Page to Screen: Do You Know the Inspiration for These Adaptations?
Welcome to Great Adaptations, the Book Review’s regular multiple-choice quiz about printed works that have gone on to find new life as movies, television shows, theatrical productions and more. This week’s challenge highlights cartoons and comic strips that were later adapted for the screen. Just tap or click your answers to the five questions below. And scroll down after you finish the last question for links to the books and some of their filmed versions.
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“Wednesday,” a streaming series on Netflix, features the latest screen adventure of Charles Addams’s whimsically macabre “Addams Family” characters since their original 1938 appearance in which magazine?
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E.C. Segar’s Popeye the Sailor Man first appeared in newspapers in 1929 and went on to star in a variety of comic books, film shorts, television cartoons and more. Who portrayed the spinach-enhanced brawler in the 1980 film adaptation?
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Leonardo, Donatello, Raphael and Michelangelo are members of which crime-fighting team that began in comic books before getting multiple screen adaptations, including a 1987 animated television series and a feature film in 1990?
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What is the name of Aaron McGruder’s 1990s comic (and 2005 television adaptation) about the young brothers Huey and Riley Freeman, who experience a culture clash when they move from Chicago to the suburbs?
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Which web-based comic about a shapeshifter became a printed 2015 graphic novel and then was adapted into a 2023 movie, which was nominated for an Academy Award?
