Today on the ever distracting Twitter I ask "What's the one book (lit.) that you'd give anything to adapt for comics?"The problem with my top two choices (The Jungle Book by Kipling and The Invisible Man by Wells) is that they've already been done to great effect. Meaning, I just found out what Jeff Lemire's The Nobody is about, and there's no way I'm going to do better than him. P. Craig Russell did a great adaptation of The Jungle Book so I wouldn't even try that one. This puts me in the position of picking another of my favorite books, which has me squarely in Hemingway territory. Of course, I'd much rather see Frank Espinosa's adaptation of The Old Man and the Sea. I suppose if I had to pick one I'd love to do For Whom the Bell Tolls. But still, Invisible Man would be a blast.
So hey you out there, what's the book you'd love to adapt given the chance to do so?
5 of these things are not like the others:
The Big Sleep, without a doubt.
Probably 'the Gentle Assassin' by JG Ballard, it's only a short so I hope to get round to it one day.
Fahrenheit 451
The ones I want have been done, of course. Edgar Allen Poe. James Bond short stories by Ian Fleming, like 'From a view to kill' and 'Octopussy.' Perhaps some of the scenes in Death on the installment plan. Or in Confederacy of Dunces. Ooh, wouldn't Dune be fun... What wouldn't be fun?!
holy bouncing page changes!! I was given a book to adapt I would want to do The Man in the Iron Mask.
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