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Posted: **Sat May 19, 2007 3:26 am**

Killbert-Robby wrote:Dreamcatcher

My fav. book ever. This would REALLY be interesting to draw. And maybe I could redeem it after that horrible movie.

The movie is a hilariously horrible camp classic the likes of which you don't see made enough these days. You say the book is actually *good* though?

Posted: **Sat May 19, 2007 4:06 am**

Legion wrote:-Aberystwyth Mon Amour

OOH yes.

Killbert-Robby wrote:Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Seriously, its just an awesome book, and you have a lot of elbow room drawin-wise.

Already happened.

My choices

The Island of Dr. Moreau - H G Wells (actually already doing that)
The Antipope - Robert Rankin
and Possibly Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain

Posted: **Sat May 19, 2007 5:55 am**

bustertheclown wrote:I also am actually working slowly on a graphic retelling of the legends of King Arthur, influenced heavily, of course, by Sir Thomas Malory's compilation, Le Morte d'Arthur (shhhh! don't tell anyone!)

There's currently a fucking dreadful series of adaptations of the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm, called "Grim Fairy Tales", or some shit, which makes me sad. I was working on adapting a bunch of fairy tales to graphic form, too, but now I don't even want to be associated in name or theme with the crap this series is producing. I'm thinking of maybe going with Hans Christian Andersen, instead.

The world of Peter Pan, beyond the actual island has always been an interesting musing for me. It would be fun to see what the pirates would see, should they actually ever set sail.

There are so many different versions of the Grimm tales, I truly doubt creating your own would tar you with the same brush as someone else's. On the other hand, there are an awful lot of Malory adaptations out there, and readers probably have a lot more fatigue over seeing Malory-style Arthur than seeing unusual new versions of Grimm.

The Peter Pan idea sounds fun and full of potential for original adventures. I'd read it. Plus: pirates. How can you lose with pirates?

Ugh, I'm thinking like a marketing person.

Posted: **Sat May 19, 2007 6:08 am**

ryclaude wrote:
Legion wrote:-Aberystwyth Mon Amour
OOH yes.

Is it sad that every time I go there I try to figure out where Sospan's stall would be?

Posted: **Sat May 19, 2007 8:15 am**

-Harry Potter
-Sophie's World
-Naked, by David Sedaris

Posted: **Sat May 19, 2007 8:30 am**

Legion wrote:
ryclaude wrote:
Legion wrote:-Aberystwyth Mon Amour
OOH yes.
Is it sad that every time I go there I try to figure out where Sospan's stall would be?

A little bit, yes :p

I'm trying to get through the second one at the moment. I find them a bit awkward to read but i like the concepts.

Posted: **Sat May 19, 2007 11:00 am**

VinnieD wrote:Watership Down
Not sure who the audience would be. Children would go "Ooh bunnies" Then get traumatized when one of them dies horribly.

As opposed to the book and the animated film...

Posted: **Sat May 19, 2007 2:28 pm**

I would rather adapt short stories.
Which, in fact, I will. I already adapted one, and I have three more in production stages. Here goes.

-My comic Accomplished person is based on one story from the collection "Americans baby", I think. It's published here under different name.

-Rat catcher bu Alexander Grin - I have a script finished, laying around for a year now

-Kirke by Hulio Kortasar

Fourth project is actually one of collections of native Southamerican tales, collected by one of many southamerican writers, but I'm not even definite on which stories those would be.

Posted: **Sat May 19, 2007 8:53 pm**

As long as I can remember, I've wanted to do a comic based on the Robin Hood legends. Probably already been done, so most I could do is my take on it. Another I would like to do in comic form is Alexandre Dumas' "The Three Musketeers".

Posted: **Sat May 19, 2007 10:47 pm**

Ubik, by Philip K. Dick. So far my favorite Dick story, and although it has a history of being difficult to successfully adapt to other media but I'd love giving it a shot in comic form.

Carmilla, by Joseph Sheridan LeFanu. Gothic horror with homoerotic overtones set in a remote Austrian Schloss? What's not to like? Also a disappointingly underrepresented part of classic vampire fiction.

