“You are the first person who has been able to illustrate the book adequately since Tenniel, though I still argue as I think I argued with you years ago that your Alice is a little bit too much of a gamin.”

— Mervyn Peake

Graham Greene, quoted in Bandersnatch, 151, July 2011, p. 8

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English writer, artist, poet and illustrator 1911–1968

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