After months of waiting, Tim Burton’s highly-anticipated 3D adaptation of Alice in Wonderland finally lands in theaters this weekend; to help you celebrate, we’re giving away five copies of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, a visual interpretation of the Lewis Carroll classic illustrated by LA-based artist Camille Rose Garcia. Think of it as Alice Kingsley goes goth girl. Even more exciting: One lucky reader will receive a piece of original art from the book.
Get the details on the giveaway, preview a few illustrations, and listen to Garcia’s Alice-inspired playlist after the jump.
“The biggest challenge with this project was reinterpreting such an iconic story,” Garcia explains. “I’ve seen it done a million times, but never really as good as the original illustrations.” She worked in watercolor and acrylic, and was inspired by the things she collects: “Little bits of my life are always making their way into the work.”

Our grand-prize winner will receive this one-of-a-kind print , initialed by Camille.
Music also played a big role, particularly the songs below.
“Music always inspires me while I work, for this project I wanted the art to reference psychedelic colors, and also have a bit of darkness,” she says. “While reading the story again, I realized it is a pretty dark story, everyone is mean to Alice, she gets drugged by a crazy caterpillar, and the queen threatens her with a beheading! So my musical selections are a nice mix of psychedelic, punk rock, and dark, brooding music. And a couple of folk songs thrown in since my studio is in the middle of the woods.”
To enter to win a copy of the book, leave us a comment explaining who your favorite character that Alice meets in her adventures is, and why. Our favorite response will also score an original artwork.
If you live in LA, make sure to check out Down the Rabbit Hole, an exhibition of selected illustrations from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and paintings inspired by the book, at Merry Karnowsky Gallery beginning March 6. She’ll also be appearing at The Booksmith in San Francisco on March 8.








Comments (115)
My favorite character is the Caterpillar, just because he’s ODing on the hookah.
The White Rabbit. Who can’t relate to the pressures from a “Queen” making you run around like mad and losing yourself in the hustle of life!
The Cheshire Cat, hands down. He (she?) has no agenda but fun and seemingly is the only sane character in the whole book. Though, he is he only one that really smiles.
“I didn’t know that cats could grin,” said Alice. The Duchess replied, “They all can and most of them do.”
The Dutchess was always my favorite and not because of her overall character, but because she was always unpredictable and obtuse. First appearing abusive, impulsive, and oblivious to logic; later, kind and clingy. Her house reminds me of the superbowl.
Alice. It still perplexes me how one can fall into such a place as Wonderland and still keep her wits about her. The average person would stumble into madness before stumbling out of Wonderland.
The Mad Hatter – a victim of workplace environmental hazards (mercury poisoning), still he seems to enjoy his dementia and so does the reader. Did the Marx brothers ever play that scene?
The Cheshire Cat no doubt! He or she has a contagious smile that is just purr-fect, even though sometimes he/she gets Alice on trouble and sometimes acts as a helper. It’s such a nice character, I’m a cat lover what else can I say.
As a cat lover I’m saying the Cheshire Cat. Love that toothy grin =)
for me, the most special moment was when alice met grace slick outside the old matrix on fillmore st. after a great society gig. you could seemingly *taste* the stars running down your face in those days, running down the voodoo. each flip of a page gives voice to the voice which launched a thousand trips. this broadcast is over.
My favorite character is Humpty Dumpty because he explains Jabberwocky to Alice.
My favorite character is the Cheshire Cat he’s witty, wise and magical. His grin is both amusing and sneering at the same time
Cant wait too see the movie”
I love the Unicorn, from Through the Looking Glass. His surprise at meeting a “fabulous monster” like Alice is hilarious, since Alice is equally surprised to meet a mythical unicorn. “If you’ll believe in me, I’ll believe in you,” he says. That quote always stuck with me; it reminds you to always reconsider your assumptions and examine every situation from the other side. Carroll at his best!
in the disney version i really like the playing cards who are “painting the roses red” b.c that f*cking queen changes her g*dd*mn mind all the time. i enjoy their playfulness and the panic as the work gets messier and messier.
