The Malaysian Insider :: Books

Choose your own ‘Hamlet’ adventure book nears funding finish

Posted: 13 Dec 2012 04:27 PM PST

LOS ANGELES, Dec 14 — With a week to go until its crowdfunding drive closes on December 21, interactive Shakespearean adaptation To Be Or Not To Be: That Is The Adventure is already Kickstarter's third most-funded comic project.

The book, which is to be produced in both digital and print formats, presents the story of Hamlet as a choose-your-own-adventure, allowing readers to play through as Hamlet, Ophelia, or Hamlet's pa, King Hamlet, along with a few additional elements — pirates, explosions, and illustrations from the webcomic world's elite artists.

Its initial US$20,000 (RM60,000) appeal stands at over US$330,000 pledged; Kickstarter monitoring site Kicktraq has To Be Or Not To Be trending towards a US$450,000 total.

The concept comes from Ryan North, who is well known for not only the Adventure Time comic book tie-ins, but also Dinosaur Comics, a fixture of the webcomic scene which will be 10 years old in February.

2003 was a fertile year for long-lasting webcomic debuts, as Dinosaur Comics can count several well-known titles among its cohort, including A Modest Destiny, A Softer World, Matt Bors' Idiot Box, The Adventures of Dr. McNinja, and The Order of the Stick.

In fact, both A Softer World and Dr. McNinja became part of North's own online ad network, Project Wonderful; The Order of the Stick's February 2012 print drive remains Kickstarter's highest funded comics project with US$1.2 5million banked.

To Be Or Not To Be on Kickstarter: kickstarter.com/projects/breadpig/to-be-or-not-to-be-that-is-the-adventure — AFP/Relaxnews

Autumn 2013 Bond novel set in 1969

Posted: 13 Dec 2012 04:00 PM PST

LONDON, Dec 14 — New James Bond novelist William Boyd revealed that his 2013 addition to the Bond canon will take place in 1969, also telling the UK's Radio Times that he had avoided Bond film Skyfall.

Boyd revealed himself to be a stickler for Bond lore, pointing out that the novels portrayed 007 as a man with dangerously high levels of alcohol consumption and, contra-Skyfall, that the young Bond only went to school in Scotland — at Edinburgh's Fettes College — but his childhood home was actually in the southern English county of Wiltshire.

Boyd had previously written Any Human Heart, granting Ian Fleming a cameo role, and spy thriller Restless; he succeeds the two most recent post-Fleming Bond authors in Sebastian Faulks (Birdsong) and Jeffery Deaver (The Bone Collector), and his as-yet-untitled entry to the Bond fiction will coincide with the 60th anniversary year of Casino Royale, the super-spy's very first outing. — AFP/Relaxnews

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Jumaat, 14 Disember 2012

The Malaysian Insider :: Books

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