Papercutz offers the first North American edition of comics adaptations
You’ve never seen fairy tales quite like this.
In May, Papercutz will ship TALES FROM THE BROTHERS GRIMM to bookstores and comic-book shops. The 144-page, full-color book presents the first official North American appearance of four stories adapted by some of Europe’s finest comics artists.
• Philip Petit combines a painter’s mastery of color, a campfire storyteller’s command of suspense, and a cartoonist’s touch of humor to retell the famous “Hansel and Gretel.”
• In “Learning How to Shudder” by Mazan (the pen name of Pierre Lavaud, artist of Lewis Trondheim and Joann Sfar’s popular series Dungeon), a boy tries to be afraid, but nothing scares him — not even a scarlet-skinned man with horns and a tail — until he gets a lesson from a very unexpected source.
• “The Devil and the Three Golden Hairs” is fine artist Cecile Chicault’s first comic-book work. It’s about a peasant boy who wants to marry a king’s daughter — but the king won’t let him unless the boy brings him hair from the devil’s head.
• And when the hero of Mazan’s “The Valiant Little Tailor” announces too proudly that he’s killed seven with one blow — and doesn’t mention that the seven are flies — he’s called on to fight some very grumpy giants.
You can find preview art at http://www.papercutz.com/classics/grimmpre1.html. The paperback edition (ISBN-13 978-159707-100-0) retails for $13.95, and the hardcover (ISBN-13 978-159707-101-7) for $17.95.
Classics Illustrated has introduced generations of students to great literature. These comic-book editions of novels, plays, and poems sold about 200 million copies from 1941 through 1998. TALES FROM THE BROTHERS GRIMM is the third volume in Papercutz’s revival of the line, after THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS (adapted by Michel Plessix) and Charles Dickens’ GREAT EXPECTATIONS (by Rick Geary).
The current issue of NEWSWEEK calls the new Classics Illustrated “dazzling” and adds, “Papercutz, the company now licensing the brand, has set very high standards. . . . [Children] love stories that deliver, and Classics Illustrated always had the goods. Looks like it still does.” “The volumes are perfectly designed for library shelves, with sturdy bindings and a large enough size for kids to get a good look at the contents,” SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL has said. “The artwork is beautifully reproduced—crisp and clear—and each book contains background about the series’ history and a brief bio of the artist/adaptor.”
Papercutz publishes comic books and graphic novels for kids. The company’s titles range from new adventures of the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew to TALES FROM THE CRYPT. For more information, please visit http://www.papercutz.com or http://myspace.com/papercutzcomics.
Classics Illustrated Deluxe #2: Tales of the Brothers Grimm (Classics Illustrated Deluxe Graphic Novels) by Mazan, Philippe Petit, Cecile Chicault
