Introducing Kafka (1993)

Crumb's drawings are great. Mairowitz doesn't include any sources for his claims, which weakens the text. A foreword or afterword referring to significant scholarly influences on his interpretation might have been helpful; even a "for further reading" bibliography would have bee nice. Instead, I was left wondering what led Mairowitz to make some of the claims that he made about Kafka's point of view. This book is best if taken as art, rather than scholarship, and used to stimulate further reading. ( )

In which celebrated cartoonist Crumb presents a graphic novel-style biography of the father of avant-garde fiction, together with a few mashups of scenes from the fiction. This is an interesting project, though, personally, I'd just as soon let Kafka and my head create my own pictures. ( )

A good introduction to Kafka. Crumb's style is really appropriate for his work. ( )

Exquisitely appropriate illustrations from R. Crumb, and a very perceptive text by David Mariowitz make this the best intro to Kafka available. ( )

A visual biography of Franz Kafka written by David Mairowitz and illustrated by Robert Crumb, including several (partial) adaptations of Kafka stories such as Metamorphosis and In the Penal Colony. Holds up excellently at all levels. ( )