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Edmund White's A Boy's Own Story Graphic Novel. Chapter Divider: The Story of a Blond

Edmund White's A Boy's Own Story Graphic Novel. Chapter Divider: The Story of a Blond. January 2023. A Boy's Own Story by Edmund White quickly became iconic for its compassionate, frank, and revelatory treatment of the challenges gay youth faced while growing up during the oppressive 1950s and 1960s until the Stonewall Revolution of 1969. The graphic novel is an adaptation of the original work by writers Brian Alessandro and Michael Carroll, who also incorporate elements of White's life, culled from his many memoirs, and which advances the story into adulthood from Ohio in the 1950s to New York and Paris in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. The illustration work consists of a book concept design, cover art, and 260 pages filled with painted frames visually actualizing Alessandro and Carroll's cinematic script. The art is intended to give the narrative all the theatricality and sophistication that made White's 1982 novel so memorable.

Edmund White's A Boy's Own Story Graphic Novel. Chapter Divider: The Story of a Hypnotist

Edmund White's A Boy's Own Story Graphic Novel. Chapter Divider: The Story of a Hypnotist. January 2023. A Boy's Own Story by Edmund White quickly became iconic for its compassionate, frank, and revelatory treatment of the challenges gay youth faced while growing up during the oppressive 1950s and 1960s until the Stonewall Revolution of 1969. The graphic novel is an adaptation of the original work by writers Brian Alessandro and Michael Carroll, who also incorporate elements of White's life, culled from his many memoirs, and which advances the story into adulthood from Ohio in the 1950s to New York and Paris in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. The illustration work consists of a book concept design, cover art, and 260 pages filled with painted frames visually actualizing Alessandro and Carroll's cinematic script. The art is intended to give the narrative all the theatricality and sophistication that made White's 1982 novel so memorable.