The Graphic Canon, Vol. 2: From "Kubla Khan" to the Bronte

The Graphic Canon, Vol. 2: From "Kubla Khan" to the Bronte Sisters to The Picture of Dorian Gray (The Graphic Canon Series)

The Graphic Canon, Volume 2Â 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 novelÂ Huckleberry FinnÂ 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€™sThus Spake ZarathustraÂ 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 PunishmentÂ (a hallucinatory take on the pivotal murder scene), Thoreauâ€™sÂ WaldenÂ (in spare line art by John Porcellino of King-Cat Comics fame), â€œThe Drunken Boatâ€ by Rimbaud,Â Leaves of GrassÂ 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 GrayÂ by Oscar Wilde. AndÂ Pride and PrejudiceÂ 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 classicÂ The Hasheesh Eater, and silk-screened illustrations for the ghastly childrenâ€™s classicÂ Der Struwwelpeter. Among many other canonical works.
Country USA
Brand Seven Stories Press
Manufacturer Seven Stories Press
Binding Paperback
Color Green
ReleaseDate 2012-10-02
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781609803780

Country	USA
Brand	Seven Stories Press
Manufacturer	Seven Stories Press
Binding	Paperback
Color	Green
ReleaseDate	2012-10-02
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781609803780

The Graphic Canon, Vol. 2: From "Kubla Khan" to the Bronte Sisters to The Picture of Dorian Gray (The Graphic Canon Series)

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