Staffars Serier (boss@staffars.se)
Fri, 27 Aug 1999 05:33:20 +0200
Mark Sullivan:
>
>Speaking of carnivals, Michael Chong brought up
Gresham's Nightmare
>Alley in his original query. This was originally set
to be the third in
>Art Spiegelman's Neon Lit series of graphic
adaptations of noir novels,
>following Paul Auster's City of Glass and Barry
Gifford's Perdito
>Durango. I have the first two. The third never came
out. right? I
>didn't miss it, did I?
Nope. Never came out. Or if it did, it never went through the
usual comics distribution channels.
>Finally, it's not exactly noir, but you can't have a
discussion of
>carnivals without bringing up Todd Browning's movie
Freaks. A truly
>creepy movie, banned in the USA for years, adapted
into a graphic novel
>illustrated by Berni Wrightson and the inspiration of
the Ramones'
>Gabba, Gabba Hey!
There was also a more recent comics adaption by Jim Woodring
and F. Solano Lopez.
/Staffar
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