#les mis comic

[minty-didoodle]

Gift for @beebro-fuckboyd 💖

Javert receiving his first ever gift

Here's the very messy work process of the piece in a timelapse (also big thanks to @caffeinatedj for helping me figure out the panel composition 💖)

[lesmisadaptationranking]

Classics Illustrated: Les Misérables: C-tier

I don't know. I really don't know.

It's always the same problem: Why would you adapt a novel the length of Les Mis into a 45 page comic? That's not enough pages!

To be fair, it's not bad. It tells the story. That's about it. It's a summary of the original story for children in comic form. Also we got blonde Fantine and brunette Cosette. We don't get that often.

That was that for the good, now onto the complaning!

I have a big issue with how the clothes are drawn in this. It looks less 1815-1833 France and more "THE BRITISH ARE COMING!". It's a small detail, but it bothers me. It upsets me, even.

This is also one of those adaptations that only have Fantine show up to get fired and to die. I get that they can't put prostitution into a kids comic, but she appeared less than Petit-Gevrais. Come on. Speaking of appearing, it's something neither Éponine nor Gavroche do. I mean, yes, they're there, but they're background characters. Éponine is seen twice, once at the Inn and once as a teenager at the apartment (Azelma doesn't even get that btw). Gavroche is in like one pannel and refered to as "the messanger". Not to speak of les Amis, the Marius hypemen who are there to hype up Marius for being so cool for nearly blowing up the barricade and then die in the background. And of course, as always, adult Cosette gets relegated to The Love Interest(tm) and appears maybe 3 times in total.

There are some weird phrasings and quotes too that are just... eh? When Fantine is arrested, the narrator describes it as "a streetfight", which is technically a term that can be applied to what happened, but it just feels wrong. Also, there's this weird thing where Valjean's like "Nooo I can't be arrested before getting Cosette!" and then Fantine dies and he's like "Ah, she's dead now. Detain me." It's just so dumb. Also also this scene at the barricade: Enjolras (?): Whoever leaves the barricade last gets to blow the spy's brains out! Valjean: But it is I who wants to blow his brains out.

Also for some reason they made young Javert blonde. He looks like He-man.

If you think about it, it's pretty much the same as the classics manga version, but lacks the same distinctive charm that one had. It leaves little to no impression and it's also not really entertaining. It's not bad but I doubt I will read it again.

Also the more I see of these "Literary Classic but comic/manga/etc", the less I think they're made for kids. They seem like they were made for people who are very normal about LM. I genuinely can't picture a kid seeing this comic on a shelf next to literally any other comic and saying "THAT'S the one!".

[checcotheperson]

mini Les Mis comic about the encounter in the sewers!! This is kinda based on Jean Valjean Monogatori (1979), where Thénardier recognizes Valjean in the sewers and there is no Gorbeau ambush beforehand- And yes, I drew them as animals :3. Marius being a very bad attempt at drawing a booby (let's just say he's a bird) is because, well, he gets compared to a booby in the Brick like four times XD. As for Valjean and Thénardier being, respectively, a wolf and a rat, well it's based on this book;

(Big thanks to @hadleysmis, as it was thanks to their blog that i discovered it)

As a bonus, my take on fox Javert.

[daxxiez]

This is what i imagine happens in every post-Seine au

[aanthonyvb]

So like 5 days back I was really bored, so I asked for some prompts with image in my heady of something quick. So I took this “request” from @citoyenneangele to do something that involves kittens. I wanted to make a little sketch but eventually it tourned out into some sort of a little comic. Also this is my first comic EVER XD so it looks like that.

If there are any mistakes in my english I’m truly sorry :DD

[blackcatarts]

class doodles of these idiots meeting for the first time

[daxxiez]

I'm genuinly so cooked because I'm planning a Javert comic and I've been writing the dialogue/narration, sampling from the original book here and there to make it feel more original, and it is already SO LONG. ITS SO LONG. I am gonna applaud myself (if)WHEN i finish this because holy fuck.

never sample a text made by Victor Hugo because before you know it you reach 400 words. For a comic. And it's still going.

[aberrantangel]

I dare everyone to write one of these and share them! (From the back of the Les Mis comic book by Saracino and Mezquita)