Read a review of of Blair Davis’s Movies Comics: Page to Screen/Screen to Page in the most recent issue of The Comics Grid, a journal of comics scholarship. Nicolas Labarre writes:
Movie Comics: Page to Screen/Screen to Page is part of an ongoing surge of academic interest for the adaptation of comics into movies… Blair Davis’s books stands out from the rest of this production both in its historical focus – Movie Comics examines a previous “golden age” of American comics adaptations, from the 1930s to the beginning of the 1960’s – and in its insistence on treating adaptations as a reciprocal transaction, page to screen but also screen to page. While most contemporary scholarly writing focuses on the adaptations of comics into films, downplaying the importance of the steady output of “graphic novelizations”, Davis examines the circulation between comics and films as part of a two-way system…