....................................Invisibility
Today, June 16th, in Dublin, is "Bloomsday", the literary event of the year when tribute
is paid to James Joyce and his most famous novel "Ulysses". Hundreds dress up as
characters from Joyce's novel and traipse across the city following the journey of
Leopold Bloom, the central character, mainly from pub to pub in various stages of
sobriety.
The artwork in this post is from a unique effort by artist Robert Berry to produce a graphic
novel from the text of Ulysses and make the original book accessible to a wider audience.
The artwork is high quality, scripted from the original text, cinematic in many respects and
draws the readers imagination into the story with its evocative visuals of the Dublin of Joyce's
era while retaining the direction of Joyce's characters attention to the minutiae of everyday
life at the time and the world of their inner consciousness as well. Finely done.
I think he has succeeded very well. I had the pleasure of meeting Mr Berry today in
"The Bailey" one of Dublin's noted pubs where his original artwork was on Exhibition
and it is with his kind permission that these pages from his graphic novel are reproduced
here.
As with the original novel, it's quite a substantial read and we can only show a small
part of the work here. For more details check out Robert Berry's blog (link on sidebar).
But, what about the "Invisibility" ?
Well, "see" for yourself:
Planetronix, Earth, 16th June 2012.
