THIS WEEK'S COMIC on Boing Boing: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Corrected to reflect modern sensibilities):
Plus, note this comment I wrote in a Boing Boing post about the illustrations used in the comic:
"I had pencilled virtually this entire comic (Tom the Dancing Bug), trying to evoke the look of Kemble's illustrations, when I realized (in the shower, the day of my deadline) that instead of continuing to draw and ink the new pictures, I should just re-purpose the actual originals. Not only would I be sure to get the look exactly right (a dodgy proposition when I'm the illustrator), but it was absolutely more in keeping with the premise of the comic. Having the dialogue not quite work with the illustrations would only add to the humor/point of the comic. So I abandoned the pencilled comic (I've never done this before!) and set out to quickly assemble Kemble illustrations and lay the comic out. This took even more time than drawing the comic from scratch, but I like the results much better.
In researching Kemble's illustrations (I used that excellent University of Virginia site as a source), I saw that Twain had handpicked him, approved each drawing and ended up loving them. So subsequent editions that replaced or removed these illustrations were among the first steps taken by editors to change the book as Twain had intended it to be experienced."