""The Graphic Canon" is startlingly brilliant."
--"School Library Journal
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"This meaty slab is laced with more wit, beauty, social commentary and shock than one might expect. . . ."
--"Kirkus Reviews
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"This is not only a survey of the world's diverse artistic past, but also a breathtaking glimpse of this young medium's incredible future...proves most powerful in its tear-inducing panoply of graphic talents and styles working in the comics medium."
--"Booklist" (starred review)
"The graphic publishing literary event of the year."
--"Publishers Weekly
""The trilogy should occupy a prominent place in all adult graphic novel collections."
--"Library Journal"
""The Graphic Canon" is absolutely the most ambitious book I've picked up this year."
--"Newsday
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"Bold, brilliant. . . . By turns playful and beautiful, this visual treatment is more than entertainment; it offers a new perspective for understanding these enduring works."
--"Reader's Digest
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"All of us here at The Library Foundation have been obsessing over The Graphic Canon- an ambitious three volume illustrated series featuring great works of world literature reimagined by artists, cartoonists and graphic novelists. In advance of the May 21stALOUD panel moderated by Graphic Canon editor Russ Kick, who will be accompanied by several contributing artists, we gathered some of our staff's favorite pieces to give you a glimpse of the stunning illustrations that bring these classic literary works to life."
--"Fifth & Flower"
A treasure trove for literary comics fans."
--"Wired"'s "GeekDad" blog
"A vibrant, feverish dance through some of the best parts of our artistic history."
--"Paste Magazine"
"These works of literature do not reside just on the shelves of academia; they flourish in the eye of our imagination...will leave you awe-struck."
"--New York Times Book Review
""It's easily the most ambitious and su

Best-selling anthologist Russ Kick ("You Are Being Lied To "and "Everything You Know Is Wrong," among others) informed a whole generation of Americans with the hard truths of American politics and created a media frenzy for being the first to publish suppressed photographs of American flag-draped coffins returning from Iraq. "The New""York Times "dubbed Kick "an information archaeologist," "Details "magazine described Kick as "a Renaissance man," and "Utne Reader "named him one of its "50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World." Then, in 2009, Kick embarked on an entirely new kind of project, returning to his love of literature and art and to comics art in particular. For his groundbreaking new series of books" The Graphic Canon: The world's great literature as comics and visuals, " Kick has commissioned new work from over 160 artists, as well as re-introduced existing work that wasn't easy to find, identifying the artists and works contributing to a shift in the reading experience, expanding readers' visual vocabulary through the creation of a new kind of canon.