Gatsby

Good people of the superhero comics community, I’ve kept quiet for 23-and-a-half months and I can remain silent no longer. It’s been almost two years since The Great Gatsby entered the public domain and yet — despite being absurdly overqualified for the job — Jay Gatsby is still not a Batman villain. The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic of the American canon, entered the public domain on Jan. 1, 2021. Which means that it has been totally legal to write him into one of the major superhero universes for 710…

Gatsby, Jeremy Holt (Made in Korea, After Houdini)’s newest graphic novel from AWA Studios, debuts this May and reimagines the “Great American Novel,” F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. When Holt read The Great Gatsby for the first time during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, they fell in love with Fitzgerald’s iconic novel and beautifully flawed characters. While the main plot points and themes are familiar to the original novel, unlike other Gatsby comic adaptations Holt’s rendition views the story in a new…

Clover Press has announced it is bringing a faithful graphic novel adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald‘s The Great Gatsby to Kickstarter, where backers can also support their local libraries and schools in addition to the project. The Kickstarter will launch soon, so sign up through this link to be notified about when The Great Gatsby graphic novel adaptation officially launches! Ted Adams (Diablo House, The Island of Dr. Moreau) and Jorge Coelho (Rocket Racoon, Time Before Time) are bringing the “Great American Novel” to…

It makes sense for Hollywood to look to the written word for inspiration when it comes to producing new films. But the sad truth is, there's become an over-reliance on using pre-existing material to either find the next big franchise or to capitalise on the success of a bestseller. It's fair enough – these adaptations will always be guaranteed large box office takings thanks to the book's readers merely showing up to see how the film has translated certain parts to the screen.While there are solid examples of successful…

The Australian novelist John Hughes, who last week admitted to “unintentionally” plagiarising parts of a Nobel laureate’s novel, appears to have also copied without acknowledgment parts of The Great Gatsby, Anna Karenina and other classic texts in his new book The Dogs.The revelation of new similarities follows an investigation by Guardian Australia which resulted in Hughes’ 2021 novel being withdrawn from the longlist of the $60,000 Miles Franklin literary award.That investigation uncovered 58 similarities and identical…