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A review by upthescene
The Graphic Canon, Volume 3: From Heart of Darkness to Hemingway to Infinite Jest by Russ Kick
2.0
Overall, I thought the collection went downhill as we progressed through time.
In addition to awkward blurbs and serious fact-checking errors (apparently Russ Kick thinks Zora Neale Hurston wrote Go Tell It on the Mountain), there were many strange decisions made as to what is "classic" in this third volume - with few exceptions I would have preferred authors' more well-known works.
There were also a ton of single page illustrations, mostly of how the artist reacted to a particular story. Very different from the other volumes. Combined with the fact that there were many stories I didn't know, this made a lot of the book a slog.
There are exceptions, though. In particular, I liked the excerpt from Dubliners illustrated by Annie Mok (who has also illustrated Joyce's letters... Hilarious) and LOVED Kate Glasheen's adaptation of Faulkner's "the Hill".
In addition to awkward blurbs and serious fact-checking errors (apparently Russ Kick thinks Zora Neale Hurston wrote Go Tell It on the Mountain), there were many strange decisions made as to what is "classic" in this third volume - with few exceptions I would have preferred authors' more well-known works.
There were also a ton of single page illustrations, mostly of how the artist reacted to a particular story. Very different from the other volumes. Combined with the fact that there were many stories I didn't know, this made a lot of the book a slog.
There are exceptions, though. In particular, I liked the excerpt from Dubliners illustrated by Annie Mok (who has also illustrated Joyce's letters... Hilarious) and LOVED Kate Glasheen's adaptation of Faulkner's "the Hill".