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The Graphic Canon #1
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This hefty anthology kicks off the ambitious Graphic Canon series by adapting classic works of world literature into comic form. Volume 1 spans from ancient epics like Gilgamesh through Shakespeare and up to 18th-century novels such as Dangerous Liaisons, featuring contributions from a wide range of artists and writers. It's a curated survey of literary history reimagined through sequential art, aiming to showcase how graphic storytelling can illuminate timeless texts.
Contains 56 stories
Three Panel Review
The Epic of Gilamesh
Coyote and the Pebble
The Iliad
The Odyssey
Euripides' Medea
Aristophanes' Lysistrata
The Book of Esther
Symposium
Tao Te Ching
The House of Lac
Master Kong
The Book of Daniel
On the Nature of Things
Virgil's The Aeneid
Revelation
Frontier Song
A Village South of the Capital
Drinking Alone Beneath the Moon
Beowulf
The Tale of Genji
The Letters of Heloise and Abelard
O Nobilissima Viriditas
The Fisherman and the Genie
The Woman with Two Coyntes
Rumi Poems
The Divine Comedy: Inferno
The Inferno
The Tibetan Book of the Dead (Bardo Thodol)
The Last Ballad
The Canterbury Tales
Le Morte d'Arthur
Apu Ollantay
Hagoromo
How the Gods Peopled the Earth
The Visions of St. Teresa of Avila
Hot Sun, Cool Fire
Journey to the West
The Faerie Queene
A Midsummer Night's Dream
King Lear
Don Quixote
Sonnet 18
Sonnet 20
The Flea
To His Coy Mistress
Forgive Us Our Trespasses
Paradise Lost
Gulliver's Travels
Candide
A Modest Proposal
Advice to a Young Man on the Choice of a Mistress
Excerpts from Boswell's London Journal 1762-1763
Sir James BoswellSheridanLouisaGoldsmithSamuel JohnsonDempster
Fart Proudly
Mary Wollstonecraft
Dangerous Liaisons
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The Graphic Canon, Vol. 1: From the Epic of Gilgamesh to Shakespeare to Dangerous Liaisons (The Graphic Canon Series)
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Full credits
writer James Boswell
writer, artist, inker, letterer Robert Crumb
cover pencils, inks Kevin Dixon
cover pencils, inks Kent Dixon
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