The Graphic Canon (4 books in series)
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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 go...
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review 1: This book claims to be a collection of classic works turned into graphic form. It only lives up to this claim periodically. Most of the time, the "adaptions" are so spliced up and shrunken that they are barely recognizable to their original forms. The art is unpredictable, wit...
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review 1: So this was pretty cool. Given to me by a friend for xmas because I like graphic novels and such, I was particularly looking forward to the ancient Greek adapted sections.The editor of the collection, Russ Kick, put little introductions to each work that not only gave you some b...
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review 1: Ambivalent. As another reviewer mentioned, this is definitely more "graphic" than "canon." I appreciated some exposure to tales of which I'd been unaware and several really talented artists - but with such tiny out-of-context snippets of so many epic works, the whole thing just f...