"The Graphic Canon, Volume 2"gives us a visual cornucopia based on the wealth of literature from the 1800s. Several artists including Maxon Crumb and Gris Grimly present their versions of Edgar Allan Poe s visions. The great American novel"Huckleberry Finn"is adapted uncensored for the first time, as Twain wrote it. The bad boys of Romanticism Shelley, Keats, and Byron are visualized here, and so are the Bronte sisters. We see both of Coleridge s most famous poems: Kubla Khan and The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (the latter by British comics legend Hunt Emerson). Philosophy and science are...
"The Graphic Canon, Volume 2"gives us a visual cornucopia based on the wealth of literature from the 1800s. Several artists including Maxon Crumb and ...