Kick, Russell

"From James M. Cain to Stephen King, from Sophocles to the Marquis de Sade to Iceberg Slim, here are stunning and sometimes macabre visualizations of some of the greatest crime and mystery stories of all time. Rick Geary brings his crisp style to Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment; C. Frakes resurrects the forgotten novella "Talma Gordon," the first mystery written by an African American. Crime finds new life in these graphic renditions of The Arabian Nights, the Bible, James Joyce's Dubliners, Patricia Highsmith, and leading mystery writers of today like Jo Nesb??"--.

"The original three-volume anthology The Graphic Canon presented the world's classic literature--from ancient times to the late twentieth century--as eye-popping comics, illustrations, and other visual forms. In this follow-up volume, young people's literature through the ages is given new life by the best comics artists and illustrators. Fairy tales, fables, fantastical adventures, young adult novels, swashbuckling yarns, your favorite stories from childhood and your teenage years. they're all here, in all their original complexity and strangeness, before they were censored or sanitized"--.

Collection of commonly believed fallacies, misconceptions,and misstatements; and looks at how they originated and provides factual replies.

Collects graphic novel adaptations of literature from the twentieth century, including "Infinite Jest," "Ulysses," "The Waste Land," and over forty others.

"The world's great literature as comics and visuals"--Cover.

Collects graphic novel adaptations of the world's greatest literature from the 1800s, including "Kubla Khan," "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner," "Walden," and over forty others.