From Stage to Page: Adaptation as Survival in Neil Gaiman’s Mr. Punch.
Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean perform a radical adaptation of both mythical form and magical content by translating the Punch and Judy show’s lengthy folkloric tradition of puppetry into graphic novel format in The Tragical Comedy or Comical Tragedy of Mr. Punch (1994). This collaboration reframes a...
| Publicado en: | Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts Vol. 30; no. 2; pp. 176 - 198 |
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International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts
2019
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