Black Classics Reborn

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BLACK CLASSICS REBORN

For more than a decade, Eureka Productions has been converting i9th- and 20th-century literature- Poe, Wilde, Stevenson, Akott- into high-quality graphic novels. The Graphic Classics series reminds us of the comic genre's literary potential and harkens back to the popular origins of much of our most revered literature.

The twenty-second volume, African- American Classics* the first in the series to feature the work of black authors, has adapted 23 stories and poems by writers such as Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston and W.E.B. Du Bois.

The stones and poems were written between 1891 and 1931, and predictably, the Harlem Renaissance …