Slaughterhouse-Five

By Kurt Vonnegut, Ryan North and Albert Monteys

With Kurt Vonnegut’s seminal anti-war story, Slaughterhouse-Five, Eisner Award-winning writer Ryan North (Unbeatable Squirrel Girl) and Eisner Award-nominated artist Albert Monteys (Universe!) translate a literary classic into comic book form in the tradition of A Wrinkle in Time and Fight Club 2. Billy Pilgrim has read Kilgore Trout and opened a successful optometry business. Billy Pilgrim has built a loving family and witnessed the firebombing of Dresden. Billy Pilgrim has traveled to the planet Tralfamadore and met Kurt Vonnegut. Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time. Slaughterhouse-Five is at once a farcical look at the horror and tragedy of war where children are placed on the frontlines and die (so it goes), and a moving examination of what it means to be a fallible human.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Archaia
• Release date: Sep 23, 2020
• ISBN: 9781646680375

Kurt Vonnegut

Kurt Vonnegut (1922-2007) is one of the most beloved American writers of the twentieth century. Vonnegut began his career as a science fiction writer, and his early novels—Player Piano and The Sirens of Titan—were categorized as such even as they appealed to an audience far beyond the reach of the category. In the 1960s, Vonnegut became closely associated with the Baby Boomer generation, a writer on that side, so to speak. Scholars believe that Vonnegut’s reputation (like Mark Twain’s) will grow steadily through the decades as his work continues to increase in relevance and new connections are formed, new insights made.

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Reviews for Slaughterhouse-Five

[U.L. Harper · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Kind of amazing. There were some scenes I wish they represented in this adaptation. I missed them because it's such a good adaptation, and I imagine it would have been hard to figure out. It's just kind of bonkers. Very much loved it. Just great content. It carries the tone well. It does a great job depicting Billy Pilgrim as having gone so wise and knowledgeable that he looks pretty crazy. Oh, and he might be. So much fun with this.

[Ženija Minka · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Phenomenal. I had read the novel before, but this adaptation invoked much more of an understanding.