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From "Kubla Khan" To The Bronte Sisters To The Picture Of Dorian Gray (2012)

by Russ Kick(Favorite Author)

3.9 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

1609803787 (ISBN13: 9781609803780)

languge

English

genre

Graphic Novels & Comics

publisher

Seven Stories Press

series

The Graphic Canon

review 1: Only passable. The anthology claims to include "the world's great literature as comics and visuals," but this volume is truly the Western world only, and embarrassingly so. And while the editor chose a good selection within the canon -- and it is a pleasure to sample so many good works -- the number of selections means each one receives just a few pages. I'd have much preferred fewer works with more pages per work.The art looks rushed. I didn't feel that all contributors offered their best work, and there were even typos within some visuals. The editor piles superlatives upon superlatives, trying to surpass himself from one introduction to the next ("I said on page so-and-so that Work X had the most famous creation story, but Work Y actually surpasses it."). The book... more feels sloppily edited.
review 2: This huge volume of graphic novelizations of various poems, stories and novels is almost too much to get through, some portions actually including large sections of works (Grimm's Fables and others) in very small print with relatively little illustration to accompany them.Overall I enjoyed the various artists twists on the stories, some of my favorites include the Rime of the Ancient Mariner, I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud by Wordsworth I thought was conveyed very nicely by PMurphy, very colorful, but also adding a twist to the poem. I also really enjoyed the artwork accompanying Carroll's Jabberwocky and would read the entirety of Middlemarch in comic form by Megan Kelso. I also enjoyed the various Alice montages and even more so those devoted to Moby Dick, many of which I would love to have for myself.Something I could have seen more of were the 3 or 4 panel review/summary comics that were in the beginning of the book by Lisa Brown, they were quite funny and I thought deserved a lot more space than just a nod by the editor and a few dotted here or there. less

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