One point needs clarification. In comparing Bradbury with his fire-chief character, Boxer writes:
Beatty seems to have loved books once, but only the weighty classics, whereas Bradbury, in his many introductions to the original Fahrenheit 451, has professed his love for all kinds of books, high and low, and all kinds of magazines. His two early publishers were Playboy and the sci-fi magazine Galaxy.In fact, Fahrenheit 451 first was published in Galaxy during that magazine's first year (the February 1951 issue, as "The Fireman"), and neither Galaxy nor Playboy (founded in 1953) existed "early" in Bradbury's fiction career, which began with the publication of "Pendulum" in Super Science Stories in 1941, when Bradbury was about 21 years old. He then sold many stories to magazines such as Planet Stories, Thrilling Wonder Stories and Weird Tales. The foundations of Bradbury's career are in what Boxer would consider "low" magazines.
(Weird Tales, happily, still exists.)
I disagree with her. To me, making a booking into a graphic novel is similar to when a book is made into a movie. The fans of the book get to see one person's interpretation of the book and some people who might have never heard of the book before get an idea of what it's like. Most might never read the book, but some at least will become curious enough to read it. Recently, a book I’m reading was turned into a graphic novel, and while it wasn’t anywhere near as good as the book, it was interesting to see the way the characters were drawn. Fahrenheit 451 is one of my favorite books, and I’m intrigued by the graphic novel version.
ReplyDeleteWhich book was this, Petrina, and who did the comics version?
ReplyDeleteIt's a series (so far it's got 10 books) called Tthe Dresden Files written byJim Butcher. Dabel Brothers published has published the a prequel to the series that Butcher wrote exclusively for the comic and the first half of the first book (Storm Front).
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