Long story short: turning famous books into cartoons
(Book)
Contributors:
Fish, Mr, illustrator.
Published:
New York, NY : Akashic Books, [2020].
Format:
Book
Physical Desc:
142 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 18 x 23 cm
Status:
Description
The Catcher in the Rye. Lolita. Moby-Dick. Infinite Jest. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. A Room of One's Own. Native Son. These are but a handful of classic works spectacularly distilled by Mr. Fish and a very talented group of painters, illustrators, graphic designers, and political cartoonists into succinct snapshots that are at times funny, sad, inspiring, rude, crude, beautiful, profound, stomach-turning, and mind-blowing.
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East Lyme Public Adult Fiction (PBK)
Mr. Fish (Long)
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Language:
English
ISBN:
9781617757969, 1617757969
Notes
General Note
Includes original artwork from: Mr. Fish, Ted Rall, Stephanie McMillan, Sarah Awad, Eli Valley, Wes Tyrell, Tamara Knoss, Keith Henry Brown, Sam Henderson, Lodi Marasescu, Surag Ramachandran, Tami Knight, Eric J. Garcia, Marissa Dougherty, Siri Dokken, John G., Andy Singer, Tara Seibel, Gary Dumm, Clare Kolat, Nate Ulsh, Benjamin Slyngstad, Ron Hill, JP Trostle, John Kovaleski, and Beth McCaskey.
General Note
Title from cover.
Description
The Catcher in the Rye. Lolita. Moby-Dick. Infinite Jest. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. A Room of One's Own. Native Son. These are but a handful of classic works spectacularly distilled by Mr. Fish and a very talented group of painters, illustrators, graphic designers, and political cartoonists into succinct snapshots that are at times funny, sad, inspiring, rude, crude, beautiful, profound, stomach-turning, and mind-blowing.
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Fish, M. (2020). Long story short: turning famous books into cartoons. Akashic Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Fish, Mr. 2020. Long Story Short: Turning Famous Books Into Cartoons. Akashic Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Fish, Mr, Long Story Short: Turning Famous Books Into Cartoons. Akashic Books, 2020.
MLA Citation (style guide)Fish, Mr. Long Story Short: Turning Famous Books Into Cartoons. Akashic Books, 2020.
Note! Citation formats are based on standards as of July 2022. Citations contain only title, author, edition, publisher, and year published. Citations should be used as a guideline and should be double checked for accuracy.
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| 500 | |a Title from cover. | ||
| 505 | 0 | 0 | |t Catcher in the Rye / |r by J.D. Salinger ; illustrated by Tamara Knoss -- |t Lolita / |r by Vladimir Nabokov -- |t Native Son / |r by Richard Wright ; illustrated by Keith Henry Brown -- |t Frankenstein / |r by Mary Shelley ; illustrated by Eli Valley -- |t Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test / |r by Tom Wolfe ; illustrated by Wes Tyrell -- |t New Testament / |r by Paul the Apostle -- |t Slaughterhouse-Five / |r by Kurt Vonnegut -- |t Moby-Dick / |r by Herman Melville -- |t Rings of Saturn / |r by W. G. Sebald ; illustrated by Sarah Awad -- |t Hamlet / |r by William Shakespeare -- |t Picture of Dorian Gray / |r by Oscar Wilde ; illustrated by Sam Henderson -- |t Metamorphosis / |r by Franz Kafka -- |t Scarlet Letter / |r by Nathaniel Hawthorne ; illustrated by Ted Rall -- |t Roget's Thesaurus / |r by Peter Mark Roget ; illustrated by Lodi Marasescu -- |t Charlie and the Chocolate Factory / |r by Roald Dahl ; illustrated by Surag Ramachandran -- |t Madame Bovary / |r by Gustave Flaubert -- |t Communist Manifesto / |r by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels ; illustrated by Stephanie McMillan -- |t "Ozymandias" / |r by Percy Bysshe Shelley and Horace Smith ; illustrated by Tami Knight -- |t How to Win Friends and Influence People / |r by Dale Carnegie -- |t I am Joaquín, Yo soy Joaquín / |r by Rodolfo "Corky" Gonzales ; illustrated by Eric J. Garcia -- |t Anarchist Cookbook / |r by William Powell ; illustrated by Marissa Dougherty -- |t Brief History of Time / |r by Stephen Hawking -- |t Brave New World / |r by Aldous Huxley -- |t Adventures of Huckleberry Finn / |r by Mark Twain -- |t One Hundred Years of Solitude / |r by Gabriel García Márquez ; illustrated by Siri Dokken -- |t Understanding Media / |r by Marshall McLuhan -- |t Heart of Darkness / |r by Joseph Conrad ; illustrated by John G. -- |t Wind-Up Bird Chronicle / |r by Haruki Murakami ; illustrated by Andy Singer -- |t Romeo and Juliet / |r by William Shakespeare -- |t Don Quixote / |r by Miguel de Cervantes -- |t Harry Potter / |r by J.K. Rowling -- |t Anna Karenina / |r by Leo Tolstoy ; illustrated by Tara Seibel -- |t Invisible Man / |r by Ralph Ellison ; illustrated by Gary Dumm -- |t People's History of the United States / |r by Howard Zinn -- |t Stranger / |r by Albert Camus -- |t Boy's Own Story / |r by Edmund White -- |t Confederacy of Dunces / |r by John Kennedy Toole -- |t Animal Farm / |r by George Orwell ; illustrated by Clare Kolat -- |t Paradise Lost / |r by John Milton -- |t Howl / |r by Allen Ginsberg -- |t Metamorphoses (Pygmalion) / |r by Ovid -- |t Man Who Died / |r by D.H. Lawrence -- |t Tales of Ordinary Madness / |r by Charles Bukowski ; illustrated by Nate Ulsh -- |t Oedipus Rex / |r by Sophocles -- |t Fahrenheit 451 / |r by Ray Bradbury ; illustrated by Benjamin Slyngstad -- |t Catch-22 / |r by Joseph Heller -- |t Civilization and its Discontents / |r by Sigmund Freud -- |t 1984 / |r by George Orwell -- |t Infinite Jest / |r by David Foster Wallace -- |t Old Man and the Sea / |r by Ernest Hemingway ; illustrated by Ron Hill -- |t Armies of the Night / |r by Norman Mailer -- |t I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings / |r by Maya Angelou -- |t Notes from Underground / |r by Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- |t Diary of a Young Girl / |r by Anne Frank -- |t Lord of the Rings / |r by J.R.R. Tolkien ; illustrated by J.P. Trostle -- |t On Narcissism / |r by Sigmund Freud -- |t Room of One's Own / |r by Virginia Woolf -- |t War Prayer / |r by Mark Twain -- |t On the Origin of Species / |r by Charles Darwin -- |t Invisible Man / |r by H.G. Wells ; illustrated by John Kovaleski -- |t American Psycho / |r by Bret Easton Ellis -- |t Why I am Not A Christian / |r by Bertrand Russell -- |t On the Road / |r by Jack Kerouac -- |t Fear of Flying / |r by Erica Jong ; illustrated by Beth McCaskey -- |t Wikipedia / |r by Everybody -- |t War and Peace / |r by Leo Tolstoy |
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