Je ne le vois pas comme cela.
Toutes les promesses de ne plus utiliser un personnage (Elektra, Mantis, Thanos..) n ont jamais été tenues sur la longueur aprés changement de direction.
Là DC a conservé par malhonnetété intellectuelle ou par chance les droits de Watchmen.
Dans un contexte commercial où les comics sont une niche de niche.. utiliser des "propriétés" plus reconnues que par le simple fans mais qui en plus fera vendre dans la communauté est une aubaine.
DC a fait des suites de Sandman avec Gaiman qui a accepté de s en occuper (le prequel) et les nouvelles séries.. un peu comme Thanos avait été ressucité par Starlin.. ou Mantis par Englehart.
Cependant, si l auteur ne veut pas.. l editeur a donc une propriété juteuse qui ne "sert à rien".
On voit que par exemple les detenteurs des droits de Tintin sont divisiés sur la question de continuer les aventures.. car sans nouvelles aventures.. les ventes baissent de generation en generation..
Bref, DC a aussi les droits de V pour Vendetta.. et il me semble evident qu il y aura une suite/prequel un jour ou l autre ...
L affaire Miracleman démontre bien que chaque editeur fera de son mieux pour avoir une properties Moorienne et pouvoir la developper...
Cela renvoie vers le dernier message twitter de Leah moore.. qui interroge aussi sur ce qui se serait passé si Marvel et DC n avaient pas joué aux cons avec lui et avait su le conserver... qu aurait il améné à ses univers?
Je dis pas cela pour dire "les mechants" mais sur le coup ils ont sans doute plus perdus que gagné car il aurait surement amené d autres idées mais aussi par ricoche de la reconnaissance et donc des ventes.. et peut etre qu au lieu de 3-4 tp reimprimés a plus soif.. il y a aurait 50..
Bon apres il a aussi été naif et parfois amer (mais bon je comprends contre les editeurs.. j ai plus de mal quand il s en prend aux autres auteurs.. sur leur "faignatise creatice")
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This whole “Alan Moore implores you to please vote and save our broken country from actual f-cking oblivion” might’ve landed better if his birthday had not been spent noting that he clearly has not read any of the many wonderful modern comics that he might actually rather enjoy. He has also clearly never watched any of the rather enjoyable comics-based movies, or experienced any of the joy, support or inspiration they bring to millions of people. He hasn’t sat next to a ten-year-old girl watching Captain Marvel or Wonder Woman for the first time.
The idea that the man who loved superhero stories so much he gave up his job and plunged recklessly into writing comics, which at that time was *insane* of him to do, loved them so much he filled every panel (and arguably every balloon and caption) with that love, loved them so much he tried to make them into something that provoked thought and feelings, that addressed issues, that spoke to people the way superheroes had always spoken to him. That seems crazy to me. I have his collection of Marvel comics, dogeared from reading, from love.
I heard so many times about his excitement at finding a stash of second hand Marvel comics in a junkshop, in a box, or buying them off the spinners in Great Yarmouth on holiday. He could not love superhero comics more if he tried. Jack Kirby was his idol, Ditko was his idol. It was that love that made him who he was! In the 80s he brought ecology and politics into his superhero comics, in the 90s he wrote 1963 which was a glowing fizzing love letter directly to his beloved superhero comics, he wrote that at the same time as From Hell, Lost Girls…
He did not see any opposition between his ABC line of superhero comics, and his beloved mind-boggling huge concept GNs. If I rang, he would spend 45 minutes explaining a cool bit of Tom Strong, a load of daft bits in Splash Brannigan, a clever thing he had done and was proud of. His problem was that the medium he adored was ruled by corrupt despots, that the people who made that magic were abused, that their contribution was not valued, that it was stolen from them. He already hated that before Watchmen. He already knew Kirby had been shafted. So when it happened to him, and then again, and then again, it wasn’t just a business deal gone awry, or a bit of bad luck, it broke him. The thing he loved most, the thing he poured *all* his time and energy into for his whole entire life, he couldn’t do it anymore.
He fulfilled his obligations to his fellow creators, he did the projects he could control and own, but he didn’t want to browse comic shelves anymore. That’s so f-cking sad it actually breaks my heart. So for people who thrive now, in this amazing industry we can all find our niches in, where there are so many comics we couldn’t possibly buy them all, to say that Alan Moore is out of order for hating superheroes, or what they became, for him, is unbelievable. To see him dismissed as Crazy Old Alan Moore again and again, and people not know what made him that way? To see people dissing him when their job, their industry their medium was partly built on 40 years of his hard work? I am not heartbroken, just really f-cking disappointed.
Can you imagine if he hadn’t been f-cked over? If instead of being Grumpy Alan Moore Shouting From His Cave he had spent the past 40 years putting out book after book for DC and the rest? Creating vast worlds full of the superheroes he loves? Enjoying comics? It’s a damn shame. |
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D un autre coté comment peut on aussi être aussi naif sur les intentions d une entreprise quelle qu'elle soit?
Marvel et DC, Warner et Disney.. mais même Top Shelf ne sont pas nos amis ni ceux des creatifs.. ils veulent se faire un paquet de fric.. s il faut de temps en temps capter des propriétés, moins payer les auteurs et refourgués des procduits merdiques aux clients (s ils l achetent): so be it..
Et je dis pas cela pour duire du mal de marvel et DC.. Image, On et Top shelf c est plus ou moins pareil... et pareil pour LVMH, Sony..
Apres j ai du mal à étre un gardien du temple... quand on est un fan de Captain america et pas de la version Simon et Kirby... bon voilà quoi..
Pourquoi etre radical pour Watchmen et pas Spiderman?