The graphic Canon
2. From "Kubla Khan" to the Brontë Sisters to The Picture of Dorian Gray
Une BD de
Frédéric Bertocchini
et
Wilson, S. Clay
chez Seven Stories Press
- 2012
Bertocchini, Frédéric
(Scénario)
Dame Darcy
(Scénario)
Wilson, S. Clay
(Dessin)
Druillet, Philippe
(Dessin)
Puech, Éric
(Dessin)
Deitch, Kim
(Dessin)
Porcellino, John
(Dessin)
Porcellino, John
(Couleurs)
10/2012 (02 octobre 2012) 512 pages 9781609803780 Grand format 359988
The Graphic Canon, Volume 2 gives us a visual cornucopia based on the wealth of literature from the 1800s. Several artists—including Maxon Crumb and Gris Grimly—present their versions of Edgar Allan Poe’s visions. The great American novel Huckleberry Finn is adapted uncensored for the first time, as Twain wrote it. The bad boys of Romanticism—Shelley, Keats, and Byron—are visualized here, and so are the Brontë sisters. We see both of Coleridge’s most famous poems: “Kubla Khan” and “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” (the latter by British comics... Lire la suite