Adapting Clive Barker.

This text examines the American comics produced around the Clive Barker brand during the author’s rise to fame in the late 1980s and early 1990s, in particular the mini-series Tapping the Vein (Eclipse, 5 issues, 1989-1990) and the open-ended series Clive Barker’s Hellraiser (Epic/Marvel Comics, 20 issues, 1989-1992). It examines the way both publishers used specific illustrative styles to articulate the emerging Barker transmedia brand with existing publishing and readerly practices in comics. The text calls attention to the role played by such of a collective graphic style – as opposed to the oft-examined individual graphic choices – in shaping and framing such adaptations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]