A most unique and magical book of fantasy and amazement has now been transformed into a beautifully illustrated and fantastically written graphic novel. Mike Carey, author of the successful Lucifer comic books series (from the Lucifer character in Neil Gaiman’s Sandman), brings his own slant and viewpoint with his graphic novel adaptation of Neverwhere. Together with Glenn Fabry, who also illustrated the comic book series The Authority, Carey has managed to not only skillfully adapt the book into the graphic novel version, but also make the scenes run from one to the next and get the whole story told in under two hundred pages of graphic work, as opposed to the four hundred page book. Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere serves as an excellent introduction for those who haven’t read the book but are interested, and it makes the perfect segue, after completing the graphic novel, to just go straight to the book. Being one of my favorite books ever, I’m glad to say that this adaptation lives up to all my hopes.
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Originally written on April 14th, 2007 ©Alex C. Telander.
For an interview with Mike Carey check out BookBanter Episode 16.
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