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...other media. Of late it has been one publisher, the New York-based NBM (Nantier, Beall and Minoustchine) that has consistently published very fine, full color, hardcover literary adaptations by top comix artists. In the past few months they have produced three exceptionally well-done works: "The Yellow Jar," based on Japanese folk tales, "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," based on the Robert Louis Stevenson novella, and an adaptation of Marcel Proust's immense "Remembrance of Things Past...
...personal favorite of NBM's recent adaptations, "The Yellow Jar" (48 pp.; $12.95) by the previously unpublished Patrick Atangan, doesn't look or read anything like your typical Japanese comic. No saucer eyes, robots or schoolgirl outfits can be found. With Hokusai and Gustav Klimt as his influences Atangan has adapted a pair of Japanese folk tales into a gorgeous hybrid of comix and prints of ancient Japan. The titular story begins when a fisherman collects a yellow jar in his net. Somewhat disappointed that it contains no treasure, instead he finds that it holds a sleeping woman. She agrees...
...chubby, curled fingers dancing with each other. Clearly referencing ancient Japanese theater's use of hand positions, Atangan puts more care into the arrangement of fingers and palms than a less interesting artist will put into an entire page. Visually complex while being incredibly easy to read, "The Yellow Jar" has the kind of magic that will appeal as much to children as adults. You won't believe it's his first book...
...operating (not unlike those computer chips in late-model cars whose secrets even Mr. Goodwrench can't crack). Consequently, our notions about what makes us tick are just that, notions, and very often wrong. We might as well be guessing the number of jelly beans in a bottomless jar...
...melodrama, conflicted love and potent new characters. Treebeard, a tall sylvan sage reluctantly drawn into the conflict, has the stately, smiling gravity of George Bernard Shaw. And the digitized Gollum is wonderfully complex, a damned creature slipping in and out of his own private hell. At first a whiny Jar Jar Binks as he might be played by Klaus Kinski, Gollum soon reveals a complex pathos and a facility of expression no human actor could match. He is another example of Jackson's pursuit of a tone both entertaining and serious. No smirking allowed...