DR. JEKYLL & MR. HYDE
Lorenzo Mattoti • Jerry Kramsky
At last, the return of one of the most influential comic artists of the last two decades! Mattotti (Fires), along with long-time collaborator Kramsky, creates a spectacular adaptation of the Robert Louis Stevenson classic of horror, emphasizing it as a psychological thriller.
At the height of his career, Dr. Jekyll pursues research on the duality of the soul. Secretly, he perfects a serum which he experiments with upon himself. Thus is he able to scientifically recreate the duality of the soul and bring to life, through extreme pain, the abominable Mr. Hyde. Powerless in front of the crimes committed by his alter ego, will Jekyll end up losing control of his destiny?
"Five Tonies! Dizzying depiction of the darkness which draws Henry Jekyll and which ultimately destroys him. That Mattotti can make this oft-told tale so new and exciting is reason enough to add this album to your comics library." -Tony Isabella, CBG
"Recalls the decadence-drenched caricatures of George Grosz, the painting of Edvard Munch and the classic film of expressionist horror, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. Mattotti makes every other Jekyll-and-Hyde visualization seem inadequate." -Booklist
"In a manner that belongs exclusively to comix, Mattotti and Kramsky have brilliantly used both graphics and narrative to turn "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" into a treatise on the nature of the modern age." -Andrew Arnold, Time.com
"Each panel is beautiful and expressive. Kramsky's adept condensation maintains the power of Stevenson's prose. An impressive and vivid interpretation of Stevenson's timeless tale of the human spirit." -Publishers Weekly starred review
"The Georg Grosz stylings are the perfect revisionist makeover, causing the reader to marvel at this tale of the duplicitous nature of mankind all over again." - Asimov Magazine
"Grade: 10/10. When I saw this new version of the story, I was prepared not to like it all. Instead, I fell into the work in a similar way as I did into the original story many years ago. That incredible Fauvist colors meets German Expressionism art style made me know I was about to go deep inside a truly compelling nightmare." -Sequential Tart
"A powerful and remarkable reimagining of the original." -Library Journal
9x12, 64pp., full color hardcover: $15.95, ISBN 1-56163-330-5
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