Who Framed Roger Rabbit: The Official Comic Adaptation

Marvel Graphic Novel #41

by Daan Jippes (Adapted & Illustrated By), Don Ferguson (Adapted By), Dan Spiegle (Illustrator)

Based on the motion picture from Touchstone Pictures and Steven Spielberg.

Genres: Comics, Graphic Novels, Fiction, Humor

48 pages, Paperback

Published June 1, 1988

About the author

Daniel Jan "Daan" Jippes is a Dutch cartoonist who's known for his work on Disney comics. In the 1980s and 1990s he drew many covers for Gladstone Publishing's Disney magazines. In the 1990s he redrew for Egmont old Junior Woodchucks stories from the 1970s, originally written by Carl Barks and drawn by John Carey, Kay Wright and Tony Strobl.

Reviews

[Ryan Stewart · Rating 2 out of 5]

Incredible movie but everything good about it gets lost in a lazy translation.

[Daniel · Rating 1 out of 5]

I'm so confused why this exists. The concept behind Roger Rabbit is that toons co-exist with real people. But as a comic, both toons and real people are drawn - the effect is largely lost. Why would you do that?

[César Pozo · Rating 5 out of 5]

Just like the movie, this comic book is a piece of art.

How clever of them to implement TWO different art styles to differentiate the toons from the humans. The toons had simpler designs while the humans were more detailed with a lot more ink work. A way to enhance this difference would be with modern 3D coloring techniques, but one must consider that this book was published in 1988, so this coloring style wasn't available at the time, but nonetheless the work is already fantastic.

Also I love the way the panels were used. For the parts of the stories where only humans were talking, the panels were straight forward and square. But for the toons, the panels became wacky and twisted and turned freely and creatively. Simply AMAZING DESIGN CHOICE!

It was also cool to see that this comic book version adapted some of the deleted scenes from the movie into it. The team really did their research.

This comic book is not an exact adaptation of the movie, it takes some liberties with the dialogues and cuts off most of the cartoon cameos that gave its soul to the movie. What we got back in return is a very straightforward detective story, which I love dearly. So far I've read the original novel, watched the movie, and finally read this comic book version. It goes without saying that I may be biased in my rating since this is my favorite animated movie 😂

[Sophia · Rating 3 out of 5]

I grew up watching this film and loved it. It’s wild how certain things go right over a kid’s head and can make something even funnier when you’re an adult.

This GN loses some of that charm and drama the movie balances so well.

It also feels very thin in the fact that over half the characters are just gone (guess they couldn’t use any licensed characters in the 80’s.)

Didn’t know when I read it but there was a sequence not in the film (that was kinda weird) and it was actually a deleted scene!

I was so excited when I learned this GN was a thing but I think I’m gonna stick to watching the movie.

[Gonzalo Oyanedel · Rating 3 out of 5]

Una adaptación entretenida, que sortea más o menos bien las dificultades de no disponer del guion final para trabajar ni contar con los cameos animados de la película por cuestiones de derechos. Cumple.

[Sean Chick · Rating 4 out of 5]

Nothing superb here, although they effectively crammed a two hour movie into a comic less than 50 pages in length. I did like some of the art.

[kattitudeandcoffee · Rating 2 out of 5]

It’s okay, but I like the movie more

[A David · Rating 2 out of 5]

Good movie, contrived adaptation

[Little Timmy · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good comic adaptation of the movie. Recommended