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Genre/Form: | Horror comic books, strips, etc Graphic novels Horror stories comic books comic strips horror comics Comics (Graphic works) Horror comics Science fiction comics Horror fiction Authors' presentation inscriptions (Provenance) Bandes dessinées Bandes dessinées de science-fiction Bandes dessinées d'horreur Comic books, strips, etc Fiction |
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Named Person: | Frankenstein's Monster, (Fictitious character); Victor Frankenstein, (Fictitious character); Victor Frankenstein, (Fictitious character); Frankenstein's Monster, (Fictitious character) |
Material Type: | Elementary and junior high school, Fiction |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Gris Grimly; Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley |
ISBN: | 9780061862977 0061862975 9780061862984 0061862983 |
OCLC Number: | 697974171 |
Description: | 193 pages : color illustrations, map ; 27 cm |
Other Titles: | Frankenstein Modern Prometheus Gris Grimly's Frankenstein, or, The modern Prometheus |
Responsibility: | assembled from the original text by Mary Shelley in three volumes. |
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"Grimly enlivens the prose while retaining its power to both frighten and engage sympathy for the monster-creator Victor Frankenstein. This is a richly morose nightmare of a book, a primer for young readers on the pleasures and dangers of decadent languidness." -- New York Times Book Review "Grimly's fans have been awaiting this reworking of Shelley's 1818 classic for four years, and they will rejoice in the end result. Readers encountering the story for the first time may find Grimly's images rise to view whenever they think of it." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Grimly proves himself a more adept assembler of parts than his subject proved to be; his product is no monster, but a pastiche of style and substance that will reanimate the original for yet another generation of readers." -- Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books (starred review) "Grimly's unique and twisted style blends perfectly with the material and breathes new life into these characters and situations... Grimly's beautiful and trim version is a great way to immerse a new audience in this important work. -- School Library Journal "Grimly's haunting illustrations dramatically show the range of human emotion connected with Frankenstein and his monster-rage, despair, hurt, lament, and even joy and excitement. Though often dark, Grimly's version has a whimsical quality that will draw teens in and allow them to better access this classic novel." -- Voice of Youth Advocates (VOYA) "Gris has a natural empathy with the disfranchised, the lost. His line work becomes more elegant and precise with each book but it also becomes more and more emotional and expressive. Gris is a fabulist with the soul of a graveyard poet." -- Guillermo del Toro, director of Hellboy and Pan's Labyrinth Read more...
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Bringing Frankenstien to Life, figuratively of course.
This book is an interesting mixture of classic novel, and graphic novel. The text is assembled form the original text by Mary Shelly, but gains its own life and style through the fantastic artwork.
Gris Grimly’s Frankenstein is dark, and it’s macabre. The images take after Tim Burton’s...
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This book is an interesting mixture of classic novel, and graphic novel. The text is assembled form the original text by Mary Shelly, but gains its own life and style through the fantastic artwork.
Gris Grimly’s Frankenstein is dark, and it’s macabre. The images take after Tim Burton’s work, and features cutely grotesque characters in a depressing rendition of the Frankenstein world. This is done skillfully, as Grimly has reimagined the classic tale into something that will resonate with fans of the comically dark, and creepy stylings of Tim Burton.
Frankenstein is a monster re-animated from the dead. Grimly’s artwork shows this, as his character sews together body parts, and experiments with cultish imagery.
This means that young readers may find the book a little too intense for their sensibilities. It is one thing to hear about a man sewing a monster together, and quite another to see it drawn out.
The real success of Grimly’s work is that he manages to skillfully create a whole new reading of the classic text without changing the words. By crafting his own images, Grimly has updated the work of Shelley for the modern age, and as such, I highly recommend this text as an aid for teaching Shelly’s literary masterpiece.
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