Pride and Prejudice to be a graphic novel
What were we just saying about the Year of Jane? Hot on the heels of the graphic novelization of Northanger Abbey, we discovered a graphic artist who is doing a manga-style version of Pride and Prejudice, to be published in September 2007. Check out the preview! A certain Snotty Gentleman is about to get a smackdown, old-school. Dorothy! Popcorn for everyone, directly!
(Link via Journalista)
December 3rd, 2006 at 3:49 pm
Hahaha! I love Elizabeth’s stunned expression.
Must have this!
December 3rd, 2006 at 7:18 pm
Oh dear, this will not do… the aspidistra was not introduced to England until 1822! I imagine it was a few more years until it would be found in the parlour of a village parsonage in Kent. (Did they have houseplants at all in pre-Victorian times; anyone know?)
December 3rd, 2006 at 7:33 pm
Ohmigosh! Her eyes when he says he loves her are hilarious! And when she imagines hitting him in the head with her book….snarkilicious!
December 3rd, 2006 at 9:49 pm
Wow! I never thought Mr. Darcy would look so good in Manga!
December 3rd, 2006 at 10:39 pm
I lurv it!! Me want.
I like graphic novelized Regency fashion!
December 3rd, 2006 at 10:51 pm
Oh, that is great. I need one of those.
December 3rd, 2006 at 11:09 pm
Oh and double posting. Forgive me.
My favorite thing about it is the last bit, when Darcy is leaning backwards on his elbows, waiting for Elizabeth’s, “Oh Mr. Darcy! How is it that you have deigned to honor my completely undeserving person with the gracious gift of your hand? Oh I may weep! when I consider how you have lowered yourself to offer for the likes of a humble creature such as myself!”
It captures this so well:
Neither Firth nor McFadyen incorporated what must have been his maddening assurance of her acceptance. (There I go again, forgetting these aren’t actual people.)
December 3rd, 2006 at 11:21 pm
Smashing! I also love Lizzy’s shocked expression.
But … does Darcy look rather girly to anyone else? Particularly the point where “he” is fingering the aspidistra.
Additionally, I truly do not think that Lizzy could be so upset at any annoyance to Mr. Collins… even if it were Darcy’s fault.
Crazy. I don’t think I’d want it. But it’s amusing to look at all the same.
December 3rd, 2006 at 11:55 pm
[...] There’s a proposal out for a manga adaptation of Pride and Prejudice. [...]
December 4th, 2006 at 1:21 am
For manga, Darcy doesn’t look that girly, actually. Not an expert, though.
December 4th, 2006 at 3:38 am
Hahahaha! Oh, I love it! What a couple folks already said: Lizzie imagining throwing the book at his head, her absolutely stunned expression and – indeed – that wonderfully subtle touch of him leaning so confidently and easily back on the mantelpiece, utterly sure she will be dissolving in tears of gratitude any second now. Whoever’s doing this knows the book very well indeed. Why oh why do we have to wait all the way until September
?
December 4th, 2006 at 9:45 am
So will the Lizzy-Lady Catherine showdown involve fifty-foot mecha?
December 4th, 2006 at 10:13 am
Hello. I followed a link back to this blog and I was flattered to learn of your interest in the Pride and Prejudice manga. The book is being adapted by Carol Fox and another writer (whose name I shall recall presently), pencilled by myself, and finished by a team of most excellent women. The samples online were merely ‘test’ pages. I’m optimistic that my art and familiarity with Jane Austen’s world has since improved after much practice, research and careful immersion in other Austen adaptations. The first Volume will be published by Tokyopop in Spring or Mid- 2008. Carol Fox has set up a production blog for it over here: http://www.tokyopop.com/CarolKitsune/blog/
Thanks for the interest! I hope you will enjoy the book when it’s released.
December 4th, 2006 at 10:18 am
http://www.tokyopop.com/Tinpan/art/33130.html
December 4th, 2006 at 12:46 pm
Congratulations Tintin! (and the rest of the team)
Thanks for those illustrations, I hope someone in Spain (people is a little bit crazy for Manga, here) can publish it in Spanish. It seems very interesting and I like the drawing very much!!
