I recently read the graphic novel Black Hole by Charles Burns. It’s an awesome graphic novel that tells the story of a virus that turns teenagers into freak show style monsters. It’s an amazing graphic novel with all the complexity of a non-graphic novel but with incredibly rich and haunting illustrations. I highly recommend this book.
Reading Amazon’s Omnivoracious blog I learned that photographer Max Oppenheim has gone ahead and created yearbook photos based upon the illustrations that appear on the endpapers of Black Hole. They are impressive and haunting. (Click on the Commissions link on Oppenheim’s site to see the photos.)
I also learned that a Black Hole movie is in the works and that unfortunately it looks like Neil Gaiman will not be writing the screenplay, which is too bad because that would have been pretty awesome.
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With a story line like that Neil Gaimen would have been the perfect person to write the screenplay! Bummer he isn’t
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Heather: I know. It sounds like it was over some creative differences with the director, but that really stinks.
great post as usual!