Artistic interpretations of literary figures

September 16, 2005 1:42 PM

Artistic interpretations of literary figures drawn by comic book artists. Personal favorites: Joe Kubert's Edgar Allan Poe, Dave McKean's Salman Rushdie, Steve Pugh's Lady Macbeth, and Alex Toth's Charlie Chan.
posted by Gamblor (16 comments total)

I can't wait to look through all of these. Lady Macbeth is teh hawt!

Martin Rowson does a better Tristram Shandy, though.
posted by OmieWise at 2:04 PM on September 16, 2005

Wow these are brilliant!
posted by VulcanMike at 2:09 PM on September 16, 2005

I hope at some point they add Frank Cho's drawing of Edgar Allen Poe. It's pretty wonderful. Thanks for the link!
posted by ktoad at 2:10 PM on September 16, 2005

I like John Buscema's//Mark Twain and Scott Morse's//Hunter S. Thompson.
posted by bat at 2:26 PM on September 16, 2005

Lady MacBeth or an homage to Madonna? These are pretty neat.

The site navigation is kind of annoying though.
posted by fenriq at 3:03 PM on September 16, 2005

wow, so many great artists and writers. Mahfood's Burroughs is nice, and the Ashley Wood version of Hercule Poirot is great too.

i'm surprised there's no Dave Sim artwork here, since he devoted large chunks of his books to Oscar Wilde, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and others.
posted by cathodeheart at 3:29 PM on September 16, 2005

fenriq: I thought the same thing.

I wound up using a bookmarklet called linked pages. It helped tremendously.
posted by the biscuit man at 3:36 PM on September 16, 2005

Mignola's Jacob Marley, Bachalo's H.P. Lovecraft and Guerra's William Gibson. That makes me happy...

cathodeheart: would *you* want to try and deal with Sim at this point in his life?
posted by hototogisu at 3:41 PM on September 16, 2005

Love Dave McKean's stuff.
posted by snoktruix at 4:02 PM on September 16, 2005

It's taking me a wonderfully long time to get through these.
posted by dazed_one at 4:23 PM on September 16, 2005

Suess by Seinkiewicz.

[this is good]
posted by Joey Michaels at 4:53 PM on September 16, 2005

Andy Bennett - Emily Dickenson.

[This is very, very good. Many of these are such amazing pieces - they should be selling as posters. Not in galleries - then there would be only one copy. But many copies, for everyone to hang on their walls.]
posted by jb at 9:17 PM on September 16, 2005

Something about that Dickenson makes me think of her in a Sandman comic...
posted by hototogisu at 9:19 PM on September 16, 2005

These are excellent! Thanks for the link.
posted by painquale at 11:01 PM on September 16, 2005

How's this for weird? Just one artist removed from Mike Mignola's Dracula is Scott Mills' Mike Mignola. Spooky.
posted by Jawn at 5:23 AM on September 17, 2005

This is great. Thanks very much for the next couple of hours!
posted by Verdant at 6:32 AM on September 17, 2005