“A Sincere Honor” – Talking with Ryan North about ‘Slaughterhouse-Five’

Maybe you’re unstuck in time and you’re seeing this interview before reading our review of Slaughterhouse-Five. Maybe you’re experiencing time like most humans and you saw the review and now see this interview. Either way, we’re very excited to sit down with Ryan North about his contributions to the adaptation of the seminal sci-fi novel. And be sure to check out our interview with artist Albert Monteys as well.

BlackNerdProblems: Did you ever expect that you’d go from writing Dinosaur Comics (one of the relatively early webcomics in the grand scheme of the internet) to adapting Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five? Ryan North: Hahaha, no, definitely not.  When I started Dinosaur Comics, there wasn’t even a path to go from webcomics to print books unless you were printing them yourself, so the world’s definitely changed a lot since 2003. It’s been a sincere honor in my life to get to do this work, to be trusted with Kurt Vonnegut Jr.’s writing (!!!) and to shepherd it into a new medium for another generation. BNP: Did you ask for the project or was it presented to you as an opportunity? Ryan: The way it went down is the publisher (Archaia) conceived of the project and worked out a deal with the Vonnegut estate to make it happen, then came to me.  When I was asked to adapt the book into comics, I was at first flattered and then extremely terrified, because you want to do right by it.  You definitely don’t want to be the one who messes up Vonnegut, you know?&nbsp…