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The Graphic Canon

April 12, 2024

The Graphic Canon: The World's Great Literature as Comics and Visuals (Seven Stories Press) is a three-volume anthology, edited by Russ Kick, that renders some of the world's greatest and most famous literature into graphic-novel form.[1] The first two volumes were released in 2012, and the concluding volume was published in spring 2013.

Reception edit

NPR declared: "It's easily the most ambitious and successfully realized literary project in recent memory, and certainly the one that's most relevant for today's readers."[2] In a full-page review, The New York Times Sunday Book Review concluded: "What [editor Russ Kick] asks us to acknowledge with The Graphic Canon is this: Gulliver’s Travels, Wuthering Heights, Leaves of Grass — these works of literature do not reside just on the shelves of academia; they flourish in the eye of our imagination.”[3] The following week, it was named an "Editors' Choice" in the NY Times Sunday Book Review.[4]

Publishers Weekly called it "a must-have anthology,"[5] Library Journal said it's "an exciting new benchmark for comics,"[6] Booklist dubbed it "a uniquely powerful piece of art,"[7] and School Library Journal declared it "startlingly brilliant" and "a masterpiece of literary choices as well as art and interpretation."[8]

The Graphic Canon, Volume 1 edit

 
First edition

Volume 1: From the Epic of Gilgamesh to Shakespeare to Dangerous Liaisons, published May 2012, features 55 classic works of literature, going from the earliest, ancient literature until the end of the 1700s.[9] Some of the artists include Robert Crumb, Will Eisner, Molly Crabapple, Rick Geary, and Seymour Chwast.

Featured works edit

The Graphic Canon, Volume 2 edit

 
First edition

Volume 2: From "Kubla Khan" to the Brontë Sisters to The Picture of Dorian Gray, published October 2012, continues chronologically by featuring 51 of the great, classic works of the 19th century. A few of the artists include Maxon Crumb, Gris Grimly, Hunt Emerson, John Porcellino, John Coulthart, Dame Darcy, S. Clay Wilson, and Seth Tobocman.[10]

Featured works edit

The Graphic Canon, Volume 3 edit

 
First edition

Volume 3: From Heart of Darkness to Hemingway to Infinite Jest (March 2013) begins with three great works from 1899 and continues with 77 works from the twentieth century, ending in 1996. Featured artists include Robert Crumb, Dame Darcy, Ted Rall, Milton Knight, and Tara Seibel, among many others.[11]

Featured works edit

References edit

  1. ^ Reid, Calvin (2012-02-03). "Graphic Canon: Comics Meet the Classics". Publishersweekly.com. Retrieved 2013-09-09.
  2. ^ Attenberg, Jami. "Indie Booksellers Pick The Year's Best Books". NPR. Retrieved 2013-09-09.
  3. ^ Annie Weatherwax. "Graphic Lit 'The Graphic Canon,' Edited by Russ Kick". The New York Times. Retrieved 2013-09-09.
  4. ^ "Sunday Book Review : Editors Choice". The New York Times. Retrieved 2013-09-09.
  5. ^ "Comics Review: The Graphic Canon, Vol. 2 by Edited by Russ Kick". Reg.publishersweekly.com. 2012-09-28. Retrieved 2013-09-09.
  6. ^ . Reviews.libraryjournal.com. 2012-01-16. Archived from the original on 2013-11-03. Retrieved 2013-09-09.
  7. ^ "Booklist calls The Graphic Canon "a uniquely powerful piece of art" |". Thegraphiccanon.wordpress.com. 2012-03-16. Retrieved 2013-09-09.
  8. ^ "All Diamond, No Rough — @AngeReads and @droogmark Adult Books 4 Teens". Blog.schoollibraryjournal.com. 2012-05-16. Retrieved 2021-11-04.
  9. ^ "Books | Seven Stories Press". Sevenstories.com. Retrieved 2017-03-29.
  10. ^ "Books | Seven Stories Press". Sevenstories.com. Retrieved 2017-03-29.
  11. ^ "Books | Seven Stories Press". Sevenstories.com. Retrieved 2017-03-29.

