Eisner Award-winning writer Ram V is about to launch Mirror Maker Studios, a new creative studio focused on creating groundbreaking narrative art. The new endeavor will be accompanied by the Mirror Maker YouTube channel, which will offer fans a behind-the-scenes look at his work.
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Mirror Maker is a creative studio / ideas incubator for projects helmed by Ram V, focused on bringing to life stories and narrative entertainment with artistic ambition and inventiveness, always seeking to push boundaries across genre, publishing and media. The Mirror Maker Youtube channel will provide a window into the creative process, following Ram V and his collaborators across projects, giving viewers a glimpse into the creativity, craft and talent involved in making art. Episodes will feature creator talks and process videos on a variety of subjects with creators across comics, writing, animation and games. In 2027, the channel will begin publishing episodic narrative fiction.
“I believe that the ability to create things and make art is one of humanity’s most beautiful aspects; worth valuing and encouraging,” said Ram V. “At a time when companies seem to want to push both creators and consumers to accept mass produced content devoid of human perspective and endeavour, I think more creators should convey the magic that exists in the process of making things, not merely in the product. The YouTube launch is an exciting way to document these and give readers, viewers and fans a place to engage with the process and people behind the things they love and enjoy– especially at a time when the primacy of the creative human mind and experience as the force behind making art is being challenged.”
The launch of Mirror Maker Studios and The Mirror Maker YouTube Channel coincides with the release of the first volume of Deicidium (art by Evan Cagle), which will be published internationally by the French publisher Morgen and in the United States by Image Comics. The book is on sale from comic shops in America on November 11 and in bookstores on December 8.
The Mirror Maker YouTube channel will launch with an episode that focuses on the Deicidium creative team and their creative process. Upcoming episodes will feature guests such as Esoteric (of Czarface), Kickstarter CEO Everette Taylor, artist Becky Cloonan, artist Anand RK, and more.
“The Mirror Maker channel is meant to be a place where people engage with the process behind how creative things are made. To sync that with an early creative session in the making of my next book Deicidium seemed like a logical step,” explained Ram V. “So we brought together a bunch of creative people at the top of their game from all over the world; we locked ourselves into a small apartment and filmed the creative energy, early decisions and ideas behind making the book. It’s like watching a band come together to make a song that is somehow more than the sum of its individual parts.”
“It’s not hard to find ‘idea people.’ What is hard is finding creators curious enough about their own ideas to trust that they haven’t explored anything like enough of what those ideas could be, and who generously allow a partner in that journey of exploration. I have been exceptionally fortunate to find that in Ram,” added Cagle.
The launch of the Mirror Maker is also timed to the world premiere of the opera The Many Deaths Of Laila Starr on Saturday, October 31 at 7:30 pm. The two-and-a-half-hour opera was commissioned and developed through Minnesota Opera’s New Works Initiative and adapted from the acclaimed graphic novel by Ram V and Filipe Andrade.
“For every person there must be a relationship with art and artists beyond mere consumerism and fandom,” said Ram V. “I believe if people see the electricity and wonder in the creative process, we’ll learn to value it that much more.”
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