A couple months ago, Brian Joseph Davis launched The Composites, a Tumblr that imagines the appearance of literary characters using in-book descriptions combined with composite sketch-rendering software. You know, the kind they use on CSI.
It’s kind of creepy, if you ask me, especially the one of Humpert Humpert from Lolita:
Um, yeah.
Here are some favorites, from books I love:
Ignatius J. Reilly from A Confederacy of Dunces
Sam Spade from The Maltese Falcon
Daisy Buchanan from The Great Gatsby
Tom Ripley in The Talented Mr. Ripley
>> Check out more (looks like he’s adding on a regular basis)