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Wuthering Heights
Emily Bronte’s romantic masterpiece established the quintessentially dark, brooding antihero in the form of the character Heathcliffe when first published. Heavily influenced by the poet Lord Byron, the beautiful flow of her words is matched by Rick Geary’s art in this comics adaptation. Fan favorite and award-winning artist and writer Rick Geary’s work was seen in Papercutz’ CLASSICS ILLUSTRATED #1 “Great Expectations.”
56 pages, Hardcover
Published October 18, 2011
About the author
Rick Geary
193 books202 followersRICK GEARY was born in 1946 in Kansas City, Missouri and grew up in Wichita,
Kansas. He graduated from the University of Kansas in Lawrence, where his first cartoons were published in the University Daily Kansan. He worked as staff artist for two weekly papers in Wichita before moving to San Diego in 1975.
He began work in comics in 1977 and was for thirteen years a contributor to the Funny Pages of National Lampoon. His comic stories have also been published in Heavy Metal, Dark Horse Comics and the DC Comics/Paradox Press Big Books. His early comic work has been collected in Housebound with Rick Geary from Fantagraphics Books.
During a four-year stay in New York, his illustrations appeared regularly in The New York Times Book Review. His illustration work has also been seen in MAD, Spy, Rolling Stone, The Los Angeles Times, The Old Farmer’s Almanac, and American Libraries.
He has written and illustrated three children’s books based on The Mask for Dark Horse and two Spider-Man children's books for Marvel. His children’s comic “Society of Horrors” ran in Disney Adventures magazine. He was the artist for the new series of GUMBY Comics, written by Bob Burden, for which they received the 2007 Eisner Comic Industry Award for Best Publication for a Younger Audience.
His graphic novels include three adaptations for the Classics Illustrated, and the nine-volume series A Treasury of Victorian Murder for NBM Publishing. The new series A Treasury of 20th Century Murder began in 2008 with “The Lindbergh Child.” His other historically-based graphic novels include Cravan, written with Mike Richardson, and J. Edgar Hoover: A Graphic Biography.
Rick has received the Inkpot Award from the San Diego Comic Convention (1980) and the Book and Magazine Illustration Award from the National Cartoonists Society (1994).
He and his wife Deborah can be found every year at their table at San Diego’s Comic Con International. In 2007, they moved to the town of Carrizozo, New Mexico.
(from http://www.rickgeary.com/bio.html)
Kansas. He graduated from the University of Kansas in Lawrence, where his first cartoons were published in the University Daily Kansan. He worked as staff artist for two weekly papers in Wichita before moving to San Diego in 1975.
He began work in comics in 1977 and was for thirteen years a contributor to the Funny Pages of National Lampoon. His comic stories have also been published in Heavy Metal, Dark Horse Comics and the DC Comics/Paradox Press Big Books. His early comic work has been collected in Housebound with Rick Geary from Fantagraphics Books.
During a four-year stay in New York, his illustrations appeared regularly in The New York Times Book Review. His illustration work has also been seen in MAD, Spy, Rolling Stone, The Los Angeles Times, The Old Farmer’s Almanac, and American Libraries.
He has written and illustrated three children’s books based on The Mask for Dark Horse and two Spider-Man children's books for Marvel. His children’s comic “Society of Horrors” ran in Disney Adventures magazine. He was the artist for the new series of GUMBY Comics, written by Bob Burden, for which they received the 2007 Eisner Comic Industry Award for Best Publication for a Younger Audience.
His graphic novels include three adaptations for the Classics Illustrated, and the nine-volume series A Treasury of Victorian Murder for NBM Publishing. The new series A Treasury of 20th Century Murder began in 2008 with “The Lindbergh Child.” His other historically-based graphic novels include Cravan, written with Mike Richardson, and J. Edgar Hoover: A Graphic Biography.
Rick has received the Inkpot Award from the San Diego Comic Convention (1980) and the Book and Magazine Illustration Award from the National Cartoonists Society (1994).
He and his wife Deborah can be found every year at their table at San Diego’s Comic Con International. In 2007, they moved to the town of Carrizozo, New Mexico.
(from http://www.rickgeary.com/bio.html)
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Displaying 1 - 13 of 13 reviews
June 1, 2022
The characters all kind of look like Cabbage Patch Kids, and you would think that would take away from the darkness but it enhances the tragedy. It's like watching toys act out one of the greatest dramas in literature.
