Hump Day Humor: Fairytale Heroines in the Slammer

When I was searching for today's Hump Day Humor piece, all I could find was super-serious news about the Big-5, Amazon, book sales, etc. All important, of course, but not quite what either you or me need on a rainy Wednesday morning.

But then I saw this on HuffPo and knew I hit the lighthearted jackpot:

Show us one person who can't recite the story of Alice in Wonderland, Little Red Riding Hood, Snow White or Goldilocks by heart, and we'll show you a baby just born into this world. Because we all grew up learning of the dangerous scenarios these heroines had to endure -- from a wolf dressed as grandma to tumbling down holes deep enough for rabbits and finding unlikely roommates in three bears and seven dwarfs, these stories all paint a very pretty picture of girls lost and found. But what if our four princesses weren't so innocent?

Artist Marilen Adrover imagined just that, re-thinking the folklore as crime stories. Alice's hazy trips, Red's violent attempt at survival, Snow's seductress ways and Goldilocks' "misplaced" keys. How badass do they look now, eh?

 

 

 

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Genius. You can even buy the above mugshots in various forms--as prints, as iPhone covers, and more.

Of course, this led me to ponder what other fairytale characters would have interesting mugshots... Puss in Boots? Cinderella? Jack (of "and the Beanstalk")? I can see a lot of possibilities for this kind of trend...

I also poked around Marilen's DeviantArt page to see what other kinds of work she does, only to find her range is incredibly impressive.

This haunting piece, for example:

"Anguish" by Marilen Adrover

Or this twist on a modern-day "Alice in Wonderland":

"Alice" by Marilen Adrover

And this powerful social commentary:

"I am Perfect" by Marilen Adrover