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:

 

 

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