{"id":4668,"date":"2018-02-24T20:23:07","date_gmt":"2018-02-24T20:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=4668"},"modified":"2018-02-24T20:23:07","modified_gmt":"2018-02-24T20:23:07","slug":"from-gawain-to-the-graphic-novel-study-day-in-june-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2018\/02\/24\/from-gawain-to-the-graphic-novel-study-day-in-june-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"From Gawain to the Graphic Novel &#8211; study day in June 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/moma.machynlleth.org.uk\/?page_id=810\">From <em>Gawain<\/em> to the Graphic Novel: A study-day on artists and narrative<\/a> on the mid Wales coast in June 2018, with accompanying art exhibition.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/oldimages\/study-day-9-june-flyer.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/oldimages\/study-day-9-june-flyer.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"655\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4669\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>News of the day reminded me that we still really need a good graphic novel of <em>Gawain<\/em>, one which takes it seriously and accurately depicts the local topographies involved.  So far the two comic takes on it appear to have been toon-y and unsatisfactory:<\/p>\n<p>1. There was what looks like a very superficial &#8216;superhero&#8217;-like appearance of a stock medieval Green Knight character in Eco Comics&#8217;s <em>The Green Man<\/em> #1 (2013). But the title never seems to have gone beyond issue #1.<\/p>\n<p>2. There was also a well-made cartoony German-language adaptation <em><a href=\"https:\/\/the-green-knight.com\/graphic-novel\/\">Sir Gawain und der Gr\u00fcne Ritter<\/a><\/em> (2016).  But reviews talk of its approach being &#8220;tongue-in-cheek&#8221; and &#8220;jokey&#8221;.  That may well be the most suitable approach for interesting children in the tale, but as far as I can see it hasn&#8217;t yet been translated into English. And, being in German, the jokes may not translate &mdash; because the German sense-of-humour is notoriously difficult to get working in English.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Gawain to the Graphic Novel: A study-day on artists and narrative on the mid Wales coast in June 2018, with accompanying art exhibition. News of the day reminded me that we still really need a good graphic novel of Gawain, one which takes it seriously and accurately depicts the local topographies involved. So far [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}