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I'm sure I'm not the only comic book reader who spends more time than necessary dreaming up projects that will never occur either from legal, time, or mortal contraints. Always been fascinated by adaptations of literature because they so frequently fail and there are so many of them. The best ones you do not even need your whole hand to count. City of Glass/ Mazzuchelli, Book of Matthew/ Chester Brown, Stainless Steel Rat/ Ezquerra, and Lady Chatterley's Lover/ Damn I've forgotten his name but he's a genius and his surname begins with E. Here are my dream adaptations:

-Stars are my Destination-Bester: Flint in 2000ad.

-What Maisie Knew or The Bostonians-James: Dave Sim and Gerhard monthly.

-The Green Knight or The Bell -Murdoch: as newspaper strip by Neville Colvin.

-The Collected Father Brown-Chesterton: Gorey illustrating the crime scenes for each story.

-Nostromo- 300pg Alex Toth.

I'd quite like to see McMahon revisit old glories and do the Tian Bo Culainge (sp?)

he would be amazing on some of the old Irish stuff

A company in Galway is producing Irish language( "oh good god no" says everyone!) versions of these stories

I really liked the Táin one and the first St Patrick one An Sclabhai

Ah, theres a helpful translation up on the net


and...back on topic




now

Link: The Táin

I'll try a less Geekerific gag this time, my webfu seems to've confused the browser

 Hunt Emerson did Lady Chatterly

Ah Emerson, that's right.

Could come up with McMahon projects till the days's end. "The Cattle Raid of Cooley," (which is how one translation takes the piss out of the much more impressive sounding title,
"Tian Bo Culainge") would bring out the old Slaine Mcmahon I'm sure. Personally I would put him to work adapting the entirety of Kipling's Soldiers Three stories. If I could just get him to do, "With the Main Guard" I'd pass out with pleasure.

I once saw an adaptation of Cuchlainn stories in a Second Hand Bookshop when I lived In Glastonbury.

Top town, nice Slaine connections, My mate Kai was Angie Mill's son or so the rumour went...

Back on topic, I've just been sitting here Staring at Monkey: Journey into the West wondering who could do it justice, and remembered Jamie Hewllet's already done that...

John Wagner and Faser Irving on The Dice Man

I'd always prefer people to come up with something original.

Shit I just realised that's the team doing Button Man.

I was thinking more of Fraser's Storming heaven stuff, he's got a knack for dark Psychedelia.

Can't help feeling I've already seen a 'Stars My Destination / Tiger Tiger" adaptation back in the 80s... maybe in Heavy Metal?  Or did I dream it.  There is an animal called a bomb, and so forth.

No you're right Tordelback, it was by Howard Chaykin. It was not so hot.

You see, Cosh, that's the thing, the comics I listed ARE original. They add something to the story that was not there before. Kind of like Coppola added something to The Godfather. An adaptation can be a work of art with its own merits. That said, most comics adaptations are well drawn but stiff and lifeless.

That and I've been reading comics for as long as I could read. This has lead to the odd habit of whenever I read any book I try to think of a comics artist who would best suit the story. Still trying to come up with one for Dance to the Music of Time.

If you haven't seen Louis Le Brocquy's illustrations for the classic Kinsella translation for An Táin, do yourself a favour and Google away.  I think they are absolutely magnificent , and add hugely to what is already a great translation.

Link: Just a smattering.

That's the f##king shit.

thomas disch's incendiary 'the genocides' reads to me like a wagner & grant collaboration drawn by ezquerra.

how about henry flint on stephen baxter's 'exultant'?

i've wet my knickers!

Necro Post!

I was just thinking t'other day

Belardinelli doing Munchausen would've been lush...

The comic adaption of the Stars my Destination was pretty ordinary, but there's no reason why there couldn't be a good one....every time I read that book I think what a good movie it could be

I'd love to see some of the Kai Lung stories by Ernest Bramah adapted by Ian Gibson and a skillful script droid

The Dante team might do a good job on Lord Peter Wimsey

(to show I don't only read dead writers) I'd love to see Haruki Murakami's novels, especially Dance, Dance, Dance adapted by John Wagner or Alan Moore and, ummm, dunno, someone restrained and cool