I love Alice. The classical Alice who bravely enough explore the Wonderland unintentionally. After watching the original movie of Alice in Wonderland in 1980, I think of her: What would she be when she grow up nowadays? Will she build an architecture that defines the quirky Wonderland. What will she do with her extraordinary experience?
Thus far, my favorite is the Dutchess, simply because she boxed the Queen’s ears…
The Mad Hatter- someone who has clearly gone crazy due to their love of fashion and haberdashery, lost in their own world with no sense of time, rhyme or reason- sounds like caricature of every New Yorker.
The March Hare. Or, the Hatter. Or, both. Actually, yeah. Both. Together. Combined as one insane, sinister tea-serving torrent. Absurd and demented in the best possible ways.
Alice Liddell is runner-up, though. What a strange (creepy) little person she was.
i like the tweedle dee and tweedle dum for the doubled wacky whimsical selves.
i like the cheshire cat…he’s unpredictable, kinda odd, and more than a little bit scary (even in his disney form). i think he is also a bit like me. :)
I love the bitchy flowers because they think Alice’s dress is made of drabby petals and turn her on her head.
My favorite character would be The Mad Hatter because it’s true that we are all a bit mad and it’s not something to see as a negative really. Embrace the weird, the quirky, the MAD.
I love The Duchess. Even with her snark and arrogance in Alice’s trippy little world, her quotes transcend the storyline and fit seamlessly into everyday life.
“Take care of the sense, and the sounds will take care of themselves.”
I love the Duchess. We get to meet her twice: once when she’s ugly, angry, and mean–and again when she’s still ugly, but supportive and friendly to Alice. Apparently, what made her so foul at first was the ridiculous amount of pepper in the air at her house. The Duchess is one of the few characters who gets this kind of dimensionality! She also hangs out with the Cheshire Cat, which is unassailably cool. All in all, I always want to know MORE about the Duchess.
The Cheshire Cat with the freaky grin always made a BIG impact on me as a kid. Love CRG!
I think Dinah the cat doesn’t get enough credit.
Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum. They’re just so deliciously sinister.
Without a doubt the Mock Turtle: “‘It’s the thing Mock Turtle Soup is made from,’ said the Queen.” Wonderful!
The Queen of Hearts – her complete disregard for other’s feelings and her utterly fabulous get up. We are taught so often to despise these Disney women – the witches, the stepmothers, sisters…For what, conniving? Yes. But, they all display a certain degree of autonomy and strength of character. Cheers to feminism! Even if some think it’s dead.
Despite my allergies to cats, the Cheshire Cat is my fave Alice in Wonderland character. This trickster is the right amount of snarky, intelligent and has an amazing laugh going on. And hell, who wouldn’t want to have pink fur like he did in the original movie?! Super punk rock and Goth!
The March Hare, because he’s as mad as a march hare!
I’ve always like the white rabbit, he seems to be some sort of commentary on the modern condition. He’s preoccupied with time and doing his job. He doesn’t question whether what he does is right or wrong. It’s seems morality doesn’t apply to his view of the world. He sort of an Ayn Rand hero, in the form of a fuzzy, cute little white bunny, and I think that says something about the irony of modern ideals, and sort of questions their idyllic nature.
The Jabberwocky, because he was too frightening for Disney to successfully turn into animation the first time around.
My favorite characters are Tweedledee and Tweedledum. Enough said.
definitely cheshire cat. ahh, the power of invisibility!
The Mock Turtle, def. I loved the names of the subjects he had to learn in school (Mystery, Seaography, Drawling), the crazy need to one-up Alice in everything she says, and just the great Tenniel image (woe is me!). I think I like sad-sack characters in general (Eeyore).
Tweedledum because he is the boss of Tweedledee. ‘dee wouldn’t dare read a poem withpit the go ahead from ‘dum (and he wouldn’t dare call him “‘dum” either, cause that’s pejorative). I heard that this one time ‘dee was all “let’s hit the club tonight” and ‘dum just gave him this look that was like “uuuuuuuuggh….”, just totally grossed out and chock full a hate and ‘dee was all “ha ha…i was just kidding…”. But ‘dum still gave his brother an affectionate hug.