Best regards,
Carmen
December 4th, 2006 at 1:05 pm
Echoing Carmen…congratulations Tintin. It looks wonderful. I wish you much success with it.
Question: why do so many of us love the idea of Lizzy wanting to throw her book at Darcy? Myself included. Are we violent people? Or do we just like the idea of those oh-so-arrogant types getting literally smacked upside the head?
December 4th, 2006 at 5:44 pm
Oh, no, we are not violent people. Think of it a Lizzy using a Cluebat. Even in today’s society it is hard to imagine a Janeite doing that to a snobby woman or man in real life! I think we love the picture of Lizzy throwing a book at Darcy’s head because it is something she could never actually do in polite society, yet she is so insensed by his odious, arrogant interference with Jane and Bingly and so maddened by his attitude in general (leaning on elbows says it exactly) that we know just how satisfying it would be to her feelings to let him have it. Knock some sense into his head, some pride out, and revenge Jane at the same time! Lizzy has suffered under Darcy’s insults and barbs (”not tolerable enough to tempt me”) long enough, from which she can aptly defend herself, but to know he has hurt Jane is more than she can bear. Don’t test a sister!
December 4th, 2006 at 6:51 pm
Oh, she’s just IMAGINING herself throwing the book. Who hasn’t done a little imaginary violence from time to time? It’s keeping it in the realm of imagination that is the important thing. I thought it was hilarious.
Tintin, stop by anytime–you have a team of beta readers and period experts at the ready.
But you seem to be doing a great job on your own!
December 4th, 2006 at 8:46 pm
Book-as-cluebat: yup.
Glad to see we’re not the only ones excited about this– and that so far the biggest quibble is with the aspidistra (which will get an overhaul, I assure you)!
December 4th, 2006 at 8:54 pm
(Though actually it’s a writing case. But for our purposes, it’s mostly a cluebat.)
December 4th, 2006 at 10:15 pm
We’re pretty fond of the Cluebat round these parts.
December 5th, 2006 at 1:19 pm
As are we.
P.S. Co-writer = Sarah Winningham.
December 8th, 2006 at 3:55 am
Let the heavens ring in ‘joy, senselss joy’!!!! For those of us who are manga (graphic novel) readers, Jane Austen being turned into a manga is music to my ears! IT’s like haveing chocolate and cake at the same time - two good things at once! I can hardly help but pinch myself in luck! So terrific!
December 8th, 2006 at 5:52 am
Oh, Tintin - Spring or mid-2008? Please, please, please tell me that ‘8′ was a typo ! Such a l-o-o-o-n-g time to have to wait. You really meant to type a ‘7′, dint’cha??!!
If not, will you and Carol and Sarah at least ease our eager curiosity and anxious waiting with another small scene now and then? Pretty please! We’re almost all gonna’ buy the thing anyway! And, uh, you never know - as evidenced by the aspidistra, we could possibly even be Very Useful!
December 10th, 2006 at 2:31 pm
This looks like it’s going to have to be added to the Austen library. I’ve already got NA on my Amazon wishlist. How fun!
December 14th, 2006 at 2:21 pm
Oh yeah, we’ll be posting more preview pages periodically–gotta keep the public appetite properly whetted–but they have to be drawn first. -_-’ This project has taken forever to start (my fault!), but we’re finally getting it rolling. Hopefully we’ll have a sweet cover in the next couple months, and preview pages in the next few (gotta thumbnail the entire book first–hmm, maybe all this should go in my blog).
As for the long release schedule, it’s killing me. I wish the books could come out straight away! I wanted them out in January ‘05, when the idea first glimmered! Sadly, though, it takes a lot of time and effort to draw a 240-page book, let alone two of ‘em (we’re planning a set of two, due to TOKYOPOP’s manga publishing style–smaller trim, black & white, etc), and Tintin has a few projects to juggle. So it all adds up to a VERY conservative schedule…but like I said, we hope to make it worth the wait!