Eisner nominations for Jane

The Guardian publishes the obituary of playwright and screenwriter Hugh Whitemore (1936-2018). Probably best known for his work for the stage, he was also the writer of several films, including Franco Zeffirelli's Jane Eyre 1996.

The 30th annual Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards will take place tomorrow July 20 and Jane by Aline Brosh McKenna and Ramón K. Pérez has some nominations:

Best Publication for Teens (ages 13-17)
Aline Brosh McKenna and Ramón K. Pérez (Archaia)

Best Penciller/Inker or Penciller/Inker Team
Ramón K. Perez, Jane (Archaia) 

Den of Geek!'s choice for the last award is Mr. Pérez:

Ramon Perez is on the verge of being a superstar. His Nova was an outstanding book full of energy and vibrant characters. Jane, giving him a full graphic novel’s worth of pages to tell an art house romance adaptation of Jane Eyre, is as close to Eisner-bait as you can get. (Jim Dandy)

We hope the reviewer of Star2 will not be in the jury:

In other words, this novel had quite an uphill task of satisfying readers. So does Jane, written by Aline Brosh McKenna with art by Ramon K Perez, work? Well, not so much. (...)
In Jane, she definitely creates a compelling narrative… just one that does not capture the feeling of Brontë’s original novel. (...)
Some original characters are changed so much that their new counterparts resemble them in name only.
Then, while everything starts off in an interesting, promising way, it all goes bonkers by the end, as thugs and bizarre relationship enter the picture, in a style their original creators could never have intended. It’s still entertaining to watch, but one can’t help feel something was lost in translation. (...)
Overall, as a story on it’s own, McKenna’s Jane is decent, despite a rather melodramatic ending: as an adaptation of Brontë’s novel, it falls a little bit flat. Worth a read though, if only for the mesmerising art. A valiant effort, but compared to it’s rich source material, this Jane is rather plain. (Terence Toh)

Dating a loser? The Daily Mail solves the problem:

We tend to equate stormy, tempestuous relationships with grand, passionate love.
Cathy and Heathcliff. Romeo and Juliet. Most of us are suckers for up-and-down relationships when we're younger (we've got the time and energy).
When we're older and have work commitments and other pressures, they're usually not worth the effort. (Tracey Cox)

SparkLife gives you advice on how to solve personal problems, Gothic novel style:

 1. Imprison the problem in your attic and hope that maybe if you can't see it, it isn't really there. Unfortunately, this theory is deeply flawed, and the problem will haunt your home and your mind like a specter until it inevitably sets your house on fire. (Mr. Rochester in Jane Eyre) (...)
4. Sick of your problematic current spouse? Marry a different problem! (Catherine Earnshaw in Wuthering Heights) (Charlotte Miller)

Tech Guru Daily talks about the evolution of the way we travel:

When Thomas Cook (1808–1892) founded the Thomas Cook & Son travel agency, he established himself as one of the world’s first travel agents. Initially a one-man show (the “Son” came later), Cook arranged for 150,000 tourists to attend Prince Albert’s Great Exhibition in London in 1851. This first world’s fair was as notable for its collection of literary figures as it was for its other exhibits. Among the former were Alfred Tennyson, Charles Dickens, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, Lewis Carroll, and William Makepeace Thackeray. Cook used his skills as a trained printer to market his tour packages with enticing travel booklets that offered Industrial Age factory workers a means of escape. (Susan Martinez)

Diario Exterior (Spain) reviews José Jiménez Lozano's Memorias de un escribidor:

Junto a la memoria judía, el autor abulense cuenta con el fuerte enraizamiento en una tradición intelectual y literaria de largo aliento europeo, situada en los márgenes del canon oficial de la modernidad: pienso en las hermosísimas páginas que ha dedicado al estudio de la mística castellana o del jansenismo francés; en sus ensayos sobre los afrancesados españoles —Los cementerios civiles es un libro de referencia para cualquier estudioso de la heterodoxia pública en España— o sobre la influencia morisca; y en su fructífero diálogo como lector —y, por tanto, también como creador— con autores de la estirpe de Flannery O’Connor, Simone Weil, Shusakū Endō, Søren Kierkegaard, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, las hermanas Brontë, Dostoyevski o los españoles fray Luis de León y Miguel de Cervantes. (Daniel Capó) (Translation)

Monopol (Germany) discusses the recent Most Wuthering Heights Day Ever events. A Game of T.A.R.D.I.S. (Italy) reviews Wuthering Heights. On Radio SRF 2 Kultur (Switzerland), the programme Kontext discussed Emily Brontë:

Emily Brontë ist vor allem für ihren Roman «Wuthering Heights – Sturmhöhe» bekannt. Doch die englische Schriftstellerin hat auch Gedichte verfasst, die auf Deutsch kaum mehr greifbar und wenig bekannt sind – und deshalb umso mehr Beachtung verdienen. (Translation)

Noroeste (México) thinks that Wuthering Heights 2011 was 'extraordinary'.