Virginia Woolf and Socrates get graphic novel biographies

Last week, Comixology Originals and Italian writer Becco Giallo introduced a brand new collaboration to deliver a quintet of graphic novel historic fiction biographies to English language readers for the primary time. The topics of the graphic novels, all of that are set for digital launch subsequent Tuesday, March twenty eighth, embrace authors Mary Shelley and Virginia Woolf, artist Vincent Van Gogh, thinker Socrates, and scientist Nikola Tesla. Today, forward of the books’ launch, The Beat is happy to current a preview of two of the 5 books, targeted on Virginia Woolf and Socrates.

Here’s how Comixology describes the 2 books:

Virginia Woolf

Written and drawn by Liuba Gabriele
Translated from Italian by Lucy Lenzi
Lettering and format by Giulia Gabrielli
Edited by Stefano A. Cresti

England, March 1941. Virginia Woolf walks alongside the banks of the river Ouse. She picks up a stone from the bottom, weighs it in her hand, and watches the water move. She thinks in regards to the fierce warfare taking place on this planet and inside herself. All that accompanied her as much as that shore nonetheless lives in radiant pictures which symbolize the acute energy of her feelings, corresponding to the eagerness for her lover, Vita Sackville-West, the fondness for her elementary husband, Leonard, and her grief for the great household bereavements. Feelings poured into her writing, which revolutionized literature, and solidified her place in historical past as one of many world’s most necessary authors.

Socrates

Written by Francesco Barilli with artwork and cowl by Alessandro Ranghiasci
Translated from Italian by Lucy Lenzi
Lettering and format by Giulia Gabrielli
Edited by Stefano A. Cresti
With an introduction by Journalist Stefano Cardini

Socrates was not solely top-of-the-line recognized and most influential philosophers within the historical past of humanity–he was additionally the primary martyr for his personal concepts. His trial tells the story of how the best democracy of all time may have sentenced one in every of its greatest residents to dying.

Athens, 399 BC. In what could also be remembered as the primary trial for crimes of opinion, Socrates is sentenced to dying. Accused of corrupting youth with atheist doctrines, the thinker’s line of defense is uncompromising and provocative. He is thus condemned to drink hemlock by an excellent bigger majority of the jurors. Once in jail, awaiting execution, he refuses to flee so as to not violate these legal guidelines to which he has all the time been devoted.

Publisher Becco Giallo launched the Italian editions of Socrates and Virginia Woolf in 2020 and 2021, respectively. The writer focuses on comics for adults and youngsters that inform the tales of serious historic figures and occasions.

Check out the previews of each Virginia Woolf and Socrates under. Both graphic novels, in addition to these about Shelley, Tesla, and Van Gogh, might be out there digitally to English readers subsequent Tuesday, March twenty eighth.