Comic-strip adaptation of On The Beach from 1957

Cory Doctorow 6:07 pm Mon Dec 2, 2013

Zack writes, "In 1957, Nevil Shute's classic anti-nuclear-war novel On The Beach was published — and the Newspaper Enterprise Association (NEA) put out a heavily-condensed adaptation with art by Ralph Lane that ran in 29 comic strips distributed to newspapers. All 29 strips are collected here — I found these through a link in an eBay auction that is selling original art to 21 of the 29 strips."

This is one of those novels that brings me to tears no matter how many times I read it — a powerful and moving piece of minatory fiction that really does the heavy lifting of science fiction with utter brilliance. The comic strip carries some of that freight (as does the 1959 classic film with Ava Gardner and Gregory Peck), but the novel really is the best version by far.

On The Beach
(Thanks, Zack!)

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