by Howard Zimmerman | Jan 12, 2015 | Publishing, Tribute
On January 7th, freedom of expression was brutally attacked as crazed gunmen penetrated the offices of the satirical French magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris. The attack resulted in the deaths of eleven people who worked there: Stephane Charbonnier; Elsa Cayat; Georges...
by Howard Zimmerman | Nov 14, 2014 | Adaptation, Graphic Novels, Publishing, Science Fiction
Humor in science fiction is a tricky business. Few people have ever done it well. Terry Pratchett, of course; Ron Goulart; Harry Harrison; and the brilliant Douglas Adams. Sometime in the mid-1990s, Byron Preiss signed a deal with Douglas Adams to adapt his original...
by Howard Zimmerman | Oct 23, 2014 | Adaptation, Graphic Novels, Publishing
The most fun I ever had adapting books to graphic format came from the fact that in every case the original work was one I had read and liked. That was true with Ray Bradbury, whose work I adapted most extensively, from his classic short stories to his classic longer...
by Howard Zimmerman | Aug 1, 2014 | Adaptation, Graphic Novels, Pop Culture, Ray Bradbury
Over the decades, it has been my challenge and my pleasure to create graphic adaptations of some of my own favorite books by some of my favorite authors. I got to adapt many of Ray Bradbury’s short stories, initially in the form of The Ray Bradbury Chronicles, a...
by Howard Zimmerman | Jun 14, 2014 | Graphic Novels
The graphic adaptation of Amity Shlaes’s 2007 history of the Great Depression, The Forgotten Man, scripted by Chuck Dixon and illustrated by Paul Rivoche, has become a bestseller and a cause of some controversy, most notably due to Rivoche and Dixon’s letter to...
