Drawing Inspiration
Penguin Graphic Classics is a new line of paperback literary classics with covers designed by today’s hottest graphic novelists. Bookslut effusively praises them here; Fantagraphics shares more covers here. It’s an interesting concept — I suppose the success of individual volumes depends a lot on the talent of the artist involved. For example, Chris Ware’s treatment of Voltaire’s Candide comes through as typically brilliant and sumptuous even when pixilated and tiny on a computer screen. I’d love to see what the “dead tree” version looks like. On the music side, the Deutsche Grammaphon label is taking on a similar tact with its Classical Bytes series.
