FFF Results Post #268—Adaptations

On Friday, CR readers were asked to "Name Five Comics Adaptations From Literature You Like." This how they responded.



John Vest

1. Valley Of The Worm by Robert E Howard, adapted by Roy Thomas and Gil Kane
2. Red Nails by Robert E Howard, adapted by Roy Thomas and Barry Smith
3. Nausea by Sartre, adapted by R Crumb
4. Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce, adapted by Gahan Wilson
5. Yours Truly, Jack The Ripper by Robert Bloch, adapted by Ron Goulart, Roy Thomas, and Gil Kane

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Marc Arsenault

1. City of Glass by Paul Auster, adapted by art spiegelman, Paul Karasik and David Mazzucchelli
2. Elric by Michael Moorcock, adapted by Roy Thomas and P. Craig Russell
3. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, adapted by Harvey Kurtzman and David Levine
4. The Policeman and the Citizen by Ambrose Bierce, adapted by Simon Gane
5. Freaks Amour by Tom De Haven, adapted by Gary Panter

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Jeff LeBlanc

1. City of Glass by Paul Auster, adapted by Paul Karasik and David Mazzucchelli
2. The Hunter by Richard Stark (AKA Donald Westlake), adapted by Darwyn Cooke
3. John Carter, Warlord of Mars (various novels) by Edgar Rice Burroughs, adapted by Marv Wolfman, Chris Claremont, Gil Kane, Carmine Infantino, et al.
4. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka, adapted as "Good Ol' Gregor Brown" by R. Sikoryak
5. Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser (various stories) by Fritz Leiber, adapted by Howard Chaykin and Mike Mignola

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Christopher Brown

1. 2 Book of Kings 2:23-25, The Bible, adapted by Brian Bolland in Outrageous Tales from the New Testament
2. Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens, adapted by Rick Geary, First Comics Classics Illustrated
3. Moby Dick, by Herman Melville, adapted by D.G. Chichester and Bill Sienkiewicz, First Comics Classics Illustrated
4. Jungle Stories, by Rudyard Kipling, adapted by P. Craig Russell
5. The House on the Borderland, by William Hope Hodgson, adapted by Simon Revelstroke and Richard Corben

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Danny Ceballos

1. King Lear by William Shakespeare, adapted by Ian Pollock
2. Emma by Jane Austen, adapted by Nancy Butler and Janet K. Lee
3. Excelsior by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, adapted by James Thurber
4. The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe, adapted by Gahan Wilson
5. The Fir Tree by Hans Christian Andersen, adapted by Lilli Carré

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Jeet Heer

* Action Camus by R. Sikoryak
* Hester's Little Pearl/Red Letter Days (i.e. The Scarlet Letter meets Little Lulu) by R. Sikoryak
* Dostoyevsky Comics by R. Sikoryak
* Moby Dick by Gilbert Hernandez
* Candide cover by Chris Ware

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Justin Colussy-Estes

1. City of Glass by Paul Auster, adapted by Paul Karasik & David Mazzucchelli
2. Study in Scarlett by Arthur Conan Doyle, adapted by Ian Edgington & I.N.J. Culbard
3. Thousand and One Nights adapted by Jeon JinSeok & Han SeungHee.
4. The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad, adapted by John K. Snyder III
5. Green Tea by Sheridan LeFanu, adapted by Kevin Huizenga

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Steven Thompson

* There Will Come Soft Rains -- Ray Bradbury, adapted by Al Feldstein and Wallace Wood
* Tarzan by Joe Kubert
* Dracula by Thomas and Giordano
* "Repent, Harlequin," Said The Tick Tock Man -- By Harlan Ellison, adapted by Roy Thomas and Alex Nino
* The Illustrated Roger Zelazny -- Gray Morrow

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Marc Sobel

1. The Stars, My Destination by Alfred Bester, adapted by Howard Chaykin
2. Studs Terkel's Working adapted by Harvey Pekar, etc.
3. Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Caroll adapted by Kyle Baker
4. Demon with a Glass Hand by Harlan Ellison, adapted by Marshall Rogers
5. Parker: The Hunter and The Outfit by Richard Stark, adapted by Darwyn Cooke

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Michael Grabowski

1. "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe, adapted by Harvey Kurtzman and Will Elder in MAD #9
2. The Outfit by Richard Stark/Donald Westlake, adapted by Darwin Cooke
3. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka, adapted by David Marowitz and R. Crumb in Introducing Kafka
4. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka, adapted by R. Sikoryak as "Good Ol' Gregor Brown" in Masterpiece Comics
5. From A to Z, in the Chocolate Alphabet by Harlan Ellison, adapted by Larry Todd as Harlan Ellison's Chocolate Alphabet

