The graphic canon: the world's great literature as comics and visuals

v. 1. From the epic of Gilgamesh to Shakespeare to Dangerous liaisons. Three panel review : Hamlet / William Shakespeare ; art/adaptation by Lisa Brown

The epic of Gilgamesh / Babylonian tablets ; art/adaptation by Kevin Dixon ; rendition by Kent Dixon

"Coyote and the pebbles" / Native American folktale ; story by Dayton Edmonds ; art by Micah Farritor

The Iliad / Homer ; art/adaptation by Alice Duke

The Odyssey / Homer ; art/adaptation by Gareth Hinds

Poem fragments / Sappho ; art/adaptation by Alessandro Bonaccorsi

Medea / Euripides ; art/adaptation by Tori McKenna

Lysistrata / Aristophanes ; art/adaptation and translation by Valerie Schrag

The book of Esther / from the Hebrew bible ; art/adaptation and translation by J.T. Waldman

Symposium / Plato ; art/adaptation by Yeji Yun

Tao te ching / Lao Tzu ; adaptation by Fred Van Lente ; art by Ryan Dunlavey

Mahabharata / Vyasa ; art/adaptation by Matt Wiegle

Analects and other writings / Confucius ; adaptation by Fred Van Lente ; art by Ryan Dunlavey

The book of Daniel / from the Hebrew bible ; art/adaptation by Benjamin Frisch

On the nature of things / Lucretius ; art/adaptation by Tom Biby and Jonathan Fetter-Vorm

Aeneid / Virgil ; art/adaptation by Michael Lagocki

The book of Revelation / from the New Testament ; art/adaptation by Rick Geary

Three Tang poems / Wang Han, Cui Hu, and Li Bai ; art/adaptation and translation by Sharon Rudahl

Beowulf / Anglo-Saxon epic poem ; art/adaptation by Gareth Hinds

The tale of Genji / Murasaki Shikibu ; art/adaptation by Molly Kiely

The letters of Heloise and Abelard / art/adaptation by Ellen Lindner

"O nobilissima viriditas" / Hildegard of Bingen ; art/adaptation by Molly Kiely

"The fisherman and the genie" / from The Arabian Nights ; art/adaptation by Andrice Arp

"The woman with two coyntes" / from The Arabian Nights ; art/adaptation by Vicki Nerino

Poems / Rumi ; art/adaptation by Michael Green ; translations by Coleman Barks

The divine comedy / Dante Alighieri ; art/adaptation by Seymour Chwast

The inferno / Dante Alighieri ; art/adaptation by Hunt Emerson

The Tibetan book of the dead (Bardo Thodol) / Padmasambhava and Karma Lingpa ; art/adaptation by Sanya Glisic

"The last ballad" / François Villon ; art/adaptation by Julian Peters

The Canterbury Tales / Geoffrey Chaucer ; art/adaptation by Seymour Chwast

Le morte d'Arthur / Sir Thomas Mallory ; art/adaptation by Omaha Perez

Apu Ollantay / an Incan play ; art/adaptation by Caroline Picard

Outlaws of the water margin / Shi Nai'an ; illustrations by Shawn Cheng

Hagoromo (celestial feather robe) / a Japanese Noh play ; art/adaptation by Isabel Greenberg

Popol Vuh / sacred book of the Quiché Maya ; art/adaptation by Roberta Gregory

The visions of St. Teresa of Ávila / from her autobiography ; art/adaptation by Edie Fake

"Hot sun, cool fire" / George Peele ; art/adaptation by Dave Morice

Journey to the west / Wu Cheng'en ; art/adaptation by Conor Hughes

The faerie queene / Edmund Spenser ; adaptation by Michael Stanyer ; art by Eric Johnson

A midsummer night's dream / William Shakespeare ; art/adaptation by Maxx Kelly with Huxley King

King Lear / William Shakespeare ; art/adaptation by Ian Pollock

Don Quixote / Miguel Cervantes ; art/adaptation by Will Eisner

Sonnet 18 / William Shakespeare ; art/adaptation by Robert Berry with Josh Levitas

