Crime and Punishment

In 1979, Pendulum Press launched a single-issue comic adaptation of Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, adapted by John Norwood Fago with art by Vicatan. This prestige-format graphic novel distills the classic Russian novel's psychological depth into a visual narrative, part of the publisher's series of literary adaptations. It matters as an early, ambitious attempt to bring serious literature to the comic-book medium for a new generation of readers.