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80 reviewsRenee Nault was chosen by author Margaret Atwood to adapt & illustrate Atwood's 1985 classic dystopian novel. Each page is hand-painted in vivid watercolor.
It’s hard to imagine a more colourful, more ironically vivid, dystopia than the Republic of Gilead in the hands of Renee Nault. The 38-year-old Vancouver artist has turned The Handmaid’s Tale, the most protean of Margaret Atwood’s novels—already refashioned as a feature film, opera, radio drama, stage play & ongoing TV series—into a strikingly beautiful graphic novel. Dystopias, places of ash & toxicity both physically & mentally, tend to be illustrated in shades of grey, Nault allows in an interview, “and that works, obviously—I used those tones a lot for the background. But I really wanted to pare down to the colours assigned to people’s social positions. Gilead is such a rigid, role-based society, & the novel has so much to say about gender roles as seen through women’s perspectives, that the first thing anyone notices about anyone else is what colour they’re wearing. Often, it’s the only thing, because those limited roles are all that matters in that society.”
The artist “really liked” doing the wild scenes at the ruling elite’s private bordello, “because I got to draw these crazy costumes & colours,” including old cheerleader uniforms, ragged underwear & swimsuits, & an on-its-last-legs Playboy Bunny outfit, complete with busted right ear. “They weren’t set out in the novel,” laughs Nault. “All it says is that the costumes were old or scavenged from other things.” Those scenes were a closer fit with Nault’s natural style, as displayed in her ongoing webcomic, Witchling. “My temptation is always to make everything really lush & beautiful because that’s what I like to draw. But Handmaid’s Tale is definitely a lot more minimalist.
Nault made what she calls a “movie-style” script, which described each page & what it would look like,...
