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The Graphic Canon, Vol. 1-3
  • Published: 15 October 2012
  • ISBN: 9781609803834
  • Imprint: Seven Stories Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 1600
  • RRP: $260.00

The Graphic Canon, Vol. 1-3

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FINALLY in a handsome slipcased box set: the classic literary canon meets the artists who have remade reading in the new century. Features newly commissioned pieces alongside hard to find ones. Hundreds of literary works are represented.

The classic canon of Western civilization meets the artists and illustrators who have remade reading in the last years of the twentieth century and the first decade of the twenty-first century in Russ Kick's magisterial, three-volume, full-color Graphic Canon. In this handsome three-volume set, the first anthology of its kind in comics history, Russ Kick presents some of the artists and illustrators, both known and unknown, who have begun to redefine literature for a new century.
  • Published: 15 October 2012
  • ISBN: 9781609803834
  • Imprint: Seven Stories Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 1600
  • RRP: $260.00
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About the author

Russ Kick

Founder of the website The Memory Hole, which archived sensitive and difficult to find official documents, RUSS KICK has devoted much of his life to digging up what others hope to keep buried. His bestselling anthologies, including You Are Being Lied To and Everything You Know Is Wrong, have sold over half a million copies. The New York Times has dubbed Kick "an information archaeologist," Details magazine described Kick as “a Renaissance man,” and Utne Reader named him one of its “50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World.” Russ Kick lives and works in Nashville, Tennessee, and Tucson, Arizona.
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Praise for The Graphic Canon, Vol. 1-3

"Through the reprinted and newly-produced work of 59 (mainly American) adapters and 58 adapted titles, this is not only a survey of the world's diverse artistic past, but also a breathtaking glimpse of this young medium's incredible future."--Booklist, starred review

"This meaty slab is laced with more wit, beauty, social commentary and shock than one might expect. . . If artists, as British sculptor Anish Kapoor famously said, make mythologies, then this volume is genuinely a marriage of equals."--Kirkus Reviews

"Looks like a must-buy for all academic libraries, many public libraries, and many high schools, and an exciting new benchmark for comics!"--Martha Cornog, Library Journal

"This is a masterpiece of literary choices as well as art and interpretation. It is a perfect graduation or summer-reading present, and the solid editing, including introductory notes for each piece, makes it a required purchase for any library."--School Library Journal