Title: Books into strips
Post by: Kerrin on 15 August, 2008, 07:23:50 AM
Post by: Kerrin on 15 August, 2008, 07:23:50 AM
Being a neophyte you'll have to forgive me if this is an existing thread (if that is the case, could some kindly cyborg, teapot or prefect show me the light in the form of a link), but I'll run it up the block flagpole anyway.
For a long time now it's occured to me that there are a few books,trilogies and sagas that with a sympathetic writer/artist treatment would make excellent long run graphic serialisations in the Galaxy's Greatest.
Stainless Steel Rat is last one I can remember, but then my memory never was...um.
I know publishing rights and all that other arcane guff would almost certainly put paid to any suggestion, but I just wanted to lob a couple out there and see if the rest of the faithful had any ideas.
Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe. Simon Fraser as artist. This would make me a very happy bunny.
Altered Carbon by Richard Morgan. Cam Kennedy on crayons?
The Greg Mandel detective novels by Peter F Hamilton. The Bolland Droid.
There are many more where they came from but I'd love to hear what anybody thinks of these suggestions or what ideas you have of your own in this vein.
Again I hope I've posted this in the right place, still getting the the hang of this chatroom mallarky.
For a long time now it's occured to me that there are a few books,trilogies and sagas that with a sympathetic writer/artist treatment would make excellent long run graphic serialisations in the Galaxy's Greatest.
Stainless Steel Rat is last one I can remember, but then my memory never was...um.
I know publishing rights and all that other arcane guff would almost certainly put paid to any suggestion, but I just wanted to lob a couple out there and see if the rest of the faithful had any ideas.
Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe. Simon Fraser as artist. This would make me a very happy bunny.
Altered Carbon by Richard Morgan. Cam Kennedy on crayons?
The Greg Mandel detective novels by Peter F Hamilton. The Bolland Droid.
There are many more where they came from but I'd love to hear what anybody thinks of these suggestions or what ideas you have of your own in this vein.
Again I hope I've posted this in the right place, still getting the the hang of this chatroom mallarky.
Title: Re: Books into strips
Post by: Woolly on 22 August, 2008, 11:59:48 AM
Post by: Woolly on 22 August, 2008, 11:59:48 AM
I always thought some of the old Dredd novels from the 90's could work if serielised in the prog/meg, especially Dredd Dominion as it was aces 
Dont know if theyre considered 'canon' or not, maybe as seperate graphic novels aimed at the American market?
Dont know if theyre considered 'canon' or not, maybe as seperate graphic novels aimed at the American market?
Title: Re: Books into strips
Post by: Bongo Jack on 22 August, 2008, 04:05:08 PM
Post by: Bongo Jack on 22 August, 2008, 04:05:08 PM
I can't recall reading any decent comic adaptations of novels off the top of my head. Perhaps Stainless Steel Rat was the exception (it was a little before my time, so you may have to pardon my ignorance), but based on Synnamon's 2000ad-ifying Iain banks' Culture setting, I suspect taking good books and dumbing them down/decompressing their narrative might not be the way forward. Then there's A life Less Ordinary and Urban Strike - 2000ad stories are a particular breed in themselves (dare I say an aquired taste), and generally don't seem to work when you start trying to hammer them into the shape of a different medium.
Novels aren't comics - that's not to say there hasn't been or will never be a good adaptation from one form to another, but I believe they're pretty rare.
(of course, I have read Anne Rice graphic novels, so I may have been spoiled off the genre forever)
Novels aren't comics - that's not to say there hasn't been or will never be a good adaptation from one form to another, but I believe they're pretty rare.
(of course, I have read Anne Rice graphic novels, so I may have been spoiled off the genre forever)