Skottie Young's Oz

I've never read a comics adaption of a book: it seems somehow redundant, even though I really like a whole heap of different comics. Any why should a comic version of a book be any more redundant than a movie adaption? Well, this is an argument with myself to be continued at another time. What I'm getting around to is the wonderful work of comics artist Skottie Young, who for several years has been producing wonderful covers for a series of comic adaptions of Frank Baum's Oz books.

These covers (shown here sans the various corporate logos, barcodes and other elements which usually disfigure comic covers) are really something special: funny, off-kilter, sometimes disturbing, and wonderfully energetic. Click all for much bigger versions.

For The Wonderful Wizard of Oz:

For Ozma of Oz:

From The Marvellous Land of Oz:

And from the current Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz:

And for bonus excellence, have a couple of illustrations he's done for Austen's Sense and Sensibility...

..and Golding's Lord of the Flies.