Abrams & Chronicle Books to publish first ever graphic novel adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's The Road
Abrams & Chronicle Books are set to publish the first ever graphic novel adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, illustrated by French cartoonist Manu Larcenet.
Personally approved by McCarthy and his estate before his death, the graphic novel The Road "beautifully transforms the world depicted by McCarthy’s spare and brutal prose into stark ink drawings".
The Road won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2007 and was adapted into a film of the same name starring Viggo Mortensen in the titular role. The story follows a nameless father and son trying to survive in a post apocalyptic world where Earth’s natural resources have been depleted.
Rodolphe Lachat, vice president and publisher of Abrams Comic Arts said: “Manu Larcenet spent months and months reading and rereading each line of the novel to grasp all the subtleties, and to perfectly understand the atmosphere that made The Road such a peculiar and unique text. The result is one of the strongest comics I have ever read, where each panel, each shot, each situation grips the reader in a way few graphic novels can do. This book is not only the graphic adaptation of a masterpiece, it is a masterpiece in itself.”
Larcenet added: “Drawing is a different language, but I believe I have been completely faithful to the novel and its author. I wrote to Cormac McCarthy, he saw my first boards, but unfortunately, he passed away before the end of the album. I hope I understood his novel as he would have wanted. I am convinced that I share much of his vision and I hope that my album will be received as a tribute to an immense writer."
