#gavroche
Les Misérables | Gavroche and His Brothers (Illustrated by Monique Berthoumeyrou, 1963)
Les Misérables | Gavroche Invites His Brothers To The Elephant Of The Bastille( Illustrated by Filiberto Mateldi, 1940 )
“ This child never felt so well as when he was in the street.”
— Les Misérables, Gavroche( Illustrated by Lombardi )
To the barricades!
I need to draw illustration for la brique. I drew a lot of stories, so now it’s hard to find new ones. Suggest scenes and quotes from the BOOK. I would be grateful.
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IFFC found something interesting (And it is in the canon!):
<…> He has his fabulous monster, which has scales under its belly, but is not a lizard, which has pustules on its back, but is not a toad, which inhabits the nooks of old lime-kilns and wells that have run dry, which is black, hairy, sticky, which crawls sometimes slowly, sometimes rapidly, which has no cry, but which has a look, and is so terrible that no one has ever beheld it; <…>
Les Miserables, BOOK FIRST—PARIS STUDIED IN ITS ATOM
CHAPTER II—SOME OF HIS PARTICULAR CHARACTERISTICS
The gamin—the street Arab—of Paris is the dwarf of the giant.
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Gavroche drawing based on one of Hugo’s illustrations <\3
OKAY so can I like show y’all this draft that has been sitting around since 2014?? 7 friggin years??? This is Les Mis Zombie AU if it isn’t too obvious lol. I love this piece…wip….idea? But considering it’s been 7 years I’m terrified I’m never going to finish this illustration. So I’m sort of trying to like get my hopes up that I can get some encouragement to keep going if people enjoy the idea. (If you hate the idea, I’m sorry).
Look though, let me show you around. We’ve obviously got Enjolras hitting the guard with the butt of his gun…below that we’ve got a zombified Gavroche who has already gone to the other size of the barricade and now coming back up again (Zombie AU is a completely different reason to have a barricade, you see.) Then on the bottom right we’ve got Eponine showing Marius that she’s gotten a bite on her wrist and she’s about to turn. And then above that, we’ve got Grantaire hitting a zombie Bahorel (the first Amis to die in the book) with a bottle.
Anyway I hope y’all like this sketch because I still do! My secret dream is to finish this drawing some day.
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Have a look at the very very very condensed process video of my Les Mis Zombie AU illustration. Sorry it’s been a while but I thought it would be interesting to post for some of you who like to see art get made!
Les Miserables + Zombies: A Whole New Reason for a Barricade
Happy Halloween! Enjolras takes on the National Guard zombies while little zombie Gavroche climbs up the barricade below, meanwhile the dying Eponine shows off her zombie bite to Marius and Grantaire fights off the recently turned Bahorel with a wine bottle.
So happy to finally be posting this illustration after keeping the sketch in my drafts for 7 years! I wanted so badly to finish this illustration but at the time I didn’t feel skilled enough to complete it. Now I’ve done it and I’m so happy and relieved I finally got here.
ITS BARRICADE DAY. IT IS TIME TO LOVE AND APPRECIATE LES AMIS DE L'ABC. AND IT IS DEFINITELY TIME TO CRY ABOUT “permets-tu?” AND GAVROCHE’S DEATH. THIS IS OUR TIME. LAMARQUE, HIS DEATH IS THE HOUR OF FATE, THE PEOPLE’S MAN, HIS DEATH… IS THE SIGN WE AWAIIIIIIT (TO CELEBRATE BARRICADE DAY)!!!! HAPPY BARRICADE DAY EVERYBODY! VIVE LA FRANCE!
randomly thinking about when i re-read les mis last year and occasionally posted screencaps of sections that I found moving, interesting, or inspirational. Predictably, the closer I got to the barricade scene, the less I enjoyed reading, and I included this in my annotations.
I posted some passages of Gavroche gathering bullets (“gamin fairy… thumbing his nose at death”)– which is just extraordinary prose characterization– and lots of people must have agreed because they reblogged it with comments, but actually a lot of those comments were about my kneecaps, and, more specifically, how they were coming for those kneecaps and what I could expect when they found me. (I say this with no small amount of affection; I was kind of honored, actually).
Anyway, it evoked a lot of emotions for many people, and I thought “well I guess this is why we tag for major character death” but that hadn’t even occurred to me, well, that’s kind of it’s thing. *Les Miserables*, the Wretched, is famous because almost all the characters toil hopelessly and then die at the end.
It’s 150+ years old, has been adapted across multiple mediums and spawned countless satires, so you think that tagging for major character death would be moot at this point. Is it even possible to spoil something that’s roughly as widely read at the Bible (or so I heard somewhere probably the forward from the Norman Denny translation and conveniently now cannot seem to cite)
But it’s really not about that, actually. It’s been like twenty years, I still can’t listen to the epilogue with dry eyes, and, come to think of it, I don’t know if I’ll ever really recover from Gavroche’s death either. You’d expect to be de-sensitized the more you’re exposed to a work, but really the opposite happens: each time, the characters get more real to me.
I read the Brick the summer before I started eighth grade, and so Les Mis was one of my first fandoms. I left for like twenty years (!!!) and came back in 2020 and seeing how it’s the same but different, that ill-fated and star crossed though these characters may be, they are very much alive to very many people, and yes, we’re always going to cry at this part andno,there’s nothing wrong perennial waterworks, we just love them all that much and we’ll keep imagining them again and again and bringing them to life in different ways through our fanwork and I just think there’s something so beautiful about that
Day 17 of @themiserablesmonth | Run (ft Azelma running away from her folks’ inn to live with her siblings)
I FORGOT TO POST THIS YESTERDAY HAHAHEHEH
OK SO
Jehan and parnasse as team rocket (bc montparnasse is a simp for jehan and caved in, Bahorel as ladybug and Feuilly as chat noir, Marius and Cosette as Mario and peach, Musichetta as katara and Bossuet as aang
Eponine as Marceline, R as Finn, Gavroche as jake, courfeyrac as bubble, Enj as blossom, Combeferre as buttercup (yes, Courf was in charge of outfits), and Joly as toph
Gavroche had fallen only to rise again; he sat up, a long stream of blood rolled down his face, he raised both arms in air, looked in the direction whence the shot came, and began to sing.
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