Today’s a red letter day as Twilight: The Graphic Novel, Volume 1
Publisher Yen Press graciously supplied us with a page from the manga showing the mysterious and irresistible Cullen family. If ever a story was made for manga, this one was, and currently ranks #16 on Amazon’s overall bestseller list.
ugh
Just curious: this is labeled as “Twilight: The Graphic Novel Vol. 1.” Does that mean that it’s going to take multiple volumes just to do Meyer’s first novel? If so, then we may be hearing about these Twilight GNs for a looong time.
Well, it fits the books as far as being instantly grimace-inducing.
Finally! Comics for girls.
I manage a comic shop and flipped through it before putting it out. Looks really good for what it is, realistic enough for more casual American audiences, but steeped in the tropes of shojo that’s made romance such a viable genre in Japan.
Not my thing, but looks like a smart call for the intended audience.
I read the post as describing the “Sullen family.”
I hereby stand by that reading.
There are lots of comics “for girls” that are NOT twilight. and yes, it IS split into two volumes for just the first book, which means god knows how many volumes there’ll be for Breaking Dawn. I can’t wait to see the pictorial representation of Edward biting through Bella’s placenta.
Well, if they can do it in a movie and still somehow get a PG-13 rating, I’m sure they can find a way for the graphic novel…
The Twilight graphic novel features, hands down, the WORST lettering I have EVER seen in a comic book. Absolute worst.
@maggie: WHAT? Ew…
@tekende: Anime News Network interviewed Yen Press publishing director Kurt Hassler on their podcast, and he talks a bit about the lettering choice….it’s freaking Times New Roman. I can understand going with mixed case lettering (much as I personally hate it), but Times New Roman just has no business in a comic book.
I am impressed by the richness of those graytones, though…I wonder how it looks in the printed version?
I agree about the lettering and the transparent word balloons I find annoying and obnoxious. I guess they didn’t want to cover up the art, which I find to be not the right style for this type of book. Why are publishers forcing a quasi manga style so many novel adaptations? If you want it to look like manga, then so full steam ahead, but this art seems to be on the fence between an eastern and western style. They are calling it Twilight: The Graphic Novel, but maybe a better way to refer to it would be Twilight: The Manga Novel, or The Graphic Manga, or a Resse’s Graphic Manga Cup. You know, when someone with a manga book runs into someone with a graphic novel and you put the two together?
Please define “manga style”.
Tezuka? Death Note? Lone Wolf and Cub? Crayon Shin-Chan? Doraemon?
>Why are publishers forcing a quasi manga style so many novel adaptations?
The answer should be self-evident to anyone who has paid attention to the sales pattern of comics to the female demographic (particularly teens) in the past decade. I suppose drawing Bella with broke-back, or making Edward look like Archie Andrews suffering from anemia, would be highly entertaining to comic fogies like us. But I doubt that’s what Twilight fans are looking for.
Also, I see no reason why the term “graphic novel” should be mutually exclusive from any particular drawing style.
LOVE the backgrounds.