Dabels to adapt Jordan
The Dabel Brothers kust keep at it, despite bouncing from publisher to publisher like a ping pong ball, leaving a trail of late books behind them. This time its Robert Jorden’s very loooong but beloved WHEEL OF TIME series which they will be adapting. the Dabels will release the periodical versions and DEl REy will collect the trade.
Dabel Brothers Publishing announced today that they will adapt Robert Jordan’s bestselling Wheel of Time series, which has sold more than 14 million copies in North America alone, into comic book format. The first issue is scheduled to release in December 2008.
The Wheel of Time began in 1990 with the publication of The Eye of the World; ten more volumes have followed. The most recent four books of the series have reached #1 on the New York Times hardcover bestseller list. It is the story of a world – both our past, and our future – in which the battle between the Light and the Shadow must be fought every day; and of the people, both ordinary and extraordinary, who must fight that battle. Jordan wrote eleven volumes of the series and one prequel; he was unable to complete the twelfth and final volume before his death in 2007. That volume, A Memory of Light, will be completed by Brandon Sanderson, a writer chosen by Jordan’s widow and editor, Harriet McDougal, and published by Tor Books in 2009.
The Dabel Brothers published a comic adaptation of Jordan’s A New Spring in March 2005. In conjunction with that project, Robert Jordan provided them with extensive notes for use in further possible publications, including character descriptions and other visuals.
“I’m delighted to be working with the Dabel Brothers! Their work is splendid. Robert Jordan liked it enormously,” says Harriet McDougal.
Graphic-novel collected editions of the individual comics will be distributed by Del Rey, an imprint of Ballantine Books at the Random House Publishing Group. The deal was negotiated by Jordan’s agent, Nat Sobel.
07/1/08 at 12:39 pm
Wow. I’m actually excited about this. The 5 issues they produced of New Spring (out of a planned
were incredible, and I was really disappointed to see it stop due to conflicts with their publisher (Red Eagle Entertainment, which gave me the impression of a fly-by-night company and earned the ire of Robert Jordan himself a few months before his death).
I hope they’ll finish New Spring before they launch into the rest of the series. I know they’d at least produced artwork for the next issue.
07/1/08 at 12:58 pm
[…] Dabel Brothers Publishing is going to adapt The Wheel of Time to comics, with the first issue coming out in December. Del Rey will release the collected editions. (via The Beat.) This is the same studio that did the New Spring adaptation a few years ago, an 8-issue miniseries that broke down 5 issues in due to conflicts with the series’ publisher, Red Eagle Entertainment. […]
07/2/08 at 12:17 pm
As much as i like the Wheel of Time series it is really not suited for being made into comics, New Spring was quite short compared to the other novels, i could easily see it requiring 20-30 comics per book