Graphic Novel Review: Marley’s Ghost by Charles Dickens, Harvey Kurtzman, Josh O’Neill, and Shannon Wheeler, art by Gideon Kendal

Harvey Kurtzman’s Marley’s Ghost based on A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, adapted by Harvey Kurtzman, completed by Josh O’Neill and Shannon Wheeler, illustrated by Gideon Kendal comiXology Originals, 2017 ASIN: B01LZAATMD Available: Kindle, comiXology   Marley’s Ghost is the posthumous completion of Harvey Kurtzman’s (1924-1993) adaptation of the classic Charles Dickens novel A Christmas Carol. Kurztman’s concept for this book […]

Book Review: A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, ill. by P. J. Lynch

Candlewick, 2006 ISBN-13: 9780763631208 Available: New and Used     “Marley was dead, to begin with”. Charles Dickens doesn’t waste words setting the tone of A Christmas Carol. The bleakness of Marley’s solitary death, and the bitter miserliness  of his partner, Ebenezer Scrooge soon establish a dark and lonely atmosphere that lends itself to haunting. Indeed, […]