This season’s crop of graphic adaptations spans genres and subgenres from literary fiction to thriller to a D&D-esque adventure gone cozy. Highlights include A Confederacy of Dunces drawn by Albert Monteys, Dorothy Gale as a secret agent in NO Place, and a pair of retellings of the myth of Medusa.
Alice Forever After
Dan Panosian and Giorgio Spalletta. Boom! Studios, Dec. 15 ($19.99 trade paper, ISBN 979-8-89215-998-2)
The girl who once dived through the looking glass returns, now grown up and with a daughter of her own, to a Wonderland fallen on hard times and finds the Cheshire Cat on a desperate quest.
Bonjour Tristesse
Frédéric Rébéna and Françoise Sagan, trans. by Lynn Eskow. NBM, Oct. 27 ($24.99, ISBN 978-1-68112-361-5)
Sagan’s novel, recently adapted into a film with Chloë Sevigny, gets retold as a graphic novel about a widower, his mistress, his daughter, and their guest on the French Riviera during one scandalous summer in the 1950s.
A Confederacy of Dunces
Albert Monteys. Boom! Studios, Sept. 29 ($29.99, ISBN 979-8-89215-855-8)
Eisner nominee Monteys tackles John Kennedy Toole’s Pulitzer Prize-winning satire, proving he’s “become one of the most innovative cartoon interpreters of his generation,” per PW’s starred review.
Don Quixote
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra and Paul and Gaëtan Brizzi, trans. by Edward Gauvin. Abrams ComicArts, Oct. 13 ($27.99, ISBN 978-1-4197-9177-2)
The Brizzi siblings, Disney animators and adapters of Dante’s Inferno, draw the Spanish knight’s classic adventures.
Dorian Gray
Enrique Corominas, trans. by Christopher Bradley. Titan Comics, Sept. 22 ($24.99, ISBN 978-1-80618-156-8)
Oscar Wilde’s satirical novel of beauty, youth, and corruption in Victorian England gets the comics treatment.
Edgar Allan Poe: A Tale of Mystery and Intervention
Norm Konyu. Titan Comics, Oct. 6 ($12.99, ISBN 978-1-80618-216-9)
Aurora Award winner Konyu puts a unique twist on Poe’s tales, including “The Raven,” “The Tell-Tale Heart,” “The Fall of the House of Usher,” and “The Masque of the Red Death.”
In the Time of the Butterflies
Julia Alvarez and Krystal Quiles. Algonquin, Sept. 1 ($30, ISBN 978-1-64375-376-8)
This adaptation of Alvarez’s novel, which was also made into a film starring Salma Hayek, tells the true story of a trio of sisters who were killed in the Dominican Republic in 1960 in a thwarted attempt to overthrow dictator Rafael Trujillo.
Legends & Lattes
Travis Baldree, Shanti Rittgers, and Sarah Webb. Ten Speed Graphic, Oct. 6 ($28, ISBN 978-1-9848-6231-0)
The bestselling novel about a bounty hunter orc turned barista in the first ever coffee shop in Thune gets drawn as a comic.
Medusa + Perseus
Andre Breinbauer. Ablaze, Sept. 22 ($29.99, ISBN 978-1-68497-796-3)
The Greek myth is retold from the alternating perspectives of its title characters, resulting in a story that questions who is the monster and who is the hero
NO Place
Tim Seeley and Stefano Simeone. Ignition, Sept. 1 ($19.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-96806-309-2)
Dorothy Gale, formerly of Oz, and cast members of Narnia are secret agents battling injustice and trying to prevent monsters from entering the real world
Song for Medusa
Grace Desmarais. Andrews McMeel, Nov. 10 ($18.99 trade paper, ISBN 979-8-8816-0024-2)
The gorgon gets an LGBTQ+ love story in this reimagined version of the myth, where an imprisoned Medusa is drawn to the voice of a blind princess who is immune to her stony glare.
Things We Lost in the Fire: Four Graphic Stories
Mariana Enriquez and Lucas Nine, trans. by Megan McDowell. Hogarth, Oct. 13 ($28, ISBN 979-8-217-19836-8)
Argentinian cartoonist and filmmaker Nine adapts a quartet of supernatural tales from novelist and journalist Enriquez that examine Argentina’s fractured past and complicated present.
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A version of this article appeared in the 07/20/2026 issue of Publishers Weekly under the headline: Great Lit, Now with Pics
