I'm tired, just for something different.

[lizbee]

I just completed a seemingly-endless shift at work, then missed a connecting tram and had to take a taxi home. 

I encountered a woman in History, reading Coraline and being Disapproving.  "This is obscene," she told me.  "I've never read a graphic novel before.  Not really proper novels, are they?"

She was, I add, about my age.

Later I overheard an American student browsing magazines.  "This is so cute," she was saying to her friend, "they've got, like, Australian magazines and stuff."

Hey, I lolled.

Comments

[zeldaophelia.livejournal.com]

Exactly. Some people get so caught up with the fact the story is told with pictures that they miss the actual content and story. Argh.

Also, I read this comment and went 'there's a graphic novel adaptation of Dante's "Inferno"!' and ran to Amazon to find it. But Amazon doesn't believe me that it exists! If you know the author of the adaptation it would be wonderous.

[brewsternorth.livejournal.com]

Ack. Maybe I got it confused with the animated movie adaptation. (Which is also good. Hell is Los Angeles.)

[prof-pangaea.livejournal.com]

< ahref="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Panter">gary panter is the author of the critically acclaimed graphic novels jimbo in purgatory and jimbo's inferno. i saw a bunch of the original art for jimbo in purgatory when it was travelling with the "masters of american comics" show and it's pretty amazing.



here are a few full pages:

http://www.rackham.dk/anmeldelse/billeder/jimbo/jimbo_15.gif

http://www.rackham.dk/anmeldelse/billeder/jimbo/jimbo_07.gif

http://www.rackham.dk/anmeldelse/billeder/jimbo/jimbo_26.gif

[zeldaophelia.livejournal.com]

Thank you! These are great!