Cartoonists Cover the Classics
An advertisement in today's New York Times Book Review alerted me to this series of "Deluxe Edition" Penguin Classics, featuring covers by a stellar line-up of cartoonists:
- Voltaire's Candide- cover by Chris Ware
- Stella Gibbons' Cold Comfort Farm- cover by Roz Chast
- Hans Christian Anderson's Fairy Tales- cover by Anders Nilsen
- Upton Sinclair's The Jungle- cover by Charles Burns
- Paul Auster's New York Trilogy- cover by Art Spiegelman
- The Portable Dorothy Parker- cover by Seth
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2 Comments:
The BURNS delineation on the Sinclair reissue ensures that volume having
*THE Best Book Cover of 2006*! :D
Please to excuse--it is time for bratwurst intake...
Really? Even better than this?
Well, the year is still young...
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