Sonnet 20 / William Shakespeare ; art/adaptation by Aidan Koch

"The flea" / John Donne ; art/adaptation by Noah Patrick Pfarr

"To his coy mistress" / Andrew Marvell ; art/adaptation by Yien Yip

"Forgive us our trespasses" / Aphra Behn ; art/adaptation by Alex Eckman-Lawn

Paradise lost / John Milton ; art/adaptation by Rebecca Dart

Gulliver's travels / Jonathan Swift ; art/adaptation by Gareth Hinds

Candide / Voltaire ; illustrations by Ian Ball

"A modest proposal" / Jonathan Swift ; art/adaptation by Peter Kuper

"Advice to a young man on the choice of a mistress" / Benjamin Franklin ; painting by Cortney Skinner

London journal / James Boswell ; art/adaptation by Robert Crumb

"Letter to the Royal Academy of Brussels" (a.k.a. "Fart proudly") / Benjamin Franklin ; art/adaptation by Stan Shaw

A vindication of the rights of woman / Mary Wollstonecraft ; adaptation by Fred Van Lente ; art by Ryan Dunlavey

Dangerous liaisons / Choderlos de Laclos ; illustrations by Molly Crabapple.

v. 2. From "Kubla Khan" to the Brontë sisters to The picture of Dorian Gray. Kubla Khan / Samuel Taylor Coleridge ; art/adaptation by Alice Duke

The rime of the ancient mariner / Samuel Taylor Coleridge ; art/adaptation by Hunt Emerson

Auguries of innocence / William Blake ; art/adaptation by Aidan Koch

Pride and prejudice / Jane Austen ; art/adaptation by Huxley King ; design editor, Terrence Boyce

She walks in beauty / George Gordon, Lord Byron ; art/adaptation by David Lasky

Ozymandias / Percy Bysshe Shelley ; art/adaptation by Anthony Ventura

I wandered lonely as a cloud / William Wordsworth ; art/adaptation by PMurphy

O solitude / John Keats ; art/adaptation by Hunt Emerson

Frankenstein / Mary Shelley ; adaptation by Jason Cobley ; art by Declan Shalvey

Fairy tales / The Brothers Grimm ; illustrations by S. Clay Wilson

How six made good in the world / The Brothers Grimm ; art/adaptation by Shawn Cheng

La belle dame sans merci / John Keats ; art/adaptation by Neil Cohn

Jerusalem : the emanation of the giant Albion / William Blake ; art and lettering by William Blake

The confessions of Nat Turner / Nat Turner and Thomas R. Gray ; art/adaptation by John Pierard

The mortal immortal / Mary Shelley ; art/adaptation by Lance Tooks

Fairy tales / Hans Christian Andersen ; illustrations by S. Clay Wilson

Rondeau (Jenny kiss'd me) / Leigh Hunt ; art/adaptation by Ellen Linder

Oliver Twist / Charles Dickens ; art/adaptation by Kevin Dixon

The Jumblies / Edward Lear ; art/adaptation by Hunt Emerson

Der Struwwelpeter / Heinrich Hoffmann ; illustrations and layout by Sanya Glisic

Poe montage / Edgar Allan Poe ; illustration by Gris Grimly

The raven / Edgar Allan Poe ; art/adaptation by Yien Yip

Works / Edgar Allan Poe ; illustrations by Maxon Crumb

Jane Eyre / Charlotte Bronte ; art/adaptation by Elizabeth Watasin

Wuthering Heights / Emily Brontë ; art/adaptation by Tim Fish

The scarlet letter / Nathaniel Hawthorne ; illustration by Ali J

Moby-Dick / Herman Melville ; illustration by Matt Kish

Walden / Henry David Thoreau ; art/adaptation by John Porcellino

Leaves of grass / Walt Whitman ; art/adaptation by Tara Seibel

Leaves of grass / Walt Whitman ; art/adaptation by Dave Morice

The hasheesh eater / Fitz Hugh Ludlow ; art/adaptation by John Pierard

On the origin of species / Charles Darwin ; adaptation by Michael Keller ; art by Nicolle Rager Fuller

The message from Mount Misery / Frederick Douglass ; art/adaptation by Seth Tobocman

Les misérables / Victor Hugo ; art/adaptation by Tara Seibel

Because I could not stop for Death / Emily Dickinson ; art/adaptation by Dame Darcy

