Stardust

Last week I came across a March 09, 2009 post on Adri Mendes' blog comparing the work of William Blake and Stardust by Neil Gaiman, illustrated by Charles Vess. http://adrimendes.blogspot.com/

I did a quick search and found interesting articles at ImageTexT Interdisciplinary Comics Studies. Volume 4 number 1 (Summer 2008), The Comics Work of Neil Gaiman.

http://www.english.ufl.edu/imagetext/archive.shtml

Meredith Collins in the article Fairy and Faerie compares images of Vess and Rackham.

"A particularly strong relationship exists between Rackham's illustrations and Vess's. [...] The mood and content of much of Rackham's art appears in various modified forms throughout Stardust. [...]

Figure 3. Comparison of Rackham's illustration from The Wind in the Willows and Vess's illustration from Stardust, p. 171."

http://www.english.ufl.edu/imagetext/archives/v4_1/collins/

The article of S. A. Reed is also pretty cool on the works of Neil Gaiman and Tori Amos.

http://www.english.ufl.edu/imagetext/archives/v4_1/reed/