Hilary Talbot’s passing interests and activities
Posted in books, illustration on Aug 6th, 2007
Liz Wong, painter and a freelance illustrator, is making a graphic novel of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. It should be fun to see how it progresses. I looked around to see if there have been other Austen graphic novels, and yes there are. Anne Timmons’ Northanger Abbey is included in Gothic Classics: Graphic Classics [...]
The moniker for the new adaptation of Pride and Prejudice is likely to be ‘the Kiera Knightley version’, but I am going to campaign for ‘the one with the pig’ until someone does a Wishbone-type adaptation with Babe animatronic technology (starring the pig) or puppet pigs (move over Miss Piggy, I don’t want a [...]
I saw P&P3 last night. It was released the day before (after a few advance screenings last weekend), but at the 9.30pm
Friday show there were not many more than a scattering of people in the theatre. I was surprised at that.
Talk about feeling the history when I went to see this. As the first scene [...]