Wonderful wizard of oz eric shanower5/8/2023 And with so light an understanding of what powers the medium of comics, we should expect successful adaptation in comics to be far more rare than successful adaptation in film.Īnd so it is the case. (Certainly there were efforts in the ‘60s and ‘70s-and even some interesting work in the Nineteen-Aughts-but these were exceptions within a medium largely uninterested in growth.) So it makes sense that comics would have far less grasp of its unique toolset than the cinema, which has been studied critically since the ‘40s at least. The American graphic novel only began to approach being taken seriously by anyone outside its self-sustained genre-ghetto in the mid-‘80s and only began to stretch its use and purpose in earnest around the turn of the 21st century. And these are adaptations into established mediums, disciplines that have been explored and researched and tried and examined for a century or more. And it doesn’t matter if a story is being transferred from stage to film or from film to book or from book to film or from non-fiction to novel or from videogame to film: good adaptation is a rare commodity. A good adaptation requires the successful transposition of a story’s essence from one medium to another in a way that, while not damaging the source, makes uses of the new medium’s unique properties in a way that justifies the new product. Actually, amend that: in any medium, a successful adaptation is ridiculously difficult to pull off. In comics, a successful adaptation is ridiculously difficult to pull off.
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