Information Technologies and Culture: Electronic exhibition "Bulgakov and the "Paper Cinema": "The Master and Margarita as a Comic Book" launched

The Mikhail Bulgakov Museum launched the electronic exhibition "Bulgakov and the "Paper Cinema": "The Master and Margarita as a Comic Book".

The exhibition is devoted to the first publication in Russian of a comic book based on the novel "The Master and Margarita", created in the early 1990s by Mikhail Zaslavsky and Askold Akishin. The exhibition features archival materials: photographs, the first publication of a fragment of a comic book in the rock newspaper by Sukachev and Kinchev, materials for French and Polish publications.

Adaptation of literary classics is not a new genre, but the turning of a literary work to the comic book is not so easy. In the beginning, Mikhail Zaslavsky thoroughly studied every detail of one most beloved novel by Bulgakov. The drawn story included only the general features that exist in every edition of Bulgakov's novel.

The graphic adaptation of "The Master and Margarita" was created in 1992–1993 on the basis of the Moscow "KOM" club by the pioneers of the Russian comic book Askold Akishin and Mikhail Zaslavsky. It was published in France and Poland, but it remained practically unknown in Russia - a small fragment was edited by the newspaper of the R&K Independent Rock Association. 30 years later, the comic book of Akishin and Zaslavsky was returned to the homeland and published in Russian in full.

Access to the electronic exhibition "Bulgakov and the "Paper Cinema": "The Master and Margarita as a Comic Book" is open since May 16, 2020.