Paul B. Rainey’s Why Don’t You Love Me? optioned by Jennifer Lawrence and A24
For most of you the news that some book is being made into a film is not that interesting, but I’ve known Paul since we were part of the UK small press comics scene in the 1990s and I couldn’t be more happy for him.
Why Don’t You Love Me? follows a miserable couple, Claire and Mark, struggling through their marriage while “feeling like something is not quite right in their reality,” teases A24. The graphic novel has been described as a “pitch-black comedy about marriage, alcoholism, depression and mourning lost opportunities,” with surprising twists along the way.
I just found this stream of Paul going through all the work he made before Why Don’t You Love Me?, most of which I have copies of in my boxes of zines, and then introducing the book to the world.