Lockdowns are mentally tiring, so you may not be in the mood to finish all those classic novels you started to read. Fortunately I have an alternative for you: Classics Illustrated!
Let's take a look at a few...
Homer eroticism: The Odyssey. Classics Illustrated, 1951.
Wrestling with issues of state: The Life of Abraham Lincoln. Classics Illustrated, 1958.
Peck 'n' Pa...
The Food Of The Gods by HG Wells. Classics Illustrated 160, 1961.
Chug! Chug! Chug! Dr. Jekyll & Mr Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson. Classics Illustrated, 1968.
Eyebrow game... Faust, by Goethe. Classics Illustrated, 1962.
I think this is the Nik Kershaw edition: Don Quixote, by Miguel De Cervantes. Classics Illustrated, 1943.
Spoilers! Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë. Classics Illustrated, 1947.
That's a very *ahem* unusual bottle shape you've drawn.
The Bottle Imp, by Robert Louis Stevenson. Classics Illustrated, 1954.
"Is this a dagger I see before me?" Macbeth, by William Shakespeare. Classics Illustrated 128, 1955.
That Scooby-Doo / Sherlock crossover you've been waiting for. Classics Illustrated, 1947.
Don Draper on a unicycle. The Time Machine by H G Wells. Classics Illustrated, 1956.
Hamlet, the codeine edition. Classics Illustrated, 1969.
A few panels from the 1949 Classics Illustrated edition of Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë.
You can read many Classics Illustrated titles for free thanks to the Internet Archive: archive.org/details/classi…
Do have a look and crib your way to a classics education! What are the chances...
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Today in pulp I'm looking back at a very popular (and collectable) form of art: micro leyendas covers!
Micro Leyendas (mini legends) are a Mexican form of fumetto, small graphic novels normally pitting the everyday hero against the weird, the occult and the unfathomable.
The art of micro leyendas is bold, macabre and very funny. The books often tell a cautionary tale of revenge or humiliation, much like a modern folk tale.
It was a food revolution with a shelf life measured in years, changing how Britain cooked as well as what we ate. The staple diet of a generation, whose very name could conjure up the flavours of the faraway east.
Today in pulp I look back at Vesta ready meals...
Batchelors Foods had been in business since Victorian times and specialised in dried produce and soups. And by 1959, inspired by the American 'TV dinner', they decided to bring the idea of ready meals to the UK.
There was a problem however: in 1959 only 13% of UK households had a fridge, compared to 96% in the US. The American frozen TV dinner wouldn't work in Britain.