EW’S SHELF LIFE: ‘TWILIGHT’ TO BECOME GRAPHIC NOVEL
EW.com’s Shelf Life is bringing us the exclusive news that Little, Brown will be publishing a comic book version of Twilight:
For those of you who can’t get enough Edward and Bella, EW can announce — exclusively — that Little, Brown will be publishing Twilight in graphic-novel form. Though Korean artist Young Kim is creating the art, Meyer herself is deeply immersed in the project, reviewing every panel.Take a close look at the biology-class sketch we’ve obtained (that’s an empty dialogue bubble between their heads, if you’re wondering). What’s interesting to me is that it doesn’t look simply like an artist’s rendering of Kristen Stewart and Rob Pattinson. In fact, the characters seem to be an amalgam of Meyer’s literary imagination and the actors’ actual looks. The description of Edward from biology class: “His dazzling face was friendly; open, a slight smile on his flawless lips. But his eyes were cautious.†And Bella: “I was ivory-skinned …. I had always been slender, but soft somehow, obviously not an athlete…
Read the entire article here.
I’m excited to see how this turns out, I’m really glad that Stephenie is so involved with it. I know this is something I’ll buy. Personally I disagree with the article, I think Kristen Stewart is a fantastic Bella and Rob Pattinson is a perfect Edward, but I’m excited to see how the characters all turn out in animation.
What do you think of Twilight becoming a comic book? Will you buy it?
