“In her 2009 bestseller, “Alice in Wonderland,” Garcia drew upon John Tenniel’s famed illustrations of the rabbit-hole adventure, but the 40 illustrations for “Snow White” are pure Garcia originals. The biggest challenge? The little men. The dwarves were a knotty puzzle to solve. “They were the hardest characters to design; they were grumpy old men but I still wanted them to be cute,” said Garcia, who added that she found inspiration in certain works by Edward Gorey, former Disney artist Kay Nielsen, Dr. Seuss and Fantagraphics artists Dame Darcy and Al Columbia.”
