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22 January 2008:
Still more ~kooky Deviancy

Deviantartist ~kookybird comes through once again with a very nicely drawn 5-panel comic page showing Mowgli and a wolf hunting a deer. More, please.

5 December 2007:
Mowgli’s on a plane???
Maugli 737 - enhanced detail

Here’s a picture of a Boeing 737 owned by the Ukrainian airline MAU. The plane’s called “Маугли” (Maugli - Russian and Ukrainian for Mowgli). The name is obviously suggested by the airline’s initials, and on the nose there’s a small stylised sketch of our favourite man-cub swinging on a vine. Long may it fly!

3 December 2007:
The Deviancy continues

Here’s yet another Deviantart find in the form of a very casually naked teenage Mowgli by kookybird.

9 November 2007:
Good Evans
Found a few more images of Rudulph Evans’ Boy and Panther in Brookgreen Gardens South Carolina, bringing the total to six: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6

6 November 2007:
More Deviantart
Meowglee by yuni: Another Deviantart find. “LOL! I just wanted to draw that jungle dork, and give him the length of the hair he is actually supposed to have if he never trimmed it.” In connection with hair length I referred yuni to the news story about James Marshall.
Pyrénée Chibi

Apologies for not mentioning this earlier, but Richard Palmer’s Pyrénée Fanart page now includes two new “Chibi Pyrénée” images rendered in Photoshop. If you thought she was cute before you won’t believe these! BTW, Wikipedia has now reinstated its previously-deleted Pyrénée article, although there’s no telling whether it will be deleted again.

5 August 2007:
Art Find
The Jungle Books by the
tomatohead2 on Deviantart. Click there for big version.

14 June 2007:
More Jungle Book Cover Art

I’ve added a new page to the Jungle Book Cover Art Gallery, bringing the total to eight, but that’s not all - I’ve also replaced most of the images with bigger and better versions. Enjoy.

17 May 2007: Mowgli is stoned

The latest batch of art finds are all bas-relief sculptures. First of all, Marc found “Boy and Bear” by Ruth Sherwood in concrete (see plaque). It’s at the Polasek museum in Florida.

Further north, there are several Jungle Book reliefs at Prospect Park Zoo, Brooklyn, NY: here, here, here, here, here, here and here. See how many you can match up to the appropriate stories.

31 March 2007: More art finds

Here are a couple more pieces I found on the web.
First, a stylised and fairly serene Mowgli wearing a sarong by Giovanni Da Re;
and then in

complete contrast, A wild-eyed feral Mowgli wearing a scrap of cloth by Alex Alvarado (Corspufo).
[Note: I see that Marc already has a listing for the Corspufo picture, but I seem to have missed it hitherto...]

29 March 2007: New art finds

I’ve just come across three very nice Jungle Book illustrations by (if I've transliterated his name correctly) Vladimir Emelianov. Check them out: Mowgli and Hathi | Mowgli and Kaa
Mowgli and Bagheera

17 February 2007:
New Wild at Heart Group!!!
Because I was fed up with all the spam at the Akela’s Place Yahoo! Group, I have now started the New Wild at Heart Yahoo! Group as a place where members can post whatever they like as long as it doesn’t frighten the horses, and where I can be moderator and zap spam properly. I hope you’ll join me there.

February 2007:
How Fear Came to Video

Thanks to “Someone” for alerting me to this Mexican Scout troupe video, “El Origen del Miedo”, (12m 40s in duration), based on Kipling’s How Fear Came. It’s in Spanish of course, but if you’re familiar with the story you’ll have some idea of what everyone’s saying. Some of the animals are played by child actors in animal costumes, while others are rendered in CG, and the effect is a bit jarring at first.

Also, all of the flashback scenes (which make up the bulk of the story) are in sepia with fake film scratches. But whatever its technical quirks, the important thing is that all the kids are totally into it and their enthusiasm shows. Give it a look.

More art finds

January 2: Happy New Year. Thanks once again to Marc, I’ve managed to obtain another piece of Jungle Book artwork from eBay. This time it’s a small print by Anselmo Bucci, illustrating a scene from Kaa’s Hunting.

Marc also found Mowgli and a nude girl

a picture by André Le Moigne depicting an older Mowgli and a wolf watching a girl who’s preparing to bathe. This could be seen an ‘adult’ version of the scene in the Disney film where Mowgli meets the girl carrying water, or it may be inspired by a brief scene in The Spring Running where Mowgli sees a girl in a white dress. Either way, it has male and female nudity - something for everyone....

Unintentional research: Some British newspapers have carried a story about James Marshall, who developed a phobia of haircuts at the age of two and refused to have a haircut until he was twelve.

