Herman Melville

Ishmael, a sailor, recounts the ill-fated voyage of a whaling ship led by the fanatical Captain Ahab in search of the white whale that had crippled him. Presented in comic book format.

Moby Dick

Tobias V. Langhoff

Well. Moby-Dick is one of my favorite books (here's my review), and Will Eisner is one of my favorite cartoonists, but this adaptation is really just a super short summary of the main storyline. Clocking in at 30 pages of comic panels, a third of those devoted to the final chase (which is a short part of the original book), this doesn't even serve as Cliff's Notes to anything beyond the names of the main characters and a spoiler on how it ends. There's also a strange scene where Moby Dick clearly recognizes Ahab with an internal "thought bubble", which seemed like it anthropomorphized the whale to a degree not supported by the source material. The art is good though. I'm more excited about Chabouté's adaptation.

Moby Dick

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