Friday, December 5, 2025

The Pop-Up Spirit!


The Spirit Pop-Up Graphic Novel is a bit of fun. It takes the iconic artwork of Will Eisner and adapts into a spritely three-dimensional interactive reading experience. It's impossible really to communicate how much fun Bruce Foster had making the world of Central City literally seem to come to a bizarre intermittent life. 




The makers selected a solid Spirit tale to adapt into this peculiar format. The "Sand Saref" story was the basis of the ill-fated movie by Frank Miller, but adapts much better here where the elements are treated with a kind fidelity to the original. As has been pointed out before this stor was adapted from another bit of work Eisner did, titled original John Law.


For a quick comparison see this link.


The cover itself comes from this iconic 1950 Spirit Section. This is part of the John Law adaptation which became the "Sand Saref" story.


And of course it inspired the first Warren Spirit cover by Basil Gogos.

Rip Off

No comments:

Post a Comment