BookExpo America, the largest industry convention for publishers, booksellers, librarians, and other folks in the industry, runs at the Javits Center in New York this week. It’s often used as a stalking ground for movie and TV studios to snap up properties for adaptations, so one wonders– what books should be adapted into comics form, and by who?
There have been a number of interesting translations over the years. The biggest success story of the past few years have included Darwyn Cooke’s adaptations of Richard Stark’s The Hunter and The Outfit and Marvel’s adaptations of Stephen King’s The Dark Tower by Peter David and Jae Lee, but there have been many others, from the recent adaptations of Ayn Rand’s Anthem, Marvel’s Wizard of Oz and Ender’s Game, Dynamite’s adaptations of Robert Jordan’s The Wheel Of Time, Boom!’s Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep,...
There have been a number of interesting translations over the years. The biggest success story of the past few years have included Darwyn Cooke’s adaptations of Richard Stark’s The Hunter and The Outfit and Marvel’s adaptations of Stephen King’s The Dark Tower by Peter David and Jae Lee, but there have been many others, from the recent adaptations of Ayn Rand’s Anthem, Marvel’s Wizard of Oz and Ender’s Game, Dynamite’s adaptations of Robert Jordan’s The Wheel Of Time, Boom!’s Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep,...
- 5/23/2011
- by Glenn Hauman
- Comicmix.com
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