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20K in comic-books

From: Davor Sisovic <davor.sisovic~at~pu.htnet.hr>
Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2005 12:45:51 +0100
To: "Jules Verne Forum" <jvf~at~Gilead.org.il>

Dear friends,

I'm involved in one very interesting publishing project: publishing of the
comic-book adaptation of "20.000 leauges under the sea" by famous Croatian
comic-book authors Walter and Norbert Neugebauer, first published in 1954.
This is planned to be serious edition with a couple afterwords, and it's one
of publishing projects which fits in programs dedicated to 100th JV death
anniversary. I hope that I will be able to show it to you in Amiens, at
least in a form of sample. Besides Croatian edition, we plan to "mutate"
English, and probably French text; it would give more courage to the
publisher if some of you could tell me if this project could be interesting
for international JV audience.

As I was told by Jean-Michel Margot, this Croatian 1954. comic-book
adaptation of 20K is the worldwide second comic-book inspired by 20K, and
the worldwide first one with the text in the "clouds". Jean-Michel and
others: is this fact still "official"? Can I get some information about the
first adaptation?

Original 1954. drawing was black and white, but we plan to have a collored
version. Artist who will make the colloring is Robert Neugebauer, the son of
one of original authors!

I'm looking for available additional information that could be used in
preparing this book. I read that one of JV biographies written by Arnaud
Bedat and published by Hachette in 1982. contains a bibliography of
comic-books inspired with JV novels; is this book available? Could some of
you send me a copy (I'll find something another for a trade)?

And something more on a history of comic-books JV adaptations: as far as I
know, the first comic-book JV adaptation was made by the author Djordje
(Georges) Lobatschev nad published in Belgrade in 1936. - it was Michel
Strogoff, and in the same year the same author starts, but not finished,
"The Children of Captain Grant". Is this fact true, or there is something
older?

But, the time-border could be moved even earlier, again regarding one
Croatian author, and, it even surprised me, my town of Pazin. Recently I
discovered that famous Croatian painter, in his very early days when he
attended the high-school in Pazin, in 1917-1918., drow and write a kind of
proto-comic-book or picture book titled "Journey to the Moon"; I expect to
get a copy of this, and then I'll be able to say more about that.

Greetings,
(and, I'm sorry if I didn't warn all of you that my old e-mail address
davor.sisovic~at~pu.tel.hr changed to davor.sisovic~at~pu.htnet.hr)

Davor Sisovic
davor.sisovic~at~pu.htnet.hr
http://www.ice.hr/davors/

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