I’ve been a deep fan of Alan Moore’s graphic novel for twenty years now, but I’m torn on the upcoming film version. It was written to be a comic, and it works brilliantly in that format. It doesn’t need to be a movie. Yet part of me would love to see these images move and [...]
How we’ll watch the Watchmen - making the comics fit on screen
July 21st, 2008 1 Comment
Tags: adaptation · character · comics · movies · story · Watchmen
The “Oral History” format
May 27th, 2008 3 Comments
I am currently in the midst of reading Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey, by Chuck Palahniuk. This is the second book that I have read in the last year that utilizes the oral history format. The first one was World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max [...]
Tags: adaptation · Chuck Palahniuk · Max Brooks · oral history