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Comix as memoir, covered in the last installment of TIME.comix, is just one of the many underused approaches to comicbook narrative. The adaptation of other media has become a lost genre in graphic literature. From the 1940s to the early 60s Gilberton Publications' "Classics Illustrated," featured "Stories by the World's Greatest Authors," as the tagline said. Since then, except for the mostly execrable "franchising" of sci-fi movies and TV series, comicbooks have done little exploring in the adaptation of other media. Of late it has been one publisher, the New York-based NBM (Nantier, Beall and Minoustchine) that...
...After you've seen Animal House for the seventh time, you look for something else to do," added John Gilberton, explaining why he and his Heineken buddies undertook such a useless project in the first place...
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