New Faculty Book Explores How Hollywood Brings Comics to Screens Around the World
Photo by Dan Loh From 'The Walking Dead' to 'Wonder Woman,' Greg Steirer's 'The American Comic Book Industry and Hollywood' gets to the bottom of a worldwide phenomenon by Tony Moore Taking a look at the movie industry, or the marquee at your local theatre, this last decade or so, one trend has become undeniable and inescapable: The big screens have been jammed full of movies adapted from comic books. Films series such as those based on characters like the Avengers, X-Men, Wonder Woman and Spider-Man, as a small sampling, have raked in billions of dollars over that stretch, and moviegoers sho...
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