The Castle #[nn]

A haunting close-up of a man's fragmented, shadowed face dominates Jaromír 99's stark cover for this 2013 SelfMadeHero adaptation — the fractured, graphic rendering perfectly capturing the disorientation at the heart of Kafka's celebrated novel. David Zane Mairowitz joins Jaromír 99 in translating one of literature's great labyrinths into comics form, and the cover's bold black-and-grey palette suggests exactly the kind of oppressive, dreamlike atmosphere Kafka made his own. A compelling addition to any shelf where literary graphic novels meet genuinely striking visual art.