The most straightforward story adapted, the Lovecraftian "The Last Feast of Harlequin," showcases a mostly understated art job by Colleen Doran. Illustrating the stories literalizes them, freezing a reader's ideas into an artist's singular interpretation of events. However, the strangeness of Ligotti's work rests to a great extent on what a reader makes of the strange events and deadpan delivery of most of his protagonists and narrators. Much of Ligotti's prose has been preserved, and the art on all four stories is more than competent. Who thought this was a good idea? Kudos for risk-taking. Adapting four stories by cult horror writer Thomas Ligotti into a graphic album looks almost as odd as some of Ligotti's stories.
The rapidly defunct Fox Atomic comic-book line has to be credited with a whole lot of WTF chutzpah. Locrian's Asylum, written by Joe Harris and illustrated by Ted McKeever and Teatro Grottesco, written by Joe Harris and illustrated by Michael Gaydos (2007). The Nightmare Factory Volume 1, adapting stories by and with essays by Thomas Ligotti, including the following stories: The Last Feast of Harlequin, written by Stuart Moore and illustrated by Colleen Doran Dream of a Mannikin, written by Stuart Moore and illustrated by Ben Templesmith Dr.
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