Robert Crumb and Will Eisner among 130 illustrators contributing to 1,344-page condensation of all western – and some oriental – literatureFrom The Epic of Gilgamesh to Infinite Jest via Dante, Dangerous Liaisons and Dubliners, the western canon is set to be turned into a 1,344-page, three-volume graphic novel.The ambitious project from New York press Seven Stories is being hailed as the "graphic publishing literary event of the year". Each of the 189 works of literature covered is being interpreted by a comics artist, with 130 illustrators contributing to the project including Robert Crumb, Will Eisner and Hunt Emerson. The first volume of The Graphic Canon – "From The Epic of Gilgamesh to Shakespeare to Dangerous Liaisons" – is out in ...