Octavia E. Butler (1947–2006) was a renowned African
American author who was awarded a MacArthur “Genius” Grant and PEN
West Lifetime Achievement Award for her body of work. Since her
death, sales of her books, including Wildseed, Imago, and Kindred
have increased enormously as the issues she addressed in her
Afro-futuristic feminist novels and short fiction have only become
more relevant.
Damian Duffy, author of Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation
and Parable of the Sower: A Graphic Novel Adaptation, is a
cartoonist, scholar, writer, and teacher. He holds a MS and PhD in
library and information sciences from the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign, where he is on faculty.
John Jennings is the curator of the Megascope list and
illustrator of the graphic novel adaptations of Octavia E. Butler’s
Kindred and Parable of the Sower. He is a professor of media and
cultural studies at the University of California, Riverside.
“…alarmingly prescient and relevant…This accessible adaptation is
poised to introduce Butler’s dystopian tale to a new generation of
readers.”
*Publishers Weekly*
“…the graphic novel is faithful to Butler, yet still fresh in its
world building.”
*USA Today*
“…Jennings’ work in the book is beyond stunning…”
*The Beat*
“The Parable of the Sower graphic novel… is as faithful an
adaptation as you can get. Not only does it hit all the plot
points, it perfectly portrays Butler’s balancing act in regard to
how far society has fallen apart.”
*Kirkus*
“Duffy and Jennings have done justice to Butler’s work, losing none
of the story’s richness and adding an exciting visual element that
makes the reading experience even more visceral and
engrossing.”
*Foreword Reviews, STARRED review*
“John Jennings’s work succeeds as sequential storytelling and
approaches the level of iconography regularly.”
*The Believer*
“Jennings and Duffy are some of the most skilled and hardest
working comics creators doing the work to radically transform and
diversify the comics scene.”
*Comicosity*
“Jennings has captured [Butler’s] words with visual imagery in such
an afrofuturistic, horror-esque way that the images jump off the
page with every turn.”
*Flickering Myth*
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