Stephen King Ventures Into Comic Books
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Allie @ Gone Hollywood | Monday, March 12, 2007 |
There are few things Stephen King hasn’t tried when it comes to his work. He’s already the master of horror fiction, a tour guide through disturbing and fantastical worlds, a writing coach, a nonfiction author, a screen writer and even a director.
Now… he claims comic books.
He can now claim a new genre with the recent Marvel Entertainment comics publication “The Dark Tower,” based on his books of the same name.
“I’m a big fan of the medium,” King said of comic books. “A different way to tell stories is always exciting. It’s like being a kid with a chemistry set.”
It’s not that he’s a comic book buff. In fact, he hasn’t really kept tabs on the medium since his “Sandman” days as a child. But when the idea came up to make his seven-book “Dark Tower” series into a comic serial, he jumped at the chance.
The time is right for the collaboration, as both the genre and the author are being showered with critical and academic success like never before. These days, comic books aren’t just for gangly teenage boys or geeky adults, and King isn’t just a grocery store paperback writer.
“It asks something more of the reader than an old ‘Donald Duck’ or an ‘Archie’ or ‘Veronica,”‘ King says of the new comic. “You have to learn how to read it, and find out you’re going to be challenged.”
The “Dark Tower” is part Western, part fantasy and part adventure, centering on the story of Roland Deschain, a man who lives in a futuristic kind of world, and his quest to find the “Man in Black” and later on, the dark tower.
King calls it his life’s work - it took him nearly 20 years to complete the series, the final book was published in 2004. But unlike myriad other King stories, it’s never been made into a film or TV show.
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To me, the fact that Steven King is venturing into comic books show the validity of the medium of comic books. Many people say that comic books will one day become obsolete, but I see that King’s example show that this for of literature remains viable in the 21st century.