Comments on: Mister X: The Definitive Collection Volume Two http://www.bookgasm.com/reviews/mystery/mister-x-volume-2/ reading material to get excited about Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:08:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Bookgasm » Penguin draws on comic artists to dress up classics http://www.bookgasm.com/reviews/mystery/mister-x-volume-2/comment-page-1/#comment-938 Bookgasm » Penguin draws on comic artists to dress up classics Mon, 03 Apr 2006 12:04:14 +0000 http://www.bookgasm.com/?p=329#comment-938 [...] It’d be hard to miss Charles Burns‘ slaughtered pig head on the cover of Penguin’s 100th anniversary edition of Upton Sinclair’s proletariat novel THE JUNGLE. (For the back cover, he’s simply drawn a Petri dish of swimming bacteria.) Likewise for Voltaire’s CANDIDE, now summarized via a comic strip by Chris Ware. Other artists include Art Spiegelman, Roz Chast and Seth. You can see the covers of each after the jump. [...] [...] It’d be hard to miss Charles Burns‘ slaughtered pig head on the cover of Penguin’s 100th anniversary edition of Upton Sinclair’s proletariat novel THE JUNGLE. (For the back cover, he’s simply drawn a Petri dish of swimming bacteria.) Likewise for Voltaire’s CANDIDE, now summarized via a comic strip by Chris Ware. Other artists include Art Spiegelman, Roz Chast and Seth. You can see the covers of each after the jump. [...]

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