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Beacon press seeks artist for graphic novel of Octavia Butler's Kindred | Nalo Hopkinson
Interesting. I would have thought that to be something that was incredibly difficult to adapt. I know that I've read it once, listened to a very good audio dramatization featuring Alfre Woodard once, and then never gone near it again. It's a very good story, but very hard to get through -- especially a re-reading/experiencing where you know what happens in the end.
I also wonder if, after the artistic and critical success of Nat Turner, they tried approaching Kyle Baker. That would seem an almost perfect match of artist and material. (Though, that said, given that Beacon is nonprofit and small, they might not have been able to afford him.)
(Purely a side note: the small corner of me that remains from my webmaster days just wants to have a small headdesk moment regarding Beacon's website. Not the design, per se -- though part of me would like to have a very firm word with them regarding the blue text on blue squares with a blue background for the side and top links. No, the issue is that they don't have their own complete press releases on their own website. They have some things on their Beacon Broadside weblog -- and again, if I were a designer god, we would be having some very firm words about the utility of making the only discernable link to your weblog look like exactly the sort of ad people have been long trained to ignore. On the other hand, they have resisted the urge to Flash; THAT said, I have a sneaky suspicion that the Javascript menus at the top do not degrade gracefully if you have Javascript turned of. [Which, granted, almost nobody does these days -- but that said, if you've got a chunk of your press devoted to Disability Studies, as they seem to, wouldn't you want your site to reflect a commitment to that?] Nonethless, all the preceeding aside, Beacon also doesn't have complete press releases on their weblog. They sent the complete press release out -- it's up at Racialicious, to which I declined to link because the pop-up survey ad thingie they've got going now annoys the snot out of me, and a few other places. But still, most people who are truly interested will want to come back to the Beacon site, since it should be authoritative, and you want to make sure the other places didn't leave out anything important. Seriously, they're a small press already. Why handicap their website from doing what it's supposed to be doing, which is publicising and selling their stuff?)
Interesting. I would have thought that to be something that was incredibly difficult to adapt. I know that I've read it once, listened to a very good audio dramatization featuring Alfre Woodard once, and then never gone near it again. It's a very good story, but very hard to get through -- especially a re-reading/experiencing where you know what happens in the end.
I also wonder if, after the artistic and critical success of Nat Turner, they tried approaching Kyle Baker. That would seem an almost perfect match of artist and material. (Though, that said, given that Beacon is nonprofit and small, they might not have been able to afford him.)
(Purely a side note: the small corner of me that remains from my webmaster days just wants to have a small headdesk moment regarding Beacon's website. Not the design, per se -- though part of me would like to have a very firm word with them regarding the blue text on blue squares with a blue background for the side and top links. No, the issue is that they don't have their own complete press releases on their own website. They have some things on their Beacon Broadside weblog -- and again, if I were a designer god, we would be having some very firm words about the utility of making the only discernable link to your weblog look like exactly the sort of ad people have been long trained to ignore. On the other hand, they have resisted the urge to Flash; THAT said, I have a sneaky suspicion that the Javascript menus at the top do not degrade gracefully if you have Javascript turned of. [Which, granted, almost nobody does these days -- but that said, if you've got a chunk of your press devoted to Disability Studies, as they seem to, wouldn't you want your site to reflect a commitment to that?] Nonethless, all the preceeding aside, Beacon also doesn't have complete press releases on their weblog. They sent the complete press release out -- it's up at Racialicious, to which I declined to link because the pop-up survey ad thingie they've got going now annoys the snot out of me, and a few other places. But still, most people who are truly interested will want to come back to the Beacon site, since it should be authoritative, and you want to make sure the other places didn't leave out anything important. Seriously, they're a small press already. Why handicap their website from doing what it's supposed to be doing, which is publicising and selling their stuff?)
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