The BOOM! Studios imprint Archaia will be publishing a graphic novel adaptation of Roxane Gay’s short story “The Sacrifice of Darkness,” originally released as a part of her anthology novel Difficult Women. The novel will be co-written by Tracy Lynne Oliver, and feature art by Rebecca Kirby with colors by James Fenner. The story is set in a fantasy world where the Sun is gone, leaving two children trying to survive the consequential darkness.
Roxane Gay is a well renowned prose author, having two short story collections, Bad Feminist and Difficult Women, the novel Untamed State and memoir Hunger. She has worked in comics in the past, co-writing “Black Panther: World of Wakanda” with Ta-Nehisi Coates, and “The Banks” for TKO Studios with artist Ming Doyle. Gay’s tenure on “World of Wakanda” made her Marvel’s first ever black female lead writer. Kirby has previously done pin-ups for both “Rumble” and “Headlopper,” and Gay praised her at The New York Times by saying, “She had smart things to say in the way she reimagined parts of my story.”
Gay took time to note the stringent use of text and dialogue in graphic novels. “In many ways, it’s like Twitter,” she said. “You have to really think about what you want to say and why.” “The Sacrifice of Darkness” releases this October.
