Someone Called, Did You Take A Message?
So I am having a reading success story this week, I read the graphic novel version of An Inspector Calls [quick text edition] for work. It was never something I studied in school so I was going into it blind. On first glance I like the style of this series. You also get a biography of JB Priestley at the end and a piece on page creation that gives you great insight into how a graphic novel is produced. There's a small piece of comparison between this quick text version and the original text version. At the beginning of the book you have the character list that you would find at the beginning of a normal play script, but with the addition of sketches. The colouring of the illustrations is very earthy, browns, reds, purples, greens. While I like the illustration, some of the faces seem a little obscured by the thick shading and dark colours. You can sense family tension right from the beginning of the book. Arthur Birling is very power crazed and you can tell that he thinks ...