In the same way, Glass Town also perfectly blends its classic origins with its new comic format. Though imaginative, it never feels disjointed, managing to combine fact with explorative fiction seamlessly. It reads almost like a biography, only written by a complete stranger over one hundred years after Brontë’s death. Her narration is posthumous of Glass Town and looks back through the years of its rise and subsequent fall. She tells the tale in a meandering way to, of all people, one of her own characters. In Isabel Greenberg’s original graphic novel reimagination, the creation of this wondrous fictional world is narrated by eldest sister Charlotte Brontë. Recorded as first surfacing in 1827, it served as a gathering ground for their original characters and stories, thought to be a starting point for several themes realized in their later works. Glass Town was a collective, a place, a world fully realized in the minds of the Brontë children. Glass Town wasn’t originally a classic work in the way the famous Wuthering Heights by Charlotte’s sister Emily or The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by sister Anne was. Instead, the new book from Abrams ComicArts takes elements from both the inspired original concept and comic rework and combines them perfectly into a refreshing literary rosé.
However, this isn’t the case in the graphic novel version of Charlotte Brontë’s Glass Town, reimagined by Isabel Greenberg. Or alternately, it is completely watered down and made lackluster alongside imaginative graphics competing for the reader’s attention. Flowery language that makes a novel immersive and delicious to the mind and ear can be cloistering and congestive when adapted into spoken panels. And for understandable reasons.Ĭomics and classic literature - while both equally worthwhile forms of written entertainment - don’t always mix well.
If you asked any diehard comics fan to pick a title sporting all of these things, they likely wouldn’t first point to a work by 1800’s English poet and novelist Charlotte Brontë.
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