The end result of his endeavor is less an illustrated novel than a series of eerie, high art interpretations. — Marcela Valdes (Washington Post)
Zak Smith, with uninhibited bravado and exactly the right kind of insanity, has done something remarkable in [Pictures Showing What Happens on Each Page of Thomas Pynchon’s Novel Gravity’s Rainbow] : created a series of images that approach the richness of their source. He draws a lurid and intoxicating netherworld, complete in its own right and, at the same time, an illuminating companion to the novel. — Emily Barton (Los Angeles Times)
The drawings are surprisingly detailed, colorful and contemplative, adding new layers to the text and potentially earning Pynchon some new fans. — Whitney Matheson (USA Today)
[Pictures Showing What Happens on Each Page of Thomas Pynchon’s Novel Gravity’s Rainbow] can be enjoyed on its own or read simultaneously with the 1973 novel, putting Smith’s art next to those discursive, intricate, elusive, overwritten sentences.
— Jeff Baker (The Oregonian)
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