Babel Clash

Mike Carey's take on the X-Men

We’re talking about genre hopping, but we also have medium or format hopping.  We have authors such as Mike Carey and Dan Abnett writing comics.  Jim Butcher wrote a Dresden Files comic.  Neil Gaiman is writing screenplays.  George R. R. Martin’s Game of Thrones and Charlaine Harris’ True Blood are connected to HBO.

Bill Willingham, a highly regarded comics writer, recently took his stab at writing comics.  So comics writers are coming over to the traditional book format, too.

Dan, Paul and Jeff, have you ever had an itch to write comics?  If you had the chance, would you adapt your own work, work with an estished brand name or try something totally different?  If not, is there another medium in which you’d like to tell your tales?  Would you tackle a screenplay for your own books?

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• Re: Medium Hopping
  The short answer is that I’d love to if the opportunity arises!  Not so much screenplays.  I tried writing a screenplay once at the urging of friend Kris Meyer.  He liked a horror short story of mine called “The Harlequin and the Train” (4200 words) and thought I should try...
• Re: Re: Medium Hopping
  Morgan, I’ve considered the screenplay thing. Who hasn’t at some point daydreamed about giving their acceptance speech at the Oscars - the one for most awesomist screenplay? (Or is that just me? That category exists, doesn’t it?) I’ve also had three novels optioned for film, so in some ways I...
• Genre hopping
  Hey Paul, I look at genre hopping and genre blending as two very separate things.  Dan Simmons is a classic hopper.  He bounces from science fiction to mystery to horror.  Since he does it all well, that’s okay with me.  On the plus side, hopping exposed his work to different...
• Thank you and good luck
  David, Jeff & Paul, Thanks for participating on Babel Clash.  It’s been a fun conversation.  Before you go, please take this opportunity to share with your potential new fans why your books are must-reads for this holiday season. Good luck with the in-store event tonight.  Please let us all know...
• And our next guests are…
  I’m pleased to welcome three authors to Babel Clash for our next geeky debate. Please join me in welcoming… Jeff VanderMeer, author of Shriek, Veniss Underground and brand new novel Finch. He has also edited several fantastic anthologies, such as the New Weird and Steampunk. David Anthony Durham, author of...