http://www.metafilter.com/tags/JohnCarterofMars Posts tagged with 'JohnCarterofMars' at MetaFilter. Fri, 09 Mar 2012 08:32:24 -0800 Fri, 09 Mar 2012 08:32:24 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/113686/A%2DParticularly%2DGraphic%2DGraphic%2DInterpretation <a href="http://sprattart.com/cgi-bin/sculptures.pl">James Killian Spratt</a> is a <a href="http://sprattart.com/cgi-bin/sculptures-retro.pl">sculptor</a> and <a href="http://www.erbzine.com/mag11/1148.html">Edgar Rice Burroughs fan</a> who, <a href="http://www.erbzine.com/mag11/1149.html">in addition to sculpting pieces</a> for the <a href="http://www.erbzine.com/mag11/1147.html">Barsoomian board game Jetan</a>, has created an illustrated adaptation of the first book in the Barsoom series, <em><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Princess_of_Mars">A Princess of Mars</a></em>: "<a href="http://www.erbzine.com/mag13/1301.html">The characters are highly underclad, yet oblivious to it; it's their normal way, and they don't see much naughty or titillating about it. The men are men and the women are women and blood is red and scary. I set out to be honest with the nudity and violence, and the devil take Pollyanna, she needs to grow up anyway.</a>" The on-going graphic interpretation, begun in 2000, is presently on chapter 21 of the 28 chapter book. Another comic adaptation, <em><a href="http://www.johncolemanburroughs.com/mag22/2288.html">John Carter of Mars</a></em>, ran in the Sunday papers in the early 1940s and was illustrated by ERB's son and collaborator, <a href="http://www.johncolemanburroughs.com/">John Coleman Burroughs</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2012:site.113686 Fri, 09 Mar 2012 08:32:24 -0800 Barsoom Cartooning Comics ComicStrips EdgarRiceBurroughs ERB JamesKillianSpratt JohnCarter JohnCarterOfMars JohnColemanBurroughs Sculpture Alvy Ampersand http://www.metafilter.com/112914/Edgar%2DRice%2DBuried <a href="http://disney.go.com/johncarter/">John Carter</a>, previously <a href="http://io9.com/5804812/bad-ideas-disney-changes-john-carter-of-mars-to-just-john-carter">John Carter of Mars</a>, previously <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Princess_of_Mars">A Princess of Mars</a>, could be <a href="http://www.deadline.com/2012/02/john-carter-early-tracking-shockingly-soft-could-be-biggest-writeoff-of-all-time/">the biggest movie write-off of all time</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2012:site.112914 Fri, 17 Feb 2012 12:33:31 -0800 business EdgarRiceBurroughs Film Hollywood JohnCarter JohnCarterofMars Mars money Movie pulp Sciencefiction Artw http://www.metafilter.com/93223/I%2Dhope%2Dhis%2Dwife%2Dis%2Dnamed%2DSamantha <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science_and_environment/10408113.stm">The whole of Mars' surface was shaped by liquid water around four billion years ago, say scientists.</a> Scientists with the best names possible for the job. Spoiler in the tags for them as wants it. tag:metafilter.com,2010:site.93223 Sat, 26 Jun 2010 19:25:50 -0800 astronomy johncarter johncarterofmars mars planetarygeology sciencefiction scifi water cthuljew