Moby Dick

Moby Dick
By Herman Melville, Lance Stahlberg, Lalit Kumar Singh, Ajo Kurian, Bhavnath Chaudhary, & Vishal Sharma
Campfire, 2010. 84 pgs. Graphic Novel

This is a graphic novel adaptation to the classic tale of obsession and madness on the high seas. Ishmael dreams of wealth and adventure and plans to find it aboard a whaling ship. Fate soon finds him on the Pequod with Captain Ahab and a crew of hardened sailors. But Ishmael’s desire for wealth and adventure is too quickly replaced with the simple hope of survival, thanks to Ahab’s insane drive for vengeance on the great white beast that robbed him of his leg.

With fewer than one hundred pages this is a seriously abridged version of Melville’s masterpiece. The illustrations are dark and menacing, appropriate to the tale. Since I’m not a huge fan of graphic novels, it wasn’t my favorite book so far this year. But I think it could certainly be of interest to anyone who enjoys the format and wants to brush up on their classics.

CZ