![]() ![]() There are dozens and dozens more comics that utilize the name and some visual notions from the novel to various degrees of fidelity. 3 This is merely what I could find and read in the last few months, others elude me still: “He tasks me he heaps me I see in him outrageous strength, with an inscrutable malice sinewing it.” 4 Four Color #717. 1942) and ending (so far) with Disney Moby Dick, starring Donald Duck (Dark Horse, 2018). By my count there are over a dozen direct adaptations of the novel in comics form in the English language, counting foreign works translated to English, starting with Classics Illustrated #5 (then called Classic Comics Presents, Sep. I hadn't thought of that particular piece when I started working this article, but it’s pretty telling that when I sought out comics referencing Moby-Dick, I was not lacking for examples. "Future Broadway Musicals Based on Famous Literary Classics" from MAD #100. There are other bits of visual media noted in Delbanco’s "Extracts", like the discussion of Billy Budd from The Sopranos, but MAD's is the only one reproduced in its proper visual glory. It's an amusing little piece whose central gag is pretty much what you expect from the title. 1966), which I have vague memories of reading in one of the MAD reprint specials during my youth. But also nestled inside is a surprise appearance by MAD magazine: a few panels from “Future Broadway Musicals Based on Famous Literary Classics” by Jack Rickard & Frank Jacobs (from MAD #100, Jan. 2 It contains some things one would expect, quoting Camus, Bradbury, Updike, etc. This is an obvious stylistic nod to the second pre-opening 1of Moby-Dick, in a rather un- Moby Dick text. Features “This Elusive Quality”: Moby-Dick on the Comics PageĪndrew Delbanco’s biography of Herman Melville, Melville: His World and Work, opens with a long set of excerpts from various texts, referring either the life of Melville or the stuff of his creations. ![]()
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