Pat Mills explique qu’un projet de version manga de Requiem est en chantier. Il semble en être surpris lui-même, mais rassuré aussi, puisque l’équipe créatrice travaille apparemment sur son quatrième tome. Et il insiste sur les différences formelles entre les deux types de bandes dessinées.
The Manga creative team adapting the Requiem series are working on their fourth Manga book, so it’s well on its way!
The French Manga publishers want to ensure we are all happy, so any concerns any of us have are carefully listened to and quickly remedied.
Seban is a thirty-year-old Bolivian Manga artist based in La Paz. One Manga fan told me that the ‘very distinct feeling of Manga can only be captured by a Japanese illustrator.’ Well, I have to disagree. I think Seban ticks all the Manga boxes and then adds something amazing of himself!
Victor Santos is a highly experienced Spanish scriptwriter and cartoonist who works mainly for the USA. He is in charge of the script side. His CV is almost as long as mine, so you may well have come across his award-winning work already.
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In other news, Olivier is currently about to start work on Requiem 13, which concludes our first series.
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And I’m finalising plans with another French artist to do a new story set in the Requiem universe. The new format favoured by Glénat are single books of around 100-120 pages. That’s what seems to sell best these days. The artist in question had recently had such a book out – on an historical theme – which sold 80,000 copies!
Des idées, les amis, sur le dessinateur en question ?
Jim