The Benefits of Ownership
Two comics, two creators, two different outcomes. A couple of things popped up this week which show, by contrast, the benefits of ownership. Jeff Smith is a former animator who is the creator of Bone and RASL . Bone began in the '90s as a self-published comic book distributed to comics shops. Since then, Smith has collected the comics in a series of graphic novels and a one volume edition. Scholastic Books reprinted the series in colour and later this year, there will be a one volume colour edition. Smith had a movie deal with Nickelodeon for Bone , but Nickelodeon dragged things out Smith and Nickelodeon parted company. Later, Smith made a deal for Bone with Warner Bros. The experience with Nickelodeon made Smith more demanding, and Warner Bros. agreed to his terms. Now, Smith's latest comics series RASL has also been sold to Hollywood . The week, the depositions in the copyright termination case brought by the Jack Kirby estate against Marvel were made public . The ...