![]() I would call it more of an illustrated novel, rather than a graphic novel. The care of it, the craft of it, and the curious way that it is neither graphic novel nor book but rather something in between. I cannot speak for the text itself, nor for its nuanced problems and challenges which better voices than I have elaborated on, nor for its cultural status, but I can speak for this adaptation itself. And even little white girls growing up in rural North Yorkshire knew that there was a something about To Kill A Mockingbird. You’re trying to adapt the aura of it some books have this indefinable something about them that you can’t ever pin down in words, but you know it’s there. ![]() ![]() It’s kind of terrifying to adapt something because you’re not just adapting the thing in question. To Kill a Mockingbird: A Graphic Novel by Fred Fordham ![]()
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