The Graphic Canon, Volume 1

Cover art for The Graphic Canon

Rob Berry

2012

Seven Stories

"These works of literature do not reside just on the shelves of academia; they flourish in the eye of our imagination ... will leave you awe-struck."—New York Times Book Review

“It takes time to read this book, but it is a book worth taking time over [...] Robert Berry and Josh Levitas’ adaptation of Shakespeare’s eighteenth sonnet is among the best of the lot. They succeed, not only in doing justice to the original poem, but also, with the illustrations, in adding a kind of meditative short story reflective of the emotion the sonnet conveys.”—The Comics Journal

"It's easily the most ambitious and successfully realized literary project in recent memory, and certainly the one that's most relevant for today's readers."—NPR