I taste a liquor never brewed / Emily Dickinson ; art/adaptation by Diana Evans

Letter to George Sand / Gustave Flaubert ; art/adaptation by Corinne Mucha

Alice's adventures in Wonderland and Through the looking-glass / Lewis Carroll ; art/adaptation by Dame Darcy

Jabberwocky / Lewis Carroll ; art/adaptation by Eran Cantrell

Alice gallery / illustrations by Jasmine Becket-Griffith, Bill Carman, John Coulhart [and others]

Crime and punishment / Fyodor Dostoevsky ; art/adaptation by Kako

Venus in furs / Leopold von Sacher-Masoch ; art/adaptation by Molly Kiely

The drunken boat / Arthur Rimbaud ; art/adaptation by Julian Peters

Middlemarch / George Eliot ; art/adaptation by Megan Kelso

The hunting of the snark / Lewis Carroll ; art/adaptation by Mahendra Singh

Anna Karenina / Leo Tolstoy ; art/adaptation by Ellen Lindner

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn / Mark Twain ; art/adaptation by J. Ben Moss

Thus spake Zarathustra / Friedrich Nietzsche ; adaptation by Laurence Gane ; art by Piero

Strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde / Robert Louis Stevenson ; adaptation by Danusia Schejbal ; art by Andrzej Klimowski

An occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge / Ambrose Bierce ; art/adaptation by Sandy Jimenez

The picture of Dorian Gray / Oscar Wilde ; art/adaptation by John Coulthart

Three panel reviews / comic strips by Lisa Brown.

v. 3. From Heart of darkness to Hemingway to Infinite jest. Heart of darkness / Joseph Conrad ; illustrations by Matt Kish

The awakening / Kate Chopin ; art/adaptation by Rebecca Migdal

The interpretation of dreams / Sigmund Freud ; art/adaptation by Tara Seibel

The wonderful Wizard of Oz / L. Frank Baum ; photo-dioramas by Graham Rawle

"The new accelerator" / H.G. Wells ; art/adaptation by Cole Johnson

"Reginald" / Saki ; art/adaptation by Sonia Leong

Mother / Maxim Gorky ; art/adaptation by Stephanie McMillan

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Rudyard Kipling ; art/adaptation by Frank Hansen

John Barleycorn / Jack London ; art/adaptation by John Pierard

"Araby" (from Dubliners) / James Joyce ; art/adaptation by Annie Mok

"The metamorphosis" / Franz Kafka ; art/adaptation by R. Sikoryak

The voyage out / Virginia Woolf ; art/adaptation by Caroline Picard

"The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock" / T.S. Eliot ; art/adaptation by Anthony Ventura

"The mowers" / D.H. Lawrence ; art/adaptation by Bishakh Som

"Sea Iris" / H.D. ; art/adaptation by Bishakh Som

"A matter of colour" / Ernest Hemingway ; art/adaptation by Dan Duncan

The madman / Kahlil Gibran ; art/adaptation by Matt Wiegle

"Hands" (from Winesburg, Ohio) / Sherwood Anderson ; art/adaptation by Ted Rall

The dreaming of the bones / W.B. Yeats ; art/adaptation by Lauren Weinstein

Chéri / Colette ; illustration by Molly Crabapple

The age of innocence / Edith Wharton ; art/adaptation by C. Frakes

"Dulce et decorum est" / Wilfred Owen ; adaptation by Jason Cobley ; line work by John Blake ; coloring by Michael Reid ; lettering by Greg Powell

"The second coming" / W.B. Yeats ; art/adaptation by Anthony Ventura

"The penitent" and "The singing-woman from the wood's edge" / Edna St. Vincent Millay ; art/adaptations by Joy Kolitsky

"The top" and "Give it up!" / Franz Kafka ; art/adaptations by Peter Kuper

"The Negro speaks of rivers" / Langston Hughes ; art/adaptation by Jenny Tondera

"Rain" / W. Somerset Maugham ; art/adaptation by Lance Tooks

Ulysses / James Joyce ; art/adaptation by Robert Berry with Josh Levitas

Ulysses / James Joyce ; art/adaptation by David Lasky

"Living on $1,000 a year in Paris" / Ernest Hemingway ; art/adaptation by Steve Rolston

