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Parable of the Sower: A Graphic Novel Adaptation: A Graphic Novel Adaptation Paperback – July 6, 2021

by Damian Duffy (Adapter), Octavia E. Butler (Author), John Jennings (Illustrator),
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The acclaimed graphic novel adaptation of Octavia E. Butler’s groundbreaking dystopian novel, Parable of the Sower, is a don't-miss classic that resonates today more than ever. As The Washington Post noted: "A 1993 dystopian novel imagined the world in 2024. It’s eerily accurate."

This Hugo Award Winner for Best Graphic Story or Comic is the follow-up to Kindred, a #1 New York Times bestseller.

In this graphic-novel adaptation of Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower by Damian Duffy and John Jennings, the award-winning team behind Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation, the author portrays a searing vision of America’s future.

In the year 2024, the country is marred by unattended environmental and economic crises that lead to social chaos. Lauren Olamina, a preacher’s daughter living in Los Angeles, is protected from danger by the walls of her gated community.

In a night of fire and death, what begins as a fight for survival soon leads to something much more: a startling vision of human destiny . . . and the birth of a new faith.

“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

Includes an introduction by SFWA Grand Master Nalo Hopkinson

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  1. Part of Series
    Parable of the Sower
  2. Print length
    288 pages
  3. Language
    English
  4. Publisher
    Harry N. Abrams
  5. Publication date
    July 6, 2021
  6. Grade level
    8 and up
  7. Reading age
    13 years and up
  8. Dimensions
    6.55 x 1.15 x 9.45 inches
  9. ISBN-10
    141975405X
  10. ISBN-13
    978-1419754050
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“…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

About the Author

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.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Harry N. Abrams (July 6, 2021)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 288 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 141975405X
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1419754050
  • Reading age ‏ : ‎ 13 years and up
  • Grade level ‏ : ‎ 8 and up
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.7 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.55 x 1.15 x 9.45 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
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JOHN JENNINGS is a Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of California at Riverside (UCR). Professor Jennings received his MA in Art Education in 1995 and the MFA in Studio with a focus on Graphic Design in 1997 from UIUC. He is an interdisciplinary scholar who examines the visual culture of race in various media forms including film, illustrated fiction, and comics and graphic novels. Jennings is also a curator, graphic novelist, editor, and design theorist whose research interests include the visual culture of Hip Hop, Afrofuturism and politics, Visual Literacy, Horror and the EthnoGothic, and Speculative Design and its applications to visual rhetoric. Jennings is co-editor of the Eisner Award winning collection The Blacker the Ink: Constructions of Black Identity in Comics and Sequential Art (Rutgers) and co-founder/organizer of The Schomburg Center's Black Comic Book Festival in Harlem. He is co-founder and organizer of the MLK NorCal's Black Comix Arts Festival in San Francisco and also SOL-CON: The Brown and Black Comix Expo at the Ohio State University. Jennings' current projects include the graphic novel adaptation of Octavia Butler's Kindred (with Damian Duffy), Tony Medina's police brutality themed ghost story I Am Alphonso Jones (with Stacey Robinson), and his Hoodoo Noir graphic novella Blue Hand Mojo (Rosarium Publishing). Jennings is also a Nasir Jones Hip Hop Studies Fellow at the Hutchins Center at Harvard University.

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LaVonda Redmond
5.0 out of 5 stars A Look at the future
Reviewed in the United States on March 28, 2021
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This was a great graphic novel. Many of the situations that were talked about in this book Are relevant in the here in the now. It talks about water shortages food shortages and human beings just Devolving to there basic animal instinct. I also loved her take on religion and how human beings use it to justify Their actions when choosing to attack someone that does not believe the way they do or view the world from their perspective . The violence that Was used reminds me of the mass shootings that we experience today. Except in the book they used fire as a weapon to steal and kill under the philosophy of kill or be killed. It was a great read and owed to Ms. Butler's fantastic writing.
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Daniel Tooson
5.0 out of 5 stars Great Book with nuance themes
Reviewed in the United States on July 14, 2023
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The story is perfect and so is the progression. The tension and fear feel real. The character are compelling. The concept of earthseed is interesting how it relates to traditional African religions.
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TammyJo Eckhart
5.0 out of 5 stars I Loved It almost as much as the Novel
Reviewed in the United States on July 2, 2020
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I have loved Octavia Butler for decades and I loved the Parable series and was deeply disappointed when it did not continue after Power of Talents. I always wondered if some brave media company might try to make a tv series from it but lacking that, a graphic novel is a good middle step. In the hands of Damian Duffy and John Jennings, it is a great step.

I loved the art, so moving in detail and color that it heightened all of the emotions of the novel. Obviously this is not as long nor as word detailed as the novel, but I checked and it does cover all of the major points. In the time of COVID19 this is a particular gut-punch, too, so be warned if you thinking of buying.

If you love Butler's work, you will want this graphic novel. I am waiting for the next one to come out.
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Curious
4.0 out of 5 stars Interesting
Reviewed in the United States on August 16, 2023
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A well done work with perhaps a bit of the detail from the text novel left out in the translation and pages a bit perhaps too much left to tone variations of brown or blue and sometimes black for the form, but generally the work is interesting and well paced.
The book was written in 1993 or so, but it has environmental catastrophe from climate problems and race war type action in California which suggests some flavor of the present moment as if by a degree of mystical prediction akin to Nostradamus. What is missing is the part of the text which deals with a crusade for the Presidency of the dystopian Republic by a worthless figure who is stated to have used the motto 'Make America Great Again!'
The business now available about 30 years after its writing seem quite prescient.
I do wish that a bit more contrast was to be found on some of the pages of the Graphic Novel. It is able to be made out, but some may find that the contrast is more between shades of a color than between different hues and get some tiring of their visual tolerance due to that minor fault.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Highly recommended read!
Reviewed in the United States on December 13, 2020
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The art work of this novel really resonates with the story and brings it to life. I have recommended this book to others who are unfamiliar with Butler's work as a means if introduction and they are always glad they read it. This adaptation and the Kindred adaptation are my top favourite graphic novels to recommend
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Franz
5.0 out of 5 stars Great Adaptation of the Book
Reviewed in the United States on May 8, 2022
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Came across this book as a suggestion. You can really feel the faithfulness of this Graphic Novel to the book. Lauren's Earthseed parables are greatly reflected here through every panel. I'm glad this was suggested to me!
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Tee
5.0 out of 5 stars Diaspora History
Reviewed in the United States on July 9, 2022
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Although it's intense doesn't stop it from being eye opening
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A concerned citizen
5.0 out of 5 stars Great read!!
Reviewed in the United States on February 24, 2020
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Relevant in the Age of Trump and the moral, economical, and environmental decay of America.

Love love love this book
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