Tamara Drewe

Posy Simmonds adapts Thomas Hardy's Far from the Madding Crowd into a modern-day graphic novel set in the English countryside, published by Reprodukt in 2010. This single-issue work, written and illustrated entirely by Simmonds, updates Hardy's themes of love and rural life with a sharp, contemporary sensibility. It stands as a masterful example of literary adaptation in comics, showcasing Simmonds' distinctive blend of social observation and visual storytelling.