Drawing On Comics Week Five

For this week's class I wanted to get the students thinking about how they balance text and image, how they spread out dialogue and how they use narration. The exercise I came up with was to have the students adapt an excerpt of prose into comics form. In retrospect I maybe should've provided the prose to be used, but even with all the different texts being adapted, it was still a good way to investigate these issues. Here's the example I brought, from my cover artwork for the Penguin Graphic Classics Edition of Ethan Frome. I'd probably tackle this adaptation much differently now if I was doing it over.

Ethan Frome, in stores now

The Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition of Ethan Frome is out now, with my cover artwork. They did a really nice job with the finished look, adding a shiny red finish to the title and printing it on a super-nice uncoated coverstock that gives the colors a dull earthy tone. It's book covers like these Penguin editions that make me think that reading books online or in digital versions should never replace a well designed physical version.