November 14, 2013
This is the last book Geary contributed to this series. I read Wuthering Heights once when I was an impressionable young teenager and remember loving it; I'm not sure if I would feel the same today should I reread it now that this has brought back to the story to me. I love the Gothic brooding story set upon the Yorkshire Moors (from whence I originate), but the overdramatic, possessive love story irritates me somewhat like a Jane Austin romance. However Geary has done a wonderful job of adapting such a complicated plot and paring it down to this brief book in hand. He has managed to capture the true essence of all the main characters of the meat of the story, Heathcliff, Cathy, Earnshaw, the Linleys and Nelley. The final part of the story featuring the children and heirs of these characters is somewhat less fully captured and progresses rapidly to the end but overall the book serves two purposes: for one who has read the story it brings back a tale you may have forgotten and in my case I certainly know I do want to re-read this and the other two famous Bronte sister books in the near future. Secondly, for one who hasn't read the original, it genuinely gives a summary of the story and could provoke reading of the classic. Geary's usual art style is very present here but I found the addition of colour not quite as pleasing to the eye as in his two previous books in this series. Geary will always be much loved in b/w by me. His unique character faces and facial expressions are great additions to the characters of the main participants. I only had a problem with Heathcliff who was presented as not being English by making him a strange sooty colour which made him appear dirty as if he was a chimney sweep. His ethnicity is never fully identified in the original novel. He is mainly described as a dark-skinned gypsy. Others remark he may be a "Lascar" mostly meaning of East Indian descent or an "American castaway" which perhaps could allude to being of African descent. However Geary's portrayal shows none of these ethnic traits but rather just someone sooty and at times rather greenish-looking. Overall I enjoyed the refresher on the story and am impressed with the Classics Illustrated series. I ventured into these as part of my Rick Geary reading but will continue on now to read the series for its own merit.
November 30, 2021
Despite some shortcuts, Geary's dreary art style and concise storytelling brings out enough of Wuthering Heights that readers will understand and appreciate the subtle nuances other adapters gloss over.
March 15, 2017
Surprisingly, this little book packs near enough the same emotional punch as the original. I found myself quite enthralled once again at Cathy and Heathcliffe's tale of woe.
July 25, 2023
* Comic book adaptation of a classic written by a woman
* Nice summary of the original novel (the ending is more rushed than I would have liked), but the artwork is not exactly eye-catching or inventive (someone said the characters look like Cabbage Patch Kids, and I can’t agree more)
* Story about intergenerational abuse and trauma, and how to break the cycle of violence (the break-the-cycle part would benefit from a deeper insight into the relationship between Cathy and Hareton)
* Nice summary of the original novel (the ending is more rushed than I would have liked), but the artwork is not exactly eye-catching or inventive (someone said the characters look like Cabbage Patch Kids, and I can’t agree more)
* Story about intergenerational abuse and trauma, and how to break the cycle of violence (the break-the-cycle part would benefit from a deeper insight into the relationship between Cathy and Hareton)
December 28, 2018
Wrong picture on the Berkley 1990 - NOT the "PAPERCUTS" edition.
NEVER TURN DOWN GEARY!
NEVER TURN DOWN GEARY!
October 3, 2025
Se tu gosta de fofoca. Vai amar esse livro kkkkkkkkkkkkkk a história da família de heartcliff e um enredo de novela das 9
February 13, 2026
This was one of several Classics Illustrated my mother purchased from somewhere like a Pic-N-Save in the '90s. I have treasured and re-read them ever since. As a result, Rick Geary is my favorite illustrator for comics and graphic novels.
A lot of people have immortalized Wuthering Heights as a tragic romance, but for me it's all about intergenerational trauma. It takes three generations of abusive behavior before Cathy and Hareton take steps overcome it and heal themselves. That is what makes me come back to it again and again. I wish admirers of this work would discuss that more.
A lot of people have immortalized Wuthering Heights as a tragic romance, but for me it's all about intergenerational trauma. It takes three generations of abusive behavior before Cathy and Hareton take steps overcome it and heal themselves. That is what makes me come back to it again and again. I wish admirers of this work would discuss that more.
January 5, 2012
I read Wuthering Heights in 6th grade and understood none of it. So it was great to have this edition to fill me in on what I'd missed. Rick Geary does a fabulous adaptation to my eyes, but I guess I wouldn't know since I've really never read the original. But now I see where V.C. Andrews got her ideas.
August 1, 2012
Great condensed telling of this sad story. I've seen better graphics though.
September 22, 2013
A solid story of revenge , love and tribulations....simply a classic in every sense of the word..
October 19, 2013
You can read my thoughts here. (3.5/5)
January 28, 2014
I loved revisiting one of my favourites stories in this format.
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