This past weekend in the UK, the Guardian ran a special comic edition in which a number of talented British comic artists worked with novelists to adapt their work into sequential art. As described by the Guardian, it was done to mark the British Library’s forthcoming exhibition of British comics, and if you happen to live overseas and be interested in comic books then it was pretty much a shoe-in for a thing you wanted to pick up this past weekend.
But if you’re like me and you live in the States, then you were SOL.
Until now!
The Guardian has posted all of their comics online for you to read, and man, it is highly recommended that you do so. The range on these is pretty incredible, and they’re all pretty stalwart examples of why we love this medium as a venue for storytelling.
As an example, take a look at Christian Ward’s adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s “Freeforall”:
You can find them all the Guardian’s comics here:
