Subject Guides: Graphic Novels at Trexler Library: Adaptations

Sometimes cartoonists (or graphic novelists) choose to adapt existing stories using their art.

When Trexler Library has this type of graphic novel, we will try to place them so they sit on the shelf alongside the original works they are adapted from.

See below for examples:

Adaptations

Kindred: a Graphic Novel Adaptation by Octavia E. Butler; John Jennings (Illustrator); Damian Duffy (Adapted by)
Call Number: 813.54 B986kd
ISBN: 9781419709470
Publication Date: 2017-01-10
This searing graphic-novel adaptation of Octavia E. Butler's science fiction classic is a powerfully moving, unflinching look at the violent, disturbing effects of slavery on the people it chained together, both black and white...
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley; Bernie Wrightson (Illustrator)
Call Number: 823 S545fw
ISBN: 9781595822000
Publication Date: 2008-11-18
Wrightson's illustrated version of Shelley's "Frankenstein" is still considered to be one of the greatest achievements by any artist in the field.
The 9/11 Report by Sid Jacobson; Ernie Colón; Thomas H. Kean (Foreword by); Lee Hamilton (Foreword by); National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States Staff (Contribution by)
Call Number: 973.931 J17n
ISBN: 9780809057382
Publication Date: 2006-08-22
A graphic novel of the report of the 9/11 Commission reveals the Commission's findings regarding the terrorist attacks on the United States and its recommendations concerning what the United States government needs to do in its wake.

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