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Meanwhile in Biggles
Jul. 12th, 2023 10:03 amWhy do I keep looking at this artwork.
It's from this website; click the image to embiggen so you can see the details.
Mostly it's young WW1-era Biggles just being so young. I first ran across this when I was reading the books for the first time, and I think I had kind of vaguely osmosed this as some later book when he's in the Arctic or something, not noticing what book it's from. But that's actually WW1 high-altitude pilot gear, not an Arctic snowsuit, and I really like how the artwork makes him look the way the books describe him (small, pretty, boyish-looking, and in this case he literally *is* a kid, he's only 18 or so) and now I have feelings about this. ;__;
But also - that signature at bottom right. It looks like W.E. Johns doodled little airplanes when he'd sign something for someone, and it's actually a nicely executed little scene with clouds and a few strokes indicating farmland underneath and a tiny biplane; how cute is that??
It's from this website; click the image to embiggen so you can see the details.
Mostly it's young WW1-era Biggles just being so young. I first ran across this when I was reading the books for the first time, and I think I had kind of vaguely osmosed this as some later book when he's in the Arctic or something, not noticing what book it's from. But that's actually WW1 high-altitude pilot gear, not an Arctic snowsuit, and I really like how the artwork makes him look the way the books describe him (small, pretty, boyish-looking, and in this case he literally *is* a kid, he's only 18 or so) and now I have feelings about this. ;__;
But also - that signature at bottom right. It looks like W.E. Johns doodled little airplanes when he'd sign something for someone, and it's actually a nicely executed little scene with clouds and a few strokes indicating farmland underneath and a tiny biplane; how cute is that??