The Graphic Canon, Vol. 1: From the Epic of Gilgamesh to Shakespeare to Dangerous Liaisons (The Graphic Canon Series)
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| Rating | : | 4.13 (525 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1609803760 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 512 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2018-01-31 |
| Language | : | English |
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A boxed set of all three volumes will also be published in Fall 2012.. Along the way, we're treated to eye-popping renditions of the human race's greatest epics: Gilgamesh, The Iliad, The Odyssey (in watercolors by Gareth Hinds), The Aeneid, Beowulf, and The Arabian Nights, plus later epics The Divine Comedy and The Canterbury Tales (both by legendary illustrator and graphic designer Seymour Chwast), Paradise Lost, and Le Morte D'Arthur. Two of ancient Greece's greatest plays are adapted—the tragedy Medea by Euripides and Tania Schrag’s uninhibited rendering of the very bawdy comedy Lysistrata by Aristophanes (the text of which is still censored in many textbooks). Edited by Russ Kick, The Graphic Can
Summing up: Essential. All readers.”—Current Reviews for Academic Libraries . They succeed, not only in doing justice to the original poem, but also, with the illustrations, in adding a kind of meditative short story reflective of the emotion the sonnet conveys.”— The Comics Journal“This delightful trove of comics and graphics adapted from and inspired by classic works of literature brings together mostly new works by dozens of contributors, from the legendary (e.g., Will Eisner, Robert Crumb) to newer talents (e.g., Fred Van Lente, Matt Wiegle). Readers will be fascinated to see on display in one volume so many varied approaches to visualizing classic texts, including wordless comics adapting Beowulf and The Tibetan Book of the Dead, a contemporary setting for Shakespeare's "Sonnet 18," a simultaneously textually faithful and visually stunning rendition of The Odyssey, and a lesbian reinterpretation of John Donne’s “The Flea.” Sub
Graphics in context Miss Selenie I really don't understand why the negative comments about the sexual explicitness. Firstly, there are nowhere near as many naked women and pornographic scenes as the first 2 reviewers would have you believe. Notice how they didn't even mention which works that they are talking about? One calls the artists "pigs" when one of the most graphic (and it really isn't even that graphic) was drawn by a woman. Also, the sexuality is in context with the story (Lysistrata the play by Aristophanes in which the women withhold sex from the males so that they will make peace & a lesbian take on John Donne's the Flea in which the narrator is trying t. T. Boyce said A Breathtaking Bargain: Classic Lit + Visual Trip. Volume One kicks-off the Graphic Canon trilogy in style -- lots of styles, actually. The contrast between works is breathtaking. Just when I think I'm looking at my favorite piece in the book, I turn the page and am blown-away yet again.Helpful thoughts toward the potential buyer:* Some of the works include adult content, either in text or visual form.* The majority of works included in this anthology are excerpts. It could be no other way.* It's a great way to gain exposure to a broad range of classics.* It's a great way to gain exposure to a broad range of art styles.* Look at the price -- for 500 pages, full color throughout, and o. "Mostly good, but hampered by poor editorial choices" according to Chris Clukey. The story of this volume is a story of soaring success and dismal failure. Much of the art is stunning, and some of the choices of which section of a great work would be included are pitch perfect. But where it fails, it fails miserably.To give a concrete example, one of the stories included is "The Lady With Two Coyntes" from 1001 Arabian Nights. It's about a woman who convinces her husband she has two sets of reproductive organs so she can get it on with a stableboy without being charged with adultery. First, choosing this out of all the stories in 1,001 nights (there are three in this volume) is like going to Tavern on the Green an
The New York Times has dubbed Kick "an information archaeologist," Details magazine described Kick as “a Renaissance man,” and Utne Reader named him one of its “50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World.” Russ Kick lives and works in Nashville, Tennessee, and Tucson, Arizona. . His bestselling anthologies, including You Are Being Lied To and Everything You Know Is Wrong, have sold over half a million copies. Founder of the website The Memory Hole, which a