External links edit

  • Website for Series

April 12, 2024
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The Graphic Canon The World s Great Literature as Comics and Visuals Seven Stories Press is a three volume anthology edited by Russ Kick that renders some of the world s greatest and most famous literature into graphic novel form 1 The first two volumes were released in 2012 and the concluding volume was published in spring 2013 Contents 1 Reception 2 The Graphic Canon Volume 1 2 1 Featured works 3 The Graphic Canon Volume 2 3 1 Featured works 4 The Graphic Canon Volume 3 4 1 Featured works 5 References 6 External linksReception editNPR declared It s easily the most ambitious and successfully realized literary project in recent memory and certainly the one that s most relevant for today s readers 2 In a full page review The New York Times Sunday Book Review concluded What editor Russ Kick asks us to acknowledge with The Graphic Canon is this Gulliver s Travels Wuthering Heights Leaves of Grass these works of literature do not reside just on the shelves of academia they flourish in the eye of our imagination 3 The following week it was named an Editors Choice in the NY Times Sunday Book Review 4 Publishers Weekly called it a must have anthology 5 Library Journal said it s an exciting new benchmark for comics 6 Booklist dubbed it a uniquely powerful piece of art 7 and School Library Journal declared it startlingly brilliant and a masterpiece of literary choices as well as art and interpretation 8 The Graphic Canon Volume 1 edit nbsp First editionVolume 1 From the Epic of Gilgamesh to Shakespeare to Dangerous Liaisons published May 2012 features 55 classic works of literature going from the earliest ancient literature until the end of the 1700s 9 Some of the artists include Robert Crumb Will Eisner Molly Crabapple Rick Geary and Seymour Chwast Featured works edit The Epic of Gilgamesh Coyote and the Pebbles The Iliad and The Odyssey by Homer Poem Fragments from Sappho Medea by Euripides Lysistrata by Aristophanes Plato s Symposium The Book of Esther Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu Mahabharata by Vyasa The Analects and Other Writings by Confucius The Book of Daniel On the Nature of Things by Lucretius Aeneid by Virgil The Book of Revelation Three Tang Poems Frontier Song by Wang Han A Village South of the Capital by Cui Hu and Drinking Alone Beneath the Moon by Li Bai Beowulf The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu The Letters of Heloise and Abelard O Nobilissima Viriditas by Hildegard of Bingen The Fisherman and the Genie and The Woman with Two Coyntes from The Arabian Nights Poems from Rumi The Divine Comedy and The Inferno by Dante Alighieri The Tibetan Book of the Dead by Padmasambhava and Karma Lingpa The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer The Last Ballad by Francois Villon Le Morte d Arthur by Sir Thomas Malory Apu Ollantay Hagoromo Outlaws of the Water Margin by Shi Nai an Popol Vuh The Visions of St Teresa of Avila Hot Sun Cool Fire by George Peele Journey to the West by Wu Cheng en The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser A Midsummer Night s Dream King Lear Hamlet Sonnet 18 and Sonnet 20 by William Shakespeare Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes The Flea by John Donne To His Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell Paradise Lost by John Milton Forgive Us Our Trespasses by Aphra Behn Gulliver s Travels and A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift Advice to a Young Man on the Choice of a Mistress and Letter to the Royal Academy of Brussels A K A Fart Proudly by Benjamin Franklin Candide by Voltaire London Journal by James Boswell A Vindication of the Rights of Women by Mary Wollstonecraft Dangerous Liaisons by Choderlos de LaclosThe Graphic Canon Volume 2 edit nbsp First editionVolume 2 From Kubla Khan to the Bronte Sisters to The Picture of Dorian Gray published October 2012 continues chronologically by featuring 51 of the great classic works of the 19th century A few of the artists include Maxon Crumb Gris Grimly Hunt Emerson John Porcellino John Coulthart Dame Darcy S Clay Wilson and Seth Tobocman 10 Featured works edit Moby Dick by Herman Melville Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Auguries of Innocence and Jerusalem The Emanation of the Giant Albion by William Blake I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud by William Wordsworth She Walks in Beauty by Lord Byron O Solitude and La Belle Dame sans Merci by John Keats Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley Snow White and the Seven Dwarves The Valiant Little Tailor Hansel and Gretel and How Six Made Good in the World by the Brothers Grimm Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin Frankenstein and The Mortal Immortal by Mary Shelley Les Miserables by Victor Hugo The Confessions of Nat Turner by Nat Turner and Thomas R Gray The Emperor s New Clothes The Little Match Girl The Nightingale by Hans Christian Andersen Jenny Kiss d Me by Leigh Hunt The Jumblies by Edward Lear The Tell Tale Heart The Raven The Pit and the Pendulum the Bells and The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne The Message from Mount Misery by Frederick Douglass Because I could not stop for Death and I taste a liquor