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THE GRAPHIC CANON OF CRIME AND MYSTERY (Vol.1+2)

Russ Kick

The latest volume in Russ Kick's New York Times best-selling series
retells classic crime fiction in full-color visual comix splendor.
Here is Teddy Goldenberg's dense, murky treatment of Dashiell Hammett's
The Road Home, often considered the first hardboiled detective story ever
published. Shawn Cheng renders the first serial-killer story, the gruesome,
so-called fairy tale Bluebeard by Charles Perrault. Landis Blair reimagines
Kafka's The Trial as a choose-your-own-adventure story that you cannot win,
Sally Madden colorfully presents a Father Brown mystery, and Alice Urbino
will freak you out with her take on Psycho. Plus 22 other contributors using a
wide range of illustrative styles to illuminate Sherlock Holmes, Edgar Allan
Poe, Agatha Christie, Hannibal Lecter, murder ballads, Cain and Abel (the
world's first murder), and the forgotten Lady Molly (a contemporary of Sherlock

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Comments

Great literature leaves us not just with extraordinary stories; the language also leaves an imagea rich and expansive painting of the world written on the page. In The Graphic Canon, the world's literature is reimagined as comics and visual art, and with it the editor, Russ Kick, has struck a chord --The New York Times, Editor's Choice

[...] An exciting new benchmark for comics! -- Library Journal

A treasure trove for literary comics fans -- Wired

[Russ Kick] has managed to create something unprecedented in comic art . . . It is, for now, the most sustained anthology of comic art in the English language - the best showplace of what comic art is today and what it can do. That's quite an accomplishment. -- Paul Buhle, Los Angeles Review of Books

[...] All diamond, no rough . . . startlingly brilliant . . . a masterpiece. -- School Library Journal