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Inlander:
Actually right now I'm trying to find a copy of Jimmy Corrigan: the Smartest Kid on Earth, but nowhere around here seems to have it. Also I can't buy Persepolis for at least a year or two, otherwise people will just think I'm buying it 'cause they made a film out of it, and that's totally not cool, man.

KvP:
Well like I said, the graphic novel list is new. How do I know that Watchmen wasn't already selling well consistently going back into times before the list was compiled? Changes in trends are easy to imagine but impossible to establish. If the movie had such a huge impact it probably would've pushed the comic onto the fiction list if it wasn't already, and that gives a fairly good indicator of the change in sales the movie brought. Maybe there isn't one that's measurable. That's why I asked.

Hat:

--- Quote from: KvP on 11 Mar 2009, 20:38 --- Moreover there will probably be a good portion of people who buy the novel but don't really read it, because of either the deliberate pace and unrelenting grimness of the book or the way that it was written (I know when I read it, it was only a short time before I became aggravated with Rorschach's clipped, broken inner monologues)

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I don't think this is really that true because people are pretty easily acclimatised to something like Rorschach's manner of speech by having been exposed to it through the movie format first in a more passive way. When engaging with the written form it becomes less dense and inaccessible as a result.

I haven't really talked to enough people who saw it without any knowledge of the book to gauge how much of a boost the book's popularity will get, but assuming I wasn't just really ripped and this is actually a really cool fun movie people can get into, I'd assume we're going to see a spike in interest of the book.

It was really awesome when I stumbled out of the cinema and eavesdropped on peoples reactions which were pretty much "DAMN MAN THAT MOVIE WAS FUCKED UP PEOPLE JUST GETTIN EXPLODED LIKE CRAZY" and "hmmm I think the hyper-stylistic violence betrayed Moore's narrative in a way but also reinforced the nature of the thematic wank wank wank wank wank wank" *strokes beard* and I just couldn't stop wondering out loud whether Dr Manhattan's dick was actually taller than I was on the IMAX screen.

Kind of glad I went really stoned the first time I saw it because I think it was a really fucking fun cool movie and I didn't have to overanalyse it, but now I can go back and really get into it and figure out if it was actually a good movie or not. If I'd gone sober first and decided I didn't like it it would have ruined that awesome fist pumping geekgasm shit like Rorschach in prison and the breakout.

Also there are a couple of little thematic things that aren't specifically important to the plot or the overall narrative that I'd never even picked up on reading the comic like Dr Manhattan simeltanously being an avatar of science and a god and how this is really the source of the conflict and how he was always going to have to leave Earth eventually.

Or I could just have been really stoned.

lprkn:
I wish I did have some pre/post movie numbers on the graphic novel.

Maybe we're not giving people enough credit. I know that at my local comics place, sales of Sin City, the Dark Knight, the Killing Joke, 300, Spiderman, and even Superman went up due to their respective movies. Now you may say, "well these are mainstream, etc" or "it was just comics nerds buying their third copy" but I don't think comics have the stigma that they once did. A lot of people are willing to give comics a chance, I think.

Basically, anything that gets people into a shop these days is not really a bad thing. Just because they're frat boys/illiterate/douchenozzles/whatever doesn't matter too much to me. A comic reader is a comic reader.

Tom:

--- Quote from: Johnny C on 11 Mar 2009, 22:26 ---
--- Quote from: KvP on 11 Mar 2009, 20:18 ---Is it place on the Times fiction list?

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It probably isn't at the top of the actual list but it's still selling more copies than any other paperback graphic novel and I sincerely doubt that it would be sitting on top of the list like Thriller for months on end.

ALSO HARRY: PICK UP FUN HOME BY ALISON BECHDEL AND PERSEPOLIS MAYBE?

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Fun Home is really, really, really good.

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