Great Expectations, the Graphic Novel
Best-selling Treasury of Victorian Murder creator Rick Geary adapts
Charles Dickens’ tale of mystery and obsessive love


It’s been made into movies nearly a dozen times. School systems
worldwide tell their students to read it. It’s in the top one-tenth of
one percent of Amazon.com’s bestsellers. And in April, Charles Dickens’

Great Expectations appears under the Papercutz Classics Illustrated
imprint as a graphic novel by Rick Geary, creator of the popular series

Treasury of Victorian Murder.

Great Expectations is a full-color hardcover, 56 pages long, at a size

of 6 1/2” by 9”, a cover price of $9.95, and the ISBN
978-1-59707-097-3. In both the prose novel and the graphic novel, the
homeless orphan Pip falls desperately in love with the beautiful but
shallow Estella. Pip struggles to prove himself worthy of Estella while

a mysterious benefactor intervenes in the boy’s life. You can see
preview art at http://www.papercutz.com/classics/greatexpectpre1.html.

Geary has won the 2007 “Best Title for a Younger Audience” Eisner
award (the comic-book Oscar) and the National Cartoonists Society’s
Book and Magazine Illustration Award. His Treasury of Victorian Murder
graphic novels have inspired praise such as:
• “First rate. Superb as always.”--Publishers Weekly
• “Meticulously researched, beautifully drawn, and quite entertaining.

My highest recommendation!”--Comics Buyer’s Guide
• “A must read!”--Andrew Smith, Scripps-Howard Newspapers
• “ Will have even reluctant readers immersed in history.”--School
Library Journal
• “Geary relies not on gore but on the scrupulously drawn detail and
the droll, telling expression.”--Booklist
• “A keen sense of period detail and sharp pacing.”--Kirkus Reviews
• “Filled with rich detail and told with the tightness of a
thriller.”--Time.comix
• “Geary shows a true talent for capturing the images, mood and even
language of Victorian society.”--Washington Post

Classics Illustrated has introduced generations of students to great
literature. These comic-book editions of novels, plays, and epic poems
sold about 200 million copies from 1941 through 1998. Geary originally
created his version of Great Expectations for a Classics Illustrated
series published by Berkley Publishing and First Publishing in 1990. It

has been out of print for more than a decade, and Papercutz is proud to

bring it back.

Great Expectations is the second of Papercutz’s new Classics
Illustrated volumes. The first two was Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind in
the Willows, adapted by Michel Plessix. Up next: Grimm’s Fairy Tales
by Mazan (pen name of Pierre Lavaud), Philip Petit, and Cecile
Chicault.