The comics in America are no longer just ink and paper products to become brands multimedia potential worth millions of dollars. The thing became clear in New York Comicon, which ended on Sunday October 11 after receiving 170 thousand people, according to figures from the organizers. After this result, it has become the largest convention in the country and one of the largest in the world.
The film and television, particularly Marvel movies and the series The Walking Dead , are largely responsible for the media phenomenon of comic conventions in the country. Until a few years ago, these events were much smaller, only attracted readers of comics and did not have much impact in the media.
Robert Kirkman, writer and creator of the comic book The Walking Dead , gave a lecture to more than 2000 people, in which he talked about the sixth season of the series, released last Sunday. He also referred to the 150th of his comics and his work on two other television series based on his creations. “Things will eventually intense this season (from The Walking Dead ). I think that will be the strongest,” he said ironically on the television series, characterized by rising tension and violence.
In this regard, after six years and 13 television cartoons, it has much to be required. “After 150 issues of the comic, the challenge for me is to keep it interesting and do not miss the surprise. They seem too many numbers and mathematically think that might do to the thousands. But we’ll see if I succeed. What I know is I always find new topics and allow changes. I have long-term plans and many of them are not even written, only I have in my mind. ”
The faces of the empire
Kirkman and cartoon are (next to Ninja Turtles , other stars of the Comicon), the biggest success stories history of the genre. They started with independent comics in which nobody believed, published in black and white, and ended up becoming branded media giant, fully exploited in countless products.
The most extreme example is perhaps that The Walking Dead will cruise itself, a boat that will make a three day trip from Miami, with zombies and actors in the series, with a passage of at least $ 750 (meals, and other expenses are not included). “A cruise or a video game is fun for me, I’m a fan of this type of product opportunities. If this is not the creator also enjoy it,” Kirkman said.
Kirkman has unfolded this year. He is producer and colibretista Fear The Walking Dead , second series and prequel to the other, and also Flight 462 , a miniseries for the web based on the same world of the dead living. Furthermore, it is colibretista producer of Outcast , a new television series based on another comic who writes every month. In fact, also writes monthly comics Invincible and Thief of Thieves . The entertainment industry needs prolific creators and with high business acumen as he or Mark Millar (writer of Kick Ass , Wanted and Kingsman ).
“I want to continue writing the comic ( The Walking Dead ) the same way as when I started, when there was still no dolls, no games, no television or novels. I also wanted soften to have children. In fact, I think redoubled violence in fiction to compensate the tenderness of fatherhood and redoubled insults in the comic to compensate for what television censorship does not allow us to say. ”
5 novelties presented at the Comicon
The return of The X Files . Actor David Duchovny and creator Chris Carter presented the new season of his series, consisting of six episodes and will premiere in January. The X Files completed in 2002 and was continued in a comic strip called Season 10. The new series, which could be extended if successful, will follow the pattern of the original, with a balance between mythology and background Chapters unit. “I had a little back to my character,” Duchovny said, “but we found that the team have a collective memory of how it worked.”
The return of The club bout . David Fincher’s film has its continuation in a series of cartoons, written by Chuck Palaniuk, author of the original novel. The first issue has just been published.
From cinema to television . Director Sam Raimi ( Spider-Man , The Wizard of Oz ) presented the first episode of the series Ash Vs. Evil Dead . Funny, bloody, continues the supernatural adventures that began in the cult films Evil and Night amazing (the Remake the first was conducted for two years by Uruguayan Federico Alvarez, sponsored by Raimi himself).
Hollywood does not want Frank Miller. The artist and writer responsible for the comics that inspired films like 300 and Sin City introduced The Dark Knight III , then your Batman graphic novel of 1986, considered a classic. With obvious sadness, she acknowledged to the audience that he would love to direct or write for film (as he did with The Spirit and Sin City ), but no one has reconvened .
Latin . As visitors, looking for ideas and making contacts, organizers Comicon Colombia, Chile and Comicon Comicon Experience (San Pablo) were. Similarly it happens with Argentina Comicon, none of them is related to the New York or San Diego. Just use the name, which is not trademark
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