Salman Rushdie, prochain auteur de comics ?

[Rey Prichou]

Il se pourrait bien en effet

[quote]"[B]I'm a world expert on superhero comics[/B]," Salman Rushdie told us last night at the New York Public Library's Library Lions benefit, where he was among the honorees. "[B]I think maybe only Michael Chabon knows more than me.[/B]" The [I]Satanic Verses[/I] author owns oil paintings of Spider-Man and Wolverine, signed by Stan Lee. Also, he collected comic books as a kid, but, sadly, his father threw them away. "They’d be worth so much money now if he hadn’t done that. You know, 1950s and sixties Dell Comics, and Marvel; it would be worth a fortune,” he said. And while he hasn’t yet written a superhero into one of his novels, Rushdie's actually considering writing a comic book. "[B]Just recently I’ve been approached by a couple of publishers of what are now called graphic novels to say, would I like to do one. And, I mean, I haven’t said yes. But I am quite interested."[/B] He added that Doris Lessing told him she’d had a great time writing a graphic novel and recommended it highly. Rushdie wouldn’t say which publisher had made the offer, or which artist might do the drawings. "We haven’t got that far yet. Literally, I just got the letter a couple of weeks ago," he said. "So we’ll see."[/quote]