Frankly my dear, this one’s a no-contest. Because AFAIK, neither original artist John Tenniel nor writer / amateur artist Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) ever officially depicted this jarring, life-changing event for Alice. And yet weirdly, Ralph Steadman did.

The opening pic is actually me cropping,
stretching, and adding sepia-tone to the original B&W art:

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And as usual, we have the typical ‘unsettledness’ of Steadman taking a story which is usually depicted as a bizarre, but fun and creative all-ages work, originally meant for a group of children, then mining the sharper and weirder angles lurking just underneath to yes… once again ‘touch the madness.’

Of course, a much bigger point is the way in which this single scene spawned a wonderful idiom for the ages that has not only lasted 125+ years, but almost seems to gain additional momentum and versatile usage with every passing year(!)

Now TBH as an ‘Alice-lover,’ the above’s not really something I think about much, but sometimes, upon reflection, it really does astonish me how Dodgson produced (or caricatured) so many cutting political and modernistic tropes in the 1860’s that are still very relevant today, just that they tend to wear a light coating of Victorian dust, haha? (so that way they can be hand-waved away as “irrelevant” by modern politicos)

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“Here’s looking at you, kid!”

Now feel free to hate on me here, but I just wanted to see what it might look like with some understated colors, using an AI tool (yes, I know, I know):

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And just for gits & shiggles, maybe let’s see it as a 1951 Disney film still?

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Finally, I wanted to share the magnificent ‘rabbit-hole’ photo collection that u/Sydnee_Guy posted over at the evil empire. I did download those pics and was thinking about uploading them to Imgur (and that’s always a future option), but no… just no. That Aussie bloke built up a personal, fabulous, amazing collection of Alice books, and kindly shared his photo-collection upon such. So… no way am I going to try to ripoff such awesome, original content:

[HERE] then is that magnificent collection.

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