El fin de semana se llevó a cabo el evento Image Comics Expo y dentro de los anuncios de nuevos comics está el trabajo de Grant Morrison junto a Darick Robertson (The Boys, Transmetropolitan) para realizar Happy! en la editorial.
El escritor dio una entrevista exclusiva con iFanboy entregando más detalles:
Over the last couple of years I’ve been developing a range of new titles and characters, not all of which would necessarily suit Vertigo.
So far, I’m only able to tell you that the first one is set around Christmas, it’s called Happy! and it’s drawn by Darick Robertson an artist I’ve had plans to work with for a long time. Happy! is in a genre I’ve never really tackled before – but with a bizarre twist, of course.
Beyond that, there are big plans to do more books at Image and I have several ideas lined up – but I have to wait until the ink dries on the contracts before I’m allowed to say another word!
Sobre la importancia de realizar material propio y entregar personajes relevantes para el mundo de hoy:
As much as I enjoy contributing stories to long-running franchises and work-for-hire superhero universes, I’ve made a point of owning my own stuff all the way from when I started out as a teenager in the ‘70s doing Captain Clyde and the strips in Near Myths to Joe the Barbarian just last year. For numerous reasons, I think it’s important for any writer in the comics business to maintain a healthy portfolio of creator-owned material and IPs and I’m encouraged and inspired by the fact that companies like Image exist to provide that platform and permit a level of creative self-expression that’s hard to find in other media.
Everybody knows we need new, contemporary characters and stories that are relevant to the world we live in; I’m delighted that 2012 is shaping up to be a banner year for fresh and original comics.
Habrá que esperar para saber más sobre la historia, pero la mezcla de ambos me hace confiar en que será algo espectacular. Hace mucho que Morrison no trabaja de manera más libre en algo no superheroico como menciona, así que será interesante ver con qué nos sorprende.
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