User blog comment:Argulor/The US illustrations and their meanings/@comment-1859920-20130524174403/@comment-1859920-20130525010250

Naw. The character doesn't look specifically human, but could make shift to be either. Just because it has a back, legs, and arms doesn't make it human in the strictest sense.

I looked up both those illustrations you mentioned from "The Quest" and I think they're quite artful. I don't deny that they have nothing to do with their chapters, but who says they have to? You know, their only purpose is to give the book(and each individual chapter) some added taste and quality and Jacques has done that very well. Usually, the illustrations portray a scene from the upcoming chapter it is attached to, and I think you've gotten so used to that, that when it runs another course and doesn't explicitly depict a scene from the chapter, you claim it is wrong, mistaken, and should not be.

Now if it were a matter over full page illustrations that were in a chapter, than your argument would make more sense to me, as full page illustrations are meant to mirror the scene and pages it is with.