Manga and comics

[Pam Scruton]

No: HPFGUIDX 782

I'm sorry if I've missed this point during this thread, but all of a 
sudden there were lots of messages to go through.

Does the phrase Classics Illustrated mean anything to anyone?  Lots 
of years ago I got my introduction to an awful lot of literature 
through this medium - all the Charles Dickens, Jack London, and, of 
course Herman Melville whose Moby Dick I last saw in Classic 
Illustrated form in the film Major League!  

Ladybird Books (mostly catering for pre-school and early school 
readers) also have done versions of adult fiction - we have the 
Ladybird version of Dracula, condenses Bram Stoker's book from the 
size of  Goblet of Fire to about 16 pages half of which are taken up 
by pictures.

However, when I think of the visual images included in television 
news broadcasts - even those around the children's TV slot in the 
afternoon - JKR is going to have to get very dark indeed to match 
that sort of stuff!

Pam