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Comics Adaptations of Literary Classics Author(s): Armando Celayo and David Shook Source: World Literature Today, Vol. 81, No. 2, Graphic Literature (Mar. - Apr., 2007), p. 33 Published by: Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/40159297 . Accessed: 19/07/2013 08:44
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The tradition of comics adaptations began in the 1940s, with Albert Lewis Kanter's Classics Illustrated series, which now includes over 150 titles adapted from literary classics. Some more recent adaptations include: O Alienista (2007; The alienist), by Fabio Moon (Machado de Assis) Animal Farm:A Fairy Story (1996), by Ralph Steadman (George Orwell) City of Glass: The GraphicNovel (1994, rev. 2004), by Paul Karasik & David Mazzucchelli (Paul Auster) DesolationJones (2006), by Warren Ellis (based on The Big Sleep,by Raymond Chandler) Dr. Jekylland Mr. Hyde (2002), by Lorenzo Mattotti and Jerry Kramsky (Robert Louis Stevenson) TheFifth Name (2001), by Santiago Cohen (Stefan Zweig) Give It Up! and Other Stories (2005), by Peter Kuper (Franz Kafka) Gravity'sRainbowIllustrated:One Picturefor Every Page (2006), by Zak Smith (Thomas Pynchon) Jetlag(2006), by Etgar Keret and Actus Comics (Etgar Keret) TheJungle (2005), by Peter Kuper (Upton Sinclair) TheMetamorphosis (2004), by Peter Kuper (Franz Kafka) Pizzeria Kamikaze (2006), by Etgar Keret and Asaf Hanuka (Etgar Keret) Poor Sailor (2005), by Sammy Harkham (Guy de Maupassant) Remembrance of Things Past: Combray(2001), by Stephane Heuet (Marcel Proust) Remembrance of Things Past: Within a Budding Grove(2003), by Stanislas Brezet & Stephane Heuet (Marcel Proust) In 2006 several comics writers published novels about literary authors, books, and characters. TheTimesofBotchan,by Natsuo Sekigawa and Jiro Taniguchi, is about the creation of the novel Botchan,by Natsume Soseki. Left Bank Gang, by Jason, is an original work with noted authors for characters, including Fitzgerald, Hemingway, and Joyce. Illustrated as dogs and birds, they live in a bohemian Paris and are cartoonists by trade. Alan Moore and Melinda Gebbie recently completed Lost Girls, an erotic novel about Alice from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Dorothy Gale from The WizardofOz, and Wendy Darling from Peter Pan. Compiledby ArmandoCelayo& David Shook

Lvudfi linrry: Scl(H*t<i(lWorks Girls and Boys (1981) Big Ideas (1983) The Fun House (1987) The GoodTimesAre Killing Me (1988) GomeOver, GomeOver (1990) My PerfectLife (1992) It's So Magic (1994) Gruddy:An IllustratedNovel (1997) TheFreddieStories (1999) The Greatestof Marlys (2000) One! Hundred!Demons! (2002) Celayo Compiled byArmando

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