Dramatizing cartoons is hard. The cadence can be hard to nail — and sometimes it doesn’t work at all.
Voice actor SungWon Cho has done the best job I’ve heard yet (and he’s back, this week, with another delightfully narrated Wondermark comic)!
But the field is still ripe for challengers.
Enter Late Night’s Seth Meyers. Accompanied by New Yorker editor David Remnick, Seth and his troupe of hardy players have taken on the challenge of performing, in live action, single-panel New Yorker cartoons.
It’s pretty great. There are two entries in the series (so far)!