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jlroberson (jlroberson) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-08-24 04:46:00

Current location:	Seattle
Current mood:	discontent
Current music:	Do Make Say Think
Entry tags:	char: lulu, creator: frank wedekind, creator: john linton roberson, genre: adaptation, in-joke: shameless plug

Lulu: 10 Pages of a Work in Progress

As some of you know, I'm an indie cartoonist, and some time back I posted an autobio story, "Martha," which was my final story in my 4-year exploration of the smut genre. Having gotten tired of that, I have been working this year on a long-planned adaptation of Frank Wedekind's LULU plays(the other plan was WOYZECK, but, uh, a bit too heavy for me at this time), "Erdgeist" and "Pandora's Box." The latter of which is best known as a silent Louise Brooks vehicle. I love Brooks, but that's been done, and besides, it was hardly a definitive adaptation. Mine isn't either but I'm trying to be at least faithful to its spirit. But mine is set in the modern era, and I am being a bit loose with the rather archaic PD translation I'm working with.
In any event, I though this might be a good venue to show some of it so far, as you folks have taste, and I'm certainly not putting it on my site before shopping it around. So, here's ten pages of it. Most of these lack the greys I'm going to add later(more or less as you see in the first two), so please keep that in mind. Without further comment, here you go.

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jlroberson
2009-09-05 11:32 am UTC (link)

My feeling is that "art" is something that expresses something, and to me that has a component of fun or at least the excitement of seeing a way of doing things you might not have thought of. And I can enjoy both BLACKEST NIGHT and MAUS and see no contradiction there. The alt people have a tendency to define themselves more by what they exclude than what they include, and I think there's good stuff in all genres or non-genres, even if some genres are capable of more than others are.

So among the alt hipsters, I'm neither fish nor fowl. It's a puzzle. But again, it tells me something about comics fans that's heartening, and thanks again.

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	psychop_rex 2009-09-05 11:18 pm UTC (link)
	Any time, man. (Reply to this) (Parent)

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