From 1941 through 1998, with breaks here and there, Classics Illustrated released about 200 comic books that adapted famous works through careful illustration. People who would not wade through ...

In the mid 20th century, "Classics Illustrated" comics were the salvation of many a student faced with the grim prospect of a book report on the likes of "Silas Marner" or "Moby Dick." Now ...

Show more Bill Paterson marks the 70th anniversary of the launch of the comic book series Classics Illustrated ... Faust and Dr No. These publications later became popular in Britain but the ...

Jewish artists and storytellers in particular have illustrated the evils of the Holocaust in comic books since the 1940s, including in superhero classics ... And it was no coincidence that Marvel ...

No subsequent comics artist has equalled him yet. Lee, Kirby, and Ditko are now dead white men. Classics, by definition, have aged, and some parts of these books aged badly. Despite the Thing’s ...

After announcing it will release more than 120 Classics Illustrated comics as e-books on the Apple platform, Boston area e-book/app developer and publisher Trajectory is now releasing the line ...

HAVING grown up devouring Classics Illustrated comic books, I was predisposed to appreciate “Crime and Punishment,” which Chicago’s Writers’ Theatre has dis tilled into a 90-minute ...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Hundreds of literary classics adapted and illustrated as comics in the pages of "Classics Illustrated" are going digital. Comics purveyor Comixology said Wednesday it made a ...

The Classics Illustrated ... e-book store, with novels including Treasure Island and Huckleberry Finn on the list. The series consists of over 120 digital graphic novels presented in a comic ...

The first time I picked up The Odyssey, it was in a Classics Illustrated comic book. Its quasi-realistic drawings of monsters, heroes and gods were straightforward, literal and spare. Then at ...

“I just wanna say one quick thing, which in terms of comic books, one of my inspirations for Kiri, was the Classics Illustrated Comic Book of Green Mansions which is an old, old book and movie ...

and offensive viewpoints”); the adult comic-book set “Big Hard Sex Criminals,” by Matt Fraction and illustrated by Chip Zdarsky (reason: deemed sexually explicit); and in an atypical case ...