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Colin
Username: Colin
Registered: 2-2007
| | Posted on Saturday, May 12, 2007 - 7:04 pm: | |
Newsday posted this article about mainstream authors getting into the comics field, with mentions of Brad, Greg Rucka, Stephen King and several others.
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newyork/ny- bc-ny--books-comicbooks0509may09,0,5785742.story?c oll=ny-region-apnewyork |
Journey
Username: Journey
Registered: 2-2007
| | Posted on Sunday, May 13, 2007 - 8:25 am: | |
Now the following quotes I found interesting.
"My primary task was to provide amazing things for artists to draw." - Lethem
"There has just been so much snobbery that has existed with comic books," he said. "We've got to prove that these things are equal." - Meltzer
"A good writer is a good writer," she said. "It really is just a matter of coming to grips with the different form, the different structure of the medium. Some novelists don't make a successful transition into writing screenplays, that doesn't mean they're not good. It means they can't think pictures very well. And comics are basically still movies." - Diana Schutz
King chose to work with Marvel to develop his "Dark Tower" book series, instead of making it into a film or TV miniseries. The story is part Western, part fantasy and part adventure, and the comic centers on the story of Roland Deschain, a man who lives in a futuristic kind of world, and his quest to find the "Man in Black" and later on, the dark tower. - (You know this is the only series King has written that I didn't like and I own every single one of his books in hardback! - Journey)
"I'm a big fan of the medium," King said of comic books. "A different way to tell stories is always exciting. It's like being a kid with a chemistry set." - King
Colin, do these quotes pretty much say it all? I found them to be of intense interest because two of these authors I read with regularity. |
Snowangelica
Username: Snowangelica
Registered: 2-2007
| | Posted on Sunday, May 13, 2007 - 8:43 am: | |
I agree with Brad.
"Meltzer and his publishers also put excerpts of "Justice League" into the paperback edition of "Book of Fate," the first time a comic book has appeared in a novel, he says.
He believes the medium shouldn't matter, as long as the story is good."
How about the drawings? |
Journey
Username: Journey
Registered: 2-2007
| | Posted on Sunday, May 13, 2007 - 11:10 am: | |
Gale,
I think Lethem put it best when it came to the drawings.
Since I have a hard back of the BOF, I haven't bothered to purchase the paperback just for the comic entry. |
Superfriend
Username: Superfriend
Registered: 2-2007
| | Posted on Tuesday, May 15, 2007 - 7:17 am: | |
Meltzer also put the first chapter of Book of Fate into his JLA comic. |
Porter
Username: Porter
Registered: 3-2007
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 16, 2007 - 2:08 pm: | |
THat was what got me into his novels. I read the chapter and was astonished. So I went and picked up The Zero Game, which was great, and now I have all of his books. I thought it was a great idea to promote his book and can only add to his popularity. Hopefully (I hope you are listening, Brad) he will do it again so he can get more comic readers to read his books. |
Superfriend
Username: Superfriend
Registered: 2-2007
| | Posted on Thursday, May 17, 2007 - 6:25 am: | |
and hopefully some of his Novels will be printed with a few pages of Tornado's Path in it. |
Porter
Username: Porter
Registered: 3-2007
| | Posted on Thursday, May 17, 2007 - 4:58 pm: | |
I love it. Brad is building bridges between two reading communities. What a true humanitarian! |
