rough fronts and luxurious
Oh sweet, the Fantagraphics blog says the new Penguin Classics Deluxe line of paperbacks features covers by famous cartoonists. I’m pretty excited about the version of Candide with Chris Ware’s artwork. I realize that it’s not really illustrated by Ware - he just did the cover art. (My mom has a sweet illustrated edition of Candide that she read while pregnant with me.) I’m a little intrigued by the edition of Paul Auster’s New York Trilogy with a cover by Art Spiegelman and Luc Sante. It seems a little redundant since David Mazzuchelli did a wonderful comic verion of City of Glass. But I suppose that was in a series that Spiegelman edited.
