OUT NOW! - I have written a comic book version of the novel A CHRISTMAS CAROL, by Charles Dickens. For the UK publisher, CLASSICAL COMICS, which came out October 2008. Its an excellent book, full colour, printed on lovely high quality paper, and with a very interesting history section at the back. Great stuff for both adults and teenagerss. Please check it out!
This is the cover above, and a wee photo of myself and the artist Mike Collins doing promo for it at Bristol Convention. A preview can be download here:
http://www.classicalcomics.com/previews.html
It can be ordered on amazon of course:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Christmas-Carol-Original-Graphic-Novel/dp/1906332177/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1223350062&sr=1-1
My version highlights the social realism of the book, mixed with the very engaging characters that relay the moral in the story. They are making a line of high quality adaptations, including with my good friend Neill Cameron,who has done the art for the first of this line of books - HENRY V. This book is out now. Their aim is a good one and they have a great team of people working on their books. In fact they just won a silver medal in the 2008 Independent Publishers Awards in America - in the Graphic Novel/Drawn Book- Drama/Documentary category. So, please click the post title and check them out.
The artist on A Christmas Carol will be Mike Collins, who has been professional artist for more than 20 years. He has worked on many well known books, such as Batman, Judge Dredd, Doctor Who, Star Trek, and Harry Potter. So its lucky for me to have such an experienced artist drawing my script. He was kind enough to say these nice things about me in a recent interview: "The script for A Christmas Carol is by Sean Michael Wilson who is better known for manga strips. A Scot living in Japan writing an English classic. It doesn't get any better than that! For me, I found the way Sean had paced the story was a revelation. I'm used - particularly on Doctor Who - to compressing storytelling but here Sean allowed sequences to spread over many panels or even pages. It was liberating to stretch my artistic muscles on this."
He even has good taste in music - likes Joni Mitchell, one of my favourites too! Here are two pages by him, David Roach and James Offredi.
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/michael.collins17/mikecv.htm
The second book of mine with Classical comics will be THE CANTERVILLE GHOST, based on the first book published of Oscar Wilde's. The mansion house art above is the opening page from that book, by Steve Bryant and Jason Millet. The third book is WUTHERING HEIGHTS, which will be drawn by the expectional John M Burns. Again, someone who has being creating comics for many years and who is still doing great work ( Nikolai Dante, Judge Dredd, TV Century 21, Look-In, Modesty Blaise, etc. An honour to have him work on one of my scripts.
QUOTE TODAY: "Truth spoken by power would be nice to see every now and again."
- Christopher Hitchens, writer.
8 comments:
Looks great!
You're working with Mike Collins? Nice one! He's a great bloke.
I love the artwork, it looks fab!
Yes, Mike Collins has done a great job on this artwork. he told me its his favourite artjob for many years.... partly because my script left him room to allow the art 'to breath'. Though hats off must also go to David, James and Terry for the inks, colours and lettering too - this was really a team effort in the best sense.
A CHRISTMAS CAROL Will be, supposedly, featured in EVERY Borders book shop Christmas season display - in the windows, all across the UK!
Wow...
Hello Sean Michael,
i've read "A Christmas Carol", and i would like to say the art is amazing, but, most important the reading is REALLY smooth, and even if i know the story very well i cannot stop to read till the end!!
you are BRILLIANT!!
Congratulations
my warmest wishes
Erika
Ha Ha, arigato Erika... too kind!
Not sure how brilliant i am, i notice that i dont light up in the dark....
But yes, I think we did manage to make A Christmas Carol a good, smooth read. and that is one of the key things that a comic should be right? Not the only thing, of course, but one of the biggest aspects.
Oh, i make comics!
Sean Michael
Sorry if i dare to correct you but i have to say you make GREAT comics!!
and i'm sure you light up in the dark with a little help from full moon!
my best wishes
erika
Incredible artwork!!
"The third book is WUTHERING HEIGHTS, which will be drawn by the expectional John M Burns"
HAHAHAHAHAH
I REALLY WANT THAT NOW!!huge fan of john, he is a giant!!He is so underrated in the states but in England he is a god!!
congrats sean to work with a monster like that!!
apart from that as always the best luck to you and your work!!
and waiting for the book with burns and ax anthology!!
saludos from argentina
as always my english sucks!!
Thanks Mr Argentina
(but i have, as always to take exception to the word 'England' here - when you actually meant the whole of the UK, right?)
John M Burns is indeed a great artist and what luck that I get to work with him on one of my script! I've known of his work since I was about 8, so this is literally a childhood dream come true. Arigato kami sama!
I will put up some pages from our version of Wuthering Heights soon, after the publisher Classical Comcis ok's it.
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