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Michael Dooley

1. Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, adapted by Rod Lott and Lisa K. Weber
2. The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde, adapted by Antonella Caputo and Nick Miller
3. The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allen Poe, adapted by Rick Geary
4. The Bridal of Death by Bram Stoker, excerpted from The Jewel of Seven Stars and adapted by J. B. Bonivert
5. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson, part one adapted by Tom Pomplun and Simon Gane

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Joe Schwind

* Crime and Punishment (Classics Illustrated 89) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, adapted by Rudolph Palais
* The House on the Borderland by William Hope Hodgson, adapted by Richard Corben & Simon Revelstroke
* The Image of the Beast by Philip Jose Farmer, adapted by Tim Boxell
* The Last of the Mohicans! (TWO-FISTED TALES 40) by James Fenimore Cooper, adapted by Jack Davis
* Rip Van Winkle (Classic Comics 12) by Washington Irving, adapted by Roland Livingstone and Dan Levin

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Kenneth Graves

1) Age of Bronze (The Illiad by Homer), adapted by Eric Shanower
2) Parker, the Hunter (by Richard Stark), adapted by Darwin Cooke
3) 7 Billion Needles (Needle by Hal Clement), adapted by Nobuaki Tadano
4) Cinderalla (Cinderella, collected by the Brothers Grimm), adapted by Junko Mizuno
5) Nat Turner (The Confessions of Nat Turner by Thomas Gray), adapted by Kyle Baker

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John Platt

1. The Selfish Giant by P. Craig Russell
2. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mike Ploog
3. Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde by Kin Platt (no relation) & Nestor Redondo
4. Cool Air by Bernie Wrightson
5. Elric by Roy Thomas, P. Craig Russell and Michael T. Gilbert

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Scott Dunbier

* Red Nails by Robert E. Howard, adapted by Roy Thomas and Barry Smith
* Mars is Heaven by Ray Bradbury, adapted by Al Feldstein and Wally Wood
* Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll, adapted by Kyle Baker
* The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry, adapted by Gary Gianni
* The Hunter by Richard Stark, adapted by Darwyn Cooke

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Buzz Dixon

1. War Of The Worlds by H.G. Wells, Classics Illustrated version, art by Lou Cameron
2. Valley Of the Worm (as Bloodstar) by Robert E. Howard, art by Rich Corben
3. Repent, Harlequin, Said the Tick-Tock Man by Harlan Ellison, adapted by Roy Thomas with art by Alex Nino (I've heard Harlan isn't fond of this adaptation but I think it's the aces)
4. King David, from the books of Samuel, Kings, and Chronicles in the Old Testament, art by Kyle Baker
5. Dracula by Bram Stoker, art by Kate Beaton

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Joe Kuth

1. Nightmare Alley by William Lindsay Gresham, adapted by Spain Rodriguez
2. Ulysses by James Joyce, mini-comic adapted by Dave Lasky
3. Psychopathia Sexualis by Richard Von Krafft-Ebing, adapted by Robert Crumb
4. "Green Tea" by J. Sheridan LeFanu, adapted by Kevin Huizenga
5. The Fafhrd & Grey Mouser stories, adapted by Howard Chaykin and Mike Mignola

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Rob Berry

1) James Joyce's Ulysses by Robert Berry
2) The Iliad by Eric Shanower
(oh, wait, those are already here...)
3) Tolkien's Lord Of The Rings by W. M. Kaluta
4) John Irving's A Prayer For Owen Meany by Seth
5) John Steinbeck's East Of Eden by Art Spiegelman

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Douglas Wolk

1. "The Metamorphosis" by Franz Kafka, adapted by R. Sikoryak
2. City of Glass by Paul Auster, adapted by Paul Karasik and David Mazzucchelli
3. "Green Tea" by J. Sheridan Le Fanu, adapted by Kevin Huizenga
4. Ulysses by James Joyce, adapted by David Lasky
5. The Man with the Getaway Face by Donald Westlake/Richard Stark, adapted by Darwyn Cooke

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Chris Duffy

1. Behold the Man by Michael Moorcock, adapted by Doug Moench and Alex Nino
2. The Picture of Dorian Gray, adapted by R. Sikoryak
3. Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, adapted by Hunt Emerson
4. The Tinder Box by Hans Christian Anderson, adapted by Damien Jay
5. The Face on the Barroom Floor by Hugh Antoine D'Arcy, adapted by Harvey Kurtzman and Jack Davis.

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Steve Flanagan

1. "Lady Chatterley's Lover" by DH Lawrence, adapted by Hunt Emerson
2. "Don Quixote" Book 1 by Cervantes, adapted by Rob Davis
3. "The Stainless Steel Rat" by Harry Harrison, adapted by Kelvin Gosnell and Carlos Ezquerra
4. "City of Glass" by Paul Auster, adapted by Paul Karasik and David Mazzuchelli
5. "Brouillard au pont du Tolbiac" by Léo Malet, adapted by Jacques Tardi

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topic suggested by John Vest; thanks, John

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