{"id":384,"date":"2007-08-06T17:33:16","date_gmt":"2007-08-06T17:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/?p=384"},"modified":"2008-01-04T12:05:15","modified_gmt":"2008-01-04T02:05:15","slug":"austen-graphic-novels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/2007\/08\/06\/austen-graphic-novels\/","title":{"rendered":"Austen graphic novels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/artghost\/sets\/72157594246119693\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/blog\/ppcomic.jpg\" alt=\"Ppcomic\" title=\"Ppcomic\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Liz Wong, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lizwongillustration.com\/\">painter and a freelance illustrator<\/a>, is making a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/artghost\/sets\/72157594246119693\/\">graphic novel of Jane Austen&#8217;s <em>Pride and Prejudice<\/em><\/a>. 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&#8217; <em>Northanger Abbey<\/em> is included in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.graphicclassics.com\/pgs\/gc14.htm\">Gothic Classics: Graphic Classics Volume 14<\/a>. Here is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.graphicclassics.com\/pgs\/timmons.htm\">sample<\/a> drawing. And a manga style version of P&amp;P, illustrated by <a href=\"http:\/\/mentaltentacle.com\/\">Tintin Pantoja<\/a> is due to be published in about September 2007. If you take the Sequential Art link on her site you can see her version of the first proposal.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the decisions on how to break up the page, what to zero in on, how to convey action, and what <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photo_zoom.gne?id=290884587&amp;context=set-72157594246119693&amp;size=o\">interpretations<\/a> are being made through image rather than word, I was interested &#8211; but not surprised! &#8211; to see the influence of Andrew Davies&#8217; 1996 adaptation of P&amp;P.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liz Wong, painter and a freelance illustrator, is making a graphic novel of Jane Austen&#8217;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&#8217; Northanger Abbey is included in Gothic Classics: Graphic Classics [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,193],"tags":[198,1359,794,795,796,384],"class_list":["post-384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-illustration","tag-austen","tag-books","tag-graphic-novel","tag-manga","tag-northanger-abbey","tag-pride-and-prejudice"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paZhI-6c","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}