Les MIserables adaptation in Graphic Canon Vol2

There's nothing quite like the printed page... I loved doing this project because I was able to roll up my sleeves and engage all of my skills, graphic design, illustration, adapting prose into comics (taught by Harvey Pekar). The past fifteen years have been an act of labour and execution. I wished my grandmother was alive to see my work. My husband gets it. At any rate, This work was complicated, emotional and embedded with life lessons from the less fortunate. While still being romantic set in Paris. The title implies, "The wretched, the poor, the miserable, the wretched poor." The original novel written by Victor Hugo in 1862, is considered one of the greatest novels of the nineteenth century. Set between 1815 and 1832—the story's protagonist ex-convict Jean Valjean is on a quest to redeem himself. Not only for the greater good, but for his beloved daughter Cosette. The historical fiction, explores issues of familial love and romantic love while balancing moral issues of war, justice, religion, and the revolution. A heavy and humane story I was able to stick my creative hands into and remold a bit like clay with the graphic medium.

 "The range of interpretive styles is too vast to encompass here, ranging as it does from William Blake to Gris Grimly. It must suffice that, as with the previous volume, this collection has a wide array of applications for cultural scholars and historians (art and otherwise), but proves most powerful in its tear-inducing panoply of graphic talents and styles working in the comics medium." —Jesse Karp, Booklist

My editor said, "I love your work, and in fact I desperately want to see your approach applied to entire books. As in, take a classic book-length work of literature and apply your style to it - the type, the handlettering, the flourishes, the illustrations, the colors, the overall layout, etc."