Turbaned gentleman whose immensely long beards are entangled in a Gordian knot. A young wallah stands by with shears. From "Poets Ranked by Beard Weight" by Gilbert Alter-Gilbert.

I draw the beards that make the whole world Singh.
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William Cullen Bryant was a poet from the American mid-19th century, a heavy in his day until he wound up inside a book that I illustrated years ago: Poets Ranked By Beard Weight. That took the wind out of his very nicely crosshatched sails, if I may say so myself.

Alfred Lord Tennyson, another poetic heavy, plus a pal of Lewis Carroll, sort of. The inking on this wallah is superkool, as we used to say back in the day.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti, another loony English poet who thought that Carroll's Snark was an attack upon himself. He was also into wombats. His hypnotic gaze could stun them in an instant, he was that good. The inking's pretty good also.

I draw great beards though, oddly enough, I have none! This has always baffled the critics until Poets Ranked by Beard Weight silenced their yapping. The book is that good.

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