If you are someone who until this point has defined yourself as the sort of person who reads Penguin Classics, not comic books, I have bad news for you: Comic books are now Penguin Classics.

This is the signature design of Penguin Classics, the division of Penguin Publishing that, for over 75 years, has put the canon of Western literature from Homer to Hawthorne in the hands of readers.

Damien Warren-Smith has been performing as Garry Starr since 2018, and he wears less and less with each show. His latest won the top prize at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.

Last year, Penguin Classics began publishing collections of Marvel Comics under its banner—a groundbreaking example of comics representation in literature—beginning with Black Panther ...

Poetry has its own section. I have shelves of books I worked on at Oxford University Press, and shelves for series I originated for Penguin Classics. One shelf holds some of the last remaining ...

Penguin Classics’ new line of Marvel collections, at least in theory, are different. Rather than Marvel itself saying “these Spider-Man comics are important,” it’s Penguin Classics ...

In September, 2023, Penguin Classics, the venerable publisher of elegant Anglophile editions and portable canonical texts—Robert Fagles’s translation of Virgil’s Aeneid, Thomas Hardy’s ...

Penguin Classics art director Jim Stoddart shares the story behind the publisher’s special edition series, which is envisioned as a “love letter” to its design heritage Penguin’s story started in 1935 ...

Sony Pictures Classics has acquired “The Penguin Lessons,” an uplifting dramedy starring Steve Coogan as a teacher who forms an unlikely bond with a feathered friend. Peter Cattaneo directed ...

Sony Pictures Classics has acquired "The Penguin Lessons," an uplifting dramedy starring Steve Coogan as a teacher who forms an unlikely bond with a feathered friend. Peter Cattaneo directed the ...