Octavia E. Butler's Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation

Based on Octavia E. Butler’s celebrated novel, this 2018 graphic novel adaptation from Harry N. Abrams brings the harrowing time-travel narrative to a new visual medium. Writer Damian Duffy and artist John Jennings collaborate to translate Butler’s story of a Black woman from 1970s California repeatedly pulled into the brutal reality of a pre-Civil War Maryland plantation. The single-issue volume is a key modern example of literary comics adaptation, praised for translating a landmark work of speculative fiction into a powerful graphic form.