“Just Let Yourself Go” – Talking with Albert Monteys 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 Albert Monteys about his contributions to the adaptation of the seminal sci-fi novel. And be sure to check out our interview with writer Ryan North as well.

BlackNerdProblems: How did you get involved with this project? Did you ask to be involved or was it presented to you? Albert Monteys: It was presented to me. Sierra Hahn, editor of BOOM!’s graphic novel imprint Archaia sent me an email with “Vonnegut illustration opportunity” and I felt lucky even before reading the text. I’ve been an avid Vonnegut reader for many years, so I’d had asked to be involved if I’d known before! My first reaction when I found out it was Slaughterhouse-Five was thinking that’s an almost impossible to adapt book, its whole structure being so essentially literary. When I did read Ryan’s script, I changed my mind. In every scene he took the right decisions, or at least the ones that felt closer to how I saw the novel. BNP: How closely did you work with Ryan during the initial breakdown? What preparation did you do to get yourself in the correct headspace? Albert: When I started working in the book, the script was almost totally finished, pending a few revisions but as I said, I fell in love with the way Ryan had approached it. He made my life …