New Penguin Classics Deluxe Editions – Akutagawa, Ott, Jason, Brown, Miller, Hanuka

May 4, 2006 | 4 books mentioned 6

In January I posted scans of a bunch of fantastic new editions of classic books from Penguin with covers designed by famous comic book artists. I’d heard that another batch was on the way, and I finally got my hands on the images so here they are. They come out this fall:

Ryunosuke Akutagawa Thomas Ott
Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories by Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Cover by Yoshihiro Tatsumi We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson, Cover by Thomas Ott
 
Jason Chester Brown
The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac, Cover by Jason Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence, Cover by Chester Brown
 
Frank Miller Tomer Hanuka
Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon, Cover by Frank Miller Philosophy in the Boudoir by Marquis de Sade, Cover by Tomer Hanuka

See the full-size pictures here

Some other notes: I first saw some of these covers posted at the Fantagraphics blog. Tomer Hanuka has a really cool post about designing his cover at his blog Tropical Toxic.

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