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The Supplement: Henrique Alvim-Corrêa

There is something endlessly fascinating about H.G. Wells' tripod martians from his genre-defining invasion narrative, The War Of The Worlds - I guess because they're so thoroughly alien .  Illustrators have been drawn to Wells' invaders time and time again, and I'm sharing here  Henrique Alvim-Corrêa's 1906 iteration of these marauding metallic space-invaders...  They manage to be both whimsical and creepy, with their wide-brimmed scarecrow-like faces and dangly, gangly legs...