The reader's shelf

摘要

With fans like Jonathan Lethem, Junot Diaz, China Mieville, and Michael Chabon and the recent trend to adapt prose novels into graphic novels (of which Paul Karasik and David Mazzucchelli's adaptation of Paul Auster's City of Glass is a classic example), the ties between comics and literary authors are stronger than ever. You might recall Audrey Niffenegger's 2010 graphic novel The Night Bookmobile, but did you know that Patricia Highsmith in the 1940s made her living writing superhero and crime comics, or that Dashiell Hammett teamed with illustration legend Alex Raymond to present the adventures of Secret Agent X-9? Here are other examples that prove that the walls between text and image are porous at best.