Masterpiece Comics adapts a variety of classic literary works with the
most iconic visual idioms of twentieth-century comics. Dense with
exclamation marks and lurid colors, R. Sikoryak's parodies remind us of
the sensational excesses of the canon, or, if you prefer, of the
economical expressiveness of classic comics from Batman to Garfield. In
"Blond Eve," Dagwood and Blondie are ejected from the Garden of Eden
into their archetypal suburban home; Oscar Wilde's Dorian Gray is
reimagined as a foppish Little Nemo; and Camus's Stranger becomes a
brooding, chain-smoking Golden Age Superman. Other source material
includes Dante, Shakespeare, Dostoyevsky, bubblegum wrappers, superhero
comics, kid cartoons, and more.
Sikoryak's classics have
appeared in landmark anthologies such as RAW and Drawn & Quarterly,
all of which are collected in Masterpiece Comics, along with brilliant
new graphic literary satires. His drawings have appeared on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, as well as in The New Yorker, The Onion, Mad, and Nickelodeon Magazine.
This hardcover is signed AND sketched by the author!