Russ Kick,Maxon Crumb,Gris Grimly,S. Clay Wilson,Dame Darcy,Kim Deitch,Seth Tobocman,John Percellino,John Coulthart,Megan Kelso,Molly Kiely
The Graphic Canon, Volume 2,Â gives us a visual cornucopia based on the wealth of literature from the 1800s. Several artistsâ€”including Maxon Crumb and Gris Grimlyâ€”present their versions of Edgar Allan Poeâ€™s visions. The great American novel,Â Huckleberry Finn,Â is adapted uncensored for the first time, as Twain wrote it. The bad boys of Romanticismâ€”Shelley, Keats, and Byronâ€”are visualized here, and so are the BrontÃ« sisters. We see both of Coleridgeâ€™s most famous poems: â€œKubla Khanâ€ and â€œThe Rime of the Ancient Marinerâ€ (the latter by British comics legend Hunt Emerson). Philosophy and science are ably represented by ink versions of Nietzscheâ€™s,Thus Spake Zarathustra,Â and Darwinâ€™sÂ ,On the Origin of Species,.,Frankenstein,,Â ,Moby-Dick,,Â ,Les MisÃ©rables,,Â ,Great Expectations,,Â ,Middlemarch,,Â ,Anna Karenina,,Â ,Crime and Punishment,Â (a hallucinatory take on the pivotal murder scene), Thoreauâ€™sÂ ,Walden,Â (in spare line art by John Porcellino of King-Cat Comics fame), â€œThe Drunken Boatâ€ by Rimbaud,Â ,Leaves of Grass,Â by Whitman, and two of Emily Dickinsonâ€™s greatest poems are all present and accounted for. John Coulthart has created ten magnificent full-page collages that tell the story ofÂ ,The Picture of Dorian Gray,Â by Oscar Wilde. AndÂ ,Pride and Prejudice,Â has never looked this splendiferous!,This volume is a special treat for Lewis Carroll fans. Dame Darcy puts her unmistakable stamp onâ€”what else?â€”the Alice books in a new 16-page tour-de-force, while a dozen other artists present their versions of the most famous characters and moments from Wonderland. Thereâ€™s also a gorgeous silhouetted telling of â€œJabberwocky,â€ and Mahendraâ€™s Singhâ€™s surrealistic take on â€œThe Hunting of the Snark.â€,Curveballs in this volume include fairy tales illustrated by the untameable S. Clay Wilson, a fiery speech from freed slave Frederick Douglass (rendered in stark black and white by Seth Tobocman), a letter on reincarnation from Flaubert, the Victorian erotic classicÂ ,Venus in Furs,, the drug classic,Â The Hasheesh Eater,, and silk-screened illustrations for the ghastly childrenâ€™s classicÂ ,Der Struwwelpeter,. Among many other canonical works.
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The Graphic Canon, Vol. 2: From Kubla Khan to the BrontÃ« Sisters to The Picture of Dorian Gray