The Graphic Canon Of Crime & Mystery Vol 2

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Easily the most ambitious and successfully realized literary project in recent memory. --NPR
A treasure trove for literary comics fans. --WIRED

Here are Teddy Goldenberg's dense, murky treatment of Dashiell Hammett's The Road Home, often considered the first hardboiled detective story ever published. Shawn Cheng renders the first serial-killer story, the so-called fairy tale Bluebeard by Charles Perrault. Landis Blair reimagines The Trial as a choose-your-own-adventure story that you cannot win, and Ted Rall retells an O. Henry story about a petty criminal who just can't get arrested. Plus 28 other contributors using a wide range of illustrative styles.
As with previous volumes in the Graphic Canon series, the illustrations run the full gamut of media and techniques, and artistic interpretations range from verbatim literalism to metaphorical extensions to surrealism and abstraction. The common theme, tracing the origins and standout texts of the morbid and mysterious, unites these multifarious partners in crime.Easily the most ambitious and successfully realized literary project in recent memory. --NPR
A treasure trove for literary comics fans. --WIRED

Here are Teddy Goldenberg's dense, murky treatment of Dashiell Hammett's The Road Home, often considered the first hardboiled detective story ever published. Shawn Cheng renders the first serial-killer story, the so-called fairy tale Bluebeard by Charles Perrault. Landis Blair reimagines The Trial as a choose-your-own-adventure story that you cannot win, and Ted Rall retells an O. Henry story about a petty criminal who just can't get arrested. Plus 28 other contributors using a wide range of illustrative styles.
As with previous volumes in the Graphic Canon series, the illustrations run the full gamut of media and techniques, and artistic interpretations range from verbatim literalism to metaphorical extensions to surrealism and abstraction. The common theme, tracing the origins and standout texts of the morbid and mysterious, unites these multifarious partners in crime.
RUSS KICK is the originator of The Graphic Canon series, for which he has commissioned new work from over 350 artists and illustrators, now going into its sixth volume. NPR described it as Easily the most ambitious and successfully realized literary project in recent memory. Kick's previous anthologies, You Are Being Lied To and Everything You Know Is Wrong, informed a whole generation of Americans with the hard truths of American politics and created a media frenzy for being the first to publish suppressed photographs of American flag-draped coffins returning from Iraq. The New York Times dubbed Kick an information archaeologist, Details magazine described him as a Renaissance man, and Utne Reader named him one of its 50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World. His popular website, thememoryhole2.org, is active again and getting national media coverage for archiving documents that the Trump Administration has been deleting.