#joseph schindelman

[kumishona]

I doodled Vermicious Knids from memory while I was zoned out in my electrodynamics class.

This is what the original illustrations by Joseph Schindelman look like. I remember breaking out in cold sweat as I read Charlie and The Great Glass Elevator by Roald Dahl late into the night in fourth grade. Vermicious Knids are extremely venomous colonising aliens that eat everything in their path, and have only spared Earth because they can’t get through the atmosphere. I haven’t seen these pictures in fifteen years but evidently my memories were vivid.

[inksplit]

[books0977]

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Roald Dahl. Illustrations by Joseph Schindelman. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. (1964). First edition. Original dust jacket.

Five kids win a chance to tour Willy Wonka's mysterious candy-making operation. Various forms of bad behavior are demonstrated -- but the punishments perfectly fit the crimes. The main character also lives a life of poverty that's portrayed as bleak and depressing, although the love between him and his family makes their day-to-day struggles more bearable.

[inksplit]

[thesandpiper]

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Roald Dahl/Joseph Schindelman

1964

[ryallsfiles]

My childhood copy of Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Pretty sure I just “forgot” to return it to the school library.

I know the Dahl books now are also praised (rightfully) for their great Quentin Blake illustrations but when I was a kid, Joseph Schindelman’s illos in this book charmed me and creeped me out in the best ways, too. roalddahl100

[westeggediting]

[americancomicon]

Beware: Vermicious Knid.

SCRAM 

The Art of Joseph Schindelman: from Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: 1964.