{"id":35698,"date":"2026-06-11T17:57:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T17:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/?p=35698"},"modified":"2026-06-11T17:57:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T17:57:19","slug":"virginia-woolfs-orlando-adapted-by-jules-scheele-orlando-a-graphic-novel-biography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2026\/06\/11\/virginia-woolfs-orlando-adapted-by-jules-scheele-orlando-a-graphic-novel-biography\/","title":{"rendered":"Virginia Woolf\u2019s Orlando – Adapted by Jules Scheele (Orlando: A Graphic Novel Biography)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nBy Virginia Woolf<\/strong>, adapted by Jules Scheele<\/strong> with Garry Mac<\/strong> (Avery Hill)
\nISBN: 978-1-917355-24-7 (TPB\/Digital edition)<\/p>\n

Some stories don\u2019t translate well from prose to other narrative media, whilst others are simply made for it. In October 1928, author Virginia Woolf published a heavily-satirical appraisal of English literature down the ages. However, her fantasy epic was simultaneously a not-even-barely-veiled dramatised account of her ongoing, uproarious relationship with an equally notorious member of the British aristocracy…<\/p>\n

Everyone in the know knew Orlando: A Biography<\/strong> detailed Woolf\u2019s affair with British High Society\u2019s supreme scandal-instigator… Vita Sackville-West. You can look all that history stuff up elsewhere or read the concise contextual precis that comes with this glorious, striking adaptation in the Foreword<\/em> by Musician, Diarist and Modern Dandy Dickon Edwards…<\/p>\n

The original novel is smart, wry and a fabulous historical whimsy that has become a rallying point and clarion call for all matters Queer, Trans, and Proud, and here is even further enhanced by the fitting tactic of adding seductive pictures to form a sequential narrative…<\/p>\n

The tale is simple yet compelling: a beautiful, young and so-innocent poet who is a contemporary (and eventually favourite) of Queen Elizabeth I<\/em> does not age or die.
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\nEnduring and surviving perilous royal favour, great wealth and privilege, personal beauty and vast creative gifts, the poet has many adventures – most of them amorous, but also involving espionage intrigues, great disasters and shady services to The Crown undertaken abroad – before settling in the beloved old family seat to spend the majority of time and effort writing a magnificent novel: The Oak Tree<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Over decades and centuries Orlando adapts and is transformed by love affairs, courtly adventures, travel and writing. At one point, possibly thanks to the ministrations of a Romani witch (the lore and reputation of \u201cGypsies\u201d fascinated Vita and Virginia cheekily indulged her in these pages) or simply through benevolent evolution, Orlando becomes an equally enchanting and beguiling woman. She too is left largely untouched by the world – except for its arts and fashions – and continues a life of creative and romantic abundance peppered with affairs and dalliances spiked with memorable personal encounters into an unguessable, primarily creative future…
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\nPreceded by a Dedication culled from Derek Jarman, director of the 1992 film adaptation, Jules Scheele\u2019s necessarily arcanely abbreviated Orlando<\/strong> sidelines the book\u2019s formal presentation for a free-flowing cascade of multi-level images and key incidents broken down into \u2018Chapter One: Part One: Orlando as a Boy\u2019<\/em> & \u2018Part Two: Two Years Later…\u2019<\/em>; \u2018Chapter Two: Part Three: Afflicted with a love of literature\u2019<\/em> & \u2018Part Four: Vanity Rebuked\u2019<\/em>; \u2018Chapter Three Part Five: Some Kind of Miracle\u2019<\/em> & \u2018Part Six: Orlando Remained Precisely As He Had Been\u2019<\/em>; \u2018Chapter Four, Part Seven: Life, and a lover\u2019<\/em> & \u2018Part Eight: The clothes that wear us\u2019 <\/em>with scenes including days at Court and elsewhere subdivided into \u2018Whitehall\u2019<\/em>, \u2018The Court of King James at Greenwich\u2019<\/em>, \u2018The Poet\u2019<\/em>, \u2018The Great Frost\u2019<\/em>, and \u2018Time Passed…\u2019<\/em> before the settled days and nights of \u2018Life, a lover\u2019<\/em> presage a reduction in betrayals and forced exiles as constant war with conformity gives way to creative fruition, personal power and security and the ponderous march of time via \u2018Chapter Five, Part Nine: Beyond the shadow of a doubt, Female\u2019 and \u2018Chapter Six Part Ten: What, Then, is Life?\u2019<\/em> prior to the pausing of passing years in \u2018Part Eleven: A Single Self, A Real Self\u2019<\/em>…
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\nGlasgow-based illustrator Jules Scheele\u2019s previous works have been for the educational and voluntary sectors, including the NHS, Scottish Government, UCL, University of Glasgow, LGBT Youth Scotland, Refugee Sanctuary Scotland, Edinburgh Arts Festival and others. His passion projects are fuelled by and stem from queer media, popular culture, and grass roots politics, and were previously seen via and expressed through DIY zine culture. With Dr. Meg-John Barker, Scheele has created numerous non-fiction graphic novels such as Queer: A Graphic History<\/strong>; Gender: A Graphic Guide<\/strong> and Sexuality: A Graphic Guide<\/strong>.
\n\u00a9 Jules Scheele, 2026. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n

Orlando<\/strong> – A Graphic Novel Biography<\/strong> will be published on June 18th<\/sup> 2026 and is available for pre-order now.<\/p>\n

Today in 1934 Lee Falk<\/strong>\u2019s magnificent epitome of wonder and superheroics Mandrake the Magician<\/strong> first appeared.<\/p>\n

Today in 1949 British writer and oriental scholar Steve Moore<\/strong> (Rick Random<\/strong>, Laser Eraser & Pressbutton<\/em>, Hulk<\/strong>, Doctor Who<\/strong>, Absalom Daak<\/em>, Tales of Telguuth<\/em>, Warrior<\/strong>, 2000 AD<\/strong>, Fortean Times<\/strong>) was born.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Virginia Woolf, adapted by Jules Scheele with Garry Mac (Avery Hill) ISBN: 978-1-917355-24-7 (TPB\/Digital edition) Some stories don\u2019t translate well from prose to other narrative media, whilst others are simply made for it. In October 1928, author Virginia Woolf published a heavily-satirical appraisal of English literature down the ages. However, her fantasy epic was … <\/p>\n

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