![]() ![]() And the reason they survive is because they provide what people want: “More cartoons in books. You are still allowed to read comic books in the future. Until, finally, all that was left were trade journals, “three-dimensional sex magazines,” and. As the retired English professor Faber explains to the hero Guy Montag, firemen (the ones who burn books) aren’t even necessary to keep things in line since “the public itself stopped reading of its own accord.” On this point the cynical fire chief Beatty is in complete agreement, providing Montag with a crash course on how the book-reading public came over time to crave more and more sensation and want less and less of the classics. Though Fahrenheit 451 is often thought of as a warning against censorship, its outlawing of books is not something brought about by state pressure but public demand. The irony of turning Ray Bradbury’s classic tale of a book-burning future into a graphic novel was presumably not lost on artist Tim Hamilton. ![]() RAY BRADBURY’S FAHRENHEIT 451: THE AUTHORIZED ADAPTATION ![]()
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