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...Comix as memoir, covered in the last installment of TIME.comix, is just one of the many underused approaches to comicbook narrative. The adaptation of other media has become a lost genre in graphic literature. From the 1940s to the early 60s Gilberton Publications' "Classics Illustrated," featured "Stories by the World's Greatest Authors," as the tagline said. Since then, except for the mostly execrable "franchising" of sci-fi movies and TV series, comicbooks have done little exploring in the adaptation of other media. Of late it has been one publisher, the New York-based NBM (Nantier, Beall and Minoustchine) that...
...fractured look of Braque and Picasso's cubist work. His lines curve and twist, zig and zag, constantly delighting the eye but never losing form. Using an ochre-colored brush for the outlines and masterful shading with colored pencils Mattotti has created one the most richly, almost garishly, colored comix I have ever seen. In a manner that belongs exclusively to comix, Mattotti and Kramsky have brilliantly used both graphics and narrative to turn "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" into a treatise on the nature of the modern...
...previously unpublished Patrick Atangan, doesn't look or read anything like your typical Japanese comic. No saucer eyes, robots or schoolgirl outfits can be found. With Hokusai and Gustav Klimt as his influences Atangan has adapted a pair of Japanese folk tales into a gorgeous hybrid of comix and prints of ancient Japan. The titular story begins when a fisherman collects a yellow jar in his net. Somewhat disappointed that it contains no treasure, instead he finds that it holds a sleeping woman. She agrees to be his wife, but upon discovering that he has hidden her jar, she disappears...
Combining the tableaus and stunning organization of Japanese prints with the narrative and expression of Japanese theater, Patrick Atangan's comix feel alive with Japanese high culture. When he's not showing off carefully arranged landscapes, Atangan gives us highly dynamic action sequences. Even when two characters are talking he charges the scene with visual energy. He does this by careful attention to exiting color patterns and vibrant "camera" angles, but mostly he creates action with the hands. When the fisherman and his wife are reunited we see only a close-up of their hands, with their distinctively chubby, curled...
...Remembrance of Things Past" series, "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," and "The Yellow Jar" attest, adapting other works into comix format can enrich not just the comix medium but the original as well. While we may not see any comix versions of the latest Michael Crichton there are plenty of (lapsed copyright) classics out there for otherwise unknown artists to rework into their own. If writers borrow and poets steal, let comix artists swipe...