My dad raises a good question in comments to the previous post:

Do Dr S’s backgrounds remind anyone else of Coconino County in an off-kilter way, or is it just me?

Maybe… this makes me think I have in my head two categories of “surrealist art”, the distinguishing factor being whether the art is aimed at children or at adults — and I would instinctively put Solla Sollew in the former category (with Jansson and Milne) and Krazy Kat in the latter (with Dali and Pynchon). I can’t really justify that though, or clarify what features belong to either category — I think they are more alike than they are different.

Update: But you know, looking at those mountains behind the Solla Sollew narrator and the mountains behind Krazy, I am getting hip to what Dad meant — he was talking about the specific visual composition of the two images, not the conceptual surrealistic nature of the two works. Looked at that way it totally rings true, and I’m not sure why I would have taken it the other way to begin with.