Books adapted into comics. What's your Dream Team?

Trough the years we have had some books adapted into comics: Michael Moorcock's Elric by P. Craig Russell; Stephen King's Dark Tower by Jae Lee; and I am not even counting the Classics Illustrated (Moby Dick by Sienkiewicz and Alice by Kyle Baker).

What would be your Dream Team? What book you would like to be adapted? And what artist would fit the style of the book?

I've been thinking about American Gods illustrated by Bryan Hitch for the core history. Those scenes of battles would be great. And the sequences with the gods profiles could be illustrated by Charles Vess.

Anansi Boys. Actually, this is a book that while I was reading I could only thought in a movie by Eddie Murphy in which he would do the role of the both boys, Anansi and the old witch.
In comics, I think that Kyle Baker would use a lot of his comic vain.

The Dancers At the End of Time by Michael Moorcock, illustrated by Milo Manara.

>4 groovykinda:
Great idea. The style totally combines.

Have you seen Trip to Tulum By Manara and Federico Fellini? It is trippy!

Wow. That does look cool. I have a bunch of Manara's, but not that.

Do they have to be living artists? 'Cause I think Dan DeCarlo would do a great Tom Sawyer. Or Will Eisner on Huckleberry Finn.

And Berni Wrightson would be incredible doing a black and white Moby Dick. In the style he used for Frankenstein. Couldn't you just see his linework in a ship's interior?

Heck, Berni Wrightson illustrating anything would be incredible.

>6 groovykinda:

Heck, Berni Wrightson illustrating anything would be incredible.

Could not agree with you more. Bernie Wrightson is probably my favorite visual artist, period - in illustration, the fine arts, comics, whatever.

Specifically to the topic of literary adaptations into comics... I've said this elsewhere on LT but it bears repeating - if Garth Ennis and Wrightson were to collaborate on a comics adaptation of the Irvin S. Cobb story "Fishhead" (http://gaslight.mtroyal.ca/fishhead.htm), I would die and go to heaven. 8)

> 6 & 7: I also dug Wrightson's illustrations for Frankenstein. Just gorgeous linework!

Hmm, to play the game of this topic:

The Sheltering Sky drawn by Moebius
Dhalgren drawn by Guy Colwell
As I Lay Dying drawn by Joe Coleman
Kraken drawn by Charles Burns

>6 groovykinda: & 8

If you like Wrightson, do a Google Image Search on the artist Franklin Booth. He was a major influence on Wrightson & did some breathtaking stuff.

>8 edgewood:

Kraken drawn by Charles Burns

I would love to see Charles Burns adapt something by H. P. Lovecraft or Thomas Ligotti.

I had my library get the Franklin Booth book. He's just incredible.
Also, Wrightson was influenced by Joseph Clement Coll, who's considered one of, if not the greatest pen and ink artist ever.
As I Lay Dying. Oh God, what an incredible graphic novel that would make. I've write and draw a webcomic now, and I could just see that.
"My mother is a fish."

>6 groovykinda:
Let the criativity flow. Dream is for free.

Thanks guys! I've started this topic with no more deep intentions than have fun, but all of you have indicated some books and artists that I really didn't know.

Now it is time for me to start the reasearch.

But hey... Please, don't stop!!

I would like to see Dave McKean illustrate an adaptption of The Stranger by Camus or Charles Vess make a faithful adaptation of Michael Ende's The Neverending Story.

> 10 As I Lay Dying. Oh God, what an incredible graphic novel that would make. I've write and draw a webcomic now, and I could just see that.
"My mother is a fish."

Great idea! I would read that.

But how could you do the comic without making readers want to strangle the father? Plus, a lot of the really black humor comes from reading someone's description of something. Spelling it out would ruin it.
I think I'd almost rather see The Reivers as a graphic novel. It'd be a lot more fun.

Cannery Row would make a great graphic novel, especially if Jaime Hernandez drew it.

I've read about the Vertigo adaptation of The girl with the dragon tattoo by Leonardo Manco. hmm...dunno. Let's see.

Some good sugestion for James Ellroy's White Jazz?. I've thought about Alex Maleev.

>14 LibrariansOfBabel:
Coincidence! I've been reading The Stranger. Thinking about Dave Mckean's Cages, it is a great choice. I would also choose Mckean for Danielewski's House of Leaves.

> 16: And then we'll have Gilbert draw Tortilla Flat :-)

(20) Yes! Exactly!

>1 apokoliptian:

Thanks for reminding me of Sienkiewicz's MOBY-DICK, by the way. I was trying to track that down for a while and then forgot about it.

ETA: Added to my Amazon wish list. 8)

Just, please, stay away from Spain's rendition of Nightmare Alley. A great, deeply disturbing book ruined by intentionally grotesque art.

> 23: Thanks for the warning. I actually like Spain's style, but not a lot of his content (at least his original stories, which can be violent & sexist). I love his drawings of city streets, in deep perspective, with lowriders & choppers.

I went to a rather small, mainstream comic con several years ago and found him and S. Clay Wilson at a table on the outskirts of the hall selling their books. They were a welcome island of weirdness in a sea of normalcy.

I would highly recommend City of Glass: The Graphic Novel adapted by David Mazzucchelli. The combination of the light art with the dark mood of the story fits very well. The result is very true to original book. The proper story is an exoteric/ noir thriller geniously crafted.