The Road: A Graphic Novel Adaptation

This graphic novel adapts Cormac McCarthy's Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Road, illustrated by cartoonist Manu Larcenet. McCarthy approved the project before his death, and the adaptation has the approval of the McCarthy estate. The adaptation won an Eisner Award. The story follows a nameless father and son attempting to survive in a postapocalyptic wasteland where Earth's natural resources have been depleted and some survivors resort to cannibalism. McCarthy's sparse, brutal prose is transformed into stark ink drawings that convey the novel's exploration of family love and human perseverance in bleak circumstances. The Road was dedicated to McCarthy's son, John Francis McCarthy. The novel received the Pulitzer Prize for Literature, the James Tait Black Memorial Award, and the Believer Award, and was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award. It was ranked 17th on The Guardian's 100 Best Novels of the 21st century.