In the original book, the White Rabbit was a line sketch with no shading other than shadow. He was as white as the page. Maybe it was confusion with the March Hare that caused later artists to color him. --- I'm no fan of classic books that are republished with new pictures. Giving the White Rabbit a gray-tan tint is just a small indication of how far from the roots of a story some new images get.
Sing along with Sherlock: "One beer makes you larger, and one beer makes you small, and the ones that Mother gives you don't do anything at all; go ask Patty when she's ten feet tall."
dnicholls, it looks like an original piece of art from the Alice books--I suspect it was Disney that made the rabbit white, not Carroll. However, Pastis is not quite canon: Alice fell down a straight hole, and even fell past shelves and such. She grabbed a jar off of one shelf, examined it, and had time to put it back on another before she fell into a pile of something. Leaves? Don't recall. OTOH, it's funnier that Larry ends up getting bashed all the way down...
How sad. Well, it had to happen eventually. All that beer chugging, and now poor Larry has the DT's. Only he's seeing white 'zeebas' instead of pink elephants.
