| Antarctic Press started small, tried to get big and then cut back a
couple of years ago. Now, concentrating on their best sellers, the Texas
comics company is looking at another, more careful, expansion - and other
changes. At the Antarctic Saturday panel were (left to right) artist Fred
Perry, Ben Dunn, artist Ted Nomura and Joe Dunn. |
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| Perry's Gold Digger adventure comic will be in color and "super on
time," he promised. Eight-story series are the likely pattern for Gold
Digger in the next couple of years, he said. Then there's the Legacy series,
still scheduled to have its debut in the next few months and continue as
a quarterly. Antarctic still has a goal of turning Gold Digger into an
animated series and hopes to make a pilot film in the coming year. |
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| Nomura's Luftwaffe 1946 alternate-reality story gets a change of name
and emphasis. The new title will be World War II 1946, and will look at
fictional theaters of war in Russia and the Far East, moving beyond the
Germans-versus-Americans theme of the original Families of Altered Wars
series. |
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| Other items announced by Ben Dunn: Mangazine is returning, this time
in color; he'll take over drawing the Warrior Nun series; Ninja High School
will continue (Dunn had thought about ending that series after 100 issues)
and NHS will be in color; there will be a Gigantor comic from Antarctic
starting in December; and the company no longer will produce Robotech comics
since Harmony Gold did not renew the license they granted Antarctic (or
to any other company, he said). Dunn said that last move has led to speculation
that Harmony Gold will create a new Robotech 3000 series. |
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