Eisner award nominations have got my attention
Clearly, I've not been paying enough attention to my graphic-novel email list, not to mention totally ignoring icv2. I was reading the list of Eisner nominations and OMG somebody made a graphic novel of A Wrinkle In Time! Wow. I had to check it out right away--that was one of my first SF books and I love it to bits, not to mention many of L'Engle's other writings. She's been an influence on me as a writer and a human being (a fair amount of my liberal Christianity and general humanism can be laid at her Congregational/Episcopal/universalist doorstep) And it looks promising. i've read part of Ch. 1 and much of Ch. 2 online, and while it's not in an artistic style I'm normally crazy about (I would have preferred something more along the lines of Kori Michelle Handwerker or Terry Moore), the artist/adapter has captured the characters quite well. In particular Hope Larson seems to have breathed Meg and Charles Wallace's souls into the drawings. And the fact that she both adapted the book (being quite faithful to it) and is the artist lends a lovely unity to what I've seen so far. I'm not going on Eisner nominees and a chapter or two alone--the average Goodreads rating is 4 stars out of 5, and Cory Doctorow and his daughter thoroughly enjoyed it also. It just might be the next purchase for my still-shiny beloved iPad (which I'm typing this on despite losing nearly all the above text with one misdirected poke of my finger!)
There's lots of buzz about Building Stories and its innovative format (read: 14 pieces; my colleagues have been posting laments about how hard it is to catalog and how the pieces will disappear). I might need to get that one too, to play with creatively. Again, it's not one of the "pretty" styles I like but wow, the concept is so seductive, especially for someone like me who loves playing with other people's stories, not to mention my love of papercrafting and dollhouses.
There's lots of buzz about Building Stories and its innovative format (read: 14 pieces; my colleagues have been posting laments about how hard it is to catalog and how the pieces will disappear). I might need to get that one too, to play with creatively. Again, it's not one of the "pretty" styles I like but wow, the concept is so seductive, especially for someone like me who loves playing with other people's stories, not to mention my love of papercrafting and dollhouses.