Graphic Canon GN (2012 Seven Stories Press) comic books 2010-2012
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Issue #1-1ST
Published Jun 2012 by Seven Stories Press.$22.00
Volume 1 - 1st printing. Edited by Russ Kick. "From the Epic of Gilgamesh to Shakespeare to Dangerously Liaisons!" This gorgeous, one-of-a-kind trilogy brings classic literatures of the world together with legendary graphic artists and illustrators. From a rarely seen R. Crumb rendering of James Boswell's London Journal to a manga Macbeth, there are more than 130 literary works, reinterpreted here for readers and collectors of all ages. Volume 1 whirls us from eye-popping renditions of the great epics Gilgamesh, The Odyssey (in water colors by Gareth Hinds), The Divine Comedy, and The Canterbury Tales (the latter two by legendary illustrator and graphic designer Seymour Chwast), to Robert Crumb's rarely seen adaptation of James Boswell's London Journal, filled with philosophical debate and lowbrow debauchery. Contributors include Will Eisner, Robert Crumb, Roberta Gregory, Rick Geary, Sharon Rudahl, Peter Kuper, Molly Crabapple, Gareth Hinds and over 50 others. Softcover, 8-in. x 11-in., 448 pages, PC/PB&W. Cover price $34.95.
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Issue #2-1ST
Published Oct 2012 by Seven Stories Press.$22.00
Volume 2 - 1st printing. "From Pride and Prejudice to Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde!" Volume 2 of The Graphic Canon delivers a 19th-century cornucopia that includes Maxon Crumb and Gris Grimly's versions of Poe's visions, Eisner Award-winning artist Bill Sienkiewicz's take on Moby-Dick, and, for the first time, a selection from Huckleberry Finn exactly as Twain wrote it. The bad boys of Romanticism - Shelley, Keats, and Byron - are here along with the Brontë sisters, Nietzsche's Thus Spake Zarathustra and Darwin's On the Origin of Species. Frankenstein joins Thoreau's Walden and two of Emily Dickinson's greatest poems. Softcover, 8-in. x 11-in., 448 pages, full color. Cover price $34.95.
