I’ve been collecting Eureka Press’ Graphic Classics for over ten years, ever since we received a review copy of Volume 1: Edgar Allan Poe, in 2001 (back when they were Rosebud Graphic Classics, a spin-off of Rosebud magazine). Tom Pomplun, longtime Art Director for Rosebud, started up Eureka Press that year to produce high quality comics anthologies, and in the last decade he’s published nearly two dozen volumes, including several that have gone through multiple editions.

A typical issue of Graphic Classics is 144 densely-packed black & white pages, containing loving adaptions of classic stories by some of the best talents in comics — including Rick Geary, Gahan Wilson, Richard Sala, Mark A. Nelson, Alex Nino, Skip Williamson, Richard Corben, Hunt Emerson, and many others. Matt Howarth’s 22-page rendition of “The Shadow Out of Time” in Graphic Classics: H. P. Lovecraft may be the finest comics adaptation I’ve ever read, period. It captured the chilling mood of that piece perfectly.

Eureka has just announced a limited-time half-price sale on their entire line of in-stock GRAPHIC CLASSICS. The sale runs August 1 through August 14, 2012, and applies only to direct sales through their website. A partial list of titles in the sale include:

• GRAPHIC CLASSICS: EDGAR ALLAN POE – $12.95 retail / ON SALE $5
• GRAPHIC CLASSICS: ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE — $11.95 retail / ON SALE $5
• GRAPHIC CLASSICS: H.P. LOVECRAFT  —  $11.95 retail / ON SALE $5
• GRAPHIC CLASSICS: JACK LONDON  —  $11.95 retail / ON SALE $5
• GRAPHIC CLASSICS: AMBROSE BIERCE  —  $11.95 retail / ON SALE $5
• GRAPHIC CLASSICS: BRAM STOKER  —  $11.95 retail / ON SALE $5
• GRAPHIC CLASSICS: ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON  —  b&w / $12.95 retail / ON SALE $5
• HORROR CLASSICS: Graphic Classics Vol 10  —  $9.95 retail / ON SALE $5
• ADVENTURE CLASSICS: Graphic Classics Vol 12  —  $11.95 retail / ON SALE $5
• GRAPHIC CLASSICS: RAFAEL SABATINI   —  $11.95 retail / ON SALE $5
• GOTHIC CLASSICS: Graphic Classics Vol 14   —  $11.95 retail / ON SALE $5
• FANTASY CLASSICS: Graphic Classics Vol 15  —  $11.95 retail / ON SALE $5
• SCIENCE FICTION CLASSICS: Graphic Classics Vol 17  —  color / $17.95 retail / ON SALE $7.50
• POE’S TALES OF MYSTERY: Graphic Classics Vol 21  —  color / $17.95 retail / ON SALE $7.50

Note that some volumes are in low supply, and there is a $10 minimum purchase.