Aesop's Fables: Classics Illustrated #26

Title

en_US Aesop's Fables: Classics Illustrated #26

en_US Classics Illustrated #26

Description

en_US Apparent first printing of first revised edition, April, '94

en_US Adapted and illustrated by Eric Vincent. Lettering by Partick (sic) Owsley

Creator

en_US Vincent, Eric

Contributor

en_US Vincent, Eric

Date

2016-01-25T16:14:36Z

en_US 1995-12

en_US 1994

Date Available

2016-01-25T16:14:36Z

Date Issued

en_US 1991

Abstract

en_US I really like this book. I had searched for it since I heard it came out several years ago, and dealers reported that they had had it, but that it had sold out. There are twenty-five fables told in this comic-book format, generally receiving one or two pages. Only The Quack Frog (26) and TMCM (40) get more pages, a total of three and four respectively. Among the best-told and best-illustrated are FC (4), The Quack Frog, WS (33), and The Soldier and His Horse (35). Often fables told with humans as characters elsewhere in the Aesopic tradition are pictured with animals here, like the monkey astronomer (6) and the spendthrift (23; sorry, I cannot tell what animal this is!). There are some curious differences here from the tradition. In FM, the frog fails to note that he is drowning the mouse (7). A dog-barber sharpens the boar's tusks with a steel file in his shop (12). The monkey who dances before the camel tries to dance is a voluptuous female (24). The moral for The Tortoise and the Eagle is envy is the strength of fools (10) and for The Viper and the File it is The covetous are poor givers (20). There is, I believe, a misprint on the second page. 1st edition published June, 1990. The first edition itself is clear in stating that it was printed in June, 1991. I have decided to go with the first edition's own statement, even in labelling this book.

Identifier

en_US 157209026x

en_US 2229 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/77788

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Classics International Entertainment

en_US Chicago, IL

Subject

en_US PA3855.E5 V45 1994

en_US Comic book

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole