Page Text: 312 pages, full color, 9" x 6.25"
Dark Horse Books, paperback: $25.
1st Edition ©2002, 2nd Edition ©2009
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First published in 1956, Allen Ginsberg's Howl is a prophetic masterpiece—an epic raging against dehumanizing society that overcame censorship trials and obscenity charges to become one of the most widely read poems of the century. Now a major motion picture , starring James Franco, this graphic novel is illustrated with animation art Drooker designed for the film.
“In publishing 'Howl,' I was curious to leave behind after my generation an emotional time bomb that would continue exploding in U.S. consciousness, in case our military-industrial-nationalist complex solidified into a repressive police bureaucracy. . . .
“I was also curious to see how [Eric Drooker] would interpret my work. And I thought that with today's lowered attention span TV consciousness, this would be a kind of updating of the presentation of my work . . . He really captured that sense of Moloch I was going for in the second section of 'Howl'—‘Moloch whose buildings are judgment!’. . . Drooker's old Poe hallucinations of beauteous deathly reality transcend political hang-up and fix our present American dreams." — Allen Ginsberg
224 pages, full color, 9" x 7"
Harper Perennial, paperback: $19.95