SotA Anthology 2015-16 book and book- within- thebook , the adaptation alters the majority of references to books into comics ; visits to the bookshop become visits to a comic shop ; Manara ’ s search for the elusive author Flannery becomes about comic scripts , not manuscripts . As comics and novels have distinctly separate histories this may cause a few fissures with content in future issues that would be difficult , but not impossible to consolidate , but for this project the transition has remained smooth .
Secondly , however satirical Calvino ’ s intention may have been in making the everyman avatar ‘ You ’ a heterosexual male , this will be altered in the comics adaptation for two reasons . The first is due to the visual advantage offered by comics ; ‘ You ’ will always appear wearing the same t - shirt , which acts as sufficient enough identity signifier that means the character can appear any gender or race , whilst still remaining recognisably the same character . This alteration has been made to highlight that the perspective of ‘ You ’ is more universal in scope than just heterosexual males . The second reason is that much of Western mainstream comics history is written by and for straight , white males , but recent years have seen this dominance challenged and altered , to the benefit of the entire industry , reader and publisher alike . The comics audience simply is not , nor has ever been , exclusively white , straight , and male , and mainstream publishers such as BOOM !, Image , and Marvel , are finding tremendous critical and financial success by recognising the diverse interests and backgrounds of readers . Recent examples include ( pictured right ) Monstress and Virgil ( both Image ), Ms . Marvel ( Marvel ), and Lumberjanes ( BOOM !).
The material submitted covers the first seven pages of the proposed first issue of the adaptation . The entire novel would total 10 issues , released monthly , at the standard ( at Image ) length of roughly 32 pages front to back ( though ‘ oversized ’ issues at much greater length are not uncommon ). Each issue has an individual title that matches a chapter of the novel . Each issue is divided into two halves , the first corresponding to the second-person frame narrative , the second the novel -within- the- novel narrative . The second half will be introduced with an interior title page , and the art will switch to another style at this point . For example , If On A Winter Night will be black and white , heavily influenced by noir comics , while On a Carpet of Leaves ( from Chapter 16 ) will , due to its Japanese setting , emulate some of the artistic traits of manga , such as aspectto-aspect transitions , and long stretches of silent , landscape laden panels .
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