Mark Millar is in comics for the long haul:
I see creator-owned being my main home for this decade. Marvel was my noughties home, but Millarworld is my teenies home. But I never sit still and enjoy new challenges. I’ve been asked to join the board of a company you all know and you’ll hear about this probably around July. This will surprise you as much as it did me, but something I’m very excited about. I’m also branching out into other mediums a little, but comics always ALWAYS my main love. This is what I’ve wanted to do since I was five. I get offered stuff every day and turn down almost everything. Comics was and is my dream job. I’m not going anywhere.
That said, he still spent time during his “Millar Hour” Q&A at Millarworld talking about the movies of his projects (Expect Kick-Ass 2 director announcement news soon, apparently) and explaining that television just isn’t filmic enough for him… No groundbreaking revelations – That’s what other websites are for – but there was this eye-opening boast:
A good idea can go a long way though and it’s much easier than in the past where creator-owned books were competing for space in Wizard and so on. But the internet is massive and free. Our Supercrooks viral campaign went wider than DC’s New 52 campaign and cost us only the beer we paid we Spaniards.
I’m not joking here: What was the Supercrooks viral campaign? Was that the short video that did the rounds for a week or so last month? Is this classic Millar hyperbole, or was I just asleep as it went wider than a multimedia push that lasted three months and got everywhere?
April 27th, 2012 at 10:22 am
Apparently beer goggles can even make a fictitious marketing campaign seem better looking.
April 27th, 2012 at 10:26 am
If I were to sculpt a model of a full grown human being out of pure shit, that human being would still not be as full of shit as Mark Millar.
April 27th, 2012 at 10:36 am
Who is Mark Millar?
April 27th, 2012 at 12:51 pm
“I’ve been asked to join the board of a company you all know and you’ll hear about this probably around July.”–Does that mean he is the next Image partner?
April 27th, 2012 at 2:18 pm
If his home is in creator-owned material, why is Ultra Boy adorning the above image?
April 27th, 2012 at 3:18 pm
If Mark Millar gave somebody a cold he’d call it a triumph of viral marketing.
April 27th, 2012 at 5:18 pm
i’m actually wierded out that he would actually suggest that some viral thing he did had the reach of the new 52. i have a feeling comics sold would prove otherwise.
April 28th, 2012 at 8:19 am
This guy is such a whore
April 28th, 2012 at 1:28 pm
Good for him. I don’t like a lot of his work, but at least he’s trying. Far as I’m concerned the only corporate-owned character I care to see continue as a comic is Batman. The rest of the super-heroes get by fine on TV and movies. Why do I need twelve Avengers comics a month when a 26-episode a year cartoon and a movie every summer work so much better? Same for the JLA. Young Justice runs rings around any of the JLA or Titans comics of the last decade. The last X-men movie is better than the past two decades of X-comics. Let them go. Hell, I could give up Batman comics if the new cartoon is as good as B:TAS. I’d rather see all of the rest of the comics market be focused on creator-owned and original ideas.
April 30th, 2012 at 6:31 am
We can say that Millar’s concepts aren’t original just take an existing comic and get all evil and rape-y with it. We can say that he speaks in nothing but hyperbolic terms. I’m more interested waiting for him to start taking credit for the Avengers movies this week. But people buy his stuff. I can’t explain it.