forty-seven ginger-headed sailors...

[phosfate]

Holy God. These just arrived in my mailbox courtesy of the lovely jkluge, who has the originals. They're probably at least 10 years old. I'm LJ-cutting 'cause they're bigses.

Hugh Laurie as Bertie Wooster and Stephen Fry as Jeeves. Colored pencil.

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[spinooti.livejournal.com]

........................................................wow.


Just, wow.

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

::giant shit-eating grin::

[crantz.livejournal.com]

JEEVES AND WOOSTER. ilovethosebookssomuch.

Ahah. You're a kickass artist. I love their expressions.

[ouchie.livejournal.com]

Yes yes. Jeeves just looks so... Jeeves!!

[thistlethorn.livejournal.com]

They're both just perfect, aren't they? Lucky, lucky me! (One is now tempted to go into the "luck, luck, luck-luck-luck" clucking routine, considering the Hugh Laurie connection, but will restrain oneself.) Bertie has the quintessential Bertram Wooster expression-- a bit foolish and kindly and dear. Exquisite! And Jeeves! That wonderful dubious, rather pained look. {beam} They're PERFECT.

Not to mention the incredible use of color. I am so awed. And Ann's pen and ink work is just incredible -- flawless. Equally awe-inspiring. I cherish the zines I have containing her gorgeous pen and inks. I could just pore over them for hours. She has such an incomparable talent. She is an Art Goddess.

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

I don't know whether to hug you or tranquilize you...

[thistlethorn.livejournal.com]

I'm not takin' it back, *any* of it. Just deal. (g)

You still do the most touchable, silky, sink-your-fingers-into-it hair in pen and ink I've ever seen. Incomparable!

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

::fires tranq gun::

It's for your own good.

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[thistlethorn.livejournal.com]

Ha! I'm not down yet! {staggers}

I challenge ev'rybody to look -- really look at the colors -- all the gorgeous colors! -- that make up the skin tones in Bertie's face. Astounding! {stumbles, but recovers}

And . . . and . . . the people all look like themselves Exquisite vesri . . . very . . . verisimilitude. Serious 'tude. Even in pen and ink. Pen & ink! I bow in your general direction.

Ann? Ann? Where are you? It's all fuzzy, and not just because I don't have my new glasses yet.

Zzzzzzzz . . . .

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

::puts down unneeded aluminum bat::

Jeez.

::covers Jean with scratchy blanket::

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[thistlethorn.livejournal.com]

{pops up like Jason or whomever in a Halloween movie}

And the delicacy and inventive use of Ann's pen and ink crosshatching with stippling and other shading techniques -- totally unique and kick-ass. The varying methods always *work* together! How does she *do* that?

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

Shit!

::picks up bat again::

POUND!POUND!POUND!POUND!POUND!POUND!POUND!POUND!POUND!

[thistlethorn.livejournal.com]

And, furthermore, her Ahead Of His Time cover is the coolest EVER. Not to mention the zine itself.

[resmiranda.livejournal.com]

<3!!!

[halfwest.livejournal.com]

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!! *worships*

[pollyannadesade.livejournal.com]

Aw, bless! They are great. It's my mission in life to get a complete run of Wodehouse in 1st edition, which is obviously not going to happen... I love Bobbie Wickham, she should have had her own books... I love "Thankyou Jeeves"... The Code of the Woosters is maybe my favourite. I love Bertie.

But I love Psmith & Lord Emsworth too.

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

Bobbieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!

I want Jeeves in nice hardbacks. The Code of the Woosters is keen. I like The Mating Season also.

Sherlock Holmes

[susanmgarrett.livejournal.com]

I have a lovely Jeremy Brett as Sherlock Holmes that Ann did years ago and gave to me because she said he looked too much like Irene Ryan.

And he doesn't. Not at all.

Re: Sherlock Holmes

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

So you're saying it looks just enough like Irene Ryan?

[versaphile.livejournal.com]

Ooooo, beautiful! I heart Jeeves and Wooster. Must get more DVDs and books.

[thistlethorn.livejournal.com]

Thanks, btw, for the "once I built a railroad" thing -- now I've got that song, which I only ever heard on a Spanky and Our Gang album my sister owned (and which we played to death in the '60's), runnin' thru my head. Had to go up on Amazon, find out if they're on CD. They are. Damn you to hell.

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

_{Eheheheheheheheheheheeeeeeeeeee...}

[thistlethorn.livejournal.com]

Yeah, yeah. No good deed goes unpunished, I see. ;-)

Someday, I'm going to actually *hang* that gorgeous double portrait. Gotta get a frame and some plexiglass, or whatever that stuff is, from American Frame in OH.

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

Or the hardware store.

[cheeriomonkey.livejournal.com]

JEEEEEEVEEEES

Get out of my mind!

[ex-mommybir.livejournal.com]

I just watched the first two eps of Jeeves and Wooster for the first time this evening. Including the ginger-haired sailors song. *sigh* You have captured the cuteness.

But there's so much space!

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

You lucky duck - nothing like seeing them for the first time evah.

There's a soundtrack album, you know...

Shiny!

[hawkmoth.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I've got little color photoprints of Raffles and Bunny done in just the same style! (Mmmm, Raffles)

They're releasing all sorts of old TV on DVD in the UK...I wonder...

Re: Shiny!

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

RAFFLES!!!

[thistlethorn.livejournal.com]

You know, you actually don't have a date on those portraits anywhere. The one I have of Jeeves called "Cocktail Time" is dated '94, though, and I know I got that at *least* a year later.

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

I haven't a clue. I know the show was still running on PBS when I drew them.