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Arcana Newsletter for April 2011, Newsletter Volume 8, Issue 4 April 11, 2011
This Month in April
1. Arcana Offers 80 Graphic Novels Through Wowio
2. Snow Angel
3. InStockTrades Book of the Month
4. This Month in Previews
5. This Month on Shelves
6. Interview with Ben Magid
Arcana Offers Over 80 Graphic Novels Through WOWIO!
[1]Arcana Comics is proud to announce that they are currently offering over 80
different graphic novels through WOWIO.
WOWIO, an Alliance Acquisitions, Inc. company, is a unique eBook marketplace
that stands apart from the crowd by offering significant advantages to readers,
authors, publishers and advertisers.
With WOWIO, once you purchase an eBook, it's yours. They will never reach into
your device and delete it or stop allowing you to use it. No device limits.
Also, if you lose your downloaded eBooks to a crash, you can re-download any
purchased eBook from your library.
Arcana is currently offering 86 different graphic novels and books including
Zedura Magazine and a Special Edition offering of the Clockwork Girl that comes
with the animated motion picture trailer! Each month WOWIO will offer even more
Arcana projects as they are released.
Preview the first 5 to 10 pages of any Arcana book for free or buy it for as
low as 99 cents with graphic novels costing on average $4.95!
[2]http://www.wowio.com/arcana
Snow Angel Arrives This Month!
Kurtis J. Wiebe, writer of Image Comics' instant sell out hits Green Wake and
Intrepids, brings you Snow Angel, a crime noir graphic novel from Arcana
Comics.
SNOW ANGEL GN
(W) Kurtis Wiebe, (A/C) Tyler Jenkins From Arcana Studio. On a rain-soaked
night in the heart of Bogota, a young girl witnesses a brutal murder by the
hand of her father. This was no accident as her father wanted her to see. Snow
Angel tells the story of Angela, a little girl growing up in the long shadow of
her criminal father, Cesar. What would a child do to win the respect of the
most brutal enforcer in the Cali cartel?
InStockTrades Book of the Month: Penance
[3]Penance
When a news crew videotapes a battle, a masked superhero is arrested for the
murder of a costumed super-villain. When police officer LJ McCloud is assigned
to the open-and-shut case, she quickly finds her life spiraling out of control
as she tries to weather the media hurricane that is surrounding the situation.
And the deeper that the officer digs into the case, the more she realizes that
they may be condemning an innocent man?
When ordered from InStockTrades, you will receive a signed bookplate from
creator Sean Wise!
Buy the book now:
[4]http://www.instocktrades.com/TP/Arcana-Studio/PENANCE-TP/JUL100758
In Previews
Pistolfist This month in Previews, for items shipping June, Arcana will be
publishing Kagagi The Rave GN (APR11 0773), Pistolfist GN (APR11 0774), Ralph
Filmore GN (APR11 0775), Spy School GN (APR11 0776), and Woody & The Noble GN
(APR11 0777).
Shipping This Month
[5]Canadian Legion This April Arcana is filling your Easter basket with
Canadian Legion GN (FEB11 0725), Demonslayer TP (FEB11 0726), Jack and the
Zombie Box GN (FEB11 0727), Mercy Sparx TP (FEB11 0728), Misplaced TP (FEB11
0729), and Snow Angel GN (SEP10 8039).
Interview with Ben Magid
[6]
Trout This month, Arcana's Vice President of Operations, Mark Poulton
interviews Hollywood screenwriter, Ben Magid, on his upcoming Arcana GN, Trout.
MP: Ben, you are making your comics' debut with the original graphic novel,
Trout. What can you tell us about the project?
BM: Trout actually started out as a screenplay I was working on, but never
quite finished. I wanted to tell a new type of monster movie about this great
big world beneath the world we know that is inhabited by monsters, while at the
center of it all, have a small, personal story that is really of coming of age
tale. The story focuses on a scientist for the government who created a virus
with the power to turn man into monster, and monster into man. Attacked, he
hides the serum by injecting it into his son, Trout. Now everybody is after
this 9 year old boy, and the story focuses around him, and the disgraced
monster sent to protect him. There are some big action scenes and world
creation, but at its heart, it is a personal story about these two characters
as they form a bond as they try to stay alive, learning about who they are
during the process. While the story would make a great movie, it just screamed
to be a comic book, because it is so visual.
MP: Even though this is your first comic, you are no stranger to the world of
comics. You wrote the screenplay for the upcoming Hack/Slash feature film from
Rogue Pictures. How familiar were you with the comic before getting the job?
BM: I had heard of Hack/Slash but had never actually read any of the issues
before being approached with adapting it. But after reading it, I was hooked.
More than anything, I was jealous. It was such a great, simple concept that
creator Tim Seeley came up with and I wished I had thought of it. I get sent a
lot of adaptations from books to comics to video games, and the vast majority
are fairly unoriginal. But Seeley's Hack/Slash had a great concept, great
characters and such a distinct voice that I had to be part of it. The comic fit
with exactly what I try to do when I write, which is to play of familiar
conventions and story lines in a totally unique and arresting way.
MP: What are the differences for writing comics compared to screenplays?
BM: The difference between writing screenplays and comics aren't all that
different. Outside of the different formatting, each are a visual way of
storytelling, and each come down to creating a compelling story and characters.
The way I work is I write a treatment, or a short story, and then after that is
fine tuned, I begin writing the screenplay. The same principal applies to
comics, so it is a great way to begin and really focus on characters and plot.
One big difference I've noticed is that most comics, especially graphic novels,
have a first act and a third act, with little to no second act. Scripts are the
opposite. Half of the entire movie is second act, which makes it difficult in
adapting comics to film. One definite advantage to writing comics is creating
the panels and what is going to be seen on each page. While screenplays are
written visually to a degree, the shots and framing are all done by the
director. With comics, the opposite is true, which is often times creatively
liberating, but daunting as well.
With film today, it is incredibly hard to get an original story told that isn't
based on some underlying property. Many people think the new great writing is
happening in TV, but I think it's really with comic books. Because superheroes
are mostly encapsulated by DC and Marvel, it has opened up the world to new
original stories. Comics like DMZ, Y: The Last Man and Chew are so original and
so not comic books, that a whole new audience has been exposed up to the
possibilities that can be achieved in the format. That is pretty exciting.
MP: What advice do you have for aspiring writers looking to break into either
industry?
BM: Write. A lot. Learn your craft and come up with great ideas. Film is
incredibly hard to break into nowadays, but it is possible with a great script.
On the comics side, there are so many new avenues, from indecent publishes, to
software, to apps like Comixology, that it just takes a great story, some luck
and ingenuity to get your work out there. If the story is good, whether film or
comic, people will find it.
MP: Before we go, are there any other projects of yours you would like to tell
us about?
BM: I am currently developing a new comic book that I'm incredibly excited
about. It takes the tried and true revenge story model, but turns it on its
head in a way in which you've never seen before, in a world you have never seen
before. It definitely pushes the boundaries on what the genre can be, which in
the end, is what comic books, movies and all stories should be. Or it will
suck. We will just have to wait and see.
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References
1. http://www.arcanacomics.com/
2. http://www.wowio.com/arcana
3. http://www.arcanacomics.com/store/
4. http://www.instocktrades.com/TP/Arcana-Studio/PENANCE-TP/JUL100758
5. http://www.arcanacomics.com/comicdisplay.php?id=63
6. http://www.arcanacomics.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=43&sid=ea18fe750614494a373373da97dedb88
7. http://www.arcanacomics.com/
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