Go, Read: Simons Furman + Williams Eulogize Marvel UK

Albert Ching at Newsarama caught up with writer Simon Furman and artist Simon Williams about the May death of Marvel's longtime efforts to make comics in the UK for UK readers, an endeavor that stretches back to the late 1970s and for the last dozen or so years has continued under an arrangement with the Italian media company Panini. The Disney partnership essentially brought this to a quick end.
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It's interesting to me in that having a separate creative source for a separate market seems like the more modern thing to do, and bringing all such comics back under the central control of the main publisher seems like the way things would have worked in decades past -- rather than the other way around. It's also a loss of a specific freelance market that likely hits dozens of creators, and that's not a small thing in this market. I can't speak to the creative legacy having read very few of the actual comics, even the lauded ones, but the fact that there are these comics that exist on a different path from Marvel's main course, and that their story is now complete, seems inviting in a way that's hard to describe to someone that's never been a hardcore fan of comics at some point in their lives.

Graeme McMillan comments here.
 
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