The second panel of the day (for me, at least), was the Image panel, although it was focused, not on Image's mainstream output, but purely on their creator-owned projects.
Creator-Owned Comics the Image Way
Richard Starkings (Elephantmen) leads a discussion on Image and creator-owned projects. Panelists include Charlie Adlard (The Walking Dead), Ian Churchill (Marineman), David Hine (Strange Embrace, The Bulletproof Coffin), Kieron Gillen (Phonogram), and Paul Grist (Jack Staff).
Richard Starkings led the discussion, which announced Ian Churchill's upcoming Marineman creator owned project and touched on David Hine and Shaky Kane's upcoming Bulletproof Coffin series. The panel was genial and interesting, with plenty of good-natured digs at Charlie Adlard, who, with his work on The Walking Dead, regularly managed sales that exceeded most of the rest of the panel.
It was an interesting debate about the benefits and drawbacks of publishing creator-owned projects over doing work-for-hire, touching on a large number of subjects beyond this, including delays to books, comic store layouts, promotion and more. I think I definitely made the right decision to attend this wide-ranging panel, over the DC panel which apparently mostly focused simply on upcoming projects.
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