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Turning Novels into Comics – A Trend for Young Adult Literature

March 26, 2013

Since the mad fad that was Twilight, it seems more and more young adult literature has made its way onto the artist’s table for a comic makeover. All you have to do is pull up Yen Press’s website to see how many authors have joined the growing list of graphic novelists. James Patterson’s series Maximum Ride and Witch and Wizard have both been on the New York Times Manga Best Seller List, as well as Gail Carriager’s Soulless series, Sherrilyn Kenyon’s Dark Hunters, Stephanie Meyer’s Twilight, and Cassandra Claire’s Infernal Devices, to name a few.

Those are just the titles on the bestseller list. There are many more that haven’t made it there yet, or may never make it there. Still, making your hit novel into a comic seems to be a trend for young adult literature that is working for publishers and authors alike.

Panels from “Twilight: The Graphic Novel”

My new series of posts about turning Novels into Comics (NTC for short), will focus on how well a novel makes the transition from a verbose narrative to a succinct dialogue comic. I’ll examine the art and how well it represents the the story as well as the typesetting and paneling. Hopefully, this will give you an idea of which series are worth the second romp through the story in visual format.

I hope you’ll join in the discussion and let me know if you feel the comics do the stories justice. (These are best selling novels that have strong fan bases.) Or maybe, you’ll like one enough to check out both the comic and novel! For now, I look forward to bringing this series of posts to you in the upcoming months.

Thanks!

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Oh, interesting! I will definitely be keeping an eye out for these~ ;] I think I’ve only read the adaptations of Soulless and Beautiful Creatures, with varying degrees of success, for me at least. I loved Soulless (Rem’s art is absolutely gorgeous and Carriger’s work so sassy), but the art in Beautiful Creatures was just so messy I couldn’t really get in to the story as well as I felt I should have (especially since I loved the movie).

Kelly Mar 26, 2013
- I have Beautiful Creatures, just haven’t cracked it yet. I’ve read the novel. Soulless is actually what has inspired me to do this study in the first place. I have a list of titles to go through! I look forward to hearing your thoughts!
  
  Laura Mar 27, 2013