{"id":1136,"date":"2008-03-08T00:41:08","date_gmt":"2008-03-08T04:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/08\/portraiture-and-literature\/"},"modified":"2008-03-31T23:02:58","modified_gmt":"2008-04-01T03:02:58","slug":"portraiture-and-literature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/08\/portraiture-and-literature\/","title":{"rendered":"Portraiture and Literature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Got a little time to spend crawling around on the web?<\/p>\n<p>Allow me to recommend that you use some of it to check out the archives at <a href=\"http:\/\/digitalmedusa.com\/sgettis\/word\/\">Hey Oscar Wilde! It\u2019s clobberin\u2019 time!!!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You might ask &#8220;what the hell is that&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>Well, in the site&#8217;s own words:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>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<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a couple of scaled-down teasers that link to the site&#8217;s pages for the images:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/digitalmedusa.com\/sgettis\/word\/jon-j-muth-dashiell-hammett\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2008\/03\/wilde\/muth_hammet.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"417\" alt=\"by Jon Muth\" title=\"by Jon Muth\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/digitalmedusa.com\/sgettis\/word\/stuart-immonen-dorothy-parker\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2008\/03\/wilde\/immonen_parker.jpg\" width=\"197\" height=\"400\" alt=\"by Stuart Immonen\" title=\"by Stuart Immonen\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After the jump, seven more of my favourites, all linking to their respective pages.<\/p>\n<p>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.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/digitalmedusa.com\/sgettis\/word\/jim-mahfood-noam-chomsky\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2008\/03\/wilde\/mahfood_chomsky1.gif\" width=\"300\" height=\"436\" alt=\"by Jim Mahfood\" title=\"by Jim Mahfood\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/digitalmedusa.com\/sgettis\/word\/dale-berry-sir-harry-flashman\/\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2008\/03\/wilde\/dale.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" alt=\"by Dale Berry\" title=\"by Dale Berry\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/digitalmedusa.com\/sgettis\/word\/stuart-immonen-mordecai-richler\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2008\/03\/wilde\/immonen_mordicai1.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"335\" alt=\"by Stuart Immonen\" title=\"by Stuart Immonen\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/digitalmedusa.com\/sgettis\/word\/jim-ottaviani-richard-feynman\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2008\/03\/wilde\/feynman.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"257\" alt=\"by Jim Ottavani\" title=\"by Jim Ottavani\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/digitalmedusa.com\/sgettis\/word\/christopher-hicks-hagbard-celine\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2008\/03\/wilde\/hagbardceline.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"366\" alt=\"by Christopher Hicks\" title=\"by Christopher Hicks\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/digitalmedusa.com\/sgettis\/word\/guy-davis-horace-rumpole\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2008\/03\/wilde\/davis_rumpole.gif\" width=\"300\" height=\"349\" alt=\"by Guy Davis\" title=\"by Guy Davis\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/digitalmedusa.com\/sgettis\/word\/bruce-timm-hplovecraft\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2008\/03\/wilde\/timm_lovecraft3.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"399\" alt=\"by Bruce Timm\" title=\"by Bruce Timm\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;and that&#8217;s another feed for my feed reader.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">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\u2019s clobberin\u2019 time!!! You might ask &#8220;what the hell is that&#8221;? Well, in the site&#8217;s own words: This website, now in its ninth incarnation since being launched in 06.1998, is&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/08\/portraiture-and-literature\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[82,458,132,31,126],"class_list":["post-1136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-one-and-done","tag-art","tag-books","tag-cartoons","tag-comics","tag-something-great","xfolkentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5UQvw-ik","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}