Tweedledum because he is the boss of Tweedledee. ‘dee wouldn’t dare read a poem without the go ahead from ‘dum (and he wouldn’t dare call him “‘dum” either, cause that’s pejorative). I heard that this one time ‘dee was all “let’s hit the club tonight” and ‘dum just gave him this look that was like “uuuuuuuuggh….”, just totally grossed out and chock full a hate and ‘dee was all “ha ha…i was just kidding…”. But ‘dum still gave his brother an affectionate hug.
Cheshir… )
Like many others my favorite is the Cheshire Cat. Cats are always the best characters. period.
How do you pick a favorite, excluding one would change the entire context of the book, the experience and each character in their own quirky way inspires, irks, explains, enlightens…I’ve had this open on my desktop at work for hours, watched the trailer, looked at her images, and yet each one is as important as the next, from tweedle to humpty, the hare to the hatter, i’m stuuuuck…..and I’ll pick ‘em all, even for one piece of wicked a$$ artwork! why just settle for one!
Alice. A believeably-written character, surrounded by chaos and strangeness, doing her best to make sense of situations that really make very little or none at all.
The Red Queen, because she imagines two impossible things every morning before breakfast.
Definitely the “hookah-smoking Caterpillar,” though there are many memorable characters to choose from, because he asks “Whooo … are … you?”
I gotta love the Cheshire Cat as well… perhaps it’s also the way he’s been illustrated? I just love his interaction with Alice (who is my second fav!)
The White Rabbit for starting it all; his white softness hints that innocence protects the adventuress while encountering the unusual and unexpected on her journey.
It’s tough to pick just one character to love, given the menagerie of wonderful options to choose from, but I think the Cheshire Cat appeals to me most because he’s crazy, but crazy like a fox (a fox-cat?). Where the Hatter and March Hare seem to be straight up looney, good ol’ C.C. cleverly indulges his nutty side. Also, you can’t go wrong with someone who seems to get such pleasure out of causing a little mayhem now and then, particularly by oh-so-conveniently dis-and re-appearing on a whim. Plus, he seems to be the twisted Wonderland counterpart to Alice’s beloved Dinah (what a mouser!) back home, making sure she’s never without feline companionship.
Tha Mad Hatter- one of my friends calls me that!
The Rabbit – always loved Harvey
The mad hatter is the best, of this I do not jest
He’s stange, he’s Wild
But surely trumps the rest.
The Hatter is insane, A truly wild man
but a stranger friend, you could not find
as Alice in Wonderland
that absurdly peer pressuring doorknob…
Has to be the Cheshire Cat – LOVE the coloring, LOVE the wicked grin and LOVE the wacky & mischievous personality!
I must vote for the Rabbit Hole. It is dark, confusing and transformative. You must go down it and come back successfully. Without it, there is no story.
I love the Caterpillar – “Who are you?”
Wow. I love Randy’s response. Very astute. I vote for Randy.
For me, it is all Weekly World New-worthies: Pig Baby! The Dodo and his caucus race! Bill the walking and talking Lizard!
My favorite is the dormouse who’s always dozing, even when getting shoved into a teapot, but who wakes periodically to spout mad lines, usually involving treacle. He’s quietly mad compared to the batshit-craziness of the March Hare and Hatter. And of course he’s cute.
Alice – For all those who have a younger sister understand. Their matter-of-fact attitude, quick-to-try eagerness, hairline-trigger sensitivity, never-ending questioning and their unconscious desire for adventure. Alice is my favorite character from the book.
My favorite character that Alice meets is the White Rabbit. The attracting factor for the beginning of Alice’s adventures. If there was no White Rabbit, there would be no adventure. Just like Alice I believe we all chase our own White Rabbits. The path leads to new places and faces.
My favorite is Bill the Lizard. Makes for a great band name, plus Alice gets to kick his butt!
My favorite character is the mad hatter, because I am also a tea lover.
