A Christmas Carol: The Graphic Novel, Original Text (Classical Comics, 2008)
The story as a full-colour comic, in Dickens’s own words.
Comics can carry the ghosts better than most films, and you do not have to lose the language to do it.
You read comics and you want Dickens’s actual words in the balloons, not a summary.
What it keeps and what it changes
Keeps: Dickens’s text. The Original Text version uses his words in the speech balloons and captions.
Changes: the form: 134 pages of colour artwork, a character list and background on Dickens and Victorian England.
Whose story is it?
Scrooge’s, drawn.
How much time does it ask?
160 pages, Classical Comics paperback, adapted by Seán Michael Wilson.
Classical Comics, 25 November 2008, 160 pages: the Original Text version.
Where to find it
Buy the paperback — Bookshop.org
Other ways to get it: Paperback — Amazon
Borrow it free: Borrow on Libby · Find at your library — WorldCat
More Christmas Carols: The Penguin Classics edition, ed. Michael Slater (2003) · The Oxford World’s Classics edition, ed. Robert Douglas-Fairhurst (2008) · The Annotated Christmas Carol, ed. Michael Patrick Hearn (2004)