Boom! Studios Unveils Adaptation of Vonnegut’s SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE
January 8, 2020Creators Ryan North and Albert Monteys are adapting an American classic for their next project at Boom! Studios, for the first time ever, in graphic novel form, comes, Slaughterhouse-Five.
The upcoming graphic novel adaptation offers a new spin on Kurt Vonnegut’s seminal masterpiece and his work in dark humor, satirical words and incomparable imagination. His writing first garnered attention with The Sirens of Titan (1959), and further cemented himself in the genre with Cat’s Cradle in 1963. In Slaughterhouse-Five, which came in 1969, it was considered greatest offering. It serves as an odyssey through time, one which reflects the mythic journey of our own fractured lives as we search for meaning in what we fear the most. He died in 2007.
“What a challenge, what an opportunity! When I was presented with the chance to collaborate in the graphic novel adaptation of Slaughterhouse-Five my first reaction was ‘this is one of my favorite books and it can’t be adapted.’ That was until I read (Ryan) North’s script, nodding enthusiastically at every great idea, every moving moment, every scene that made me want to grab my pencil right away,” said Monteys. “A good adaptation shines new light on the original, I hope we managed to do just that. I think we did, somewhat, in the telegraphic schizophrenic manner of tales of the planet Tralfamadore — which is what comics are, after all.”
Slaughterhouse-Five arrives on shelves in September of 2020.
Click HERE for the official press release, courtesy of Boom! Studios.
