DS Comic: Speranza's "Interrogation," Part 1 (of like 7 maybe?)
cesperanza gave me permission to use her work in a comic, so of course I had to do it! I was going to do maybe an excerpt, but, what the hell. I've started what will (according to my thumbnails) be a 20-page adaptation of her story, Interrogation.
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Artist's Notes: I'm really excited about this project--it's so much fun working with this source material (DS caps, Speranza dialogue, what could be better?) I only hope I can do the text and the guys' pretty, pretty faces some kind of justice. Well, I learn as I go. (I bet my art on the last few pages will be better than the first.)
As with any primarily visual adaptation, you're losing the non-dialogue prose, and for space constraints, I've had to omit some lines of dialogue and shorten others. Hopefully I manage to keep the spirit of the thing without skipping or butchering your favorite lines.
Rereading Speranza's stories with an eye for what could be adapted, "Interrogation" struck me as one of the most script-like already; it's mostly dialogue and succinct, vivid descriptions of action, facial expressions, and feelings (which can be translated into facial expressions). I doubt Speranza was planning this when she wrote it, but it turns out the beats are great for a comic, too. The shorter scenes seem to fit neatly onto one page, and a lot of the pages are going to end in a "punchline" (either a joke, or a bam! moment).
(And it's short. This is important to me. I will not be unemployed for much longer.)
It's also a story where Ray's electric, twitchy, fidgety motion just jumps off the page, in every scene he's in (which is most of them), and since that's apparently my strength as an artist, I'm going with it!
Anyway, I'll put more pages up as they get finished, and I hope you enjoy them as much as I'm enjoying making them!
[Crossposted to ds_noticeboard here]
Page 1
Page 2
Page 3
Artist's Notes: I'm really excited about this project--it's so much fun working with this source material (DS caps, Speranza dialogue, what could be better?) I only hope I can do the text and the guys' pretty, pretty faces some kind of justice. Well, I learn as I go. (I bet my art on the last few pages will be better than the first.)
As with any primarily visual adaptation, you're losing the non-dialogue prose, and for space constraints, I've had to omit some lines of dialogue and shorten others. Hopefully I manage to keep the spirit of the thing without skipping or butchering your favorite lines.
Rereading Speranza's stories with an eye for what could be adapted, "Interrogation" struck me as one of the most script-like already; it's mostly dialogue and succinct, vivid descriptions of action, facial expressions, and feelings (which can be translated into facial expressions). I doubt Speranza was planning this when she wrote it, but it turns out the beats are great for a comic, too. The shorter scenes seem to fit neatly onto one page, and a lot of the pages are going to end in a "punchline" (either a joke, or a bam! moment).
(And it's short. This is important to me. I will not be unemployed for much longer.)
It's also a story where Ray's electric, twitchy, fidgety motion just jumps off the page, in every scene he's in (which is most of them), and since that's apparently my strength as an artist, I'm going with it!
Anyway, I'll put more pages up as they get finished, and I hope you enjoy them as much as I'm enjoying making them!
[Crossposted to ds_noticeboard here]