Showing posts with label Penguin Classics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Penguin Classics. Show all posts

20 June 2021

Covering The Classics: The Unusual Suspects

In 2006 Penguin Classics began reissuing titles in their catalogue featuring cover art by notable comics artists. Below are some further covers issued after the initial launch of the Penguin Classics Deluxe series, which expanded the line-up of artists used (addressing the initial criticism from Dave Sim (Cerebus) that the choice of artists used consisted of "the usual suspects"). 

Little Women
by Louisa May Alcott
Cover art by Julie Doucet

Charlie & The Chocolate Factory
by Roald Dahl
Cover art by Ivan Brunetti

James & The Giant Peach
by Ronald Dahl
Cover art by Jordan Crane

The Communist Manifesto
by Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels
Cover art by Killoffer

White Noise
by Don DeLillo
Cover art by Michael Cho

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain
Cover art by Lillie Carre

Revolutionary Suicide
by Huey P. Newton
Cover art by Ho Che Anderson

Metamorphosis & Other Stories
by Franz Kafka
Cover art by Sammy Harkham


19 June 2021

Covering The Classics: The Usual Suspects

In 2006 Penguin Classics began reissuing titles in their catalogue featuring cover art by notable comics artists. Below are some covers from the initial launch of the Penguin Classics Deluxe series, which at the time drew criticism from Dave Sim (Cerebus) for the choice of artists being "the usual suspects"

The New York Trilogy
by Paul Auster
Cover art by Art Spiegelman

The Portable Dorothy Parker
by Dorothy Parker
Cover art by Seth

Lady Chatterley's Lover
by D.H. Lawrence
Cover art by Chester Brown

Candide
by Francois Voltaire 
Cover art by Chris Ware

Gravity's Rainbow
by Thomas Pynchon
Cover art by Frank Miller

The Jungle
by Upton Sinclair
Cover art by Charles Burns

Frankenstein
by Mary Shelley
Cover art by Daniel Clowes

One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
by Ken Kesey
Cover art by Joe Sacco


FURTHER READING:
Penguin Classics Deluxe Editions
CBR: The Sublime Variant Covers of Penguin Classics Graphic Deluxe Editions