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.
>>143336019Oh look the shill posted it again. Nobody cares, blast sucked and the road is McCarthy’s worst novel.
>>143336019sounds like the kind of meme comic that's taylor-made for reddit
>>143336282Tailor-made you retard. The term is tailor-made. As in made by a tailor.
>>143336019I'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.
>>143336333I can see it being done in the style of an anatomy book.
>>143336306Why would a tailor make a comic book? moron.
>>143336282No, it's not capeslop.>taylor-madekek
>>143336397Nta but why would Taylor Swift.
>>143336333I’m not that big a fan of it but much better than Larcenet’s Blast! and likely this.
>>143336019there's a comic of Book of the New Sunnever been able to find scansjolenta wanted the tbc btw
>>143336511Bite the bullet and buy it. You can't wait for everyone to scan everything.
>>143336511No need to buy it but definitely read it for free eventually
>>143336589i dunno where to cop it if i'm being honesti will if i can
>>143336019Comic 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.
Another one I'd like to read, but I haven't read Paradife Loft yet.>>143336351Yeah, 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.
>>143336019The Road is depressing and will probably be depressing in comic format too
i've never read mccarthyif you storytime it i will read it>>143337037prolly has a lot to do with it
>>143336019Heard good things about Slaughterhouse-Five, but the art is kinda shitty and Ryan North is an awful writer based on his other comics.
Anyone read this?
>>143337766i enjoyed slaugherhouse five because of a throwaway childdsh gambino line
>>143338894It's not for me, then.
>>143339695
>>143339733I like the book. The comic seems too gay for me.
>>143339933i'm talking about the book too?
>>143340031I thought you meant there was a Childish Gambino reference in the comic.
>>143336019>any comic book adaptation you'd be interested in seeinganimorphs (for mature readers because of the violence)Scorpion Shards (a book, but i haven't read the sequel)Gun, With Occasional MusicCrooked Little Veinthe same people who liked Daytripper would love Tuesdays with Morrie and those line of books by the same authorThe Bat In My Pocket, and proceeds could go to Bat World Sanctuary and Bat Conservation International
>>143340630>animorphsb a s e d
Dracula by Georges Bessit's a faithful adaptation of the novelmasterfully Illustrated, you'll hardly ever find a better one
>>143336148I’ve noticed this too
>>143336019Cooke’s Parker adaptations are the pinnacle for me. I really liked the Ted Adams and Jorge Coelho Gatsby as well. >>143337766I genuinely hated this adaptation.
Any and all of the William Gibson trilogies: sprawl trilogy, bridge trilogy, blue ant trilogy or jackpot trilogy.
>>143336019I'm still hoping for a scan of Shakespeare in Comics.
>>143340842>Dracula by Georges Bess>>143340873>Ted Adams and Jorge Coelho GatsbyInteresting.>>143341078Is it OOP already?
>>143341078>>143341576oooo nice
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/#80029677There were also short-lived, accurate comics for some of Michael Moorecock's other Eternal Champion characters, Hawkmoon and Corum.>>143336333It 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/#103125328https://desuarchive.org/co/thread/103149654/#103149654>>143337766Haven't gotten around to the original on this one either.https://desuarchive.org/co/thread/118408171/#118408171>>143340873I 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/#76617130These fucking links better work.
>>143336333It's a condensed version of the story obviously but I thought it was all right. Not his strongest comic.
>>143341576I 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!
>>143340957>>143342501I didn't know these had comics.
>>143341576Highly recommend that gatsby. Great art, solid adaptation with no “modernizations” or alterations but very well showcased. But Parker is the gold standard. >>143341634I own all four and read at least one of the Parker books every summer at the beach.
>>143342872The Hobbit even got a reprint recently, although the new cover art isn't as soulful.
>I want to read McCarthy but I do not want to read his prosederanged
>>143342501>>143342872>>143343223The story of how The Hobbit was adapted into a comic is actually really interesting.
>>143343477I'm reading both.
>>143343635Details?
>>143343635Nobody cares about a Chuck Dixon tale. God I’m so sick of that fucking faggot
>>143344134Eclipse 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.
>>143344566Wow.
>>143344566Weird ballsy move. Splitting profits just to get a practically blackmailed endorsement.I guess you have to respect the hustle of it.
>>143344156What's wrong with Dixon?
>>143345426That poster is a faggot.
>>143336019The 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.
>>143336397You are the moron, he is just pedantic.
This is the only graphic novel based on literature I’ve read, but I would recommend it. Uses surrealist imagery to represent figurative language.
I've been checking in on the Classics Illustrated storytime threads on the weekend, they're alright
>>143346264There’s nothing pedantic about telling someone how to spell.
>>143345705Sorry you need to choose a different word, anon already called you a faggot, Chuck. Even your 4chan posts lack originality.
>>143346295That's a good one.
>>143346032>All the other stuff is just merchandise.Huh?
These two are getting released in my country, are they worth buying?>>143336019Larcenet also did Brodeck's Report which is based on a novel
>>143348712>Larcenet also did Brodeck's Report which is based on a novelRight. I don't think that one has been translated to English.
>>143344566Whoa
>>143336148>Road is McCarthy's worst novelI think you mean Child of God.
Decent thread.
>>143336148t. didn't have a father
>>143336148>the road is McCarthy’s worst novel.That's All the Pretty Horses.Still not bad though
>>143336333SPLIT YOUR LUNGS WITH BLOOD AND THUNDER
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>>143336019I liked both Blast and The Road so I'm gonna buy the shit out of it if I can manage.
>>143351177Why?
>>143344566The 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.
>>143352232why not?
>>143348712Quixote looks interesting.
