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.

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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Take a seat, make youself at home, and enjoy these trailers. They are all films adapted from comics. If you like them try to watch them. Ask for them at your school library.

HELL BOY
SIN CITY
300
THE DARK KNIGHT
X-MEN
ARRUGAS
CHICO Y RITA
DE PROFUNDIS
MI VECINO TOTORO