never brewed by Emily Dickinson Letter to George Sand by Gustave Flaubert Middlemarch by George Eliot Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky Walden by Henry David Thoreau Le Bateau ivre by Arthur Rimbaud Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen Alice s Adventures in Wonderland Through the Looking Glass and The Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll Venus in Furs by Leopold von Sacher Masoch The Hasheesh Eater by Fitz Hugh Ludlow Der Struwwelpeter by Heinrich Hoffmann Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson Goblin Market by Christina Rossetti An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce The Picture of Dorian Gray a 10 page collage adaptation by John CoulthartThe Graphic Canon Volume 3 edit nbsp First editionVolume 3 From Heart of Darkness to Hemingway to Infinite Jest March 2013 begins with three great works from 1899 and continues with 77 works from the twentieth century ending in 1996 Featured artists include Robert Crumb Dame Darcy Ted Rall Milton Knight and Tara Seibel among many others 11 Featured works edit Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad Naked Lunch by William S Burroughs Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke The Man with the Golden Arm by Nelson Algren The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock and The Waste Land by T S Eliot The Second Coming by W B Yeats The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf Ulysses and Araby from Dubliners by James Joyce Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton Siddhartha and Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse The Negro Speaks of Rivers by Langston Hughes One Flew Over the Cuckoo s Nest by Ken Kesey Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby Jr Crash by J G Ballard Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty Four by George Orwell The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L Frank Baum Brave New World and The Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath On the Road by Jack Kerouac The Wind Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami Nausea by Jean Paul Sartre Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald The Awakening by Kate Chopin The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud The New Accelerator by H G Wells Reginald by Saki Mother by Maxim Gorky If by Rudyard Kipling John Barleycorn by Jack London The Metamorphosis The Top and Give It Up by Franz Kafka The Mowers and Lady Chatterley s Lover by D H Lawrence Sea Iris by H D A Matter of Colour and Living on 1 000 a Year in Paris by Ernest Hemingway The Madman by Kahlil Gibran Hands from Winesburg Ohio by Sherwood Anderson The Dreaming of Bones by W B Yeats Cheri by Colette Dulce et Decorum est by Wilfred Owen The Sound and the Fury and The Hillby William Faulkner The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett Poker by Zora Neale Hurston Black Elk Speaks by Black Elk and John G Neihardt Strange Fruit by Lewis Allan The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck The Pertinent and The Singing Woman from the Wood s Edge by Edna St Vincent Millay Rain by W Somerset Maugham The Emperor of Ice Cream by Wallace Stevens Three stories by Jorge Luis Borges The Stranger by Albert Camus The Heart of the Park by Flannery O Connor The Voice of the Hamster and Gravity s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon The Dancer by Gabriela Mistral Lord of the Flies by William Golding Diaries by Anais Nin Four Beats Graphic Biographies by Tara Seibel The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov In Watermelon Sugar by Richard Brautigan I Bought a Little City by Donald Barthelme What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver Blood and Guts in High School by Kathy Acker Foucault s Pendulum by Umberto Eco Wild at Heart by Barry Gifford The Famished Road by Ben Okri Einstein s Dreams by Alan Lightman Infinite Jest by David Foster WallaceReferences edit Reid Calvin 2012 02 03 Graphic Canon Comics Meet the Classics Publishersweekly com Retrieved 2013 09 09 Attenberg Jami Indie Booksellers Pick The Year s Best Books NPR Retrieved 2013 09 09 Annie Weatherwax Graphic Lit The Graphic Canon Edited by Russ Kick The New York Times Retrieved 2013 09 09 Sunday Book Review Editors Choice The New York Times Retrieved 2013 09 09 Comics Review The Graphic Canon Vol 2 by Edited by Russ Kick Reg publishersweekly com 2012 09 28 Retrieved 2013 09 09 Graphic Novels Prepub Alert Guy Delisle Alison Bechdel amp The Graphic Canon Reviews libraryjournal com 2012 01 16 Archived from the original on 2013 11 03 Retrieved 2013 09 09 Booklist calls The Graphic Canon a uniquely powerful piece of art Thegraphiccanon wordpress com 2012 03 16 Retrieved 2013 09 09 All Diamond No Rough AngeReads and droogmark Adult Books 4 Teens Blog schoollibraryjournal com 2012 05 16 Retrieved 2021 11 04 Books Seven Stories Press Sevenstories com Retrieved 2017 03 29 Books Seven Stories Press Sevenstories com Retrieved 2017 03 29 Books Seven Stories Press Sevenstories com Retrieved 2017 03 29 External links editWebsite for Series Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title The Graphic Canon amp oldid 1217289573, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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