Graphic Classic #1

This Dutch-language graphic adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace — titled Oorlog en Vrede — brings one of literature's most sweeping epics to the comics page in a handsome Epo "Graphic Classic" edition. The striking blue cover artwork layers a close-up of an intense, determined face above a panoramic scene of uniformed soldiers, star emblems, and imperial imagery that evokes the grandeur and conflict at the heart of Tolstoy's Russia. Even Mark Twain gets the last word on the back, cheekily reminding us that this 2010 adaptation might finally make the novel impossible to resist.