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** Nevins has also posted annotations for ''KingdomCome'', ''TopTen'', ''TheNail'', and other comics.

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

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 {{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.

Also common with certain classic works of {{Literature}}, especially those with a reputation for being "dense." ''FinnegansWake'' and ''{{Ulysses}}'' by JamesJoyce can be nearly impenetrable without annotation.

* ''The Annotated Alice'', an omnibus edition of ''Literature/AliceInWonderland'' and ''[[Literature/AliceInWonderland Through the Looking Glass]]'' with annotations by MartinGardner explaining historical context, obscure in-jokes, etc.

* Almost all editions of {{Shakespeare}}'s plays are annotated in some fashion.

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A version of a written text, more often than not a collection of previously released material, that contains notes from the author ([[WordOfDante or someone else with insight into the work]]) in footnotes or sidebars.

* A few of the ''{{Dilbert}}'' collections (usually the specialized ones) also have text commentary.

** Nevins has also posted annotations for ''KingdomCome'', ''TopTen'', ''TheNail'', and other comics.

* Leonard Wolf's ''The Annotated Dracula'' (1975) explained a great deal of background information about the work that most readers wouldn't know about.

** [[IanMcKellen Ian McKellan]] published an Annotated edition of his screenplay for the 1995 film adaptation of ''RichardIII'', and it's an invaluable look at the process of adapting Shakesepeare to the screen. It's also available for free reading on his [[http://www.mckellen.com/cinema/richard/screenplay/index.htm website]].

* The printed collections of ''PennyArcade'' have text commentary.

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

* ''The Annotated SherlockHolmes'' is a two volume onmibus of all of ArthurConanDoyle's Holmes stories, in best-guess chronological order, with lots of annotations.

This is very common with textbook editions of texts using foreign languages or archaic forms of English. For instance, pretty much anything {{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.

This is very common with textbook editions of texts using foreign languages or archaic forms of English. For instance, pretty much anything {{Shakespeare}} wrote has a few annotated editions. ''Literature/CanterburyTales'' and ''Literature/{{Beowulf}}'', being written in Middle and Old English respectively, are also commonly available in annotated editions.

This is very common with textbook editions of texts using foreign languages or archaic forms of English. For instance, pretty much anything {{Shakespeare}} wrote has a few annotated editions. ''CanterburyTales'' and ''Literature/{{Beowulf}}'', being written in Middle and Old English respectively, are also commonly available in annotated editions.

* TheArtOfWar is commonly released in annotated editions, because some of the things said in it are vague, and some context is useful, and other things require some knowledge of early chinese history to make sense.
* TheBible has a multitude of annotations. And these have annotations of their own.

* Most good editions of TheDivineComedy are heavily annotated: at the remove of 700 years or so, and given that Dante went on {{Author Tract}}s and {{Author Filibuster}}s in long stretches of the work about now-forgotten Florentine politicians or abstruse theological issues, it's often very difficult to tell who's who or what Dante is on about now without extensive footnotes.

* ''The Annotated Alice'', an omnibus edition of ''AliceInWonderland'' and ''ThroughTheLookingGlass'' with annotations by MartinGardner explaining historical context, obscure in-jokes, etc.

This is very common with textbook editions of texts using foreign languages or archaic forms of English. For instance, pretty much anything {{Shakespeare}} wrote has a few annotated editions. ''CanterburyTales'' and ''{{Beowulf}}'', being written in Middle and Old English respectively, are also commonly available in annotated editions.

** Nevins has also posted annotations for ''KingdomCome'', ''Top10'', ''TheNail'', and other comics.

* Jess Nevins has a cottage industry annotating AlanMoore's ''LeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen''. 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".

* InUniverse example: [[http://markrosewater.tumblr.com/post/11993290182 This]] ''TalesFromThePit'' comic is an annotated version of the previous comic.

This is very common with textbook editions of texts using foreign languages or archaic forms of English. For instance, pretty much anything Shakespeare wrote has a few annotated editions. ''CanterburyTales'' and ''{{Beowulf}}'', being written in Middle and Old English respectively, are also commonly available in annotated editions.

* The classic long-form poem ''TheRimeOfTheAncientMariner'' was reprinted twice: once with revised language and once with a "gloss" that explained several things.

* ''QueenOfWands'' did rapid-fire annotated reruns after the comic was completed.

* ''BobAndGeorge'' has the [[http://www.bobandgeorge.com/archives/000401c on-site commentary]], which currently goes up to July 20, 2003.

* ''BloomCounty: The Complete Library'' has annotations to explain then-relevant pop-culture references and explain who the political figures being caricatured are. Notes Breathed himself pop up from time to time to explain character origins or thought processes, but mostly just to tell us which strips he thinks are his [[FunnyMoments crowning moments of funny]] and which are {{Old Shame}}s.

* The classic long-form poem ''The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner'' was reprinted twice: once with revised language and once with a "gloss" that explained several things.

* Most good editions of TheDivineComedy are heavily annotated: at the remove of 700 years or so, and given that Dante went on {{AuthorTract}}s and {{AuthorFilibuster}}s in long stretches of the work about now-forgotten Florentine politicians or abstruse theological issues, it's often very difficult to tell who's who or what Dante is on about now without extensive footnotes.

* Most good editions of TheDivineComedy are heavily annotated: at the remove of 700 years or so, and given that Dante went on AuthorTracts and AuthorFilibusters in long stretches of the work about now-forgotten Florentine politicians or abstruse theological issues, it's often very difficult to tell who's who or what Dante is on about now without extensive footnotes.

It can also serve as a way to explain creative decisions and whatnot if the person doing the annotating is A) still alive and B) the one doing the annotations. This variant is very common in collections of comics.

A version of a written text, more often than not a collection of previously released material, that contains notes from the author ([[WordOfDante or someone else with insight into the work]]) in footnotes or going down the sides.

This is very common with textbook editions of texts using foreign languages or archaic forms of English. For instance, pretty much anything Shakespeare wrote has a few annotated editions. CanterburyTales and {{Beowulf}}, being written in Middle and Old English respectively, are also commonly available in annotated editions.

Also common with certain classic works of {{Literature}}, especially those with a reputation for being "dense." FinnegansWake and {{Ulysses}} by JamesJoyce can be nearly impenetrable without annotation.

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* ''{{Narbonic}}'' is a special case, in that it's available in a ''seperate'' annotated edition, which came after the "vanilla" release was completed.

A book, more often than not a collection of previously released material, that contains notes from the author ([[WordOfDante or someone else with insight into the work]]) in footnotes or going down the sides.