Kondoru said:No Manga?
Both volumes of A Distant Neighborhood by Jiro Taniguchi are worth a look. I think someone already mentioned the Barefoot Gen series. If you want odd, disturbing manga, try Hideshi Hino's Panorama of Hell...
Kondoru said:No Manga?
Jerry_B said:Try and pretend that you've never seen the film - that's what I try to do as much as possible Joking aside, the film is really an adapted sketch of the story and events, so hopefully the GN will give you a better idea of what Moore had in mind.
Jerry_B said:Well, personally I think the film is awful. Very, very awful indeed It's not as if the original strip isn't something that could've gone to film pretty much as is. Moore's work from the period in which it was written is quite filmic anyway. The problem is that some people think that they can top Moore in terms of storytelling, and thus far this hasn't proven to be the case with film 'adaptions' of his work.
Set against the tumultuous political backdrop of late ’60s Chicago, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters is the fictional graphic diary of 10-year-old Karen Reyes, filled with B-movie horror and pulp monster magazines iconography. Karen Reyes tries to solve the murder of her enigmatic upstairs neighbor, Anka Silverberg, a holocaust survivor, while the interconnected stories of those around her unfold. When Karen’s investigation takes us back to Anka’s life in Nazi Germany, the reader discovers how the personal, the political, the past, and the present converge. Full-color illustrations throughout.Rendered in a kaleidoscopically and breathtakingly virtuosic visual style that combines panel sequences and montage, Emil Ferris’ draftsmanship echoes the drawing of Otto Dix, George Grosz, and Robert Crumb. My Favorite Thing Is Monsters is a revelatory work of striking originality and will undoubtedly be greeted as the debut graphic novel of the year.
Sandman's getting what looks like an audio adaptation. Some big names in the cast (hey, who wouldn't want to be in a gig like this?)
Not sure how that would work, given how reliant it was on visuals to convey other worlds and other worldly beings alongside the real world and real people.
Theatre of the mind. Radio has sucesfully done LOTR and Hitchhiker's Guide.
In case anyone's interested, there's a whole load of 2000AD content available as digital downloads from Humble Bundle just now: https://www.humblebundle.com/books/judge-dredd-2000-ad-more-books
There are three price tiers: $1, $8, and $15 (what happened to the beat-the-average tier?). I make it to be 39 volumes in total, which seems pretty keen value. This assumes you don't mind reading digital comics: I had a good experience with the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen on tablet, so I'm on board for this.
I'm actually quite excited: 2000AD was the comic I read as a kid. I bailed out around the time of the raggedy-man saga, which I think was the prelude to another epic Dredd storyline. Looking forward to seeing what I make of it 30 years down the line.
Also, I've been luckily enough to actually become an artist for 2000AD over the last few years. Nothing too ground-breaking, I'm a newb so am fighting for crumbs near the bottom of the pile, but I just submitted my fourth cover for the weekly prog a day or two ago.
I just stumbled onto this thread. Yes, the Monsters book is incredible! I ran across it in a local library, where it had been misfiled. I checked it out, read it, and immediately purchased a copy. The author was raised close to my childhood home, and our experiences are very similar. It was just fucking eerie to read and view the graphics which so closely matched my oddball childhood. It was like reading parts of my own biography.Emil Ferris' My Favorite Thing Is Monsters is an amazing tour de force - run not walk to check it out!
http://www.fantagraphics.com/myfavoritethingismonsters/
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/17/...-paralyzed-then-her-book-got-lost-at-sea.html