Here, for instance, is his illustration for page 550, which includes the quote:
"Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale; to the last I grapple with thee; from hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee. Sink all coffins and all hearses to one common pool! and since neither can be mine, let me then tow to pieces, while still chasing thee, though tied to thee, thou damned whale! Thus, I give up the spear!"
I think I have a contender for my next tattoo...
As you may or may not know, Moby Dick is also my favorite book. I could imagine myself, in another life, undertaking a task such as this. What books would you like to illustrate if you had the time and talent?
I think page 548 (I wish I could create a link to it here, but if you go to the blog it's pretty easy to find) is especially cool, though I haven't looked at every picture, so I am sure there are cooler ones there.
ReplyDeleteI would really love to do this to Frankenstein. Perhaps when Lyla and I have a family, I'll make my children do it for me.
Absmaster! I think if your future-kids drew pictures representative of a book, they would be cool. Because kid pictures are awesome.
ReplyDeleteI think it would only take time, everything is art. I would narrate my autobiography. It would look like this:
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That is so cool! Though I think that guy had way too much time on his hands. ;) If I could do any book, I would do The Hunger Games. Maybe it will become a new trend to draw books instead of write them. This would make an AWESOME class project!
ReplyDeleteWhat Matt Kish did is weird when you see it the first time, but then, you realize that drawings could also be a way to express thoughts or feelings. That's what happens with writing. But I wonder how he even considered the idea of doing such an interesting project that needs close dedication. By the way, I totally agree with Morgan, this WOULD be an awesome class project. Coming back to the drawings, you can really notice the time this guy took and the detail he put to his wonderful piece of art.
ReplyDeleteI think what he(Matt Kish) did must have taken a lot of dedication and time. As well as an ability to look out for many details to be able to add to his drawings. I think he should publish it with maybe each page of the original book next to the picture.I would definitely want to see all of his drawings.
ReplyDeleteFor some reason the picture above reminds me of David, and Mr. AB you and I both know it might be true hahaha. If I had the talent to do something like this, I would try to do it with the book, Island. By the way, I miss the days when the books I read contained pictures; it was much easier to understand....
ReplyDeletewell if i were to have a moment in a book it would be alice in wonderland because it would be a magical experinces and not like the rest and i would tell my grandchildren about it .
ReplyDeletethe picture is kinda freaky but makes sense he wants to kill the whale
It's weird how a person can spend a lot time illustrating pictures of a book for every page. Don't they ever have the feeling they should give up because it got tiring. I like the fact that Matt Kish can draw a picture for every page of the book because it feels like he can prove to people that he can get an idea of a picture just from a text.
ReplyDeleteI think I would need one more thing besides time and talent. Endurance. If i had time, talent, and endurance to illustrate a book, I would illustrate The Old Man and The Sea because it is one of my favorite books. I liked how the vast sea was contrasted to the old man, so i wnat to express it in my illustration.
ReplyDeleteI think if I had talent and time... I would illustrate a biography that I have read about the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Ki Moon Ban. I thought it was interesting... apart from interesting, he is my roll model :)
ReplyDeleteThe book that I would like to illustrate if I had the time and talent would be the book called The House of the Scorpion. I would illustrate this book because it was the first book that inspired me to read for fun, after that book I went to the library and got another book. The book was also fun and very exhilarating to read.
ReplyDeleteWow its like a novel comic book without the words. I would illustrate Interlopers cause it was the first novel that I read/forced to read.It was sort of fantasy so the words themselves didn't do justice to the story.
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