The Graphic Canon #1

Credits

Script

Russ Kick, Liz Byer

Story

William Shakespeare, Όμηρος, Euripides, Aristophanes, Plato, Lao Tzu, Vyasa, Confucius, Lucretius, Virgil Reilly, Wang Han, Cui Hu, Li Bai, Murasaki Shikibu, Heloise, Abelard, Hildegard, Dante Alighieri, Karma Lingpa, Padmasambhava, Francois Villon, Geoffrey Chaucer, Thomas Malory, Shi Nai'an, St. Teresa, George Peele, Wu Cheng'en, Edmund Spenser, Miguel de Cervantes, John Donne, Andrew Marvell, Aphra Behn, John Milton, Jonathan Swift, Voltaire, Benjamin Franklin, James Boswell, Mary Wollstonecraft, Choderlos de Laclos

Pencils

Kevin Dixon, Kent Dixon, Lisa Brown, Micah Farritor, Alice Duke, Gareth Hinds, Alessandro Bonaccorsi, Tori McKenna, Valerie Schrag, J. T. Waldman, Yeji Yun, Ryan Dunlavey, Matt Wiegle, Benjamin Frisch, Tom Biby, Jonathan Fetter-Vorm, Michael Lagocki, Rick Geary, Sharon Rudahl, Molly Kiely, Ellen Lindner, Andrice Arp, Vicki Nerino, Michael Green, Seymour Chwast, Hunt Emerson, Sanya Glisic, Julian Peters, Omaha Perez, Caroline Picard, Shawn Cheng, Isabel Greenberg, Roberta Gregory, Edie Fake, Dave Morice, Conor Hughes, Eric J, Maxx Kelly, Ian Pollock, Will Eisner, Robert Berry, Aidan Koch, Noah Patrick Pfarr, Yien Yip, Alex Eckman-Lawn, Rebecca Dart, Ian Ball, Peter Kuper, Cortney Skinner, Robert Crumb, Stan Shaw, Molly Crabapple

Inks

Kevin Dixon, Kent Dixon, Lisa Brown, Micah Farritor, Alice Duke, Gareth Hinds, Alessandro Bonaccorsi, Tori McKenna, Valerie Schrag, J. T. Waldman, Yeji Yun, Ryan Dunlavey, Matt Wiegle, Benjamin Frisch, Tom Biby, Jonathan Fetter-Vorm, Michael Logocki, Rick Geary, Sharon Rudahl, Molly Kiely, Ellen Lindner, Andrice Arp, Vicki Nerino, Michael Green, Seymour Chwast, Hunt Emerson, Sanya Glisic, Julian Peters, Omaha Perez, Caroline Picard, Shawn Cheng, Isabel Greenberg, Roberta Gregory, Edie Fake, Dave Morice, Conor Hughes, Eric J, Maxx Kelly, Ian Pollock, Will Eisner, Robert Berry, Aidan Koch, Noah Patrick Pfarr, Yien Yip, Alex Eckman-Lawn, Rebecca Dart, Ian Ball, Peter Kuper, Cortney Skinner, Robert Crumb, Stan Shaw, Molly Crabapple

Colours

Micah Farritor, Alice Duke, Gareth Hinds, Alessandro Bonaccorsi, Tori McKenna, Yeji Yun, Matt Wiegle, Benjamin Frisch, Michael Lagocki, Ellen Lindner, Molly Kiely, Andrice Arp, Vicki Nerino, Michael Green, Sanya Glisic, Isabel Greenberg, Roberta Gregory, Edie Fake, Conor Hughes, Eric J, Huxley King, Ian Pollock, Josh Levitas, Aidan Koch, Noah Patrick Pfarr, Alex Eckman-Lawn, Ian Ball, Cortney Skinner, Stan Shaw

Letters

J. T. Waldman, Rick Geary, Molly Kiely, Ellen Lindner, Vicki Nerino, Roberta Gregory, Josh Levitas, Aidan Koch, Rebecca Dart, Ian Ball, Peter Kuper, Robert Crumb, Stan Shaw

Editor

Russ Kick

Adaptation

Lisa Brown, Kevin Dixon, Dayton Edmonds, Alice Duke, Gareth Hinds, Alessandro Bonaccorsi, Tori McKenna, Valerie Schrag, J. T. Waldman, Yeji Yun, Fred Van Lente, Matt Wiegle, Benjamin Frisch, Tom Biby, Jonathan Fetter-Vorm, Michael Lagocki, Rick Geary, Sharon Rudahl, Molly Kiely, Ellen Lindner, Andrice Arp, Vicki Nerino, Michael Green, Seymour Chwast, Hunt Emerson, Sanya Glisic, Julian Peters, Omaha Perez, Caroline Picard, Shawn Cheng, Isabel Greenberg, Roberta Gregory, Edie Fake, Dave Morice, Conor Hughes, Michael Stanyer, Maxx Kelly, Ian Pollock, Will Eisner, Robert Berry, Aidan Koch, Noah Patrick Pfarr, Yien Yip, Alex Eckman-Lawn, Rebecca Dart, Ian Ball, Peter Kuper, Cortney Skinner, Robert Crumb, Stan Shaw, Molly Crabapple

Poem fragments

Sappho

Poems

Rumi

Renditions

Kent Dixon

Translation

Coleman Barks

Reprinted from

• Weirdo #3