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Collected Comics Library Podcast #278
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As most of you know, I’m a co-host on the Comic Book Page Podcast with John Mayo. Each month John and I discuss the Top 300 Graphic Novels and Collected Edition Sales Estimates as reported by Diamond Comics Distributors. One thing that has caught my attention over the years has bee the increasing number of comic book adaptations of original prose novels there have been – and how well they sell. This is really nothing new however, Tarzan and Conan novels have been adapted and there was even the great Classic Illustrated Series. More recently Roy Thomas and Marvel brought back that title and even expanded their line of comics with the Best Selling Author series which includes Stephen King’s The Stand. Boom Studios! is also in the mix with Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? the basis for Blade Runner. But there is one contemporary title title that we have yet to see: Harry Potter. As I explain in today’s podcast, now that Marvel is owned by Disney and the final Potter movie is set to be released (Part One this Christmas and Part Two next summer) it would be the perfect time to announce this monumental project at this years Comic Con. Do it now while Potter fever is still hot. At the biggest stage in the world declare to the biggest fanboy audience in the world it and introduce committed team of artists and writers, have J.K. Rowling oversee the entire creative process, make it at least a 100 issues series covering all seven books. It would be one of, if not, the biggest projects to come out of San Diego this year.
What are some of the best comic book adaptations?
Also on the show I catch up with the week’s news including the passing of Harvey Pekar with a book recommendation of Underground Classics The Transformation of Comics into Comix by James Danky and Denis Kitchen ($29.95, Abrams ComicArts), The Harvey Awards, what’s going on with Marvelman and the New Releases of the Week.
Chris
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As far as novel adaptations go, I haven’t read many at all but the 2 that stick out in my mind is the recent Wizard of Oz released by Marvel (Skottie Young can draw like a bastard) and the adaptation of Farenheit 451. I read the book while at school and loved it and was pleasantly suprised by the graphic novel.
So much so this book won an Eisner at Comic Con this past weekend. Fanboys may quaff at Oz, but it’s worth a look. Eric is by far THE Oz Historian (classic prose, comics, movie, tv or otherwise) and his collaboration with Scottie is simply amazing!