Auteur: Adrien Honda-Bornhauser (peekaboo@club-internet.fr)
Date: Wed Feb 14 2001 - 00:48:14 CET
Hullo,
>PPS Quelqu'un a lu la série des Sandman ? Une BD avec un scénar de
>Neil Gailman, un gars kilébien et qui doit avoir lu Ambre... Je me
>demandais ce que pouvait donner un perso basé sur ce modèle,
>huhuhu...
Faut-il que j'aime bien cette liste...
Étonnant que personne n'ait pensé à ressortir l'az...non pas 3... il
peut faire beaucoup de choses mais pas ça... donc l'az9. Pourtant
vous auriez pu y lire pleins de choses sur Gailman et Zelazny.
Comme je suppose que tout le monde n'a pas le dit zine et que je n'ai
rien à faire (sauf répondre à mon courrier en souffrance)... voiloù
de longs extraits de l'article "Roger Zelazny and the Comics" de Jane
Lindskold:
"More recent favorites included Corto Maltese, Grimjack, Sandman, and
the Books of Magic." (Ndt: les titres étaient en italique).
"During our correspondance, Roger introduced me to several of the
titles mentionned above (NdT: à savoir aussi: X-Men, Wolverine, The
Spirit, Modesty Blaise et d'autres). In fact, we entered into an
unspoken agreement to buy copies of Sandman (NdT: en italique) for
each other so that neither of us would miss any of the story."
"Sandman (NdT: en italique) is another comic that succeeds in livint
up to Roger's difficult standard. In his Introduction to the Books of
Magic (NdT: ces trois derniers mots en italique) Roger comments on
Neil Gaiman's work:
I'm alwas fascinated by his point of attack and the angles from which
he views his people, settings, situations, actions. It's his approach
I study as much as the ideas that he employs. (NdT: ce paragraphe est
écrit en plus petit).
Roger was introduced to Sandman (Ndt: en italique) - and to Neil
Gaiman - when Neil gave him the collected Doll's House (Ndt: les deux
derniers mots en italique) at a convention in Dallas, Texas. Like
Ostrander, Gaiman is a great admirer of Roger's work. Recently, I
spoke over the telephone with Neil about Roger's influence on both
Neil himself, and on the comics field at large. Noting that Roger's
"influence on all of us, both in comics and in fiction, was
immeasurable," Neil continued:
When he [Roger] died, I wound up spreading the news around DC comics
and lots of people who had never met Roger were broken up on a level
I've only seen when rock stars died... I'd get these phone calls from
people who took it personnaly. And one of the reasons they took it
personnally was that he made the business of writing look
interesting. A lot of writers are Roger's fault. There are a lot of
us who without Roger (or if we hadn't read his stuff) would have gone
off and done something more sensible. (NdT: Tout ce paragaphe en
petits caractère)
Many of Gaiman's fans have questionned him about the apparent
similarities between the Amber novels and Sandman (NdT: en italique).
While not denying either his familiarity with the Amber novels or
Zelazny's influence on his work, Neil says that Amber is not what he
thinks of when he considers how Roger's work shaped his own:
Most of the correspondances between Sandman (NdT: en italique) and
Amber are either coincidences or the necessities of fiction. People
are arlways commenting on the similarities between the sigils and the
Trumps, but this was just an example of problem solving - I mean,
they don't have telephones and they need to talk to each other so
they do it this way.
What Sandman (NdT: en italique) was directly - I don't know know if
'inspired by' is the right work - was Lord of Light (NdT...et ouais
en italique le titre). What Roger had originally done was build an
equation that worked as well upside down. What Roger did with Lord of
Light (NdT... vous avez compris le truc) was he did stories about
humans becoming gods and tap into whatever makes superheroes work. I
did it in reverse. (NdT: les deux derniers paragraphes en petits
caractères).
With a touch of the irony that real life does at least as well as
fiction, one of the last things that Roger read before his own death
was the issue of Sandman (NdT: dernière fois) that presented the
death of Dream. "The Wake" story-line which followed, especially the
later issues, was influenced somewhat by Neil Gaiman's response to
attending Roger's wake at Fred and Joan Saberhagen's home in New
Mexico"
Phewww...
Enfin bon... je vous rappelerai tout de même que LE comics préféré de
Zelazny était Uncle Scrooge (et il avait bon goût... car du Don Rosa
cela ne se refuse pas!), et dans une moindre mesure Donald Duck.
Tcho-o
Arslan
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