These are necessary for exposition, feeding the information vital to understand the story, because in prose you can’t simply show something as you would in a film or comic. One of the main challenges is adapting prose to a visual medium such as comics is that in prose, it’s perfectly acceptable to engage the reader with an inner monologue, and often for some length. In his opening essay, “The Comic of Cthulhu: Being a Letter of Reminiscence and Recollection Concerning The Courtyard”, scripter Antony Johnston discusses the problems he faced when retelling Alan Moore’s original prose story in comic-book form: Lovecraft, Jacen Burrowsįor the first part of this discussion, see here. Okay, so let’s see if this works at all or if the whole idea is a misfire. Lovecraft’s “The Shadow Over Innsmouth”, which seems to be the main inspiration for Neonomicon so far, just as “The Horror of Red Hook” served for “The Courtyard”. …in which he linked to a flawed but fascinating two-part video on issue 1.Īnd I didn’t mention it, but the re-reading I am assigning for myself before we get to issue 3 is H.P.

Jog has already written an excellent post about issue 2… (Writer Antony Johnston wrote in with an interesting comment regarding some of the fundamental language & layout choices.) Neonomicon is the sequel to Alan Moore’s The Courtyard, which I covered previously here and here. Originally the idea was to discuss each issue as it was released, but we’ve got some catching up to do, so this time we’ll tackle the first two issues together.įirst, of course, you need to read the comics themselves. Our topic is Alan Moore and Jacen Burrows’s Neonomicon. Welcome to the first official meeting of the Comics Comics Comic-Book Club.

The Playwright: Axes, Bold As Love | The Panelists on 9-Panel Grids.

Hold me closer, tiny Danzig… « No Moleste on Esoteric Comics History part 666.

The Mid-Life Moment in Alternative Comics.

You got to have a J-O-B if you wanna be with me.

Cage Match #3: My Brain is Hanging Upside Down (2008).

Neonomicon 3