"The emperor of ice-cream" / Wallace Stevens ; art/adaptation by Anthony Ventura

"The hill" / William Faulkner ; art/adaptation by Kate Glasheen

Siddhartha / Hermann Hesse ; art/adaptation by J. Ben Moss

"The waste land" / T.S. Eliot ; art/adaptation by Chandra Free

The great Gatsby / F. Scott Fitzgerald ; illustrations by Tara Seibel

Steppenwolf / Hermann Hesse ; illustrations by John Pierard

Lady Chatterley's lover / D.H. Lawrence ; art/adaptation by Lisa Brown

The sound and the fury / William Faulkner ; art/adaptation by Robert Goodin

Letters to a young poet / Rainer Maria Rilke ; design by James Uhler

The maltese falcon / Dashiell Hammett ; art/adaptation by T. Edward Bak

Brave new world / Aldous Huxley ; illustrations by Carly Schmitt

Poker! / Zora Neale Hurston ; art/adaptation by Milton Knight

Black elk speaks / Black Elk and John G. Neihardt ; illustrations by Molly Kiely

"Strange fruit" (a.k.a. "Bitter fruit") / Lewis Allan ; art/adaptation by John Linton Roberston

Nausea / Jean-Paul Sartre ; art/adaptation by Robert Crumb

The grapes of wrath / John Steinbeck ; art/adaptation by Liesbeth De Stercke

Three stories / Jorge Luis Borges ; illustrations by Kathryn Siveyer

The stranger / Albert Camus ; adaptation by Juan Carlos Kreimer ; art by Julian Aron ; translation by Dan Simon

Animal farm / George Orwell ; photo-dioramas by Laura Plansker

"The heart of the park" / Flannery O'Connor ; art/adaptation by Jeremy Eaton

Nineteen eighty-four / George Orwell ; illustration by Lesley Barnes

The man with the golden arm / Nelson Algren ; art/adaptation by Jeremy Eaton

"The voice of the hamster" / Thomas Pynchon ; art/adaptation by Brendan Leach

Waiting for Godot / Samuel Beckett ; illustration by Gustavo Rinaldi

"The dancer"/ Gabriela Mistral ; illustration by Andrea Arroyo

Lord of the flies / William Golding ; art/adaptation by Trevor Alixopulos

The doors of perception / Aldous Huxley ; illustrations by John Pierard

Lolita / Vladimir Nabokov ; art/adaptation by Sally Madden

Four beats / art and design by Tara Seibel

On the road / Jack Kerouac ; illustration by Yeji Yun

Naked lunch / William S. Burroughs ; art/adaptation by Emelie Östergren

One flew over the cuckoo's nest / Ken Kesey ; art/adaptation by PMurphy

The bell jar / Sylvia Plath ; illustration by Ellen Lindner

Last exit to Brooklyn / Hubert Selby, Jr. ; art/adaptation by Juliacks

Diaries / Anaïs Nin ; art/adaptation by Mardou

The master and margarita / Mikhail Bulgakov ; art/adaptation by Andrzej Klimowski and Danusia Schejbal

One hundred years of solitude / Gabriel García Marquez ; illustrations by Yien Yip

In watermelon sugar / Richard Brautigan ; illustration by Juliacks

Gravity's rainbow / Thomas Pynchon ; illustrations by Zak Smith

Crash / J.G. Ballard ; art/adaptation by Onsmith

"I bought a little city" / Donald Barthelme ; illustration by Andrice Arp

"What we talk about when we talk about love" / Raymond Carver ; illustrations by Annie Mok

Blood and guts in High School / Kathy Acker ; art/adaptation by Molly Kiely

Blood meridian / Cormac McCarthy ; illustrations by Dame Darcy

Foucault's pendulum / Umberto Eco ; art/adaptation by Julia Gfrörer

Wild at heart / Barry Gifford ; art/adaptation by Rick Trembles

The famished road / Ben Okri ; art/adaptation by Aidan Koch

Einstein's dreams / Alan Lightman ; art/adaptation by Rey Ortega

The wind-up bird chronicle / Haruki Murakami ; illustration by Rey Ortega

Infinite jest / David Foster Wallace ; illustrations by Benjamin Birdie

Three panel reviews / comic strips by Lisa Brown.