![]() ("I'll take the manuscript for safekeeping. ![]() ![]() ![]() Bulgakov's leisurely, playful prose is paraphrased into stiff snippets, adding an unintentional extra layer of B-movie unreality. Sadly, the formidable challenge of condensing Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita into a slim English-language graphic novel has proved beyond him. His previous graphic novels include the acclaimed The Secret and The Depository, each told entirely in pictures, while last year's Horace Dorlan added text for the first time. Now, as if to quash any doubts felt by those who would disqualify Poe from the pantheon of grown-up literary greats, or those who prefer Hamlet without cyber-colonies, here are two impeccably adult forays into European intellectual angst.Īndrzej Klimowski is deservedly renowned for his dark, surreal film posters and book covers. Next came Nevermore, a graphic anthology of Edgar Allan Poe stories, the debut volume in the Eye Classics line. Then Self Made Hero made a name for itself adapting Shakespeare plays as manga adventures. ![]() The editorial team's earliest publications, such as Star Wars: Attack of the Clones and "unofficial" biographies of pop stars and other celebs, dropped straight into the landfill site of trash culture. The Eye Classics series, an imprint of Self Made Hero, represents a journey from the boardroom of commercial compromise to the ivory tower of art. ![]()
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