Khary Randolph Talks About Demographics in Comics - The Comic Archive
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- čas přidán 7. 05. 2015
- It's no secret that the comic book industry has a history of not being the most diverse form of entertainment. But that is changing across the board. Here artist Khary Randolph talks about what benefits we get from producing comic with more diversity in characters and creators.
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Khary is such an inspiration to me, I would love to see him make youtube videos!
I can relate to what you are saying Khary. When I picked up my first comic book it was X-Force or Savage Dragon or Spawn. Crazy stories that looked cool and characters that looked bad ass. As I'm now an artist myself, I see the trend today is realism and more grounded superheroes. The costumes have been diluted. The books that are selling other than the main titles are darker in tone or more serious. Things like Davinity, Saga, Black Science are great...for 30 somethings such as myself. But I look at the stands now and see no original titles that a young child would pick up and be excited to read. Older properties like Transformers and TMNT sure, but where is the new wave of original IPs for the younger folk? The ones waiting to be inspired to become Comic Artist, like you and I were. So I understand what you mean by kids books. Because sometimes I don't want to pick up a book and have to be a rocket science. Sometimes I want to see cool character designs and a simple solid story.
He says he wants to make comics for kids and then says "shit" a few minutes later--I can't let my young kid watch this video (her mother would have my hide!). Not trying to be a pain on this issue--but comic people talk one game and then behave another way....every time I bring my child into the comic shop I regret it for one reason or another.
***** And I don't want to be one note: I've really enjoyed this series of videos; lots of interesting subjects.
***** you don't have to be a saint to make comics for kids.. he can say and do whatever he wants as long as in the end his work is appropriate. the creators of barney probably aren't purple singing dinosaurs and this video wasn't meant for kids anyway
+sleepyreader666 You should watch interviews/podcasts with animators. The people that worked on spongebob and even more so Tom Kenny(the voice for spongebob), basically talks like a sailor!
That's not really an issue. Disney was not a man child if you look into his history but knew he was focusing on stories that for his time appealed for young girls and boys. Bruce Timm draws sexy nude women on the side thought his Batman animated series was ok for kids. I only disagree that him that you need to ONLY focus on kids. Comics is just a tool to tell any story and you can have a balance on mature AND fun comics for kids. When he talks about nintendo, he forgets to mention that Nintendo is suffering for only focusing on kids and lost the hardcore gamer audience that Sony and Microsoft are
I understand what you are saying. However I see this interview as being an informal one among peers. Not necessarily intended for younger viewers. And unfortunately the word "shit" is slowly becoming normal fair in TV and Radio. That's a whole other conversation.