My new class at Gettysburg College started on Friday. I mentioned this class when I posted about why I was not going to review Frank Miller’s film version of The Spirit. Here’s a list of what we’re going to be looking at:
(Even though “graphic novel” has become it’s own genre in the public’s mind, I’m expanding the definition for the class to be “work done under one creator”. Let’s face it, a graphic novel is just a long comic.)
The Spirit (2008 flop and 1987 TV movie)
Sin City
Persepolis
American Splendor
Ghost World
The Rockteer
Hellboy
Watchmen
V for Vendetta
Asterix (live action film “Asterix and Obelix vs Caesar” and animated feature)
Metropolis (by Osamu Tezuka)
Road to Perdition
History of Violence
And for the mid-term paper:
Tales from the Crypt (the HBO TV series)
Kovaleski (the blog of a cartoonist named John) 
January 20, 2009 at 6:24 pm
I tried to imagine a live action Asterix and my brain dislocated. How can such a thing be? Are people dressed up in mascot suits? Yikes.
January 20, 2009 at 11:04 pm
On video cover it’s “real” people. They use some make-up so the actors resemble the comics. And Gérard Depardieu seems to be wearing high-waisted fat suit pants.