Graphic Novel Friday Graphic Classics Number Eighteen

[Giovanni Gelati]

TGIF to everyone! Today I am featuring two different people I had met over at Linkedin and their studios: Graphic Classics and Latchkey. First up is Graphic Classic Volume Eighteen which is a series of stories
together: Little Women, The Rival Prima Donnas, Buzz, The Piggy Girl, Lost in a
Pyramid, The Lay of a Golden Goose, and A Whisper in the Dark. The back cover
says:” Little Women & Big Thrills! Love and laughter, tragedy and gothic
horror-plus poems, fairy tales and a pet fly- in all-new comic adaptations.”

Seven different stories, seven different illustrators and seven times the fun and enjoyment. I haven’t read any of the novels of stories the adaptations are based on, but I really had a good time turning the pages of
this graphic novel. The different illustrators each have a unique style and
that keep things fresh for me through the read. The dialogue was engaging, the
presentation is excellent, and the quality of the entire piece is incredible. I
have shared this with my wife and youngest daughter( age 11) and now I have my
older daughters interested in it.

Graphic Classics has an amazing array of offerings covering a wide range of authors: R.L.Stevenson, O. Henry, Rafael Sabatini, Oscar Wilde, H.G. Wells, Mary Shelly, and the list continues on. I have found these to be a
great tool for learning as well as entertaining. I enjoy the diversity of their
offerings and the tasteful way that they do it.

Tom Pomplun, Graphic Classics Publisher, gave me this quote: ”The Graphic Classics series presents the works of great authors in comic’s adaptations and heavily illustrated text. The adaptations are written at an
adult level, and utilize as much of the author’s original language as possible.
Our goal is to create books that are enjoyable for adults, yet accessible to
children ages twelve and up.

Unlike other comic’s adaptations of classics, these books are anthologies: they present a large number of short stories, with occasional poems and abridged novels, each illustrated by a different contemporary artist.
Artists are recruited from the fields of comics, book illustration and fine
arts, and include new artists as well as industry veterans from all over the
world. Currently in production in Western Classics: Graphic Classics Volume
Twenty.

Graphic Classic are available in bookstores and comic shops nationally, or direct from the publisher, Eureka Productions at www.graphicclassics.com . Libraries and schools can order from Diamond Book Distributors, Baker & Taylor,
Ingram, Follett or other distributors.”

Next week I will be featuring their Graphic Classics Volume Nineteen Christmas Classics.

News for 2011 from Graphic Classics: Upcoming titles for 2011 are:

Western Classics (March), Edgar Allan Poe's Tales of Mystery (Aug), African-American Classics (Dec)

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