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Post by owaddled on Jul 11, 2023 17:07:18 GMT
Coming from the "collaborative comics" thread arecomicsevengood brought up adaptations of pre-existing texts. And recently Tom Shapira did an article for The Gutter Review on the 3 different adaptations of the Raven that Richard Corben did. I love the idea of an artist adapting the same story multiple times to show the different approaches that are possible. Detention No. 2 and Kirby's 2001: A Space Odyssey loom large in my mind. I know City of Glass is famous but I've never read it. Genre-wise I've heard good things about Darwyn Cooke's Parker books. The more I think about it I realize there are probably thousands of quasi-adaptations where the characters in an ongoing series re-enact or meet characters from an existing work like Sandman's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" or things like Dennis the Menace meeting Aladdin not to mention Classics Illustrated. |
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Post by awfulquiet on Jul 11, 2023 17:16:58 GMT
I think the Gundam Origin manga is a pretty good example of an anime seeing a successful, quality manga adaptation instead of the usual other way around.
the Marvel adaptations of Stephen King's Dark Tower/Gunslinger stories was pretty good as well.
Some great cartoon TV show comics as well. Simpsons, Ren & Stimpy, Beavis and Butthead.
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Post by bluebed on Jul 11, 2023 18:21:21 GMT
Mahler has done a number of adaptations, my favorite is Old Masters by Thomas Bernhardt—best comics adaptation of a novel that I’ve seen, arguably better than the original. His takes on Ulysses and Alice are more interpretative and I like them less.
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Post by robindh on Jul 11, 2023 19:56:52 GMT
Off the top of my head:
- City of Glass
- Bill Sienkiewicz's Moby Dick
- P. Craig Russell's opera and prose adaptations from Night Music
- Pablo Auladell's Paradise Lost
- Gianni de Luca's Shakespeare comics
- Paul Pope's adaptation of Rimbaud's Triumph of the Hunger
- David B. and Emmanuel Guibert's adaptation of Marcel Schwob's Le Capitaine Écarlate, also the 16th Lapin issue which was dedicated to adaptations of Schwob's stories
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Post by eheitner on Jul 12, 2023 12:59:28 GMT
Man one of my obsessions right now is tracking down any more chapters of a comics adaptation of "The Man Who Was Thursday"-- a project curated by Dylan Williams, intended for Orchid #2, assigning each chapter to a different cartoonist. The final collection was never published, but two cartoonists involved in the project have published their contributions as zines: John Hankiewicz and Chris Cilla. I highly recommend both if you ever see them available! Rumor is more complete chapters exist, contributors named by others include Ted May and Eric Haven if I'm recalling correctly.
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Post by localhero on Jul 12, 2023 13:49:26 GMT
It's only an adaptation in the loosest sense but I've got a real soft spot for Bill Mantlo and Sal Buscema's Rom: Spaceknight. Just real good storytelling that balances action and emotion. Even a Spaceknight can cry!!
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Post by cameronarthur on Jul 12, 2023 15:18:20 GMT
It's only an adaptation in the loosest sense but I've got a real soft spot for Bill Mantlo and Sal Buscema's Rom: Spaceknight. Just real good storytelling that balances action and emotion. Even a Spaceknight can cry!! Yes! And Bill Mantlo and Michael Golden on Micronauts! Another good adaptation of a toy line |
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Post by whitecomics on Jul 14, 2023 12:23:18 GMT
Man one of my obsessions right now is tracking down any more chapters of a comics adaptation of "The Man Who Was Thursday"-- a project curated by Dylan Williams, intended for Orchid #2, assigning each chapter to a different cartoonist. The final collection was never published, but two cartoonists involved in the project have published their contributions as zines: John Hankiewicz and Chris Cilla. I highly recommend both if you ever see them available! Rumor is more complete chapters exist, contributors named by others include Ted May and Eric Haven if I'm recalling correctly. Funny, I came here to mention the first Orchid which contained adaptations of various Victorian stories. Hit or miss to some extent but the best stories in it are great. Plus I can't think offhand of another anthology containing all adaptations. Is Ron Rege and Joan Reidy's Boys an adaptation or a collaboration? Or something in between? Either way, that's a perfect comic. |
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Post by eheitner on Jul 14, 2023 12:43:20 GMT
The Graphic Cannon but perhaps the less said of it the better  |
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Post by robindh on Jul 14, 2023 17:16:03 GMT
Above the Dreamless Dead is an anthology of adaptations of trench poetry, some really good stuff in there.
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Post by hnordlinger on Sept 19, 2023 23:38:02 GMT
Junji Ito's No Longer Human is one of my favorite comics of all time! Far more brutal and horrific than the original novel.
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Post by adamszym on Sept 20, 2023 0:23:22 GMT
Junji Ito's No Longer Human is one of my favorite comics of all time! Far more brutal and horrific than the original novel. This and his adaptation of Frankenstein are actually some of my favorite of Ito's work. The other book that comes to mind is Richard Corben's adaptation of Hodgson's The House on the Borderland. Incredible looking book! |
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Post by castingsigils on Sept 29, 2023 21:43:17 GMT
Off the top of my head:
- City of Glass
- Bill Sienkiewicz's Moby Dick
- P. Craig Russell's opera and prose adaptations from Night Music
- Pablo Auladell's Paradise Lost
- Gianni de Luca's Shakespeare comics
- Paul Pope's adaptation of Rimbaud's Triumph of the Hunger
- David B. and Emmanuel Guibert's adaptation of Marcel Schwob's Le Capitaine Écarlate, also the 16th Lapin issue which was dedicated to adaptations of Schwob's stories
i love paul auster so much ive been too scared to read city of glass |
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