Graphic Canon GN (2012 Seven Stories Press) comic books 2013

SET: Includes Volume 1-3 - NOTE: Printings may vary. Edited by Russ Kick. The classic canon of Western civilization meets the artists and illustrators who have remade reading in the last years of the twentieth century and the first decade of the twenty-first century in Russ Kick's magisterial, three-volume, full-color The Graphic Canon, volumes 1, 2, and 3. This special slipcase edition includes all three volumes of the series in an attractively designed slipcase, as well as the three promotional posters created for each volume's release, allowing graphic novel collectors and fans to quickly add this important work to their library. Softcover (3 Volumes with Slipcase), 8-in. x 11-in., 1,600 pages (Total), PC/PB&W.

Volume 3 - 1st printing. Edited by Russ Kick. Contributors include Robert Crumb, Dame Darcy, Ted Rall, Peter Kuper, Molly Crabapple, R. Sikoryak, Milton Knight, Tara Seibel and over 70 others. "From Heart of Darkness to Hemingway and to Infinite Jest!" Volume 3 brings to life the literature of the end of the 20th century and the start of the 21st, including a Sherlock Holmes mystery, an H.G. Wells story, an illustrated guide to the Beat writers, a one-act play from Zora Neale Hurston, a disturbing meditation on Naked Lunch, Rilke's soul-stirring Letters to a Young Poet, Anaïs Nin's diaries, the visions of Black Elk, the heroin classic The Man With the Golden Arm, and the postmodernism of Thomas Pynchon, David Foster Wallace, Kathy Acker, Raymond Carver, and Donald Barthelme. Softcover, 8-in. x 11-in., 576 pages, full color. Cover price $44.95.