The significance for this particular site is that Mowgli is lost in the jungle as a toddler and doesn’t return to humanity until he is about twelve, during which time he doesn’t get his hair cut either. so, just how long can a boy’s hair get if it isn’t cut for ten years? Well, in James’s case, an astonishing 27 inches or 69 cm. Kipling describes Mowgli’s hair as long, but most artists don’t draw it quite that long.

Artist: Unknown; Owner: Me!
October 31: While searching for items of interest on a little site you may have heard of called eBay, I came across Watercolour: Mowgli with Kaa and Bagheera (thumbnail)

Watercolour: Mowgli with Kaa and Bagheera (thumbnail)

a small watercolour depicting Mowgli, Bagheera and Kaa. Well, to my amazement I won the auction and I am now the proud owner of an original piece of Jungle Book artwork. If ever again I forget why I love the internet, this will remind me.
Who is Misha Rosnach?
October 24: While doing a random search for interesting

material, I came across a set of 6 Jungle Book sketches by Misha Rosnach. That’s all the information that’s on the site - NO contact details or autobiography. Anyway, I’m including links to three of the sketches here. The rest will only be listed in the Adult Section on the grounds of graphic nudity and/or violence.
Mowgli and Akela subdue Buldeo
Shere Khan in the ravine | Kaa
Updates:
October 14: After a long period of inactivity I’ve begun updating the site.

Some of the links from this News section, which you might have missed if you didn’t scroll down, have now been added to the front page, and I’ve restored a couple of missing image links. I’ve also reorganised the Pyrénée pages. I’ve moved some pencil sketches to Page One and added lots of new poster and bookplate artwork to Page Two. I’ve also replaced a couple of the existing pictures with better versions. Stay tuned for further developments.
Server issues redux:
October 12: Now that the problems with my web service have apparently been resolved I’ve decided to move all the links back to the old server. Apologies for any inconvenience. All of the pages on the alternative server will stay up but will link back to the original one. Confused? I certainly am.
Clip this:
October 12: Clipart Etc. has 20 illustrations from Kipling Stories and Poems Every Child Should Know (New York: Doubleday, Page and Company, 1915), avaialable in three sizes in gif format, as well as large-size uncompressed tiffs suitable for printing. I’ve added the relevant page links to the ART links on this page.
Shalom:
October 12: An Israeli site is linking to the Jungle Book pages on this site. It's always nice to have a link (even though they've awkwardly stretched the logo to fit), but what’s the context? I have no idea. Babelfish doesn’t translate Hebrew. Anyone?
Welcome to the new Server:
July 19: If you’re reading this is means my latest site migration has gone off smoothly. To accompany this move I’ve added a new

Pyrénée fan art section, featuring work by the incomparable Richard “Kuroku” Palmer. I’m also giving serious thought to opening a new Yahoo Group because the old ones are getting spammed. Watch here for developments.
Server issues:
July 10: Because of a dispute with my paid webspace provider I’ve currently assigned the http://www.p-synd.com/wild/ address to automatically redirect to http://wildatheart94.tripod.com/ . This shouldn’t cause any problems for visitors, but the Tripod site is now completely full which means that unless the dispute is resolved I’m going to have to open an annex to the site on another free account. Much as I hate pop-up ads, it looks like it may be the only way to go. Stay tuned for further details.
Pyrénée gets a blog entry
July 10: I’ve just come across this blog entry by ‘Ivan the Terrible’ about the Pyrénée graphic novel. The author seems to take a satirical view of Pyrénée’s nudity, which he justifies by claiming that even Mowgli wore a loincloth. Well, not wishing to pour cold water on your argument, Ivan, or should I call you Mr. The Terrible? In Kipling’s original stories, Mowgli was usually naked too. Admittedly, the Jungle is a bit warmer than the mountains, but Pyrénée does have the bear to keep her warm. And that’s most decidedly all he does!
Python boy in new photocall
June 5: Oeun Sambath, the Cambodian boy who lives with a python

(as previously reported on this site’s Even More Wildness page, now updated) was recently in the news again, apparently not for any special reason but just because the two of them have had another photo session. Naturally I wish them both a long and prosperous friendship.
Blaine goes wild
May 16: According to newspaper reports, David Blaine, the famous... er... whatever it is he’s famous for... is planning to go and live in harmony with wild animals. I personally think holding his breath underwater has affected his brain.
The other Mr. Blair
May 11: Once again the ubiquitous Marc has found a new eBay Jungle Book image

