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<p><br>(back cover) <BR> We all have a good and a bad side. But just suppose you could separate them into two different people--one good, one entirely evil? <p>The famous chiller by the author of TREASURE ISLAND is vividly and faithfully retold in graphic novel format. <p>"My devil had been long caged, <BR> he came out roaring."</p><h3>Publishers Weekly</h3><p>Mattotti and his longtime collaborator Kramsky return to the comix world with an interpretation of Robert Louis Stevenson's tale of gothic horror. While the story is set in Victorian England, Mattotti's artwork evokes the masterful expressionism of Berlin of the 1930s and such influences as Max Beckman, George Grosz and Giorgio de Chirico. Dr. Jekyll's obsession with the duality of the human personality-the good and evil that reside within-leads him to concoct the potion that brings out his purely evil side. Depicting this transformation, Mattotti's art becomes even more expressive, reminiscent of the later paintings of Francis Bacon. Jekyll's assertion that with his potion "Life would be relieved of all that is horrible" proves wrong. Indeed, he has distilled life's horrors in the person of the brutal Mr. Hyde, who haunts th

Author

Robert Louis Stevenson

Publisher

Hauppauge, NY: Barron's Educational Series

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9781905638819

Subjects

Crafts & Hobbies, Literary Fiction, Design