Image revolution documentary full biography

  • The Image Revolution tells the story of Image Comics, from its founders' work at Marvel, through Image's early success, company difficulties during the comics.
  • The Image Revolution brilliantly tells the story of the rise, fall and triumphant return of one of the most successful publishers in comic book history.
  • The Image Revolution is a nice overview of 20 years of history, hitting most of the highest points and presenting a lot of nifty historical archive footage in.

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    Reviewing The "Image Revolution" Documentary

    THE IMAGE COMICS REVOLUTION

    I don't think there's a single topic in all of comics that will get me more revved up to talk than the history of Image Comics. It must be because I lived through it from afar as it happened, from the public point of view. I remember seeing the headline on the front page of "The Comics Buyers Guide" at the magazine rack at the local Waldenbooks. I remember following all the news through CBR and Wizard and USENET and the World Wide Web and whatever format it would come in. I've met and talked to many of the creators from that era of comics. I've read a ton of those interviews. I've got a few longboxes downstairs to back me up, and a couple hundred letters printed in the backs of those comics, to boot.

    I can't talk to the early days of Marvel or DC. I can't talk about the black and white boom of the 1980s. I can't even give you a proper history of the creators' right movement in the 1970s and 1980s. I wasn't

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    Synopsis

    When they broke the mold, they started a revolution.

    Twenty years ago, seven superstar artists left Marvel Comics to create their own company, Image Comics, a company that continues to influence mainstream comics and pop culture to this day. Image began as more than just a publisher - it was a response to years of creator mistreatment, and changed comics forever. The Image Revolution tells the story of Image Comics, from its founders' work at Marvel, through Image's early success, company difficulties during the comics market implosion, and ultimately the publisher's new generation of properties like The Walking Dead. Filled with colorful characters, the film is a clarion call to artists to take control of their destiny.

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    • Patrick Meaney has spent the last decade making documentaries about comic industry greats. After pieces on Grant Morrison and Warren Ellis, he turned his attention to the founding of Image comics. In the early

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      The formation of Image Comics in 1992 was a monumental shift for the comics world.

      Seven artists — some superstars such as Jim Lee and Todd McFarlane, some rising stars — broke away from Marvel and formed their own creation, which they wholly owned, controlled and, in some cases, made millions off of.

      In a certain light, you could compare it to the dismantling of the studio struktur, which, with its contract system, locked in actors unfairly and had their lives controlled by moguls.

      Of course, Image’s golden age faded, and the company didn’t always live up to its early promises, but now that golden era fryst vatten the focus of a documentary bygd director-producer Patrick Meaney, producer Jordan Rennert and exec producers Julian Darius and Mike Phillips.

      Called The Image Revolution, the doc uses new interviews as well as vintage early &#