Russ Kick,Seymour Chwast,Valerie Schrag,Gareth Hinds,Peter Kuper,Robert Crumb,Roberta Gregory,Rick Geary,Will Eisner,Molly Crabapple,Lisa Brown,Kevin Dixon,Kent Dixon,Dayton Edmonds,Micah Farritor,Alice Duke,Alessandro Bonaccorsi,Tori McKenna,J.T. Waldman,Yeji Yun,Fred Van Lente,Ryan Dunlavey,Matt Wiegle,Benjamin Frisch,Tom Biby,Jonathan Fetter-Vorm,Michael Lagocki,Sharon Rudahl,Molly Kiely,Ellen Lindner,Andrice Arp,Vicky Nerino,Michael  Green,Coleman Barks,Hunt Emerson,Sanya Glisic,Julian Peters,Omaha Perez,Caroline Picard,Shawn Cheng,Isabel Greenberg,Edie Fake,Dave Morice,Conor Hughes,Michael Stanyer

  ,THE GRAPHIC CANON,
, (Seven Stories Press) is a gorgeous, one-of-a-kind trilogy that brings classic literatures of the world together with legendary graphic artists and illustrators. There are more than 130 illustrators represented and 190 literary works over three volumesâ€”many newly commissioned, some hard to findâ€”reinterpreted here for readers and collectors of all ages.,Volume 1Â takes us on a visual tour from the earliest literature through the end of the 1700s. Along the way, we're treated to eye-popping renditions of the human race's greatest epics:Â ,Gilgamesh,,Â ,The Iliad,,Â ,The Odyssey,Â (in watercolors by Gareth Hinds),Â The ,Aeneid,,Â ,Beowulf,,Â andÂ ,The Arabian Nights,, plus later epicsÂ ,The Divine Comedy,Â andÂ ,The Canterbury Tales,Â (both by legendary illustrator and graphic designer Seymour Chwast),Â ,Paradise Lost,, andÂ ,Le Morte D'Arthur,. Two of ancient Greece's greatest plays are adaptedâ€”the tragedyÂ ,Medea,Â by Euripides and Tania Schragâ€™s uninhibited rendering of the very bawdy comedyÂ ,Lysistrata,Â by Aristophanes (the text of which is still censored in many textbooks). Also included is Robert Crumbâ€™s rarely-seen adaptation of James Boswellâ€™sÂ ,London Journal,, filled with philosophical debate and lowbrow debauchery.,Religious literature is well-covered and well-illustrated, with the Books of Daniel and Esther from the Old Testament, Rick Gearyâ€™s awe-inspiring new rendition of the Book of Revelation from theÂ New Testament, the ,Tao te Ching,, Rumiâ€™s Sufi poetry, Hinduismâ€™sÂ ,Mahabharata,, and the Mayan holy bookÂ ,Popol Vuh,, illustrated by Roberta Gregory. The Eastern canon gets its due, withÂ ,The Tale of GenjiÂ ,(the worldâ€™s first novel, done in full-page illustrations reminiscent of Aubrey Beardsley), three poems from Chinaâ€™s golden age of literature lovingly drawn by pioneering underground comics artist Sharon Rudahl, theÂ Tibetan Book of the Dead, a Japanese NohÂ play, and other works from Asia.,Two of Shakespeareâ€™s greatest plays (,King Lear,Â andÂ ,A Midsummer Nightâ€™s Dream,) and two of his sonnets are here, as are Platoâ€™sÂ ,Symposium,,Â ,Gulliverâ€™s Travels,,Â ,Candide,,Â ,A Vindication of the Rights of Woman,, Renaissance poetry of love and desire, andÂ ,Don Quixote,Â visualized by the legendary Will Eisner.,Some unexpected twists in this volume include a Native American folktale, an Incan play, Sapphoâ€™s poetic fragments, bawdy essays by Benjamin Franklin, the love letters of Abelard and Heloise, and the decadent French classicÂ ,Dangerous Liaisons,, as illustrated by Molly,Crabapple., Â , Edited by Russ Kick, ,
  ,The Graphic Canon,
, is an extraordinary collection that will continue with ,Volume 2: ",Kubla Khan", to the ,Bronte Sisters, to The Picture of Dorian Gray, in Summer 2012, and ,
  ,Volume 3: From Heart of Darkness to Hemingway to Infinite Jest,
, in Fall 2012. A boxed set of all three volumes will also be published in Fall 2012.
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The Graphic Canon, Vol. 1: From the Epic of Gilgamesh to Shakespeare to Dangerous Liaisons