{"product_id":"9781609803834","title":"The Graphic Canon, Vol. 1-3","description":"\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor\/Contributor(s):\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003eKick, Russ\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eSeven Stories Press\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDate:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e11\/26\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBinding:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003eBoxed Set\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003eNEW\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTHE GRAPHIC CANON\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e (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 volumes—many newly commissioned, some hard to find—reinterpreted here for readers and collectors of all ages.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVolume 1 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: \u003ci\u003eGilgamesh\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Iliad\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Odyssey\u003c\/i\u003e (in watercolors by Gareth Hinds), The \u003ci\u003eAeneid\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBeowulf\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Arabian Nights\u003c\/i\u003e, plus later epics \u003ci\u003eThe Divine Comedy\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Canterbury Tales\u003c\/i\u003e (both by legendary illustrator and graphic designer Seymour Chwast), \u003ci\u003eParadise Lost\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eLe Morte D'Arthur\u003c\/i\u003e. Two of ancient Greece's greatest plays are adapted—the tragedy \u003ci\u003eMedea\u003c\/i\u003e by Euripides and Tania Schrag’s uninhibited rendering of the very bawdy comedy \u003ci\u003eLysistrata\u003c\/i\u003e by Aristophanes (the text of which is still censored in many textbooks). Also included is Robert Crumb’s rarely-seen adaptation of James Boswell’s \u003ci\u003eLondon Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, filled with philosophical debate and lowbrow debauchery.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReligious literature is well-covered and well-illustrated, with the Books of Daniel and Esther from the Old Testament, Rick Geary’s awe-inspiring new rendition of the Book of Revelation from the New Testament, the \u003ci\u003eTao te Ching\u003c\/i\u003e, Rumi’s Sufi poetry, Hinduism’s \u003ci\u003eMahabharata\u003c\/i\u003e, and the Mayan holy book \u003ci\u003ePopol Vuh\u003c\/i\u003e, illustrated by Roberta Gregory. The Eastern canon gets its due, with \u003ci\u003eThe Tale of Genji \u003c\/i\u003e(the world’s first novel, done in full-page illustrations reminiscent of Aubrey Beardsley), three poems from China’s golden age of literature lovingly drawn by pioneering underground comics artist Sharon Rudahl, the Tibetan Book of the Dead, a Japanese Noh play, and other works from Asia.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTwo of Shakespeare’s greatest plays (\u003ci\u003eKing Lear\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eA Midsummer Night’s Dream\u003c\/i\u003e) and two of his sonnets are here, as are Plato’s \u003ci\u003eSymposium\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGulliver’s Travels\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCandide\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eA Vindication of the Rights of Woman\u003c\/i\u003e, Renaissance poetry of love and desire, and \u003ci\u003eDon Quixote\u003c\/i\u003e visualized by the legendary Will Eisner.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSome unexpected twists include a Native American folktale, an Incan play, Sappho’s poetic fragments, bawdy essays by Benjamin Franklin, the love letters of Abelard and Heloise, and the decadent French classic \u003ci\u003eDangerous Liaisons\u003c\/i\u003e, as illustrated by Molly\u003cbr\u003eCrabapple.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Graphic Canon, Volume 2\u003c\/i\u003e 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 Edgar Allan Poe’s visions. The great American novel\u003ci\u003e Huckleberry Finn\u003c\/i\u003e 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. We see both of Coleridge’s most famous poems: “Kubla Khan” and “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” (the latter by British comics legend Hunt Emerson). Philosophy and science are ably represented by ink versions of Nietzsche’s\u003ci\u003eThus Spake Zarathustra\u003c\/i\u003e and Darwin’s \u003ci\u003eOn the Origin of Species\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrankenstein\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMoby-Dick\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLes Misérables\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGreat Expectations\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMiddlemarch\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAnna Karenina\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCrime and Punishment\u003c\/i\u003e (a hallucinatory take on the pivotal murder scene), Thoreau’s \u003ci\u003eWalden\u003c\/i\u003e (in spare line art by John Porcellino of King-Cat Comics fame), “The Drunken Boat” by Rimbaud, \u003ci\u003eLeaves of Grass\u003c\/i\u003e by Whitman, and two of Emily Dickinson’s greatest poems are all present and accounted for. John Coulthart has created ten magnificent full-page collages that tell the story of \u003ci\u003eThe Picture of Dorian Gray\u003c\/i\u003e by Oscar Wilde. And \u003ci\u003ePride and Prejudice\u003c\/i\u003e has never looked this splendiferous!