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Author: Octavia E. Butler ,
Damian Duffy ,
John Jennings ,
Nalo Hopkinson
Publisher: Abrams
Imprint: Abrams ComicArts
Dimensions:
Width: 17.60cm
, Height: 3.00cm
, Length: 25.00cm
Weight: 0.880kg
ISBN: 9781419731334
ISBN 10: 1419731335
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 28 January 2020
Recommended Age: From 13 to 99 years
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Reviews
Jennings and Duffy are some of the most skilled and hardest working comics creators doing the work to radically transform and diversify the comics scene. -- Comicosity Jennings has captured [Butler's] words with visual imagery in such an afrofuturistic, horror-esque way that the images jump off the page with every turn. -- Flickering Myth John Jennings's work succeeds as sequential storytelling and approaches the level of iconography regularly. -- The Believer ...alarmingly prescient and relevant...This accessible adaptation is poised to introduce Butler's dystopian tale to a new generation of readers. -- Publishers Weekly ...the graphic novel is faithful to Butler, yet still fresh in its world building. -- USA Today ...Jennings' work in the book is beyond stunning... -- The Beat The Parable of the Sower graphic novel... is as faithful an adaptation as you can get. Not only does it hit all the plot points, it perfectly portrays Butler's balancing act in regard to how far society has fallen apart. -- Kirkus Duffy and Jennings have done justice to Butler's work, losing none of the story's richness and adding an exciting visual element that makes the reading experience even more visceral and engrossing. -- Forward Reviews, STARRED review
...alarmingly prescient and relevant...This accessible adaptation is poised to introduce Butler's dystopian tale to a new generation of readers. --Publishers Weekly ...the graphic novel is faithful to Butler, yet still fresh in its world building. --USA Today ...Jennings' work in the book is beyond stunning... --The Beat
...the graphic novel is faithful to Butler, yet still fresh in its world building. --USA Today ...Jennings' work in the book is beyond stunning... --The Beat ...alarmingly prescient and relevant...This accessible adaptation is poised to introduce Butler's dystopian tale to a new generation of readers. --Publishers Weekly
...alarmingly prescient and relevant...This accessible adaptation is poised to introduce Butler's dystopian tale to a new generation of readers. --Publishers Weekly
Author Information
Octavia E. Butler (1947–2006) was a renowned African American author who was awarded a MacArthur “Genius” Grant and PEN West Lifetime Achievement Award for her body of work. Since her death, sales of her books have increased enormously as the issues she addressed in her Afro-Futuristic, feminist novels and short fiction have only become more relevant. Damian Duffy, author of Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation and Parable of the Sower: A Graphic Novel Adaptation, is a cartoonist, scholar, writer, and teacher. He holds a MS and PhD in library and information sciences from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he is on the faculty. John Jennings is the curator of the Megascope list and illustrator of the graphic novel adaptations of Octavia E. Butler’s Kindred and Parable of the Sower. He is a professor of media and cultural studies at the University of California, Riverside.
