Henrique Alvim Corrêa's Martian Invasion Panic – La Guerre des Mondes 1906

Henrique Alvim Corrêa, the Brazilian-born illustrator celebrated for his viscerally expressive pen-and-ink work, renders a scene of street-level chaos from H.G. Wells' 'La Guerre des Mondes.' His signature loose, energetic line work — all jagged hatching and kinetic crowd motion — captures panicked civilians fleeing through a city street, a cyclist lunging toward the viewer amid billowing dust and collapsing architecture. The upper-right explosion of debris and dark figures signals the Martian onslaught bearing down on a helpless humanity.