The Image Revolution

This trailer for The Image Revolution is right up my alley. I just read Marvel Comics: The Untold Story and one of the most interesting sections of the book is about how Marvel dominated the comic industry in the early nineties only to see it all crumble around them as a group of their most popular creators left.

I started reading comics around 1986 but I didn't really start collecting them until the early 90s, so I vividly remember how blown my mind was when Larsen, Lee, Liefeld and McFarlane (and others) decided to ditch Marvel and start their own comic book company. I'm pretty sure I carried an article about it clipped from the front page of USA Today around in the front of my trapper keeper all of my sophomore year. Needless to say, I'm super interested in seeing this documentary about the founding of Image comics.

It's easy to deride those early Image books. Everything was late, the quality on a lot of the titles was sub-par and they weren't the most sophisticated books you've ever read. Still, the fact that Image has survived for 20 years and become the place to be for creator owned comics is a tremendous legacy.