I'm posting the covers of their classic adaptations here because it's interesting to see these visual approaches to great works.
I have to say that I'm tempted to see what Andrzej Klimowski makes of Robert Louis Stevenson, and Martin Rowson seems a natural fit for Tristram Shandy. I do have an older graphic novel by Rowson, who is most famous as an incredibly savage political cartoonist: it's a weird book that recasts T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land as a detective story.
Among other books, he's also done a cartoon history of the universe, entitled Fuck: The Human Odyssey.
Selfmadehero's Shakespeares, by the way, are all done in manga style:
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I have the tristam shandy graphic novel, but i have not been able to bring myself to read it. It is dense with text, and the drawings were insane in the amount of work that would have gone into them. I tried to read it but my head almost exploded. I suspect that in this case the novel would actually be easier to read.
Don't let cranky old Harold Bloom see that "Manga Shakespeare" stuff. The poor man's head will explode.
Even in the Lilliput Press limited edition of T.S. Rowson's illustrations have been reduced to an inconvenient size. Well what would you expect from a company with that name?
Rowson's version of The Waste Land has been turned into an opera
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