Mad Art!

I am a Deviantart member and after viewing the amazing work of my fellow artists I have decided there must be a few tribute posts. It's only fair!

No copyright infringement intended I just want to get their names and art out there for all to see!

The Mad Hatter by ~fayrenpickpocket

 Fayrenpickpocket says in their description...

"My... special take on Alice in Wonderland's Mad Hatter. <3

An overdone subject, I'm sure, but I dont care. ;D My tablemates and I wanted to do a series of loli-goth Alice and Wonderland prints... and it sounded like fun. <3

I tried to put a unique spin on it, anyway. Did you know that the phrase "Mad as a Hatter" came from the overexposure to mercury used to make top hats? I had no idea. I learned this while doing some research before drawing. The exposure over the years eventually gave them Mercury Poisoning, and while the Mad Hatter in the book did NOT have the illness, I thought it might be interesting to portray a Mad Hatter that was more timid and suffered from anxiety.

I've also been inspired to pay more attention to fabrics and cloth... so this was a fashion experiment. ;D I usually skimp on the clothes because I enjoy painting skin so much more. .___. "

Mad as a Hatter by *usako-chan

 So cute...To see more of Usako-Chan's creations click here

Mad as a Hatter by ~fwosh

 Awesome use of color here and I love the style! This is what fwosh had to say...

"I was suddenly inspired to draw my own odd version of the mad hatter from Alice in Wonderland XDD
..he's such a spectacularly weirrddd character :'D
<3333

mmm.. This time I decided to keep it sketchy and messy to experiment with colors X3
in the end though.. i'm not too fond of the background.. its a bit dull and retarded overall orzorz
his clothes are rather bright though~ :'DD

hahaha I also got a bit lazy and ended up coloring on one layer and taking out a lot of detail I had prepared for the table XD!
yeah look. its just a puny and crappy little saucer now. XDDDD
talk about FAIL. > w <;"

 Well obviously not because I've featured it on my blog! Ha ha ha!

Mad Hatter by ~Tsumekuro

An awesome idea for a T-shirt design!
Tsumekuro used ink for this artwork. To see more click here.

The Hatter by =einlee

I LOVE this! I like the details used.

Einlee wrote the following in her despription...

"now before you start thinking alice, this character actually wasn't inspired by the mad hatter (yeah, right)--but really i was thinking more of a lonely, crazy, sexually ambiguous character living alone in a giant mansion, with pet rats and weird hobbies. kind of like dracula, minus a few of the aforementioned things. (now im just rambling nonsense )"

No you're not talking nonsense. Click here for a link to Einlee's official website.


That will do for now but there will certainly be more at a later stage for your view pleasure!

The 10/6 Mystery

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Some people may not know the meaning of the tag on the famous Hatter hat. What on earth could 10/6 mean?

Until recently I know I didn't!

I've since discovered that the meaning of the cryptic tag was actually just a price.
10 shillings and 6 pence in British currency before it became decimalised. In Carols time a pound was 20 shillings and shillings were twelve pennies or pence.

The pound was represented, as it still is, by a £ sign, the shilling by a 's' and the penny by a 'd'.

The d used to represent a penny was short for 'denarius'. Originally the name for a Roman silver coin it was also the other name the British silver coin was known by.

The next question is why was the tag on the hat he was wearing?

Hatters used to market their produce by wearing it. People often could pick a hatter by noting their bizarre behaviour. This was often confirmed by seeing the tag. If the hat was any good and fairly priced the hatter had a chance of getting a new customer.

So there you have it. The reason for the tag was to indicate further the Hatters occupation.

Here I had been thinking that it was just another little eccentricity.


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Why is a Raven Like a Writing Desk?

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The famous riddle was originally written by Carroll with every intention of not being answered.
Despite there being no answer it is not surprising that readers have wanted to have one.

 They had puzzled over it trying to make sense of the nonsense afterall.

 This is why Carroll and others, including Sam Lloyd a noted puzzle master, did devise an answer.

It was written inside the preface to the 1896 edition...

"Enquiries have been so often addressed to me, as to whether any answer to the Hatter’s Riddle can be imagined, that I may as well put on record here what seems to me to be a fairly appropriate answer,: "Because it can produce a few notes, though they are very flat; and it is nevar put with the wrong end in front!". This, however, is merely an afterthought; the Riddle as originally invented, had no answer at all"


There are many other answers to the riddle too! Some of them listed on wickipedia are...

• "Poe wrote on both."
• "The notes for which they are noted are not musical notes."\
• "Both have inky quills."
• "Because both can make you think about the blackness of life."
• "Both should be made to shut up."
• "They both have legs."

Others I've found are...

• "Because you cannot ride either one of them like a bicycle." 
• "Because neither one of them is made from aluminum,"

Perhaps the best answer is that there is no real answer so all answers are right!

Little Intro

Well as the title suggests this blog is for those who are Mad about Hatter!

From the well loved character from the classic novel there have been several adaptions for the screen, comics and fan fictions.

Each adaption brings with it a new dimension to the idea of the Mad Hatter so it's almost fair to say there are several Mad Hatters running around.

Personally I  love each of them because they are all unique and wonderfully mad!

The fellow members of the MAD HATTER FAN ASSOCIATION (So far an illustrious institution of 2 members exactly) and I have decided it would be fun to salute each incarnation and bring together all kinds of interesting clips and things.

We hope you enjoy the results!