Massimiliano Longo. Alice nel Paese delle Meraviglie

Massimiliano Longo draws a more mature Alice, a teenager who lives the adventure in Wonderland with a higher consciousness, without  loosing the freshness of childhood of Lewis Carroll's Alice. The drawings, made by simple pencil lines, represent scenes rich in details which become almost  photographic pictures in the colour plates. The whole characters are very realistic to confirm the idea that at the end of the Rabbit hole begins a Wonderland as real as our land.

Illustrating Alice

An international selection of illustrated editions of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass

J. Otto Seibold. Alice in pop-up Wonderland

J. Otto Seibold distorts the image of Alice to which we have been accustomed, even though different in style, by the illustrators' interpretations from the early 20th century to today. In the pop-up book made by only six animated plates, the artist presents a new Alice deprived of romanticism, fairy atmosphere and crinoline which often has accompanied Carroll's tale. The pop-up mechanisms are simple, not spectacular and they do not distract the reader's attention from the super-coloured and graphically very cool and dynamic illustrations. Everything works perfectly in Seibold's story; the text, minimized and composed by extravagant fonts, comes alongside with the illustrations and, in a certain sense, becomes a substantial part of it. Thanks to the balance of all the elements by which it is composed, this book can be considered not just an illustrated book but a perfect graphic artwork.

Edizioni Anarchismo. Alice nel Paese delle Meraviglie.

In every edition of Wonderland we meet a new Alice, but in the Edizioni Anarchismo's edition there is not a trace of the English little girl. She doesn't appear neither in the text nor in the pictures. Alice and Wonderland, in fact, in this little book, are transformed in a sort of symbol or, to be precise, metaphor of the struggle for national liberation.

Alice in the Bel Paese. The Italian editions.

Here is a list, by illustrators, that enumerates most of the Italian editions of Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass. The editions not illustrated and those in which the name of the illustrator doesn't appear are included apart.

Alice on the screen. Basic filmography.

Hepworth, Cecil M., Percy Stow, Alice in Wonderland. Hepworth, 1903. watch the movie

Porter, Edwin Stanton. Alice Adventures in Wonderland. Edison Manufacturing Company. 1910.
Young, W.W., Alice in Wonderland. American Film Manufacturing Company, Nonpareil Feature Film Corp. 1915. watch the movie