tim hamilton fahrenheit 451 graphic novel

It is a nice touch too that the reader is able not merely to visualise the books to be burned, but to actually see images of them! Most pages are predominantly yellow/reds, or cool blue/grey-greens with silhouettes in the after-dark periods, to enhance the mood. Nevertheless the Artwork in this book is more than adequate, and adds another dimension to the story. Of course with a superior tale such as this, the piece is bound to be story-led. 'I brought all my characters onstage again and ran them through my typewriter, letting my fingers tell the stories and bring forth the ghosts of other tales from other times… What you have here now is a pastiche of my former lives, my former fears, my inhibitions and my strange and mysterious and unrecognized predictions of the future…what I did was name a metaphor and let myself run free, allowing my subconscious to surface with all kinds of wild ideas.'įahrenheit 451 lends itself surprisingly well to reinterpretation as a graphic novel. In 'Pillar of Fire', a man rose from the dead to reenact 'Dracula' and Frankenstein's monster. Another story, 'Usher II', was about a writer of Fantasy being made fun of by intellectuals, who ridiculed all the grotesques of Edgar Allan Poe.

He also references an early story he wrote entitled 'The Exiles', in which the greatest Fantasy authors in history were exiled to Mars, while their books were burned on Earth. The idea of being challenged for merely being a pedestrian took root. The first was an occasion when he was taking a walk around the block, and was stopped and questioned by a police officer. He can trace many elements of the story to ideas that had been percolating in his subconscious. In his introduction, Ray Bradbury says that he views this as yet another take on his original book - a 'further rejuvenation', as he terms it.

This is Ray Bradbury's authorised adaptation of his classic novel Fahrenheit 451 into a graphic novel illustrated by Tim Hamilton.

Tim hamilton fahrenheit 451 graphic novel