Something by Shakespeare. I've been toying with the idea of doing a comic of a Shakespearean play: not because I think the finished product would be very interesting (Shakespeare's been adapted every which way already, I'm sure there's nothing I could add) but instead as a way of appreciating Shakespeare through the making of it. Probably go with the Merchant of Venice if I were to pick right now.

Posted: **Sun May 20, 2007 4:45 am**

VinnieD wrote:Watership Down
Not sure who the audience would be. Children would go "Ooh bunnies" Then get traumatized when one of them dies horribly.

That was the entire point of Watership Down, wasn't it?

Posted: **Sun May 20, 2007 7:43 am**

ataraxia wrote:
VinnieD wrote:Watership Down
Not sure who the audience would be. Children would go "Ooh bunnies" Then get traumatized when one of them dies horribly.
That was the entire point of Watership Down, wasn't it?

The entire point was to inspire Bunnies and Burrows

Posted: **Sun May 20, 2007 7:58 am**

TRI wrote:Ubik, by Philip K. Dick. So far my favorite Dick story, and although it has a history of being difficult to successfully adapt to other media but I'd love giving it a shot in comic form.

I think that it's just that it was always adapted by wrong people. I can imagine a superb version made by Terry Gilliam, Jean Jeunet or even David Lynch.

But not by Cameron Crowe, eugh.

Posted: **Sun May 20, 2007 9:48 am**

Well, I was talking more about the Ubik screenplay by P.K.D. himself, which was unsuccessful in that it was never filmed, or the commercially unsuccessful video game.

Posted: **Sun May 20, 2007 10:20 am**

The only thing I can recall wanting to do is a Faith of the Fallen parody.

Posted: **Sun May 20, 2007 10:30 am**

bustertheclown wrote:I've always wanted to do a comic based on the Tad Williams trilogy, Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn.

I'd love to see Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn in a graphic-novel format, too. I think it readily lends itself to that kind of story-telling

I'd love to illustrate a CS Friedman book, maybe The Madness Season or This Alien Shore.

The Exiles series by Melanie Rawn would also be something that would keep my attention.

I'd also love to do a murder-mystery based on one of Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot books. It wouldn't be as much fun if the reader was familiar with the story, though...

Those are just the first things that popped into my head, there's a lot of books I'd love to see as (or have a hand in turning into) graphic novels.

Posted: **Sun May 20, 2007 4:15 pm**

RobertBlake wrote:Another I would like to do in comic form is Alexandre Dumas' "The Three Musketeers".

I'd love to do The Count of Monte Cristo by Dumas. Wrongful imprisonment of a good young man with everything going for him - a prison breakout, turning to a life of crime, discovering riches and --- revenge. It'd be fantastic.

Otherwise... I haven't read a good fiction novel in ages. I wouldn't mind doing some Pratchett or Mercedes Lackey (the Owlknight series, probably).

Posted: **Sun May 20, 2007 4:21 pm**

Vorticus wrote:The entire point was to inspire Bunnies and Burrows

Okay, that too.

Posted: **Sun May 20, 2007 4:54 pm**

TRI wrote: Something by Shakespeare. I've been toying with the idea of doing a comic of a Shakespearean play: not because I think the finished product would be very interesting (Shakespeare's been adapted every which way already, I'm sure there's nothing I could add) but instead as a way of appreciating Shakespeare through the making of it. Probably go with the Merchant of Venice if I were to pick right now.

Brooke McEldowney recently spent a few months doing an adaptation of A Midsummer Night's Dream, using characters from both his strips, Pibgorn and 9 Chickweed Lane. Reactions were.. mixed.

I wouldn't want to besmirch any book's reputation with my scribblings, but if I was forced to do it at gunpoint, I might try one of Manly Wade Wellman's "Silver John" horror stories.

Posted: **Sun May 20, 2007 10:57 pm**

Jackhass wrote:
Killbert-Robby wrote:Dreamcatcher

My fav. book ever. This would REALLY be interesting to draw. And maybe I could redeem it after that horrible movie.
The movie is a hilariously horrible camp classic the likes of which you don't see made enough these days. You say the book is actually *good* though?

One of King's best in my opinion. And the movie actually took a LOT of (unexcusable) liberties with the plot.

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