A compelling graphic novel adaptation of Upton Sinclair's seminal protest novel that brings to life the harsh conditions and exploited existences of immigrants in Chicago's meatpacking industry in the early twentieth century.
Upton Sinclair was an American journalist and novelist, a Pulitzer
Prize winner for fiction, and author of the classic muckraking
novel The Jungle that led to the passage of the Pure Food and Drug
Act in 1906.
Kristina Gehrmann is an illustrator and graphic novelist living and
working in Hamburg and Meersbusch, Germany. She explores historical
and fantasy subjects in a detailed and painterly style inspired by
classical Western artwork from the seventeenth to nineteenth
centuries.
“When people ask me what has happened in my long lifetime I do not
refer them to the newspaper files and to the authorities, but to
[Sinclair’s] novels.” —George Bernard Shaw
"Even now, more than a century after its publication, The
Jungle remains a gut punch. In this masterful adaptation,
Kristina Gehrmann takes an unflinching look at the rot festering at
the core of our contemporary world, reminding us that Sinclair's
parable is as topical and relevant as it's ever been.”—Aubrey
Sitterson, writer, The Comic Book Story of Professional
Wrestling and No One Left to Fight
"The original novel by Upton Sinclair remains a powerful rebuke of
those in power who would prey upon the weak. Kristina Gehrmann’s
graphic novel adaptation provides an essential gateway to the
revered classic and is a remarkable work in its own right. . . .
This is a highly accessible work that retains the power of the
original novel while inviting a contemporary eye.”—Comics Grinder
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