> >There's a Chandler-like parody of The Waste Land done
> >in cartoon style. It's really quite a masterfl piece of work.
> >Forget the title off hand.
> The Waste Land, by Martin Rowson (writer and illustrator), Edward
> Burlingame/Harper & Row, 1990.
"The book I most appreciated this year was The Waste Land by Martin
Rowson, a comic strip version of the poem which is far funnier and
perhaps more genuinely learned than the orginal."
Peter Ackroyd, The Times
as seen at the book's back cover via:
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~janetmck/bookaweek/books_text/wasteland.html
That URL has expandable images of the front and back covers.
Regards,
Rick Parker
Figuring out the allusions in Rowson's TWL is a heck of a lot more fun than
trying to figure out Eliot's.
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