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The Graphic Canon, Vol. 1: From the Epic of Gilgamesh to Shakespeare to Dangerous Liaisons (The Graphic Canon Series) by Russ Kick ; Seymour Chwast; Valerie Schrag; Gareth Hinds; Peter Kuper; Robert Crumb; Roberta Gregory; Rick Geary; Will Eisner; Molly Crabapple; Lisa Brown; Kevin Dixon; Kent Dixon; Dayton Edmonds; Micah Farritor; Alice Duke; Alessandro Bonaccorsi; Tori McKenna; J.T. Waldman; Yeji Yun; Fred Van Lente; Ryan Dunlavey; Matt Wiegle; Benjamin Frisch; Tom Biby; Jonathan Fetter-Vorm; Michael Lagocki; Sharon Rudahl; Molly Kiely; Ellen Lindner; Andrice Arp; Vicky Nerino; Michael Green; Coleman Barks; Hunt Emerson; Sanya Glisic; Julian Peters; Omaha Perez; Caroline Picard; Shawn Cheng; Isabel Greenberg; Edie Fake; Dave Morice; Conor Hughes; Michael Stanyer is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Graphic Canon, Vol. 1: From the Epic of Gilgamesh to Shakespeare to Dangerous Liaisons (The Graphic Canon Series) about?
THE GRAPHIC CANON (Seven Stories Press) is a gorgeous, one-of-a-kind trilogy that brings classic literatures of the world together with legendary graphic artists and illustrators. There are more than 130 illustrators represented and 190 literary works over three volumes—many newly commissioned, some hard to find—reinterpreted here for readers and collectors of all ages. Volume 1 takes us on a visual tour from the earliest literature through the end of the 1700s. 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). Also included is Robert Crumb’s rarely-seen adaptation of James Boswell’s London Journal , filled with ph
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- Author
- Russ Kick ; Seymour Chwast; Valerie Schrag; Gareth Hinds; Peter Kuper; Robert Crumb; Roberta Gregory; Rick Geary; Will Eisner; Molly Crabapple; Lisa Brown; Kevin Dixon; Kent Dixon; Dayton Edmonds; Micah Farritor; Alice Duke; Alessandro Bonaccorsi; Tori McKenna; J.T. Waldman; Yeji Yun; Fred Van Lente; Ryan Dunlavey; Matt Wiegle; Benjamin Frisch; Tom Biby; Jonathan Fetter-Vorm; Michael Lagocki; Sharon Rudahl; Molly Kiely; Ellen Lindner; Andrice Arp; Vicky Nerino; Michael Green; Coleman Barks; Hunt Emerson; Sanya Glisic; Julian Peters; Omaha Perez; Caroline Picard; Shawn Cheng; Isabel Greenberg; Edie Fake; Dave Morice; Conor Hughes; Michael Stanyer
- Publisher
- Seven Stories Press
- Published
- 2012
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781609803780
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Crafts & Hobbies, History, Literary Fiction
- Rating
- 3.72 / 5 (736 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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