Books/Short Stories Into Graphic Novels

[Nesacat]

I've been seeing quite a few of these lately. They'd originally started out as books or short stories and then been turned into graphic novels.

I was wondering if any of you had read and liked any of these and what you thought of books/stories being turned into graphic novels.

I've got Creatures Of the Night which contains two short stories by Neil Gaiman. The stories are The Price and The Daugter of Owls. Both were originally published in the anthology entitled Smoke & Mirrors. Michael Zulli did the illustrations for the graphic novel.

I've also got The Homecoming which is one story in a book entitled From The Dust Returned by Ray Bradbury. This was illustrated by Dave McKean.

There's also The Best of Ray Bradbury: The Graphic Novel which has several of his stories each illustrated by a different person. Here's some of the stories - Come Into My Cellar illustrated by Dave (Watchmen) Gibbons; The Golden Apples Of The Sun, illustrated by P Craig Russell (Sandman); A Sound Of Thunder, illustrated by Richard Corben; Homecoming illustrated by Steve Leialoha

I also have a graphic novel of Terry Practchett's Mort with artwork by Graham Higgins and JRR Tolkien's Hobbit illustrated by Charles Dixon along with Bram Stoker's Dracula illustrated by Greg Hildebrandt.

 

[Talysia]

I haven't read any of these, but I'll certainly be keeping my eyes open for them now. In terms of graphic novels, I like something a little different.

 

[Nesacat]

I'd read all of them as books before I even found the graphic novels so it was quite an interesting experience.

They tell the same story and yet are so different. They use much less words of course but then there is the artwork to make up for it and in many cases a picture is worth a 1,000 words.

I'm curious how others feel about these.

 

[Talysia]

I'd read all of them as books before I even found the graphic novels so it was quite an interesting experience.

They tell the same story and yet are so different. They use much less words of course but then there is the artwork to make up for it and in many cases a picture is worth a 1,000 words.

That happened to me when I read the graphic novel based on Anne McCaffrey's DragonFlight. The artwork brings the story to life in a way different to the image in my mind when I read the book, but I still enjoyed it.