Mega bestselling author James Patterson will be writing comics for IDW, USA Today reports.
Patterson, creator of the Alex Cross and Women’s Murder Club series of novels, is entering a partnership to create comic books and graphic novels with IDW Publishing. The first titles will appear in May. The stories will include brand-new material, adaptations of his past novels and offshoots of existing work.
“Comics could reach a much larger audience than they do right now,” says Patterson, who often works with co-authors and whose thrillers are frequently at or near the top of USA TODAY’s Best-Selling Books list. “With all of the quality work and talent that’s out there, this industry could be so much bigger.”
Patterson’s Maximum Ride has already been a best seller for Yen Press so this looks like a natural. for IDW.
Dara Naraghi will develop his Witch and Wizard series into a five-part miniseries and Alexander Irvine will adapt Patterson’s The Murder of King Tut later in the year.
Ha! Article from today’s New York Times: “Malaria Most Likely Killed King Tut, Scientists Say”
What does this meean for Yen Press? I thought they were doing all his comics adaptations? Little Brown can’t be happy thay someone else is publishing him.
Something to keep in mind re James Patterson is that he’s essentially a corporate author. He has a company, James Patterson Entertainment, and he’s relied heavily on co-authors in past years. Novelist Thomas Phillips on Patterson:
It’s great that a bestselling author such as Patterson is putting his name on comics, but ir remains to be seen how much writing he actually does.
SRS
So James Patterson is like Stan Lee?
Interesting. O.o
Ooooohhhh, Patterson writes a story where a homicidal mosquito goes after Tut….
your a great author James Patterson