The Road by Cormac McCarthy is getting a comic adaptation by the guy that drew BLAST and Ordinary Victories, as well as some Donjon.
How do you feel comic book adaptations of prose? Any favorites? Any comic book adaptations of prose you'd be interested in seeing?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eisner_Award_for_Best_Adaptation_from_Another_Medium
No thanks, wake me up when All The Pretty Horses or No Country is adapted.
Oh look the shill posted it again. Nobody cares, blast sucked and the road is McCarthy’s worst novel.
>Road is McCarthy's worst novel
I think you mean Child of God.
t. didn't have a father
>the road is McCarthy’s worst novel.
That's All the Pretty Horses.
Still not bad though
sounds like the kind of meme comic that's taylor-made for reddit
Tailor-made you moron. The term is tailor-made. As in made by a tailor.
Why would a tailor make a comic book? moron.
Nta but why would Taylor Swift.
You are the moron, he is just pedantic.
There’s nothing pedantic about telling someone how to spell.
I'm sort of interested in Chaboute's Moby-Dick, but there's no way it's properly adapted. I'd imagine it would need prose sections like Watchmen when Ishmael gets into the whale facts.
I can see it being done in the style of an anatomy book.
Another one I'd like to read, but I haven't read Paradife Loft yet.
Yeah, some pages would be anatomical diagrams, and some of the others I can't picture any visual presentation other than text with a couple of images.
I’m not that big a fan of it but much better than Larcenet’s Blast! and likely this.
There was a short lived series of Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser adapted pretty faithfully from some of Fritz Lieber's stories by Denny O'Neil and Howard Chaykin.
https://desuarchive.org/co/thread/80029677/#80029677
There were also short-lived, accurate comics for some of Michael Moorewiener's other Eternal Champion characters, Hawkmoon and Corum.
It was posted back on 2018. I liked it, but much like The Road, I haven't read the original book yet.
https://desuarchive.org/co/thread/103125328/#103125328
https://desuarchive.org/co/thread/103149654/#103149654
Haven't gotten around to the original on this one either.
https://desuarchive.org/co/thread/118408171/#118408171
I loved those Parker comics, though I've still only read the original book of The Hunter because they came out with that print with some of Cooke's illustrations.
https://desuarchive.org/co/thread/76617130/#76617130
These fricking links better work.
It's a condensed version of the story obviously but I thought it was all right. Not his strongest comic.
SPLIT YOUR LUNGS WITH BLOOD AND THUNDER
there's a comic of Book of the New Sun
never been able to find scans
jolenta wanted the tbc btw
Bite the bullet and buy it. You can't wait for everyone to scan everything.
i dunno where to cop it if i'm being honest
i will if i can
No need to buy it but definitely read it for free eventually
Comic adaptations of prose are huge in Europe, and they usually do it pretty well. The ongoing Elric adaptations from 2014 have been very popular and the og author even said it was a superior version to the prose.
The Road is depressing and will probably be depressing in comic format too
i've never read mccarthy
if you storytime it i will read it
prolly has a lot to do with it
Heard good things about Slaughterhouse-Five, but the art is kinda shitty and Ryan North is an awful writer based on his other comics.
i enjoyed slaugherhouse five because of a throwaway childdsh gambino line
It's not for me, then.
I like the book. The comic seems too gay for me.
i'm talking about the book too?
I thought you meant there was a Childish Gambino reference in the comic.
Cooke’s Parker adaptations are the pinnacle for me. I really liked the Ted Adams and Jorge Coelho Gatsby as well.
I genuinely hated this adaptation.
>any comic book adaptation you'd be interested in seeing
animorphs (for mature readers because of the violence)
Scorpion Shards (a book, but i haven't read the sequel)
Gun, With Occasional Music
Crooked Little Vein
the same people who liked Daytripper would love Tuesdays with Morrie and those line of books by the same author
The Bat In My Pocket, and proceeds could go to Bat World Sanctuary and Bat Conservation International
>animorphs
b a s e d
Dracula by Georges Bess
it's a faithful adaptation of the novel
masterfully Illustrated, you'll hardly ever find a better one
>Dracula by Georges Bess
>Ted Adams and Jorge Coelho Gatsby
Interesting.
Is it OOP already?
I don't know if it's still in print or not, but Italy has the most obscene import/export taxes you could possible imagine. With all the extra bullshit you have to pay, it's like $70 total!
Highly recommend that gatsby. Great art, solid adaptation with no “modernizations” or alterations but very well showcased.
But Parker is the gold standard.
I own all four and read at least one of the Parker books every summer at the beach.
Any and all of the William Gibson trilogies: sprawl trilogy, bridge trilogy, blue ant trilogy or jackpot trilogy.
I didn't know these had comics.
The Hobbit even got a reprint recently, although the new cover art isn't as soulful.
I'm still hoping for a scan of Shakespeare in Comics.
oooo nice
The story of how The Hobbit was adapted into a comic is actually really interesting.
Details?
Eclipse Comics had a guy who's job was to trawl copyright archives and look for public domain shit they could adapt. One day he discovered that the original draft of The Hobbit (which was publicly available) was never copyrighted, thus making it fair game for adaptations. Eclipse rushed a comic version of it into production, but then one of the company's owners got an idea. He called up the Tolkien estate and told them what they were doing and gave them an ultimatum: Either hand over the official license to adapt the The Hobbit into comic form FOR FREE (though Tolkien's estate would share profits, of course) or they were going to go through with adapting the original draft and they would get NOTHING, plus they'd have to deal with there being an unlicensed comic version of one of their books on the market (the Tolkien estate famously HATED comics and had already denied Marvel adaptation rights to Lord of the Rings back in the 70s [which indirectly lead to them making Conan comics instead, but I digress...]). With no other option, they relented.
And that's why there still hasn't been another official Tolkien comic before or since.
Wow.
Weird ballsy move. Splitting profits just to get a practically blackmailed endorsement.
I guess you have to respect the hustle of it.
Whoa
The more I hear about Eclipse's business practices, the weirder and shadier they sound as a company. I'm not quite sure what to make of it, as someone who admires a lot of the comics they were publishing. As a case in point, the Eclipse Hobbit was a really well made comic. I suppose that if merit alone isn't enough to convince someone, then it shouldn't be a surprise that skulduggery becomes the next resort.
Nobody cares about a Chuck Dixon tale. God I’m so sick of that fricking homosexual
What's wrong with Dixon?
That poster is a homosexual.
Sorry you need to choose a different word, anon already called you a homosexual, Chuck. Even your Cinemaphile posts lack originality.
>I want to read McCarthy but I do not want to read his prose
deranged
I'm reading both.
The Forever War is good. Because Haldeman himself decided he wanted to make it a comic. He wrote the adaptation and went looking for an artist personally. As far as I'm concerned, that's the way to adapt a comic. All the other stuff is just merchandise.
>All the other stuff is just merchandise.
Huh?
This is the only graphic novel based on literature I’ve read, but I would recommend it.
Uses surrealist imagery to represent figurative language.
That's a good one.
I've been checking in on the Classics Illustrated storytime threads on the weekend, they're alright
Decent thread.
bump
Why?
why not?
I liked both Blast and The Road so I'm gonna buy the shit out of it if I can manage.