• This edition is a tie-in to the forthcoming movie Howl, which stars James Franco and will be released in limited theaters and on video on demand on 9/24/10, expanding to other theaters in the following weeks. We will work with Oscilloscope to promote the book.

For the last four years, Eric Drooker has worked as the Animation Designer for a film about Allen Ginsberg’s ground-breaking poem, “Howl,” that had its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in February, 2010. The film is an unusual blend of live action and animation, and stars James Franco as Ginsberg; and features John Hamm (of Mad Men), David Strathairn, Mary-Louise Parker, and others. It’s been directed and produced by two-time Academy Award-winners Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman.
Eric Drooker recognized that the artwork he created for the film would make a powerful book as well. This volume illustrates the full text of Ginsberg’s epic poem in the popular form of a graphic novel, and adapts the rich imagery from the film’s animated sequences. Howl: A Graphic Novel visualizes the poem stanza by stanza with actual frames from the studio's animation.
In the book’s introduction, Drooker tells the story of his friendship with Allen Ginsberg, and describes how he was ultimately hired to animate the prophetic poem.