{"id":4156,"date":"2010-05-03T09:12:59","date_gmt":"2010-05-03T13:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=4156"},"modified":"2010-05-03T09:12:59","modified_gmt":"2010-05-03T13:12:59","slug":"wrinkle-in-time-graphic-novel-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=4156","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Wrinkle in Time&#8221; Graphic Novel Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite L&#8217;Engle saying that she never wanted her books to be illustrated, artist <a href=\"http:\/\/hopelarson.com\/\">Hope Larson<\/a> has been tapped to adapt the YA classic <i>A Wrinkle in Time<\/i> as a <del datetime=\"2010-05-03T12:46:49+00:00\">comic book<\/del> graphic novel.  The work will apparently eventually tie in to the planned movie.  <a href=\"http:\/\/geeksofdoom.com\/2010\/04\/20\/hope-larson-to-adapt-a-wrinkle-in-time-into-graphic-novel-form\/\">Geeks of Doom<\/a> has more.<\/p>\n<p>They also ask readers if they&#8217;re looking forward to the new visual form of the work or if they&#8217;re purists who feel the novel should remain solely in its original form.  I think it&#8217;d be nice if the graphic novel and\/or movie introduces new readers to the book, and am choosing to pretend&#8211;as I routinely do with movie adaptations of novels&#8211;that the film shares the book&#8217;s title purely by coincidence.  If you pretend that a movie has nothing whatsoever to do with the book it&#8217;s based on, it&#8217;s much easier to avoid disappointment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite L&#8217;Engle saying that she never wanted her books to be illustrated, artist Hope Larson has been tapped to adapt the YA classic A Wrinkle in Time as a comic book graphic novel. The work will apparently eventually tie in to the planned movie. Geeks of Doom has more. They also ask readers if they&#8217;re [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4156"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4156"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4159,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4156\/revisions\/4159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}