Anita Blake Gets Her Own Comic

Posted on September 18, 2006

Anita Blake is about to become a comic book hero. Laurell K. Hamilton's popular heroine will star in her own series. Dabel Brothers Productions is collaborating with Marvel Comics to adapt the Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter book series into comics and graphic novels. Other sf and fantasy series will also be considered for comic book treatment.

The first project under the agreement is an adaptation of Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake series, Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter in Guilty Pleasures, which comes out in October. The series will feature the artwork of Brett Booth (Heroes Reborn: Fantastic Four) and tell a story of fantasy, romance and horror centering on an alternate reality where the U.S. government has declared the undead as legal beings. While attempting to coexist with humans, the vampires, zombies and werewolves still wreak havoc at times, and that's when Blake steps in.

In the coming months, Marvel and the Dabel Brothers will adapt George R.R. Martin's Hedge Knight series, Orson Scott Card's Red Prophet and Raymond E. Feist's Magician: Apprentice.

Marvel has signed on as the exclusive publisher for Dabel Brothers Productions, obtaining the marketing, print and distribution rights. The Dabel Brothers will continue to operate as an independent entity working with science fiction, fantasy and horror authors on story development.

It's an interesting experiment: we'll see if comics fans will embrace the new titles and if the new titles can lure new readers to the world of comics.

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