Graphic Classics

• Our next all-new, full-color volume will be Christmas Classics: Graphic Classics Volume Nineteen. Production is well underway, and our artists will be working through the sweltering summer months, dreaming of snow and reindeer. The lead story will be, of course, Charles Dickens’ classic “A Christmas Carol”, adapted by British scripter Alex Burrows and illustrated by Micah Farritor, following his fantastic interpretation of “The War of the Worlds” for Science Fiction Classics. Other adaptations will be Clement C. Moore’s “A Visit from St. Nicholas” by French cartoonist Florence Cestac, O. Henry’s “A Chapparral Christmas Gift”, illustrated by Cynthia Martin, Willa Cather’s “The Strategy of the Were-Wolf Dog” illustrated by Evert Geradts, and “A Luckless Santa Claus”, an early F. Scott Fitgerald story illustrated by Simon Gane. Also featured will be Sherlock Holmes in Arthur Conan Doyle’s “The Blue Carbuncle”, adapted by Rich Rainey and Hunt Emerson, and “The Wondersmith”, a truly strange Christmas tale by Fitz-James O'Brien, illustrated by Rick Geary. Look for it in October 2011, in plenty of time for the Christmas season.