Making a Graphic Novel from the work of J.G. Ballard

 I've been working on adapting J.G.Ballard's novel Kingdom Come into a graphic novel. You can still see in these images that it isn't finished, some are missing tone and the speech bubbles badly drawn. This easily solved by having the magic wand tool and quick select mode of the brush tool to cut areas of the dot patterns/tone. The speech bubbles are easily done in Illustrator with the pen tool, I found that to be the most effective, at first I was using a ruler with a wacom cintiq and that really was a bad idea in retrospect, the quality of line and time proved wasteful. I do consider my work as an illustrative approach and I do not see myself as an author of this work, this is an adaption of the novel, Kingdom Come.

I actually have made a diary as I went through the project so I'll find that document today and post that asap. Meanwhile the goal of this project was to test my practice in story telling and sequential art for an audience that would enjoy Ballard's writing enough to see his ideas elaborated with visuals. I was conscious of having non-descript characters wear faces inspired by Edvard Munch's The Scream Painting, so to bring out existentialist tones that I found was in the book.