The Caterpiller. Because I can’t stop smoking too.
What does everyone have against the queen? She’s the ruler if all the insanity on Alice’s adventure & can demand to have anyone’s head removed at any time.
I believe, my favorite “character” that Alice encounters within this looking-glass world are those that inhabit the poem “Jabberwocky.” Carroll seems to render this poem through the incongruous thoughts of carefully constructed senselessness, and it serves as a humorous example of the pure joy to be found amongst words, which I feel lies at the heart of Carrol’s work. This work is perhaps best justified by quoting Humpty Dumpty’s: “When I use a word, It means just what I choose it to mean- neither more nor less.” Overall “Jabberwocky” can best be described by Alice’s statement upon first encountering it: “Somehow it seems to fill my head with ideas- only I don’t exactly know what they are!”
I’d have to say that my favorite character that Alice encounters is the Caterpillar. I like him because he’s so philisophical and even though Alice doesn’t quite understand in her young age he gives her valuable advice to go by for the rest of her life. He is someone that is memorable for many reasons. One being the fact that he’s a smoking caterpillar. Another reason he’s so memorable is that of all the characters in the book he seems to be the most mysterious and difficult to grasp.
Hands down my favorite characters are the talking flowers. They are snarky and condescending. All the poetry and literature of the ages would have you believe flowers are beauty and love when Lewis Carroll saw the truth. Flowers are cold broads.
The mad hatter, the one who out of all of them might be the most “(in)sane” character in the whole book. “Why is a raven like a writing desk?” Also i enjoy a man who like his tea.
The Caterpillar; he chain smokes, talks in circles, and suggests taking drugs to change Alice’s appearance. It’s like all of LA in a 3 inch tall creature.
I love the Cheshire cat’s mystery, I did a sculpture of him/her in college, just the smile of course. I am still pretty proud of it.
my favorite character is the Dormouse because he…. zzz zzzz zzz
Huh, oh no, I was just resting my eyes.
My favorite character is the white rabbit because he reminds me of myself; I’m always late to something. Also, his swanky clothes remind me of my favorite english teacher from middle school.
My fave character- the Mad Hatter. There’s something endearing about him even though he can drive you batty, and perhaps that’s true of all people we keep in our lives. Also, he looks out for Alice, even in his craziness, and keeps on going even after his unfortunate poisoning in his creative work.
The Red Queen! Her philosophical musings are great: “Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that”
My fave is the Mock Turtle. Even his name is a fine pun, and he has a cantankerously absurd manner that catches the best of Lewis Carrol’s wit. When Alice asks him what he learned in school, he says:
“Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin with, and then the different branches of Arithmetic—Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision… there was Mystery,” the Mock Turtle replied, counting off the subjects on his flappers—”Mystery, ancient and modern, with Seaography: then Drawling—the Drawling-master was an old conger-eel, that used to come once a week: he taught us Drawling, Stretching, and Fainting in Coils.”
Life is a bitch, but we all have to go through it and I believe that how you decide to get to the end makes us who we are, so of course my favorite character couldn’t be the rabbit, he is always running, he never stops to smell the flowers and anyways, who wants to be constantly stressed about some queen with her panties in a bunch? It couldn’t be the Caterpillar either, all though he is a very happy bug and his life, I’m sure, is very easy going, I don’t think he is going to get anywhere in the long run. Nor can I appreciate the Cheshire Cat then, fore once you see past all his mystery, he also isn’t getting anywhere. So who should I favor? Not Alice, thats too obvious, even though she is going somewhere and even though she does get out to learn her lesson in the end, shes just too bland for me. I rather like the queen. She may be a bit mean, and she may have a rancid attitude but she knows just what she wants and she is working to get it. She, with her panties all bunched, is the definition of a character.
Long live the queen?
The dormouse would be my favorite character because it was thought to be inspired by Rosetti, the preraphelite artist. He frequently asked his friends to meet him at the “Wombat Lair” of the zoo. He also had a pet wombat which was “often brought to the dinner table and allowed to sleep in a large centrepiece during meals”(wikipedia profile)… Eerily similar, am I right?
