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Christmas Eve Runaround – Sherlock Lies To Kenyan Prize

Published Thu, 24 Dec 2009 04:41:31 -0600

SherlockWatch: Now Dan Lin, producer of Sherlock Holmes is adding to the lie that it was based on a graphic novel. Doesn't he read Bleeding Cool?

So, as you probably know, as a development exec I'm the buyer. You know, this Sherlock Holmes I initially bought the graphic novel from Lionel Wigram and set it up with the studio and oversaw it before I decided to transition to become a producer.

ABC News tries to make sense of it.

WinsladeWatch: Steven Grant runs through a number of artists he has worked with, showing sample pages. And we learn, regarding Phil Winslade;

I don't have any art for Phil, but we spent a year or so producing a graphic novel for Bob Schreck at DC that seems to have gone into limbo since Bob left earlier this year. Nonetheless, Phil's stuff on it was great, and it was a really strange number where I called for a variety of visual and color effects, and Phil relentlessly gave what I asked for. Besides being a very intriguing stylist, Phil's one of those artists like John Byrne who can be given something impossible to draw, and he'll figure out how to draw it.

shu KenyaWatch: Shujaaz is a new comic book created by Kenyan teenagers under the guidance of Hunt Emerson, creator of Firkin The Cat and current creator of The Beano's Little Plum. he was invited to run a three day workshop in Nairobi earlier this year, with young Kenyan cartoonists.

Emerging characters include Boyie, a "a geeky-cool school-leaver with a shock of dreadlocks, glasses and a pirate radio station in a shed", Maria Kim, a teenager who "plays mum to her little brother in a slum shack and has to avoid predatory men on her way to school" and Charlie Pele, the "football- mad 14-year-old living with his father in a camp for people displaced by the violence that tore through Kenya after the 2007 elections."

The first issue of Shujaaz will be included inside Kenya's Daily Nation newspaper, and from mobile phone credit sellers – the comic will also be available in mobile phone version. A print run of half a million will be paid for by a British High Commission grant.

Games2ComicsWatch: IDW Publishing's will adapt Dragon Age as a comic as part of an EA Comics lin, and will tie in with the Dragon Age: Origins game. It will be written by Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston, drawn by Mark Robinson with covers from Humberto Ramos.

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