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Herman Mellville's Moby-Dick is one of the most well-regarded literary classics in the modern Western canon, but if illustrator Evan Dahm's latest crowdfunding venture is successful, it's about to be seen in a whole new light. With the classic having been in the public domain for many years, Dahm is seeking to release a hardcover of the original text paired with his own gorgeous illustrations, and the project is currently seeking funding on Kickstarter.

Since adapting "Dante's Inferno" into a video game, and then adapting that video game into a comic book wasn't ridiculous enough, EA will be releasing a new "novelization" in bookstores next week. While that initially sounded like they'd commissioned an original work of fiction based on the first cantica of Dante Alighieri's 14th century epic poem "The Divine Comedy,"