Walter Simonson’s Lawnmower Man: Artist’s Edition Portfolio

Yipppiehhh, wieder ein ausgesprochen schönes Portfolio auf das ich mich schon lange gefreut habe. "Walter Simonson's Lawnmower Man: Artist's Edition Portfolio". Und es ist riesig sage ich euch. !46,99cm x 33,65cm!

...aufgeklappt: links die Verlagsangaben und rechts die Tasche mit den

Faksimiles, sowie die Rückseite mit gedruckter Unterschrift

...eine interessante Anekdote gibt es dazu ebenfalls noch. Hier ein Auszug aus dem Interview zwischen Simonson und CBR:

Did King write the script or did you adapt it to a graphic novel format yourself?
 
He wrote it.  We did the story Marvel style.  I say "we" but I never had any direct contact with King.  We did it Marvel style though, which means I took the story, broke it down into pages, drew it and then this being the old days before we had computers and the internet, Denny sent the original pages to King.  King then wrote the script from the drawings and panel breakdowns I had done.  The funny part about that is that no one talked to him about it so he wrote it by actually writing the entire script in pencil all around the artwork.  Right on the art.  It totally killed me to have to erase all the stuff!  The pages had to be cleaned up to be printed.  It just killed me!  [Laughs]

I thought King did a really nice job at his adaptation.  You might say, "Oh, it's Stephen King, of course he would!" but I have seen some writers who don't do comics, but are still professional writers, do things in comic scripts that don't always work.  If you go back and compare what King did in this with the short story, he personalized the comic story.  He acknowledged that you're taking in information differently so by personalizing it he did an adaptation of the story in a visual way.  It worked really well.  I was delighted.  I thought, "This guy gets it."  It was really cool.

...der vollständige Satz, der ursprünglichen Panels und Kunstdruck des
ursprünglichen Covers

I've seen the pages and you can see writing around the edges of some of them.  Is that King's original handwritten script?
 
Anything that's writing is King's.  I had to erase most of it though to print cleanly.  There's definitely a page or two, though, where you can see writing partially erased near panels and that is King's actual writing.  He wrote it in pencil, which was good because I can erase it, but it still did kill me to do it.

*Da sich immer noch Leute fragen, wie denn auf der vorliegenden Ausgabe noch Reste von King´s "Gekritzel" erhalten sein können, kann ich dazu nur anmerken, dass lediglich die Schrift entfernt wurde, die in die Panel hineinragte.

...Beispiel für King´s Randbemerkungen...

Der Comic von Walter Simonson erschien zuerst in "Bizarre Adventures" Vol 1 #29 December, 1981.

Hier übrigens noch mal ein Größenvergleich mit der aktuellen Hardcoverausgabe von "Der Outsider" von Heyne und meinem originalen "Bizarre Adventures" Heft:

...und mal ein Größenvergleich mit der HC "Der Outsider" Ausgabe von Heyne
und dem Bizarre Adventures Heft

Produktinformation:

• Hardcover

• Verlag: IDW (2014)

• Sprache: English

• Größe: 18.5" x 13.25" (Innenmaß 18" x 13")

• Preis: ca. $ 40,- zuzüglich Fracht

• ISBN-10: 1631401165

• ISBN-13: 978-1631401169

...die Artist Edition ist nach wie vor über diverse Portale erhältlich (Amazon, Ebay, IDW direkt etc.)