(Obviously I should win because I love literature and art RIIIGGGHHHTTT?)
(and flavorwire)
:)
I love them all. Sorry, can’t pick.
My favorite character is undoubtedly the king of hearts. He gives the most important advice in the whole book when he tells Alice, very gravely, “begin at the beginning, and go on till you come to the end: then stop.” Here’s this poor little guy, obviously whipped by his wife the queen, giving a little sympathetic advice to the poor girl who has become lost on a journey with no apparent beginning, middle or end, through a nonsensical world. But from a child’s perspective this character is also the perfect and most simple contrast to the queens tyranny. Alice is a school girl we, cant forget, who has escaped the drudgery of her lessons for the world of imagination. Therefore, it’s reasonable that Alice would meet someone like the queen of hearts, who rules entirely through fear. She has a lingering fear of not finishing her homework and the queen’s character is meant to remind her of her responsibilities. But the king counters that fear by suggesting another reason for returning to the surface. He suggests that Alice simply be CURIOUS about life’s lessons. A virtue, which she, of course, already possesses but has begun to doubt on account of the trouble it has caused her. Anyway, I guess I just like that he reminds Alice of her youth, and recommends a path that will keep her from going up too fast….
The hookah-smoking Caterpillar, undoubtedly.
Despite his unfavorable reputation as an opium fiend and his strict and haughty disposition, he does help Alice by advising her to eat from the mushroom if she wants to change her size. So he actually teaches her how to cope with the difficulties she encounters in Wonderland and adapt to her environment when needed.
“WHOOO are YOUUU?”
The Cheshire Cat is the coolest cat Alice meets. Known for his trickster like grin, he has been represented in pop culture in so many ways! From Disney to Who framed Roger Rabbit, this cat is definitely one of the most recognizable character’s in this great story!
Oh god, I’m far too tired and my answer is far too typical to come up with the wittiest response, so I’ll just leave it with – I have always loved the Cheshire Cat.
Humpty Dumpty. One of the first poems I ever memorized. Also for his explanation of the poem, “Jabberwocky.”
I’ve always liked the Cheshire Cat. It may be mad but it’s never malicious plus he’s one of the few characters that never wanted anything from Alice except to talk to. He even tries to cheer her up at one point.
The Fawn that she meets, for comfort, as Lewis Caroll explains:
When I was very little, ‘Alice in Wonderland’ and ‘Through The Looking Glass And What Alice Found There’ filled me with delicious horror. The words made no sense – they were blithe and mad, with twisted grammar and unheard of definitions. And yet they were served to me as if I had to devour them like I would my every day words. The unknown was suddenly so close: confusing, alarming.
But I also fell into the darkness of the illustrations – as fast, as blindly as Alice did. John Tenniel’s characters were realistic, yet they were monstrous: sneezing pigs, oysters with tiny legs, a beautifully drawn calf’s head sprouting from a turtle’s shell, a rabbit frantically searching for his gloves…the gallery of frights went on and on.
For all of these marvels, I needed to be comforted – I needed something familiar. I think I was as relieved as Alice was when she met the Fawn:
“Just then a Fawn came wandering by: it looked at Alice with its large gentle eyes, but didn’t seem at all frightened. ‘Here then! Here then!’ Alice said, as she held out her hand and tried to stroke it; but it only started back a little, and then stood looking at her again.
‘What do you call yourself?’ the Fawn said at last. Such a soft sweet voice it had!
‘I wish I knew!’ thought poor Alice. She answered, rather sadly, ‘Nothing, just now.’
‘Think again,’ it said: ‘that won’t do.’
It goes without saying, we all need to be grounded and encouraged to not give up.
