![]() ![]() Strict Adaptations: Coloring Between the Lines The middle grade graphic novel boom of the past several years has publishers looking at new ways to tell old stories, and two trends have emerged: faithful adaptations of backlist books, particularly series, along with imaginative reinventions of classics in the public domain. What’s changing now is that graphic adaptations are becoming a larger part of the consumer market. ![]() To this day, straightforward retellings of public domain favorites continue to be standard fare on school and library shelves, and some publishers have changed up the format a bit: Manga Classics creates close adaptations of classic works drawn in a manga style, while Eureka Productions’ Graphic Classics are anthologies of brief comics based on poems and short stories. ![]() Graphic adaptations have been around since the days of the Classics Illustrated comics of the 1940s and 1950s.
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