Russ Kick's The Graphic Canon (GC)


Note: Links have been added to each entry with a Listing. This label will show you the Listings of virtually every author included in the list.


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At this point (April 2017) I'm just beginning to label the existing listings with "GC" for The Graphic Canon," editor Russ Kick's amazing 2012-2013 compilation of "The World's Great Literature as Comics and Visuals." With some 225 works by more than 140 artists, it's an easy entry into the world of the Great Books.

For more background, see the refurbishment of one of my (many) abandoned websites, entitled (surprise!) The Graphic Canon.

Below I have listed the entire set; while not every author is represented on The World's Classics, most are.

I have chosen to arrange this list by authors' names followed by their work/s (other arrangements are at that abandoned site), and I have added the volume number at the end of the line. Note that authors of some works are unknown; in that case a source is given.

For your information, the three volumes cover:
  • ONE: From The Epic of Gilgamesh to Shakespeare to Dangerous Liaisons
  • TWO: From "Kubla Khan" to the Brontë sisters to The Picture of Dorian Gray
  • THREE: From Heart of Darkness to Hemingway to Infinite Jest
Since the first three volume set came out, three more volumes have been produced. They are:
  • FOUR: The Graphic Canon of Children's Literature
  • FIVE: The Graphic Canon of Crime and Mystery Vol 1
  • SIX: The Graphic Canon of Crime and Mystery Vol 2
(Calling them 4, 5, and 6 is a kind of shorthand commonly used on library and book sales sites.)

For your convenience, you can click here to skip to the following sections:


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  • Abelard and Héloïse: The letters (Vol. 1)
  • Acker, Kathy: Blood and Guts in High School (Vol. 3)
  • Adams, Richard: Watership Down (Vol. 4)
  • Aeschylus: Prometheus Bound (Vol. 5)
  • Aesop: "The Miller, His Son, and the Donkey," "The Eagle, the Cat, and the Sow," "The Ape and the Fisherman," "The Wasp and the Snake," "The Lion in Love," "The Fox and the Grapes," "The City Mouse and the Country Mouse" (all Vol. 4)
  • Alcott, Louisa May: Three Panel Review: Little Women (Vol. 2)
  • Algren, Nelson: The Man with the Golden Arm (Vol. 3)
  • Allan, Lewis: "Strange Fruit" ("Bitter Fruit") (Vol. 1)
  • Andersen, Hans Christian: "The Little Match Girl" (Vol. 1); "The Emperor's New Clothes," "The Nightingale" (both Vol. 3); Andersen, Hans Christian: "The Little Mermaid," "The Tinderbox" (both Vol. 4)
  • Anderson, Sherwood: "Hands" (from Winesburg, Ohio) (Vol. 1)
  • Anglo-Saxon epic poem: Beowulf (Vol. 1)
  • Arabian Nights: "The Fisherman and the Genie"; "The Woman with Two Coyntes" (both Vol. 1); "The Three Apples" (Vol. 5)
  • Aristophanes: Lysistrata (Vol. 1)
  • Austen, Jane: Pride and Prejudice (Vol. 2)
  • Ávila, St. Teresa of: The Visions (Vol. 1)
  • Babylonian tablets: The Epic of Gilgamesh (Vol. 1)
  • Bai, Li: "Drinking Alone beneath the Moon" (Vol. 3)
  • Ballard, J. G.: Crash (Vol. 3)
  • Barrie, J. M.: Peter Pan (Vol. 4)
  • Barthelme, Donald: "I Bought a Little City" (Vol. 1)
  • Baudelaire, Charles: "The Murderer's Wine" (Vol. 5)
  • Baum, L. Frank: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Vol. 3); The Oz Series (Vol. 4)
  • Beckett, Samuel: Waiting for Godot (Vol. 3)
  • Behn, Aphra: "Forgive Us Our Trespasses" (Vol. 3)
  • Bible ("Old Testament"): The Judgment of Solomon (from The First Book of Kings) (Vol. 5); Cain and Abel (from The Book of Genesis) (Vol. 6)
  • Bible ("New Testament"): Jesus and the Adulteress (from the Gospel of John) (Vol. 5); Salome and John the Baptist (from the Gospel of Matthew) (Vol. 6)
  • Bierce, Ambrose: "An Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge" (Vol. 1)
  • Black Elk and John G. Neihardt: Black Elk Speaks (Vol. 3)
  • Blake, William: "Auguries of Innocence" (Vol. 1); Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion (Vol. 2)
  • Bloch, Robert: Psycho (Vol. 6)
  • Boccaccio: "Simona and Pasquino" (from The Decameron) (Vol. 5)
  • Borges, Jorge Luis: "The Circular Ruins" (Vol. 1); "The Garden of Forking Paths" (Vol. 1); "The Library of Babel" (Vol. 3)
  • Boswell, James: London Journal (Vol. 1)
  • Braddon, Mary Elizabeth: Lady Audley’s Secret (Vol. 6)
  • Brautigan, Richard: In Watermelon Sugar (Vol. 3)
  • British fairy tale: "The Weardale Fairies," "Goldilocks and the Three Bears" (both Vol. 4)
  • Brontë, Charlotte: Jane Eyre (Vol. 2)
  • Brontë, Emily: Wuthering Heights (Vol. 2)
  • Bulgakov, Mikhail: The Master and Margarita (Vol. 3)
  • Burgess, Anthony: A Clockwork Orange (Vol. 5)
  • Burnett, Francis Hodgson: The Secret Garden (Vol. 4)
  • Burroughs, William S.: Naked Lunch; [brief attributed quote] (both Vol. 3)
  • Byron, George Gordon, Lord: "She Walks in Beauty" (Vol. 3)
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-- I J K L --

