Comments on: George Cruikshank’s Comic Alphabet https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/01/23/george-cruikshanks-comic-alphabet-x/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Thu, 24 Jan 2019 11:06:26 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Stephen Barker https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/01/23/george-cruikshanks-comic-alphabet-x/#comment-1253517 Thu, 24 Jan 2019 11:06:26 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=172010#comment-1253517 I have a reprint of this which is folded up like a concertina. Either D for Dining Out, E for Equality and L for Latitude and Longitude are my favourites. All the designs so show wit and imagination combined with character.

]]> By: Lynne Perrella https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/01/23/george-cruikshanks-comic-alphabet-x/#comment-1253396 Wed, 23 Jan 2019 14:02:37 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=172010#comment-1253396 Any illustrated alphabet that includes “Y for Yawning” is tops with me. What a hearty array of
eccentric characters, costumes, surroundings, and folk lore. Now, help me out — Exactly
WHO were Isaac and John?

Many thanks, GA!

]]> By: Jill Wilson https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/01/23/george-cruikshanks-comic-alphabet-x/#comment-1253394 Wed, 23 Jan 2019 13:52:28 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=172010#comment-1253394 Amusing, Brilliant, Comic, Droll, Entertaining, Funny, Grotesque, Hysterical, Imaginative,
Joyous, Knowing, Laugh-out-loud, Magical, Nonsense, Observational, Priceless, Quaint, Ridiculous, Silly, Tittermaking, Unserious, Virtuosic, Witty, Xtraordinary, Yoomerous (I’m struggling here!) and Zany…

]]> By: Richard https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/01/23/george-cruikshanks-comic-alphabet-x/#comment-1253392 Wed, 23 Jan 2019 13:47:57 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=172010#comment-1253392 Quite brilliant. Seems he’d just been to the zoo. Paganini gets a look in.

]]> By: Karen Chapman https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/01/23/george-cruikshanks-comic-alphabet-x/#comment-1253355 Wed, 23 Jan 2019 10:21:31 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=172010#comment-1253355 How wonderful! These made me laugh. I think X is my favourite!

Just the thing to cheer up a very cold January day.

Thank you

Greetings to you GA, from Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire

]]> By: Annie https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/01/23/george-cruikshanks-comic-alphabet-x/#comment-1253354 Wed, 23 Jan 2019 10:19:35 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=172010#comment-1253354 Wonderful!
Very Dickensian.

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