The many graveyard books: artistic collaborations and possible multiple readings in illustrated works

This article investigates how diverse layers of meanings can be seen in different iterations of the same work, as it is illustrated or adapted by different artists. Departing from a single source material, Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book (2008), we analyze two versions and one adaptation of the tex...

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Autores: L. Dalmaso, Renata, Madella, Thayse
Formato: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2018
País:Brasil
Recursos:Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC)
Repositorio:Ilha do Desterro
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:periodicos.ufsc.br:article/54034
Acesso em linha:https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/desterro/article/view/2175-8026.2018v71n2p57
Access Level:acceso abierto
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Resumo:This article investigates how diverse layers of meanings can be seen in different iterations of the same work, as it is illustrated or adapted by different artists. Departing from a single source material, Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book (2008), we analyze two versions and one adaptation of the text: one novel illustrated by Dave Mckean (2008) and another by Chris Riddell (2009); and a graphic novel (2014), adapted by P. Craig Russell. We draw our analysis from authors in the fields of Children's Literature and Comics Studies to dicuss the construction of meanings between the interplay of written and visual texts. Such interactions have a range of variation taking into consideration both the format of the work (novel or graphic novel), the choice of a scene to be illustrated, and stylistic approaches.