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Oh, dear. According to the LA Times‘ “Hero Complex” blog, an especially sensitive clan of Diana fans are downright disgusted by Bluewater Productions’ graphic novelization of the life of the Princess of Wales, titled “The Female Force: Princess Diana.” (“The Female Force” is the name of Bluewater’s series of biographical comics about ”strong women,” such as Michelle Obama, and — love her or hate her — Stephenie Meyer.)
The upset devotees at hand are known as Diana Circle UK, and though they arrived a little late to the party — the Princess Di graphic novel was published in August – one of them certainly made her voice heard in a November 9 Daily Express article:
“It’s disgusting,” [Diana] Funnell [co-founder of DCUK] told the London tabloid. “Their feeble excuse is that they wanted to show the young people of America her life. They could have done it with lovely stories. They didn’t need to stoop to this.”
“Comic means something to laugh at. I don’t find it at all comical and I wish they hadn’t done it. “
[DCUK members] routinely refer to the second wife of Prince Charles, Camilla Parker Bowles, as “Cowmilla,” and at a Kensington Palace protest of the 2005 marriage of Charles and Parker Bowles, they made the classy decision to mock the bride with a photo of her face superimposed on a horse’s body. Ah, yes, well done, Diana Circle.
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“Comic means something to laugh at”
The adjective ‘comic’ means funny. The noun ‘comic’ does not. Maus anyone?
“Maus anyone?”
Yeah. That shit wasn’t funny.
Not having seen the actual comic yet, I can’t speak for how they handle it, but just to give an example to support the whole just-because-it’s-a-comic-or-graphic-novel-doesn’t-mean-it’s-supposed-to-be-funny argument, a great example:
Persepolis.
I think there’s something about the graphic novel form that actually aids in bringing clarity to sometimes complex stories……. perhaps because they’re aided by simplistic pictures ;)
How is Stephanie Meyer a strong woman?
She’s sold a boatload of books and the movie rights, takes some gumption to make that happen. These graphic novels are aimed at teenage girls so the writers are going to pick women that the girls want to read about so the books will sell.
Yeah but after your books sell like that, you don’t have to lift a finger to get movie and series deals. Also, her books are thinly-veiled celebrations of Mormon chastity and feature a “heroine” who is suicidally obsessed with a boy who wants to kill her. Awesome message?
Chastity?
They aren’t, really.
I read the books simply because my 15 year old daughter is into them.
Guess what? I read ALL of them from Friday evening to Sunday night! That isn’t really unusual for me – I am a fast reader – IF I am enjoying what I am reading.
They certainly aren’t Plato’s Republic, but they are very entertaining.
And there is absolutely nothing wrong with that. What is even better is that these books have kids reading. I took her, and 2 of her friends to see the first movie. Guess what they discussed on the ride home from the theater?
“It was okay, it just wasn’t as good as the book.”
“The characters really seemed to lack depth.”
“The book was way better.”
Oh yeah, Bella is so chaste that she’s continually trying to jump Edward’s bones even though pushing him out of control could kill her. Bella gets a lot of criticism but I think she’s a good character. She’s very much like me as a teenager, she talks like I did and thinks like I did. Clearly destined to be an awesome adult ;-)
Sure they’re not great literature but they’re a good read. I’m all for anything that gets people reading. My hubby used to hate reading as a teen then I talked him in to reading Harry Potter. Now he always has a book on the go. He read Twilight too on my recommendation and loved it. Honestly it kinda freaks me out how much he loves it, we’re talking midnight shows and posters in his office here, but he’s reading and that’s not only good for him but also sets a good example for our son.
Are you not reading what you just said? Yes, she wants to have sex with Edward, but HAVING THAT SEX WOULD PROBABLY KILL HER. SEX. KILL YOU. Meyer’s a proud BYU graduate and definitely very Mormon. Ignoring that influence upon her writing is just silly.
TOLD YOU
http://zeldalily.com/index.php/2009/11/abstinence-only-education-did-it-really-just-need-twilight/
Grrrrrrr…
Should have been:
* I took my daughter, and 2 of her friends…*
I don’t find Princess Di all that inspiring to be honest. Yes, she did lots of very good work for charity, but there are plenty of amazing women that do the same kinds of work with money and fame that they earnt for themselves rather than by marrying into royalty. Whatever.
Annie Lennox anyone?
The idea that using the medium of the graphic novel/comic book instantly trivializes its subject is asinine.
a note should be added, that not ALL comics are funny. most are just animated stories with heroic undertones. I think it is a clever way to get people educated on this heroic and tragic story. the PC agenda is ridic and should really step back and think about what they are arguing about.
American comics yes but British comics are almost universally funny (or meant to be at least) and tend to be more about real people than superheroes. I’m not sure how old this woman is but I’m betting at least late thirties because anyone younger really didn’t care all the much about Diana’s death at the time. She probably grew up on Dandy and Dennis the Menace (not the American version) and other such comics rather than Spiderman and Batman and even then she probably didn’t read them much because very few girls did. I don’t agree with her but I can see where she’d be getting the idea from.
There’s a British Dennis the Menace?
There sure is. He wears a red and black striped sweater and has spiky black hair. He’s been in the Beano since 1951. They used to show the American animated series on Saturday morning TV and it was just called Dennis. I never heard the blonde one referred to as Dennis the Menace until I moved to the US and it’s never sounded right to me at all having grown up with D.C Thomson comics like Beano, Dandy, Oor Wullie, and The Broons.
it is only because the girl i was abl to read your book