Comics to Film (and Halfway Back Again) Redux

This week, I will be contributing a curated video entitled "The Outrageous Origins of the Motion Comic!" to In Media Res.  It is an incredibly short piece (350 words), based around the largely untold history of the motion comic, which is often (and ahistorically) considered to be a "new media" form.  The piece includes some gems of research I uncovered while writing a dissertation chapter on the form, including some key thoughts from one of the Comics Studies founding fathers, Scott McCloud.


In celebration of the weekly theme and my forthcoming contribution to it, I am reprinting an early video essay entitled "Comics to Film (and Halfway Back Again)" that served as the springboard to my dissertation topic:  the formal interchange between comics and film.  While I have since moved away from looking solely at film adaptations - the sole focus of this video essay - this video provides a sketch of what sparked my research.  While some of the theoretical arguments involving these forms has become antiquated by the growth that Comics Studies has experienced over the past couple years, I'm still incredibly proud of it.


Originally published in 2007 by Flow.  Unfortunately, I cannot embed the video here due to copyright claims.


Part One
Part Two