The graphic canon, volume 1 : from the epic of Gilgamesh to Shakespeare to Dangerous liaisons

The graphic canon, volume 1 : from the epic of Gilgamesh to Shakespeare to Dangerous liaisons / edited by Russ Kick.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Kick, Russell
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Seven Stories Press, c2012.
Edition:Seven Stories Press 1st ed.
Subjects:
Comic books, strips, etc. > History and criticism.
Literature > Adaptations.
Graphic novels in education.
The Dr. Mark D. Nevins '86 Collection for the Study of Comics and Graphic Novels
Table of Contents:
  • 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" / Francois 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/adatpation 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.

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