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COMIC is the brother of
CINEMA. For many reasons. Fellini used to say that it was the cinema of
the poor, because you can make it all, but with fewer resources. There
are many codes they share: shots, angles, sequences, silences, ellipses,
characters, script, ...To make a comic story it is essential to think
like a filmaker, so as to control all the elements at a time.
Both arts
have a similar history, and there have been many encouters between them.
many comic works inspired film versions, and vice versa.
SIN CITY, for example, or
300, being films, keep the colours, the atmospheres of the original comic
versions.
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COMIC and
CINEMA have a parallel history from their origins. in the 60s, television
helped to their union. And thus Superman appeared on TV series in the
USA (even before, in 1952).
In the 90s there came the
real boom of animation on TV. Marvel Comics released a series devoted
to X-Men, and then there came series like Spiderman, the Fantastic 4,
and iron Man. In 2000 we had the first series of X-Men films, and then
Spiderman, Daredevil, Hulk, Elektra, the Iron Man.
The other
adaptations from other editors, like the Mask, Hellboy, Sin City, 300,
Ninja Turtles, Men in Black, ...
One of the most universal
works, Asteris and Obelix, was transformed into films several times. And
the same happened with Tintin, Corto Maltesse, and other European books.
From the
Japanses universe, we must mention Hayao Miyazaki's anime, and his Ghibli
Studio, with films like Chihiro, My neighbour Totoro, the Princess Mononoke,
among many ohers.
in Spain some works considered
to be especially delicate, for their deep scripts, had a result in the
movies: Arrugas, by Paco Roca, with a wonderful view of Alzheimer, or
Chico y Rita, in which Mariscal works hand to hand with filmaker Fernando
Trueba. We must also highlight the work by Ibáñez, mortadelos
y Filemón. In Galicia, Miguelanxo Prado created De Profundis, a
delicatessen on the way between illustration, painting and cinema.
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