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* Jess Nevins has a cottage industry annotating Creator/AlanMoore's ''Comicbook/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen''. An interesting variation in that his annotations are not published '''with''' the books, but first on the web, and, at least for Vols. I and II and ''The Black Dossier'', in book form separately (''Heroes and Monsters'', ''A Blazing World'', and ''Impossible Territories'', respectively). Moore has said that the existence of these annotations meant that "we could be as obscure and far-reaching as we wanted".

* Creator/NeilGaiman's ''ComicBook/TheSandman'' was released in an annotated four-volume set. An interesting variation here, as the annotated version has reprinted the entire series without color, using the original black-and-white line-art, as opposed to being a strict reprint with added footnotes.

* ''Literature/TheScrewtapeLetters: Annotated Edition'' features extensive notes from Paul [=McCusker=], explaining numerous references to classic literature, contemporary events, and author C.S. Lewis' own life. [=McCusker=] also points out the philosophical or religious topics that [[CallBack Lewis had already discussed in prior writings]] or [[{{Foreshadowing}} would cover in more detail in the future]]. He models the formatting after the aforementioned ''Annotated Alice'', and outright credits that text as his inspiration for the entire project.

* David Willis adorns every page of his ''Webcomic/{{Shortpacked}}'' collections with annotations, and scatters them sporadically about the Webcomic/{{Walkyverse}} collections.

* Some of Creator/KimNewman's books, especially the ''Literature/DiogenesClub'' series and related works, has annotations at the back, explaining bits of worldbuilding that didn't make it into the text, some (but by no means all) of the crossover characters, and RealLife references that people from outside the UK or born after 1970 might be unfamiliar with.

* Some of Creator/KimNewman's books, especially the ''Literature/DiogenesClub'' series and related works, has annotations at the back, explaining bits of worldbuilding that didn't make it into the text, some (but by no means all) of the crossover chaacters, and RealLife references that people from outside the UK or born after 1970 might be unfamiliar with.

* Creator/TSEliot provided some endnotes of his own for his poem "Literature/TheWasteLand"; the poem includes untranslated quotes from various sources. Unfortunately, the endnotes are sometimes almost as obscure as the poem itself.

** A lot of Asimov's short story collections have forewords and/or afterwords to each story which provide lots of background and commentary, often as entertaining as the stories themselves. This started as Asimov's way of putting off his publishers' requests for an autobiography.

*** A lot of Asimov's short story collections have forewords and/or afterwords to each story which provide lots of background and commentary, often as entertaining as the stories themselves. This started as Asimov's way of putting off his publishers' requests for an autobiography.

* The ''{{Literature/Flashman}}'' series has this as well. The annotations play with the LiteraryAgentHypothesis, and as well as explaining the various allusions and Victorian pop-culture references, point out [[HandWave occasions on which the eponymous character must have been mistaken, or exaggerated for effect]].

* Creator/NeilGaiman's ''ComicBook/TheSandman'' is being released in an annotated four-volume set. An interesting variation here, as the annotated version has reprinted the entire series without color, using the original black-and-white line-art, as opposed to being a strict reprint with added footnotes.

* Jess Nevins has a cottage industry annotating Creator/AlanMoore's ''Comicbook/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen''. An interesting variation in that his annotations are not published '''with''' the books, but first on the web, and, at least for Vols. I and II, in book form separately (''Heroes and Monsters'' and ''The Blazing World''). Moore has said that the existence of these annotations meant that "we could be as obscure and far-reaching as we wanted".
** Nevins has also posted annotations online for ''ComicBook/KingdomCome'', ''ComicBook/TopTen'', ''ComicBook/TheNail'', and other comics.
** Most recently, Nevins has compiled annotations for ''ComicBook/{{Fables}}'' which were officially published by DC as ''The Fables Encydlopedia''.

* Adolf Hitler's ''Literature/MeinKampf'' is only available legally as an annotated, censored edition in Germany, with entire parts of the original book missing.

* An annotated version of ''Franchise/StarWars'': ''[[Literature/TheThrawnTrilogy Heir to the Empire]]'' was released for the book's [[MilestoneCelebration 20th anniversary]].

This is very common with textbook editions of texts using foreign languages or archaic forms of English, usually to explain [[ValuesDissonance idioms that would never make sense]] [[SmallReferencePools to us modern, English-speaking folk]]. For instance, pretty much anything Creator/{{Shakespeare}} wrote has a few annotated editions. ''Literature/TheCanterburyTales'' and ''Literature/{{Beowulf}}'', being written in Middle and Old English respectively, are also commonly available in annotated editions.

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* ComicBook/{{Watchmen}} has received two of them; one is an unofficial version, while another is a large hardcover that reprints the entire book in black and white but adds many annotations and notes about the story to go with it.

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* Jess Nevins has a cottage industry annotating Creator/AlanMoore's ''Comicbook/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen''. An interesting variation in that his annotations are not published WITH the books, but first on the web, and, at least for Vols. I and II, in book form separately (''Heroes And Monsters'' and ''The Blazing World''). Moore has said that the existence of these annotations meant that "we could be as obscure and far-reaching as we wanted".

* Creator/NeilGaiman's ''ComicBook/TheSandman'' is being released in an annotated four-volume set. An interesting variation here, as the annotated version has reprinted the entire series without colour, using the original black-and-white line-art, as opposed to being a strict reprint with added footnotes.
* While The Complete Franchise/{{Peanuts}} does not have annotations, there is an online set of annotations for the various volumes here: [[http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Annotations_of_The_Complete_Peanuts]].

[[folder: Literature Reprints]]