Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Grant Morrison's Mahabharata

I absolutely love mad labors of love like this: Grant Morrison's CGI retelling of the Hindu epic The Mahabharata looks fascinating, bizarre, and potentially very, very beautiful. Morrison has long been one of my favorite comics writers--though his work can sometimes come across as incomprehensible, it is always interesting.




(luscious concept art from 18 Days)









The Mahabharata is a wonderful story to begin with, and I loved Peter Brook's (more faithful) adaptation when I saw it on PBS years ago. Here's a bit of that: