Got a little time to spend crawling around on the web?
Allow me to recommend that you use some of it to check out the archives at Hey Oscar Wilde! It’s clobberin’ time!!!
You might ask “what the hell is that”?
Well, in the site’s own words:
This website, now in its ninth incarnation since being launched in 06.1998, is an extension of a personal art collection of various artists interpreting their favourite literary figure/author/character
There are at least a couple of hundred portraits there, and the list of contributing artists is awesome, especially for anyone familiar with modern comics art. The list of subjects is, if anything, even more fascinating.
Here’s a couple of scaled-down teasers that link to the site’s pages for the images:
After the jump, seven more of my favourites, all linking to their respective pages.
By the way, anyone who can claim with a straight face that they identified all nine portrait subjects from the images (i.e. no clicking through first, no looking at the link addresses in the status bar, no using image properties, etc.) can claim a free beer from me sometime.
…and that’s another feed for my feed reader.
