BookHuddle with Readgab

53: Adapting Tuck Everlasting Into a Graphic Novel - Interview with K. Woodman-Maynard

Karen Reeder

K. Woodman-Maynard and I discuss what it was like for her to adapt the classic middle grade book Tuck Everlasting into a graphic novel. We also explore the Tuck Everlasting themes of grief and death.

Find author, illustrator, graphic novelist, comic coach K. Woodman-Maynard
https://www.woodmanmaynard.com/
https://www.instagram.com/woodmanmaynard/
https://woodmanmaynard.substack.com/
linkedin.com/in/katharine-woodman-maynard-06508460/
https://www.tiktok.com/ ⁨@woodmanmaynard⁩  

Tuck Everlasting The Graphic Novel by Natalie Babbitt adapted to graphic novel by K. Woodman-Maynard https://www.amazon.com/Tuck-Everlasting-Graphic-K-Woodman-Maynard/dp/0374391866/
Flip Side the graphic novel by Jason Walz https://www.amazon.com/Flip-Side-Graphic-Novel/dp/0593617991/

Chapters
00:00 Meet graphic novelists and comic coach K. Woodman Maynard
03:04 What is Tuck Everlasting about?
03:55 How did K Woodman Maynard get into adapting classic novels into graphic novels?
06:15 The first time you ever read Tuck Everlasting.
07:30 The steps of adapting the classic novel Tuck Everlasting into a graphic novel.
10:48 The most difficult part of adapting Tuck Everlasting into a graphic novel?
11:55 Most enjoyable or most rewarding part of adapting Tuck Everlasting into a graphic novel?
12:50 Using images in Tuck Everlasting graphic novel to convey themes?
15:58 Which character do you most resonate with or which character do you feel a special connection to?
17:50 The theme of grief in Tuck Everlasting
25:07 What is next for graphic novel author K. Woodman Maynard?
26:30 Books K. Woodman Maynard recommends (fiction and graphic novels)