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Center for Fiction Recommends Graphic Canon’s “Arresting New Perceptions”

The Center for Fiction has featured a page from Laura Plansker’s “stunning” interpretation of Animal Farm on their Book Recommendations list, saying of The Graphic Canon: Here’s Animal Farm as you’ve never seen it. Graphic artist… Read More

Ulysses to be “Seen” at NYC’s Irish Arts Center

Out of all the spine-tinglingly wonderful adaptations in the third volume of The Graphic Canon, Robert Berry’s is among the most daring. Mr. Berry began his project to adapt James Joyce’s magnum opus, Ulysses, into a… Read More

Contributor Interview: Lance Tooks

This week’s contributor interview is with the great Lance Tooks, who adapted The Mortal Immortal for The Graphic Canon: What inspired you to adapt the piece you did for the Graphic Canon? Russ… Read More

Paste Magazine: “Goes Above And Beyond”

  Writing for Paste Magazine, Andy Hughes calls Volume 2 of The Graphic Canon “a vibrant, feverish dance through some of the best parts of our artistic history”: There’s something seductive about an impossible… Read More

New York Times: The Graphic Canon “Will Leave You Awe-Struck”

The New York Times’ Annie Weatherwax wrote a wonderful review of volumes 1 and 2 of The Graphic Canon for the Sunday Book Review last month, which we are pleased to reproduce in… Read More

BookRiot: “A Must-Have for Every Bookshelf”

In the latest installment of BookRiot’s “Growing Up With…”, Jenn Northington gave the Canon a sterling review: Ask any teacher or librarian; I’ll bet good money that they’re using graphic novels as teaching… Read More

The Graphic Canon is “A Ravishment” on Salon

Salon’s Laura Miller had some great things to say about The Graphic Canon in her roundup of graphic novels from 2012: This ambitious anthology invites established and emerging comics artists to illustrate humanity’s… Read More

NPR: “The most ambitious and successfully realized literary project in recent memory”

We were thrilled to hear Lucia Silva’s wonderful review of The Graphic Canon on NPR: Classics may be timeless, but that doesn’t mean you can’t make them new again. In The Graphic Canon,… Read More

The Comics Journal: “A Book Worth Taking Time Over”

Kristian Williams reviewed Volume 1 of The Graphic Canon for the legendary news and reviews publication The Comics Journal: If you took a Norton Anthology of Literature and converted it into comics, the result would… Read More

The Graphic Canon at the Miami Book Fair International

MIAMI: Two authors from The Graphic Canon will be coming your way this Sunday, November 18, for events at the Miami Book Fair International. 2:30pm Graphic Novels Panel @ Centre Gallery (Building 1) Editor Russ Kick on The Graphic Canon and Noah Van… Read More

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