Graphic Canon, Vol. 2 From Kubla Khan to the Bronte Sisters to the Picture of Dorian Gray

Name: Graphic Canon, Vol. 2 From Kubla Khan to the Bronte Sisters to the Picture of Dorian Gray
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ISBN: 9781609803780

ISBN-10: 1609803787

ISBN-13: 9781609803780

Edition: 2012

Authors: Russ Kick

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Vol. 2 gives us a visual cornucopia based on the wealth of literature from the 1800s. Several artists--including Maxon Crumb and Gris Grimly--present their versions of Poe's visions. We see two stunning but very different takes on the greatest American novel,Moby-Dick, including one by Eisner Award-winning artist Bill Sienkiewicz. That other great American novel,Huckleberry Finn, is adapted, uncensored for the first time, as Twain wrote it. The bad boys of Romanticism--Shelley, Keats and Byron--are visualized here, and so are the Brontë sisters. Philosophy and science are ably represented by ink versions of Nietzsche's Thus Spake Zarathustraand Darwin'sOn the Origin of…

Book details

List price: $39.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Publication date: 10/2/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 512
Size: 8.58" wide x 10.94" long x 1.30" tall
Weight: 3.542
Language: English

Russ Kick is the editor of the three-volume anthology The Graphic Canon and the bestselling anthologies You Are Being Lied To, Everything You Know is Wrong, 50 Things You're Not Supposed to Know and Death Poems: Classic, Contemporary, Witty, Serious, Tear-Jerking, Wise, Profound, Angry, Funny, Spiritual, Atheistic, Uncertain, Personal, Political, Mythic, Earthy, and Only Occasionally Morbid. He is also the creator of the popular website www.thememoryhole.com.