Comics UK

Salammbô is indeed rather obscure. I haven't read it myself but Wikipedia describes it as "largely an exercise in sensuous and violent exoticism" and according to the summary it involves crucifixion, torture and child sacrifice, which doesn't make it sound like an obvious candidate for an adaptation ...

I'd never heard of the Classics Illustrated series, but from what I see on Wikipedia it is US-based and so I'm not sure whether it's also available in the UK. It's over 20 years since I was at school and in the market for such things and I don't have children myself so I could be a little out of the ...

Very interesting - thank you!

Dorothea, Celia and Mr. Casaubon are just how I remembered them from the picture-story but I had wrongly remembered Will as being depicted with light-coloured curly hair, as he is in the book, so I was quite surprised to see him here looking just a little menacing with ...

Fantastic - thanks for getting back to me so quickly!

I'm quite intrigued as to how they managed to condense a 900-page Victorian novel into 12 pages of comic strips! :D

BTW I really think these comic versions of classic literature, along with TV adaptations, are a great way to introduce these ...

I think I may have had one of the annuals but I can't remember whether I had any of the weekly comics. If I remember correctly, the Chips' Comic TV programme was one of the first things to appear on the newly launched Channel 4.

Thanks very much!

Hello everyone, newbie here.

I remember having an annual with a picture-story version of Middlemarch by George Eliot. It was a great introduction to what later came to be my favourite classic novel - in particular it made me fall in love with the characters of Dorothea Brooke and Will Ladislaw and ...