My favorite character is the Jabberwocky. It may not be a significant character but it’s a lovely poem that Alice reads. I’ve always loved this poem because it’s adventurous and written with strings of nonsense, which I love! The language is playful, albeit mostly made up, but that’s what I love about it- it’s fun! The… word “Jabberwocky” blankets my mind
as a symbol of the creativity that weaves in and out of Alice in
Wonderland itself and Through the Looking Glass…yes, the Jabberwocky is my favourite character for sure :) x
My favourite character has got to be the White Rabbit! I can really relate to him in that I’m always fashionably late and I’m always getting stick for this :P He’s quite dream-like and dapper, quite like myself (I’d like to think ;) and the way he fears the Queen of Hearts is adorable! ^_^ xx
I loved the Duchess – she was this larger than life presence and was seemed so nice at first and then turned out to be as crazy as the rest of them!
Who can argue with a Red Queen screaming “Off with her head!” But, of course, then there’s the Hooka-Smoking Caterpillar :o)
Alice. Definitely Alice. She stumbles into the party and ends up owning the whole affair. All along the way she lives in the moment and participates like a rock star. Iconic for good reason. And all the while remains true to herself.
My favorite character from Alice is the White Queen – “jam to-morrow” – has always stuck with me as a promise of things to come, that never do come. I am especially fond of her portrayal by Carol Channing in the 1985 made-for-tv version of Through the Looking-Glass.
The dodo becasue its based on the authors real name. he use to stutter sometimes and would interoduce himself as dodo dogson lol. i also think its cool how he portrayed himself as a do do especially since he was the one writing the book
The Jabberwocky!!!!! I had to choose and memorize this poem last year for my english class!
`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
“Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!”
He took his vorpal sword in hand:
Long time the manxome foe he sought –
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
And stood awhile in thought.
And, as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!
One, two! One, two! And through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.
“And, has thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!’
He chortled in his joy.
`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
Well, Alice would have to be my fave, for she, like me, is non-conformist and brave; while beautiful and kind, a person whom common ideas and tradition would not enslave.
Beset by demands and the cantankerous overlord that is time, the White Rabbit and his hyperbolic paranoia ushered me into the fantastical Wonderland more solidly than the dizzy spill down the rabbit hole ever could.
The little mouse in the tea party…. HOW CAN YOU DISAGREE! Amongst this crazy scene of pick up pick up move down move down, a very merry unbirthday, a confused Alice, and tea cups flying all over the place, a somber mouse floats down from the sky after being exploded out of cake. He softly sings to the tea party “twinkle twinkle little bat, how I wonder where your at…” He is so calm and relaxed during the chaos, undoubtedly hopped up on tea, that he is the perfect counter reaction to the mad hatter and his rabbit friend. It just always reminds me to chillax and take in the scene, let the chaos surround you but not consume. Ah yes the little mouse he takes the tea cake, and may he never run into the Cheshire cat.
My favorite character will always be The March Hare. Though he is a little overshadowed by The Mad Hatter (who I also adore) I believe that The Mad Hatter, The Dormouse, and The March Hare are all equally important parts of the Tea Party, and it just wouldn’t have been the same without The March Hare as The Mad Hatter’s tea party friend.
The Queen of Hearts – I love how she displays such naked human emotion. There are days where we would like to cut off the head of anyone who makes us feel like we didn’t belong ((okay, maybe not that drastic)). She does what we can’t ((and in all honesty, wouldn’t)).
I have to go with the Caterpillar. He smokes a hookah and hooks Alice up with mushrooms to eat. What more could you ask for?
“The Queen had only one way of settling all difficulties, great or small. ‘Off with his head!’ she said, without even looking round.”
Now this is a fairy tale with balls. My favorite character by far is that Queen of Hearts – what a card! In the book we are told by the Gryphon that she never actually follows up with her death sentences, but the erratic threats are so delightfully wicked. Now that is a woman with a killer case of PMS (the “p” standing for “permanent”).
My favorite cinematic interpretation – the only one i’ve seen in which the beheadings are actually carried out, and brilliantly so: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2-TPdB70Lg
I love the character called Mad Hatter because the make up looks great and he seems interesting!
I love that scheming, sly little devil known as the Cheshire Cat. How wonderful would that be to have the powers to be invisible when it is to one’s advantage and to be smack dab in the middle of things when he desires. He may not seem to really be going anyplace or be an actual part of any plan. I think that he may be the mastermind of the whole story. His skillful manner of convincing Alice to do certain things is that of a genius. I admire the devious manner in which he carries himself while showing that mischievious grin that makes one wonder what he is really up to or really means.
