A Case of Classics

Woolf's landmark feminist essay -- on what it takes for a woman to write -- brought to visually stunning graphic life, as radical and necessary now as in 1929. A Hunger Artist by Franz Kafka is a haunting short story about a professional fasting performer whose art-- once admired-- gradually loses public interest. As audiences drift away, the hunger artist becomes increasingly isolated, misunderstood, and consumed by his own obsession with perfection. At its core, the story explores themes of alienation, the struggle for artistic recognition, and the emptiness of societal validation, ending with a stark reflection on purpose and identity. Scrooge's journey from miserliness to redemption -- Dickens' incandescent ghost story, moral experiment, and portrait of radical human change, in graphic form.