Slog

News & Arts

Line Out

Music & the City
at Night

« Burning Question | Lunchtime Quickie »

Thursday, October 29, 2009

Newsarama has an interview with someone who must be at least slightly crazy who is trying to adapt Ulysses into a webcomic. It turns out that if you're going to adapt Ulysses, a webcomic is the proper format for it:

At some point n doing this as web-based material rather than just a print model, we realized just how much more material we could get into from the novel. this isn't a condensed version in the least, and the web allows people to go to the Readers' Guide or our translation key to follow some of the deeper mysteries the novel has when you read it with the annotations. We use the 1922 edition and, I'm proud to say, haven't had edit out any of Joyce's imagery yet. Of course this means a LOT of supplemental reading on my part, Ellman in particular. There are links to all those supplements on the website.  

You can read it here. I bet if you wait another couple of years, Steven Soderbergh will try to adapt Ulysses into a movie starring George Clooney.

Comments (8) RSS

Oldest First Unregistered On Registered On Add a comment

i just had a fresh fruit smoothie. bananas, oj, ice, strawberries, and blueberries. delicious!

Posted by derrickito on October 29, 2009 at 11:27 AM

You can get most of what you need from "Allusions in Ulysses" by Weldon Thornton (no relation, alas) and "Ulysses Annotated by Don Gifford. In fact, I can't imagine reading it without these two open next to it.

Posted by Fnarf

on October 29, 2009 at 11:52 AM

No, sorry, it's been done -- by David Lasky.

Posted by --MC on October 29, 2009 at 12:27 PM

I'd read a Finnegans Wake web comic. Or I'd try, at least.

Posted by Dougsf on October 29, 2009 at 12:35 PM

All fecund in it's nuttiness that.

Posted by kinaidos on October 29, 2009 at 12:51 PM

http://www.interstitialarts.org/recommen…

Posted by jtm on October 29, 2009 at 1:03 PM

Oh, Paul you make my day with the title of this post.

Posted by attitude devant on October 29, 2009 at 3:16 PM

Well you might already have known this, but just in case, Ulysses has already been made into a movie. By Joseph Strick. I just assumed on reading the book that no-one could ever have even tried, but then years later I saw it, and it's pretty good.

Posted by forgot my name on October 29, 2009 at 3:40 PM