Heart of Darkness

A lifelong fascination with the places on the globe left unexplored leads Charles Marlow to take a job working for an ivory trading firm and setting out on a journey through Africa. While traveling aboard a steamship along the Congo River, Marlow witnesses the barbarity with which his fellow Europeans treat the natives they have subjugated and becomes increasingly obsessed with an ivory trader named Kurtz, who is either idolized as a genius or hated by seemingly everyone he encounters. Acclaimed cartoonist Kuper (Kafkaesque) approaches this adaptation with a mixture of respect for Conrad as a novelist and a keen sensitivity to postcolonial criticism of the text, frequently combining Conrad’s own language with visuals that confront or subvert the author’s colonialist perspective without losing any of the haunting power of the original.