Robert Louis Stevenson takes over CLASSICS ILLUSTRATED!

Hi Everyone!

Editorial Assitant Mike Petranek here to share some great reviews that CLASSICS ILLUSTRATED has garnered recently, and write about one of my favorite authors, Robert Louis Stevenson. Right now, the newest volumes of CLASSICS ILLUSTRATED and CLASSICS ILLUSTRATED DELUXE are both adaptations of very different books he wrote!

CLASSICS ILLUSTRATED #7 “Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde” is a horror story that has been used as the inspiration for Alan Moore’s “The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, and one of my favorite cartoons of all time. You can read a review of this book, featuring John K. Snyder III’s wonderfully scary work, from booklist here.

On the “Deluxe” side of things, “Treasure Island” was one of my favorite books growing up, and I was very happy when I first learned it would be one of our CLASSICS ILLUSTRATED DELUXE volumes. If you like great art, pirates and adventure, look no further! Just look at what Publisher’s Weekly had to say:

“The classic pirate novel is even more fun to read accompanied by well-done pictures. By Capturing the feel of another time and place, readers are easily transpoted into the long-ago seafaring adventure.”

“The art also helps readers become more comfortable with the old-fashioned language and phrasing…The story is full of all the elements expected: mysterious omens, frightening strangers, a treasure map, seafaring adventure, murderous mutiny, and a boy’s first journey to becoming a man. ”

Not only that, but comicsworthreading.com also has a great review of the graphic novel, which you can read here. Check it out!

We hope you have as much fun with these graphic novels as we did putting them together. Until next time, keep checking us out here on the blog, and watch out for Papercutz!

-Mike