The graphic canon: Volume 1,From the epic of Gilgamesh to Shakespeare to Dangerous liaisons

Three panel review: Hamlet / William Shakespeare ; art/adaptation by Lisa Brown --

The epic of Gilgamesh / Babylonian tablets ; art/adaptation by Kevin Dixon ; rendition by Kent Dixon --

"Coyote and the pebbles" / Native American folktale ; story by Dayton Edmonds ; art by Micah Farritor --

The Iliad / Homer ; art/adaptation by Alice Duke --

The Odyssey / Homer ; art/adaptation by Gareth Hinds --

Poem fragments / Sappho ; art/adaptation by Alessandro Bonaccorsi --

Medea / Euripides ; art/adaptation by Tori McKenna --

Lysistrata / Aristophanes ; art/adaptation and translation by Valerie Schrag --

The book of Esther / from the Hebrew bible ; art/adaptation and translation by J.T. Waldman --

Symposium / Plato ; art/adaptation by Yeji Yun --

Tao te ching / Lao Tzu ; adaptation by Fred Van Lente ; art by Ryan Dunlavey.

Mahabharata / Vyasa ; art/adaptation by Matt Wiegle --

Analects and other writings / Confucius ; adaptation by Fred Van Lente ; art by Ryan Dunlavey --

The book of Daniel / from the Hebrew bible ; art/adaptation by Benjamin Frisch --

On the nature of things / Lucretius ; art/adaptation by Tom Biby and Jonathan Fetter-Vorm --

Aeneid / Virgil ; art/adaptation by Michael Lagocki --

The book of Revelation / from the New Testament ; art/adaptation by Rick Geary --

Three Tang poems / Wang Han, Cui Hu, and Li Bai ; art/adaptation and translation by Sharon Rudahl --

Beowulf / Anglo-Saxon epic poem ; art/adaptation by Gareth Hinds --

The tale of Genji / Murasaki Shikibu ; art/adaptation by Molly Kiely --

The letters of Heloise and Abelard / art/adaptation by Ellen Lindner --

"O nobilissima viriditas" / Hildegard of Bingen ; art/adaptation by Molly Kiely --

"The fisherman and the genie" / from The Arabian Nights ; art/adaptation by Andrice Arp --

"The woman with two coyntes" / from The Arabian Nights ; art/adaptation by Vicki Nerino.

Poems / Rumi ' art/adaptation by Michael Green ; translations by Coleman Barks --

The divine comedy / Dante Alighieri ; art/adaptation by Seymour Chwast --

The inferno / Dante Alighieri ; art/adaptation by Hunt Emerson --

The Tibetan book of the dead (Bardo Thodol) / Padmasambhava and Karma Lingpa ; art/adaptation by Sanya Glisic --

"The last ballad" / Francois Villon ; art/adaptation by Julian Peters --

The Canterbury Tales / Geoffrey Chaucer ; art/adaptation by Seymour Chwast --

Le morte d'Arthur / Sir Thomas Mallory ; art/adaptation by Omaha Perez --

Apu Ollantay / an Incan play ; art/adaptation by Caroline Picard --

Outlaws of the water margin / Shi Nai'an ; illustrations by Shawn Cheng --

Hagoromo (celestial feather robe) / a Japanese Noh play ; art/adaptation by Isabel Greenberg --

Popol Vuh / sacred book of the Quiché Maya ; art/adaptation by Roberta Gregory --

The visions of St. Teresa of Ávila / from her autobiography ; art/adaptation by Edie Fake --

"Hot sun, cool fire" / George Peele ; art/adaptation by Dave Morice.

Journey to the west / Wu Cheng'en ; art/adaptation by Conor Hughes --

The faerie queene / Edmund Spenser ; adaptation by Michael Stanyer ; art by Eric Johnson --

A midsummer night's dream / William Shakespeare ; art/adaptation by Maxx Kelly with Huxley King --

King Lear / William Shakespeare ; art/adaptation by Ian Pollock --

Don Quixote / Miguel Cervantes ; art/adaptation by Will Eisner --

Sonnet 18 / William Shakespeare ; art/adaptation by Robert Berry with Josh Levitas --

Sonnet 20 / William Shakespeare ; art/adaptation by Aidan Koch --

"The flea" / John Donne ; art/adatpation by Noah Patrick Pfarr --

"To his coy mistress" / Andrew Marvell ; art/adaptation by Yien Yip --

"Forgive us our trespasses" / Aphra Behn ; art/adaptation by Alex Eckman-Lawn --

Paradise lost / John Milton ; art/adaptation by Rebecca Dart --

Gulliver's travels / Jonathan Swift ; art/adaptation by Gareth Hinds --

Candide / Voltaire ; illustrations by Ian Ball.

"A modest proposal" / Jonathan Swift ; art/adaptation by Peter Kuper --

"Advice to a young man on the choice of a mistress" / Benjamin Franklin ; painting by Cortney Skinner --

London journal / James Boswell ; art/adaptation by Robert Crumb --

"Letter to the Royal Academy of Brussels" (a.k.a. "Fart proudly") / Benjamin Franklin ; art/adaptation by Stan Shaw --

A vindication of the rights of woman / Mary Wollstonecraft ; adaptation by Fred Van Lente ; art by Ryan Dunlavey --

Dangerous liaisons / Choderlos de Laclos ; illustrations by Molly Crabapple.