That Ain't no Gibson Girl!
2025-07-21
Marisol Tran
Got distracted again today. I know, what else is new, right? I had way too much fun today creating rando characters "in the style of John R Neill".
My thinking is to build a library o' characters to have on hand for the "American Fairy Tales" which feature regular Americans, rather than wizards and witches and pieces of furniture. There's not a ton of Neill drawings of ordinary people. Most of them look like Gibson girls, or models in a catalog. Like this one:

This isn't the right look, of course, "American Fairy Tales." I know we're going to want something only sorta like Gibson girls, but having a little characteristics of Ozma and Glinda. You've seen hints of this with the rich-lady character in "The Glass Dog."
But I got distracted and pirandelloed a bunch of Neill characters in search of a story. Who knows whether these will ever make it into a story or not, but I thought I'd share:




