It’s less gritty than I personally like, but it tells the story effectively and works well for both young and older readers.īorders is the story of an Indigenous mother and her young son travelling to visit her daughter, who has moved from Lethbridge, Alberta to Salt Lake City, Utah under a small cloud of rancour with her mother. The art style skews to a younger audience it’s a clean and pretty style. King left for us to imagine in the sparse, episodic style he employs in this story. Beyond visualizing the characters for us, her biggest contribution is to fill some of the spaces Mr. Donovan tells the story in a simple, clean-line, young reader friendly illustration style. Borders is truly a collaboration between the original text and adaptation illustration. It strikes me that a short story is about the perfect length to adapt to a graphic novel without losing too much material as sometimes happens when adapting a novel to another format. The text is used verbatim and I don’t think they’ve added a single word. The graphic novel is a very faithful adaptation of the short story.
It must be an anxious task to adapt a story by the legendary Indigenous author, but the young Métis cartoonist Natasha Donovan - listed as “illustrator” on the cover - is an experienced creator of graphic novels, and is herself a rising star in the world of comics for younger people. Borders is a graphic novel adaptation of the classic 1997 short story of the same name by Thomas King.
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