3 books you wanna make a comic for

Moonshadow · Post by **Moonshadow** » Mon May 21, 2007 5:11 am

Hm... I think I'd like to take a stab at the Inferno (Dante) someday.

I'd redo Stormbringer (Moorcock) if I was really ambitious, because I don't particularly like the existing comic adaptation of it.

And hopefully in the next week or so I'll be starting on an artbook-y adaptation of A Midsummer Night's Dream... I won't be doing a full adaptation of it, though, just key scenes. I wish I had time for a full adaptation.

And I had no idea there was an existing comic of The Thief of Always... thanks for making me want to find yet another book to waste my money on. ^_~

TheSuburbanLetdown · Post by **TheSuburbanLetdown** » Mon May 21, 2007 7:20 am

Oh yeah, "My Name is Asher Lev."

Fabio Ciccone · Post by **Fabio Ciccone** » Mon May 21, 2007 9:13 am

Gabriel Garica Marquez's "100 Years of Solitude" - GREAT characters
Mário de Andrade's "Macunaíma" - astonishing surreal adventure
Umberto Eco's "The Name of the Rose" - brilliant storytelling

Oh, and there's JD Salinger's "Catcher in the Rye", although I don't consider myself the best person to do this one.

Ideas, ideas...

Spqrblues · Post by **Spqrblues** » Tue May 22, 2007 4:20 am

Fabio Ciccone wrote:Umberto Eco's "The Name of the Rose" - brilliant storytelling

Foucault's Pendulum (in any language) is one of my favourite books, but it's very much a book of words, not images. Maybe Eco's Island of the Day Before?

China Mieville--I mentioned his Iron Council above--is someone who could grow into an Eco (some would say he's already there).

Fabio Ciccone · Post by **Fabio Ciccone** » Tue May 22, 2007 4:30 am

spqrblues wrote:China Mieville--I mentioned his Iron Council above--is someone who could grow into an Eco (some would say he's already there).

Hmmm... gotta check her (or him?) out.

Cuendolin · Post by **Cuendolin** » Tue May 22, 2007 9:48 am

I really like to adapt "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole, my favorite book.
"The twelve chairs" and maybe "The lost world" By Arthur Conan Doyle

McDuffies · Post by **McDuffies** » Tue May 22, 2007 3:12 pm

One should read Eco's theory books for useful facts about writing. Well, books that are more practically oriented and written for general audience, 'cause he has a lot of pure theory books that only fellow literature professors can understand. "Five walks through a narrative forest" or something like that was called, extremely helpful book for an ofspring writer.

Jameslong · Post by **Jameslong** » Sun May 27, 2007 12:25 pm

fear and loathing (H. Thompson) would be an effin' blast.

oh, and I WAS going to say Life of Pi... but that's been taken. And probably a good thing since the entire first third of the book is pretty much nothing but theological discourse... and i'm only 2/3 through it so far...

Then I was going to say Harry Potter, but it was taken too!

I would seriously love to do Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time, but the SOB is like 12 books long or something... and still going. And the books are around 800 pages each. I dunno... I quit after crown of swords. Just tired of keeping track of all the characters.

Hmmm.. aside from that... American Gods by Gaiman would be good. Or Kafka by the Shore by Murakami. That would definitely be a kick.

Alschroeder · Post by **Alschroeder** » Mon May 28, 2007 9:56 am

spqrblues wrote:I'd tell you, but then I'd have to kill you if you did it before me

A Fine and Private Place by Peter S. Beagle. Who knows, it could happen.

I LOVE a Fine and Private Place. If you ever DO do it, and need some help, let me know.
The other two for me would probably be Larry Niven's RINGWORLD and the Gormenghast trilogy. Since you've already claimed a FINE AND PRIVATE PLACE, perhaps the Foundation trilogy.---Al

Fabio Ciccone · Post by **Fabio Ciccone** » Mon May 28, 2007 9:59 am

alschroeder wrote:Since you've already claimed a FINE AND PRIVATE PLACE, perhaps the Foundation trilogy.---Al

Ooh, nice one! The "I, Robot" shortstories could be awesome too.

Sincerely · Post by **Sincerely** » Mon May 28, 2007 1:15 pm

Legacy of Heorot (Niven, Pournelle, Barnes)

Ringworld (Niven)

aaaaand...

The Bunnicula series (James Howe)

Princess · Post by **Princess** » Mon May 28, 2007 5:52 pm

Time's Arrow by Martin Amis (I have no idea how this would work- I think I would give up go read lucid tv instead)

The Crimson petal and the white by Michel Faber ( and the apple)

Charmed Life by Diana Wynne Jones

Adobedragon · Post by **Adobedragon** » Tue May 29, 2007 9:53 am

Well, since Mielville's Iron Council already got a mention (drawing the Remade would be fun.)...

The Golden Compass, Philip Pullman--armoured bears, witches and daemons.
The Iron Dragon's Daughter, Michael Swanwick--Because I've already got a stack of Puck sketches.
Stephanie Plum Series, Janet Evanovich-Books 1-5, because after that the series lost its mojo.

Tynan · Post by **Tynan** » Tue May 29, 2007 1:09 pm

Blood and Gold.

CaptainClaude · Post by **CaptainClaude** » Tue May 29, 2007 1:49 pm

the thread is about books you want to adapt, Tynan, not what you have in your mouth.

Tellurider · Post by **Tellurider** » Tue May 29, 2007 4:08 pm

Desperation, by Stephen King (disintegrating cop sneezing blood all over the dash of his cruiser. heh heh heh.)

Tunnel in the Sky, by Robert A. Heinlein

Love Bites, by Christopher Moore

It'd be cool to do Needful Things, too, but for sheer gruesome bloody comicky joy I'll have to stick with Desperation. The Shining would be fun but really hard if you wanted to stick close to the book, because some things like moving topiary of death would be a little tricky to convey via still drawings.

Lunar · Post by **Lunar** » Tue May 29, 2007 10:55 pm

One of the plans for a future storyline in my comic is actually an adaptation (okay it's more of a parody but a lovingly done one) of The Last Unicorn

Indavo · Post by **Indavo** » Wed May 30, 2007 6:41 am

Here's my contribution:

Dune - Herbert's masterpiece,filled with great imagery and a vast Universe. The battle depicing the Atreides defeat would have to be expanded on, in my version.

The Time Machine - HG Wells, there are tons of "War of the Worlds" adaptions (which is my favorite Wells book), so I'd go with one that hasn't seen much light in comic form.

Doctor Who: Revenge of the Cybermen - The book that's an adaption of the TV show! Is that cheating? I get negative points of that and for liking a story that most Doctor Who fans would call crap! But, it's got Tom Baker and I've always liked it so what the heck!

Jim North · Post by **Jim North** » Wed May 30, 2007 7:58 am

Inferno by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle - The last time I was reading through it, in fact, I was drafting up panel placement in my head. A couple other people have already said Dante's classic, but I prefer this updated version by far.

Neuromancer by William Gibson - The bastards won't give us the movie, so why not a comic instead?

Something by Michael Crichton - I'm just not sure which one. Probably Sphere.

Mr.Bob · Post by **Mr.Bob** » Wed May 30, 2007 8:28 am

The End of the World narrative of The End of the World News: An Entertainment by Anthony Burgess. It was just written so visually, I could see it all perfectly in my mind.

I don't have any other two.