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Calling All Comic Book Fans!

Steve Scher
07/17/2008 at 9:00 a.m.

Calling all comic book fans! The newest Batman is another film in a long line of big screen adaptations of comic books. Why are these movies popular? Do they fill a need in the culture today? How true are the movies to the original comics? Should they be? Is the big-screen attention changing the culture of comics? Find out what comic heavyweights think. Call 800–289–KUOW during the show or email weekday@kuow.org. Or just flash us the Bat Signal.

Guest(s)

Douglas Wolk is a comics journalist in Portland who has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post and Salon.com. He's the author of the book, Reading Comics, and also runs the comic blogs Lacunae and 52 Pickup. He used to work in a comics store.

Scott Stafford owns Arcane Comics in Ballard. It opened in 2004.

Mike Mignola is a comic book artist and writer. He is the creator of the comic Hellboy II, which is part of the Dark Horse Comics label and was turned into two feature films.

Mike Richardson is the president and founder of Dark Horse Comics and Dark Horse Entertainment. He also was the executive producer of Hellboy II, which is currently playing in theaters. Other films he produced include The Mask and Mystery Men.

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