I first saw the movie 10 Rillington Place in the late 70's, the film has stayed firmly entrenched into my mind ever since, it wasn't because it was a gory, bloodthirsty or violently graphic film because it's not that at all, more so because it brought to life the true story of one of the most chilling and disturbing crimes of the last century, it showed us the way an evil and manipulating man John Reginald Halliday Christie commited his heinous crimes and the lenghts of deceit he would go to in order to satisfy his own perverted needs, then sadly how an uneducated and trusting man Timothy John Evans lost his wife and daughter before going to the gallows for their murder having been so cunningly deceived by Christie.
So why the graphic novel ? well... since i was a young lad though i was never a collector i always had a liking for comics, the artwork on the cover of a comic could always draw my attention but i was never one for keeping up with a series of a particular comic run, though having said that i did have a fondness for the old pocket sized Commando comics of the late 60's/70's...
which probably explains why i have taken to graphic novels of late, because when all said and done those pocket sized comics were really mini graphic wartime adventures, both in their artwork and their stories i guess you could say they were an early form of graphic novel, though i don't recall this term being used back then.
Anyway lately i have found myself gathering a small collection of graphic novels... mostly crime comic/novels, and since i have started to collect them i have found myself wanting to make my own, however being totaly untalented in both artwork and english i don't posess the ability to produce anything that would be worthy enough to leave my desktop,
so what is a guy supposed to do ? cheat... this is where screen capture, photoshop, a couple of filters and a few speech bubbles come in, i simply used these few items and a favourite film containing a story that in my opinion is crying out for a graphic novelization...
if only a proper artist could do it justice with an official one... i'd buy it.
Btw... if you haven't seen the film starring Richard Attenborough, John Hurt & Judy Geeson... do yourself an old dvd treat, you won't regret it... Christie done it!
