEAR GOD, BERTIE. YOU HAVE SUCH TERRIBLE TASTE.
I am rapidly becoming fascinated by how these various artists draw the Wooster feet. Raleigh gave him positively petite, girly trotters.