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Sto caricando le informazioni... Graphic Classics: Edgar Allan Poedi Tom Pomplun, Edgar Allan Poe
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Graphics classics present an innovative twist: a series of graphic novels based on well-established literary works, this time a selection of poetry and short stories from Edgar Allan Poe. This selection focuses on the horror-based works of E.A. Poe. Some of the titles included (The Tell-Tale Heart, The Premature Burial, The Masque of the Red Death, and The Fall of the House of Usher in particular) were incredibly well done in terms of textual adaptation and appropriate, well-drawn visuals. A few, such as The Raven and Hop-Frog, merely re-print Poe’s text with a couple of illustrations included (not even in the classic comic strip panel format), which would be fine if this weren’t billed as a graphic novel. One in particular, King Pest, was badly done both in textual adaptation and the garishly cartoonish drawings. Overall, it’s an interesting way of looking at classic texts but somewhat disappointing in execution. In één ruk uitgelezen dit boek, boordevol bekend werk van Edgar Allan Poe, nu eens adequaat, dan weer knap bewerkt of geillustreerd door tal van illustratoren en andersoortig tekenvolk. Verschillende stijlen, vaak als een nagel op een doodskist passend bij de tekst, een enkele keer (King Pest) ongemakkelijk botsend. Het beste werk in Graphic Classics Volume One vond ik The Premature Burial (met illustraties van Joe Ollman, in een bewerking van Tom Pomplun), The Cask of Amontillado (ill. van Pedro Lopez), en The fall of the house of Usher (ill. Matt Howard). Maar ook het andere werk mag er zijn. http://occamsrazorlibrary.blogspot.com/2009/09/graphic-classics-volume-one-edgar... This work adapts some of Poe's better stories to illustrated format, ranging from adding a few illustrations to his unabridged text to full-on visual adaptations. Poe was an amazingly inventive writer, and it appears the editor of this work followed his lead and opted for a good amount of experimentation with the adaptations. Only two stories--"Hop Frog" and "The Black Cat"--are given the minimalist text-plus-illustrations treatment, though they get the most out of the pictures provided, especially "Hop Frog" in which Lisa Weber's drawings really play off of the grotesquery of the story. The collection is especially strong in its treatment of some of Poe's most famous works: The Tell-Tale Heart, The Cask of Amontillado, The Masque of the Red Death, and the Fall of the House of Usher. Matt Howarth's shadowed and angular figures do a good job of expressing the doomed faces of the last of the line of Usher. Pedro Lopez' use of shadows in Amontillado reflects the claustrophobia and dark humor of the original tale. J.B. Bonivert's treatment of "The Raven" is probably one of the more inventive pieces, utilizing a style that suggests some form of cyberspace nightmare. The adaptation of "The Bells" by Rafael Nieves and Juan Gomez was particularly fascinating, as it transforms a fairly straightforward poem into a typical Poe tale of lost love, murder, and revenge. Finally, I was pleasantly surprised to see "Never Bet the Devil Your Head," which is a tale which shows Poe at his most humorous. (Although as the title suggests, it's a very dark humor.) The cartoonish style is a good fit for this very tongue-in-cheek story. A really good, solid collection of Poe adaptations. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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A few of them weren't so bad, such as "The Pit and the Pendulum" and "The Fall of the House of Usher." But most of the stories just... didn't turn out so well in comic form. Either the art style seemed odd or the adaptation of the story itself just didn't work so well. With Poe, you have to be careful. He is very sensory in his stories, so it's not impossible to make it into a graphic novel, but the writing itself is also a huge part of every story. So you have to be very very careful.
The poems were probably the biggest disappointment. The same dude did both "The Raven" and "Annabel Lee," and I didn't care for his art style at all. I wanted dark and mysterious and sad, but it was just... bizarre.
All in all, I'll just be sticking to pure Poe. ( )