The Red Badge of Courage Translates a Beloved Novel Into a Harrowing Comic Book

When it comes to the Great American Novel, you'll beryllium hard-pressed to find a much quintessential prime than Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage. The book's unflinching depiction of a soldier's beingness during the Civil War made it unsocial successful the literate satellite upon release, and it besides makes it a earthy acceptable to beryllium adapted into a graphic novel. Abrams ComicArts has done conscionable that.

Ahead of its May release, IGN tin exclusively debut a caller preview of The Red Badge of Courage. Get a person look successful the slideshow assemblage below:

The Red Badge of Courage is adapted from Crane's archetypal prose by writer/artist Steve Cuzor. Here's Abrams' authoritative statement of the graphic novel:

Written by Stephen Crane erstwhile helium was conscionable 24, The Red Badge of Courage is simply a Civil War communicative that captured the imaginations of readers worldwide and made its writer an overnight literate icon. Now creator Steve Cuzor and Abrams ComicArts are publishing a almighty graphic caller adaptation of the classical and genre-defining warfare novel. Cuzor’s stark yet elaborate artwork successful The Red Badge of Courage perfectly captures the realistic prose of the archetypal novel, presenting a lushly illustrated, unflinching depiction of warfare done the eyes of a young, inexperienced soldier.

A groundbreaking and realistic introspection of the intelligence effects of war, The Red Badge of Courage draws from firsthand accounts and probe and has been continuously successful people since its work successful 1894. Crane’s depiction of his main character, Henry Fleming, and his interior monologue, ringing truthful existent that galore readers mistook Crane for a seasoned himself. The realistic prose and visceral descriptions of conflict that Crane utilized marked the archetypal displacement distant from uncritical patriotism successful warfare literature. It would instrumentality until astatine slightest the 1920s and the aftermath of the fearfulness of the First World War for the remainder of the genre to drawback up. In the years pursuing its publication, The Red Badge of Courage was hailed by Crane student Henry Wertheim arsenic “unquestionably the astir realistic caller astir the American Civil War,” portion Ernest Hemingway called the caller an “American classic.”

“By illustrating Crane’s classical story, Cuzor pulls readers into the midst of the action, making Henry Fleming’s acquisition consciousness each the much visceral,” said Abrams ComicArts' Publisher Joseph Montagne successful a statement. “Literary aficionados and students alike volition find different furniture of this classical communicative to admit successful this caller adaptation of Crane’s magnum opus.”

The Red Badge of Courage volition beryllium released successful bookstores connected Tuesday, May 13 and successful comic shops connected Wednesday, May 14. You tin preorder a transcript connected Amazon.

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