Comics and Adaptation

Comics and Adaptation is one of the rare books that provides a useful tool set to approach and understand this particular creative moment. Hopefully, the ultimate outcome of this text will be a revived and more focused approach to comics adaptations of all stripes that befits their undeniable cultural relevance.--Bryan J. Carr, associate professor in the Communication and Information Science Departments at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay "Communication Booknotes Quarterly"
A timely and useful collection which challenges some of the presuppositions of adaptation studies. . . . Comics and Adaptation is a welcome addition to the work on both comics and adaptation and is valuable reading for scholars in either area.--Jonathan Evans "The Comics Grid"
The editors' theoretically broad introduction to Comics and Adaptation does not augur well for typical fan com readers, but in elevating comics beyond mere illustration it does set up the framework for the scholarly essays that engage how adaptations of comic and graphic novels transcend their literary sources. The editors cogently argue for the legitimacy of studying comics through the filter of adaptation studies. The international coterie of academic contributors they have gathered explore pertinent concepts from polyphony, hypertextuality, orality, shattering figuration, transposition, and dissolution of forms to captions and speech balloons in contrasting the sources and extensions of graphic comics. Among the works treated are 120, rue de la Gare, Sin City, Watchmen, and Fritz the Cat. The volume is divided into two parts: the first examines adaptation from the page to the panel, and the second explores it from the panel to the screen and back again, with vividly illustrated, framed images. In particular, Mitaine's essay on the adaptation of Guy de Maupassant's classic short story 'Le Horla' stands as an exemplar of these fascinating studies, all of them translated into lucid English for the benefit of Anglophone readers.--T. Lindvall, Virginia Wesleyan University "CHOICE, February 2019, Vol. 56, No. 6"