  • Incan play: Apu Ollantay (Vol. 1)
  • Japanese Noh play [Zeami] [Kanze]: Hagoromo (Celestial Feather Robe) (Vol. 1)
  • Joyce, James: "Araby" (from Dubliners); Ulysses; Ulysses (all Vol. 3)
  • Kafka, Franz: "Give It Up!" (Vol. 3); "The Metamorphosis" (Vol. 1); "The Top" (Vol. 1)
  • Karma Lingpa and Padmasambhava: The Tibetan Book of the Dead (Bardo Thodol) (Vol. 1)
  • Keats, John: "La Belle Dame Sans Merci" (Vol. 1); "O Solitude" (Vol. 3)
  • Kerouac, Jack: On the Road; [brief quote from The Dharma Bums] (both Vol. 3)
  • Kesey, Ken: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Vol. 3)
  • Kipling, Rudyard: "If-" (Vol. 3)
  • Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching (Vol. 1)
  • Lawrence, D. H.: "The Mowers" (Vol. 1); Lady Chatterley's Lover (Vol. 3)
  • Lear, Edward: "The Jumblies" (Vol. 3)
  • Lightman, Alan: Einstein's Dreams (Vol. 3)
  • London, Jack: John Barleycorn (Vol. 3)
  • Lucretius: On the Nature of Things (Vol. 1)
  • Ludlow, Fitz Hugh: The Hasheesh Eater (Vol. 2)
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-- P Q R --

  • Padmasambhava and Karma Lingpa: The Tibetan Book of the Dead (Bardo Thodol) (Vol. 1)
  • Peele, George: "Hot Sun, Cool Fire" (Vol. 1)
  • Plath, Sylvia: The Bell Jar (Vol. 3)
  • Plato: Symposium (Vol. 1)
  • Poe, Edgar Allan: "The Bells" (Vol. 3); "The Masque of the Red Death" (Vol. 1); "The Pit and the Pendulum" (Vol. 3); "The Raven" (Vol. 1); "The Raven" (Vol. 3); "The Tell-Tale Heart" (Vol. 3); [a montage] (Vol. 2)
  • Pynchon, Thomas: "The Voice of the Hamster" (Vol. 1); Gravity's Rainbow (Vol. 3)
  • Quiché Maya: Popol Vuh (Vol. 1)
  • Rilke, Rainer Maria: Letters to a Young Poet (Vol. 3)
  • Rimbaud, Arthur: "The Drunken Boat" (Vol. 3)
  • Rumi: Poems (Vol. 1)
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