The Cheshire Cat is and always has been my favorite because he is the only character in Wonderland that Alice (and therefore me, as over empathetic reader) can actually look to for guidance while wandering, lost through that frightful nightmare of a place. Reason? Cheshire cat is:
(a) aware of his own madness (as shown through the things that he says)
(b) enjoying his own madness (as shown through his perpetual grin)
(c) in control of his own existence (as shown through the gradually disappearing and reappearing stripes on his tail and, of course, the disappearing and reappearing grin)
The Mock Turtle makes me hungry. Hungry for a meal called Mock Turtle Soup – a meal that my parent’s won’t eat. That being said, whenever I go for Mock Turtle Soup I know I can eat in peace and quiet. The Mock Turtle reminds me of a relaxing meal away from my parent’s constant annoying anecdotes.
Mad hatter is the man!!!!!
I’m a fan of the Caterpillar, because he struck me as an existentialist who had himself figured out. Plus, it doesn’t hurt that when I first met my current beau, he was a hookah smoking caterpillar himself. ;)
I would have to say the Caterpillar because as laid back and melodramatic the character. The Caterpillar reminds me of multi-focus comedian Reggie Watts. Beautifuy yet Chaotic at the same time.
Bill, the Lizard gardener, has a very ordinary job in an extraordinary world, and by comparison seems all the stranger because he is so recognizable to us. In Wonderland, the oddest thing of all is a guy doing his job about the house. While Bill might not be as iconic or unique as the Hatter or the Cat, there’s something uncanny about his strange ordinariness, surrounded by the exotic excesses about him. On similar lines, other people are always the most surprising thing when I visit the zoo.
My favorite character was the Caterpillar from the Disney film since he was so memorable from my childhood. I remember seeing the movie when I was younger and thought it was so cool that he could blow smoke letters. I came to the revelation that he could only blow vowels. I was so proud of myself. I thought that was interesting. But then all of a sudden, he started blowing “R”s as well. But did he blow any other kinds of letters? NO! JUST VOWELS AND “R”s! Somehow he could blow other types of images that were more complex, but could not figure our how to blow out a “P” or an “S” or a “V”. What the hell! Sure, maybe he didn’t need to, but it totally tripped me out…and I guess that was the point…
My favorite character is the White Rabbit. He is nervous, and priggish, and self-absorbed, but he’s also Alice’s guide, unbeknownest to him. Like other omens that may appear in life, he frustrates and confuses Alice, and could lead her into danger, but always forces her onward through her own story. Tenniel’s drawing of him as the herald in the Queen of Heart’s court has stuck with me through life, and though rabbits in general are rich in symbolism (such as the hare in Kit Williams’ Masquerade, or Hazel in Watership Down, two of my other favorite literary rabbits), for me and many others the White Rabbit remains the king of enigmatic sign. Why else would Neo follow him?
diong some psychedellics is always ur mind being an elastic..WONDERLAND a place to be
I would say my favorite character would be the Mad Hatter. He’s simply insane or “mad” Can’t go wrong.
Roses painted Red!!!!!!!
both beautiful and gory at the same time
mimicking a murder scene, a cover up deemed necessary because of a simple mistake
Do you agree?
watch it here- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfmAzoILaK8
I love the Cheshire Cat not only for his fabulous grin but also because I’ve never seen an artist’s rendition of the Cheshire Cat that I didn’t care for.
Oh Cheshire! What a purr-fect surprise, the mad cat indeed. Where shall he go? Nobody knows, not even he! He goes this way and that way, but if he doesn’t know where, what does it matter? Ah, I sure do love this mad catter.
My favorite character would have to be the queen of heart’s army of cards. I love how they march and fall into stacks of playing cards and the songs they sing (:
I love this artist’s interpretation of he book. If I don’t win the free copy, I will definitely still be picking one up (:
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