Writer Pat Mills did not receive royalties for his Doctor Who comic strip, even after a reissue by the publisher Panini. Mills speaks highly of the BBC, Bad Wolf, and the production crew, but criticizes the comic book publisher for not paying royalties. This situation reflects a larger issue within the comic book industry, where writers often face disrespect and lack of payment for their work.
Warning: Spoilers for Doctor Who's "The Star Beast" (the comic and the episode)!The latest episode of Doctor Who is inspired by a comic strip, one that one of the original writers recalls never received royalties from the comic book publisher. "The Star Beast" marks the first official story episode for David Tennant's Fourteenth Doctor, as well as the televised canonization of Beep the Meep, who originally made its first appearance in "Doctor Who and the Star Beast," a 1980 comic strip.
One of...
Warning: Spoilers for Doctor Who's "The Star Beast" (the comic and the episode)!The latest episode of Doctor Who is inspired by a comic strip, one that one of the original writers recalls never received royalties from the comic book publisher. "The Star Beast" marks the first official story episode for David Tennant's Fourteenth Doctor, as well as the televised canonization of Beep the Meep, who originally made its first appearance in "Doctor Who and the Star Beast," a 1980 comic strip.
One of...
- 11/27/2023
- by Joe Anthony Myrick
- ScreenRant
Ron Hogan Jul 3, 2019
A guide to the long journey Watchmen has taken from DC Comics to HBO TV.
No doubt inspired by the Latin phrase "Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?," generally translated into English as "Who watches the Watchmen?," Alan Moore's 1986-87 comic book series landed in the DC world like an atomic bomb, shattering preconceived notions of what comic books could be and what they had always been. Mature themes in comics had been explored as early as Will Eisner's The Spirit, but Moore was on the cusp of what comics could look like if targeted to a more thoughtful, mature audience. But how did an '80s cult comic book series spawn a growing media empire, with multiple comic series, graphic novels, video games, a movie, and a television series? Perhaps just as crucially, how did a single comic book maxi-series stay trapped in development hell from its...
A guide to the long journey Watchmen has taken from DC Comics to HBO TV.
No doubt inspired by the Latin phrase "Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?," generally translated into English as "Who watches the Watchmen?," Alan Moore's 1986-87 comic book series landed in the DC world like an atomic bomb, shattering preconceived notions of what comic books could be and what they had always been. Mature themes in comics had been explored as early as Will Eisner's The Spirit, but Moore was on the cusp of what comics could look like if targeted to a more thoughtful, mature audience. But how did an '80s cult comic book series spawn a growing media empire, with multiple comic series, graphic novels, video games, a movie, and a television series? Perhaps just as crucially, how did a single comic book maxi-series stay trapped in development hell from its...
- 7/3/2019
- Den of Geek
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