Dan Clowes vs. Frankenstein

I'm a fan of Penguin's 60th anniversary "Graphic Classics" series -- editions of, for example, D.H. Lawrence's "Lady Chatterley's Lover," Thomas Pynchon's "Gravity's Rainbow," and Jack Kerouac's "The Dharma Bums" with cover illustrations by today's top graphic artists, like (respectively) Chester Brown, Frank Miller, and Jason. I like Chris Ware's cover for "Candide" so much that I framed the poster and hung it over my desk.

If you feel the same way I do, then you'll be pleased to hear that Dan "Ghost World" Clowes has done the cover illustration for Penguin's new edition of Mary Shelly's "Frankenstein." Check it out: