Illustrierte Klassiker #4

Shakespeare's most haunting tragedy comes to vivid life in this German-language comics adaptation from BSV Hannover's Illustrierte Klassiker series, which brings "die spannendsten Geschichten der Weltliteratur" — the most gripping stories of world literature — to the sequential art page. Alex Blum's cover art captures the electric confrontation between a young, cloaked Hamlet and the luminous, armored ghost of his father, the two figures reaching toward each other against a turbulent twilight sky above the castle battlements. It's a genuinely atmospheric piece that conveys both dread and yearning in a single image, a fine entry point into one of literature's great dramatic works.