The most recent edition to the Penguin Graphic Classics range is Franz Kafka's
Metamorphosis and Other Stories, in the new Michael Hofmann translation. (An aside: pretty much any book with Hofmann credited as translator is going to be worth your while--use him as your guide to a wealth of Germanic masterpieces).
This cover is by comics artist Sammy Harkham, editor of comics anthology
Kramer's Ergot; Harkham's web presence is, sadly, a nest of dead links, so there's not much more I can tell you about him. The book looks great, though.
It's not the first time Kafka's had this sort of treatment. Peter Kuper, a comics artist influenced by the sort of German Expressionism I keep banging on about on this blog, has adapted both Metamorphosis and a collection of other Kafka tales into graphic editions. Here are the covers, along with some sample inner pages (click for readable versions):
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Kafka's life has also been interpreted by another great comics artist, the uniquely odd Robert Crumb, working with David Jane Mairowitz.
And here are a few covers from earlier editions:
Going back to Kuper, he has also adapted Upton Sinclair's depressing muckraking masterwork
The Jungle.
You may also remember an earlier comics/
Jungle experience, with this Graphic Classics cover by
Charles Burns:
Edith Wharton covered by Jeffrey Brown.
Mark Twain covered by Lilli Carré (previously discussed here).
Shirley Jackson covered by Thomas Ott.
Herman Melville covered by Tony Millionaire.
Ken Kesey covered by Joe Sacco.
Franz Kafka covered by Sammy Harkham (previously discussed here).