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDame Darcy puts her unmistakable stamp on—what else?—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. There’s also a gorgeous silhouetted telling of “Jabberwocky,” and Mahendra’s Singh’s surrealistic take on “The Hunting of the Snark.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCurveballs 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 classic \u003ci\u003eVenus in Furs\u003c\/i\u003e, the drug classic\u003ci\u003e The Hasheesh Eater\u003c\/i\u003e, and silk-screened illustrations for the ghastly children’s classic \u003ci\u003eDer Struwwelpeter\u003c\/i\u003e. Among many other canonical works.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVolume 3 brings to life the literature of the end of the 20th century and the start of the 21st, including a Sherlock Holmes mystery, an H.G. Wells story, an illustrated guide to the Beat writers, a one-act play from Zora Neale Hurston, a disturbing meditation on \u003ci\u003eNaked Lunch\u003c\/i\u003e, Rilke's soul-stirring \u003ci\u003eLetters to a Young Poet\u003c\/i\u003e, Anaïs Nin's diaries, the visions of Black Elk, the heroin classic \u003ci\u003eThe Man With the Golden Arm \u003c\/i\u003e(published four years before William Burroughs' \u003ci\u003eJunky\u003c\/i\u003e), and the postmodernism of Thomas Pynchon, David Foster Wallace, Kathy Acker, Raymond Carver, and Donald Barthelme.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe towering works of modernism are here--T.S. Eliot's \"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock\" and \"The Waste Land,\" Yeats's \"The Second Coming\" done as a magazine spread, \u003ci\u003eHeart of Darkness\u003c\/i\u003e, stories from Kafka, \u003ci\u003eThe Voyage Out \u003c\/i\u003eby Virginia Woolf, James Joyce's masterpiece, \u003ci\u003eUlysses\u003c\/i\u003e, and his short story \"Araby\" from \u003ci\u003eDubliners\u003c\/i\u003e, rare early work from Faulkner and Hemingway (by artists who have drawn for Marvel), and poems by Gertrude Stein and Edna St. Vincent Millay.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYou'll also find original comic versions of short stories by W. Somerset Maugham, Flannery O'Connor, and Saki (manga style), plus adaptations of \u003ci\u003eLolita \u003c\/i\u003e(and everyone said it couldn't be done!), \u003ci\u003eThe Age of Innocence\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSiddhartha \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eSteppenwolf \u003c\/i\u003eby Hermann Hesse, \"The Negro Speaks of Rivers\" by Langston Hughes, \u003ci\u003eOne Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLast Exit to Brooklyn\u003c\/i\u003e, J.G. Ballard's \u003ci\u003eCrash\u003c\/i\u003e, and photo-dioramas for \u003ci\u003eAnimal Farm \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Wonderful Wizard of Oz\u003c\/i\u003e. Feast your eyes on new full-page illustrations for \u003ci\u003e1984\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBrave New World\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWaiting for Godot\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOne Hundred Years of Solitude,The Bell Jar\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOn the Road\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLord of the Flies\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e, and three Borges stories.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRobert Crumb's rarely seen adaptation of \u003ci\u003eNausea \u003c\/i\u003ecaptures Sartre's existential dread. Dame Darcy illustrates Cormac McCarthy's masterpiece, \u003ci\u003eBlood Meridian\u003c\/i\u003e, universally considered one of the most brutal novels ever written and long regarded as unfilmable by Hollywood. Tara Seibel, the only female artist involved with the Harvey Pekar Project, turns in an exquisite series of illustrations for \u003ci\u003eThe Great Gatsby\u003c\/i\u003e. And then there's the moment we've been waiting for: the first graphic adaptation from Kurt Vonnegut's masterwork, \u003ci\u003eSlaughterhouse-Five\u003c\/i\u003e. Among many other gems.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe classic canon of Western civilization meets the artists and illustrators who have remade reading in the last years of the twentieth century and the first decade of the twenty-first century in Russ Kick's magisterial, three-volume, full-color \u003ci\u003eThe Graphic Canon\u003c\/i\u003e, volumes 1, 2, and 3.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis special slipcase edition includes all three volumes of the series in an attractively designed slipcase, allowing graphic novel collectors and fans to quickly add this seminal work to their library.","brand":"Seven Stories Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44214046392575,"sku":"9781609803834","price":125.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0452\/0886\/2873\/files\/9781609803834_s600x595.jpg?v=1782318720","url":"https:\/\/massivebookshop.com\/de\/products\/9781609803834","provider":"MASSIVE BOOKSHOP","version":"1.0","type":"link"}