Books
Twain’s stories carried into print and pixels. The collected paperback, and each story on its own as a fully illustrated graphic novel on Kindle.
In print
Mark Twain in an AI World
Volume One: Five Stories, Three Ways
Five of Twain’s funniest short pieces, each one printed three ways: the story as he published it, the same story retold in plain modern English, and the story told again in pictures as a graphic novel. The Jumping Frog, The Invalid’s Story, Journalism in Tennessee, The Stolen White Elephant, and Baker’s Blue-Jay Yarn, gathered in one 222-page collection.
Mark Twain in an AI World
Volume Two: Five Stories, Three Ways
Five more of Twain’s short pieces, each one printed three ways: the story as he published it, the same story retold in plain modern English, and the story told again in pictures as a graphic novel. The book closes on A True Story, set down in Aunt Rachel’s own voice, with no retelling.
On Kindle
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
by Mark Twain
Twain’s tall tale told in pictures: a frog with a bellyful of quail shot, and the stranger who filled him. The fully illustrated graphic novel.
The Invalid’s Story
by Mark Twain
A sealed train car, a box of rifles, and a wheel of cheese. Twain’s deadpan farce, drawn out panel by panel. The fully illustrated graphic novel.
Journalism in Tennessee
by Mark Twain
A mild new editor takes a desk at a frontier paper and spends one afternoon shot, bombed, and thrown out a window, while his chief calls it vigorous writing. The fully illustrated graphic novel.
The Stolen White Elephant
by Mark Twain
A sacred elephant bound for the Queen goes missing, and the celebrated Inspector Blunt mounts an investigation of magnificent thoroughness and no result whatever. The fully illustrated graphic novel.
Jim Baker’s Blue-Jay Yarn
by Mark Twain
A blue jay spends three hours trying to fill a house with acorns, and Jim Baker knows exactly what the bird was thinking the whole time. The fully illustrated graphic novel.
How I Edited an Agricultural Paper Once
by Mark Twain
A man who has never farmed edits a farm paper with perfect confidence, the town gathers on the stairs to gape, and the paper has never sold better. The fully illustrated graphic novel.
Political Economy
by Mark Twain
A man means to write a great essay while a lightning-rod salesman quietly buries his house in iron. The fully illustrated graphic novel.
A True Story
by Mark Twain
Twain’s verbatim 1874 Atlantic story of Aunt Rachel, born into slavery, and the son she lost and found again. A serious illustrated edition, with a full-page illustration on every page.
The Story of the Bad Little Boy
by Mark Twain
Every punishment the Sunday-school books promise never arrives. Twain’s wicked boy just prospers. The fully illustrated graphic novel.
The Story of the Good Little Boy
by Mark Twain
Jacob Blivens does every good deed by the book and is punished for all of it. Twain’s joke turned exactly around. The fully illustrated graphic novel.
Twain’s words are kept whole. The notes, retellings, and illustrations are new work by R. M. Hume, made with the help of AI.
Published by Straight Face Press™.