Saturday, 29 June 2019

William W Denslow


W.W. Denslow's 1903 version of Little Red Riding Hood. In this version, the grandmother comes and beats the wolf and then red Ridinghood teaches him good manners.  I love the colour palette of this version and the blocks of red. 



William Wallace Denslow (1856-1915) was an illustrator and cartoonist, famous for his illustrations of L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. He seems to have been a very argumentative man, he was divorced three times and also fell out with Baum over the royalties for the stage production of The Wizard of Oz for which he designed the sets and costumes.
The royalties from the print and stage versions of The Wizard of Oz were sufficient to allow Denslow to purchase Bluck's Island, Bermuda and crown himself King Denslow I.





Wednesday, 19 June 2019

Kiyomi Saito


The difference is night and day, two versions of Kiyomi Saito's Little Red Ridinghood.


Wednesday, 15 May 2019

Marie Voigt



Marie Voigt has just been shortlisted for the Klaus Flugge Prize 2019, for her modern-day interpretation of Little Red Riding Hood, 'Red And The City'.


"Inspired by my own journey, I wrote Red and the City to hopefully encourage readers of all ages to try and question the norm and not to succumb to fear so they are free to follow their own path of love rather than the path tempted onto by the wolf. So in turn we can better live our legend, spread love and help make the world a brighter place." Marie Voigt


Wednesday, 1 May 2019

Lisa Congdon


Bold design by Lisa Congdon  that is not identified as Little Red Riding Hood, but this is how I interpret the image.