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The graphic novel in purgatory

By Harriet Staff

Illustrator and artist Seymour Chwast has created a graphic novel of Dante’s Divine Comedy. He’s not the first to interpret Dante, but he may well be the second most up-to-date (sorry, Seymour; there is the video game):

Dante plays himself as he travels to the other side with classical poet Virgil. They, and the other characters are depicted in 1930′s dress. I meant Dante to look like a Dashiell Hammett detective, searching for the truth. The Dante character look\s for answers unseeable to mere mortals, by traveling respectively, to Hell, Purgatory and Paradise.

2010-09-03


Posted in Publishing on Friday, September 3rd, 2010 by Harriet Staff.

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