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 →

Contributor Interview: Roberta Gregory

Welcome back to our series of Graphic Canon contributor interviews! This week, we caught up with Popul Vuh adaptor ROBERTA GREGORY: 1) What inspired you to adapt the piece you did for the… Read More →

Contributor Interview: Caroline Picard

We continue our series of interviews with those who made The Graphic Canon possible this week, this time with artist Caroline Picard. 1) What inspired you to adapt the piece you did for the… 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 →

Imprint / Print Mag: “Exceeds expectations”

Thanks to Buzz Poole for a very thoughtful review of The Graphic Canon Volume 2 on Imprint (imprint.printmag.com)!  In his introduction to the middle volume in the planned three-part The Graphic Canon (out this month from Seven Stories Press),… Read More →