Comix Flix
Thursday, July 31st, 2003Just saw Daredevil on DVD. Man, that was one baaad costume. Marvel’s on a roll. What’s next? Well, there’s The Punisher and The Fantastic Four. Other upcoming comic flicks are DC’s Watchmen and Dark Horse’s Hellboy.
Superhero comics have been adapted to film for decades. But what about other types of comics, specifically underground comix? The first of its kind, as far as I’m concerned, is Dan Clowes’s Ghost World which came out in 2000. Its director, Terry Zwigoff, released a 1994 documentary, Crumb, about underground comic artist Robert Crumb’s strange life and dysfunctional family (once, I saw his brother Maxon panhandling on Market St. in San Francisco). This time, one of Crumb’s comic books, American Splendor, gets adapted to the screen and will be shown in theaters on August 15.
Now what I want to know is will Gerry Alanguilan’s Wasted the Movie ever be finished?
Update: upon further reading, I discover that Crumb did not exclusively illustrate American Splendor. The book written by Harvey Pekar has been illustrated by other artists such as Frank Stack, Joe Sacco and Colin Warneford. Also, The Wily Filipino blogged about this movie way back in January.