![]() ![]() I ended up using a “brown” filter over the real life images to reflect a serious (but not depressing) reality, while I used a multicolored filter to heighten the colors in Coarsegold. This is all from Anda’s perspective so it makes sense that her real life is uninteresting and the online world is colorful and exciting. JW: The most obvious decision in the design was the contrasting color palettes between the real world and the online world of Coarsegold. GM: Could you tell us a little about the artwork in IRL? What inspired the images in your mind? Was there something you felt was important to capture in the images? So yes, I made most of the changes in the story from the original to the graphic novel version, but it was a melding of both our sensibilities. We went back and forth like this for a couple drafts before settling with what we have. After that Cory would go over and offer ideas of his own and help guide the script into something that matched us both. Jen Wang: The way this project worked was I was given free rein to adapt the script however I wanted so as to offer my own vision to the story. Would you say that’s true? Image: First Second Books GeekMom: So Cory Doctorow said you did all the heavy lifting on this project. This week, I’m catching up with his artist co-creator, Jen Wang, to see what she had to say about this project. ![]() Last week I interviewed Cory Doctorow about the new graphic novel IRL (In Real Life). ![]()
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