Graphic narrative · Adaptation · Research

The Mystery of a Hansom Cab

Reconstructing a nineteenth-century Melbourne mystery through image, space and place.

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Published by Narrative Immersion

Illustrated hansom cab travelling through rainy nineteenth-century Melbourne — Editorial placeholder artwork — final project imagery to be supplied.

Overview

A graphic novel adaptation of Fergus Hume’s nineteenth-century Melbourne mystery.

The project explores what happens when adaptation is treated not simply as the transfer of plot from one medium to another, but as the reconstruction of a fictional world through image, space and place.

Narrative approach

Developed through research into literary geography, narratology and comics.

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