Mowgli Waiting for Prey by Barry Blair and Colin Chan

by Elflord artists Barry Blair and Colin Chan, depicting Mowgli waiting for his prey with an unfeasibly big knife. According to the caption his butt belongs to sanmania. I don’t know exactly how Marc obtained the link, because every time I tried it I got a notice from eBay saying that “adult” (i.e. innocently[?] nude) content wasn’t available outside the US.
(UPDATE: Marc has now told me how he did it. It’s so easy when you know how!)
Not quite Mowgli, but...
...I’ve recently discovered these two paintings by John Macallan Swan (1847 - 1910), featuring boys who have a distinctly feral look about them:

John Macallan Swan - Boy Piping to the Fishes

Orpheus (535k) | Boy Piping to the Fishes
More Mowgli art
May 1: Thanks once again to Marc for finding two more terrific Jungle Book pictures:

Mowgli at the village
Mowgli drinking at a stream
Cel, cel, cel
March 22: Here are a couple of Japanese auction sites I found, mostly selling animation cels from the Jungle Book: Shonen Mowgli anime series.

There are quite a lot of head and shoulders shots of Mowgli (or as I sometimes call him, Animowgli) displaying a wide variety of facial expressions. Of course, because they’re auction sites the items on sale are subject to change over time, so it’s wort constantly checking back.
Link 1 | Link 2
Tribute in bronze
February 15: The ever-vigilant Marc has spotted another interesting link: A bronze by Vanessa Marston of Kipling with Bagheera and a monkey. Only thing is, Kipling looks a bit strange without his glasses.
Pyrénée fanart
Over at Fanart Central there are a couple of recent pieces (caution: tasteful nudity) based on Pyrénée, the French comic book wild girl. There’s a drawing by Kuroku8 (Richard Palmer), who’s drawn lots of Pyrénée pics, but mostly in Microsoft Paint rather than freehand and also drew the Anime Jungle Book fanart on this site. There is also a piece by someone calling themself (sic) Cybernetic Ghost of Christmas, based on an original bookplate which you can find on this page.
Cartoon demystification
February 10: It seems I was barking up the wrong tree (no pun intended?) about this cartoon. Apparently the guy encountering Mowgli is actually Dracula (I should have spotted the fangs), and Mowgli is saying “We be of one blood, ye and I”. One of the comments beneath the cartoon asks “Who bit who?” Good question!
Cover Art gallery expanded
February 2: new Page 7 added to the Jungle Book Cover Art gallery. Adding the new page entailed revising the navigation on the existing pages, and I took the opportunity to fix a couple of code errors that were messing up some of the spacing.
More cartoons...
Marc has sent me another cartoon link: Mowgli meets the Wolfman. Only trouble is, it’s in Russian. Can anyone translate the speech balloon?!
Disney fans should check out this link I found to a Japanese manga version of Jungle Book 2. Not surprisingly, I can’t read that either!
Thanks to Culturedropout
for giving Wild at Heart a link on his blog, alongside such other useful links as
Printable Thread Gauges and Other Tools for Identifying Nuts, Bolts, and Screws.
Scroll on by:
Thanks to a nifty bit of code, courtesy .net [Dot Net] Magazine I’ve been able to add scrolling to this box, so I can fit in as much news as I need without disrupting the surrounding links. It works a bit like a small frame, only better. Cool. I’ve also altered the background colours slightly.
New year site reorganisation:
You’ll have noticed by now that I have moved all of the internal and external links to the top of the left hand column and removed the big buttons from the page. This means visitors can immediately see where to go, but it does unfortunately tend to make the page text-heavy. In the next redesign I’ll probably add some smaller buttons. I also need to figure out a better colour scheme for the portal. Anyway, fwiw, here it is.
Jungle all the way:
Thanks again to Marc for sending me the link to this cartoon.
Thanks also to Panther-Baghira who sent me the address of his site dedicated to the Anime Shonen Mowgli. The site is in German, which unfortunately I don’t speak, but it has lots of images from the series as well as fan art, and has a Forum page in English.
Speaking of Shonen Mowgli, don’t forget to check out Richard “Kuroku” Palmer’s fanart. Kuroku achieves impressive results using MS Paint, which is a very basic art program with no layers or fancy effects.
Also, be sure to check out a couple of new links to artwork inspired by The Jungle Book: Mowgli and the Tiger by Ken Rosenberg and Jungle Book play poster art by David Hohn. Thanks to Marc for finding the Hohn picture.
Don’t forget to check out the New Wild at Heart Group for news and information.
Any other queries, please contact me at ketrin1407 [a] yahoo [d] com. Replies will be signed “Lee Morrison”. That isn’t my real name - I was listening to The Doors when Yahoo Mail asked me to supply a name. Sorry, Jim. No disrespect intended.