Slate Magazine and The Center For Cartoon Studies Present the 12 Panel Pitch
Radiant
A tragic tale of romance gone radioactive.
Welcome to the second installment of 12 Panel Pitch, where we take an idea for a Hollywood feature film and boil it down to 12 visual beats. This week’s comic, a historical drama based on the Radium Girls, is by novelist Tom DeHaven and cartoonist Melanie Gillman. I’m surprised this story hasn’t already been made into a movie. If Hollywood does ever make it, I doubt they’ll cast Tom’s heroine in the same way Melanie did. That role, according to the rules of the commercial feature film (and, by now, our own internalized expectations), goes to a more svelte actor.
A reminder: The 10th and final installment of 12 Panel Pitch will be a script written by a Slate reader. And this just in: The winner will have his or her movie idea drawn by the genre-hopping master cartoonist Jim Rugg. The submission deadline is Friday, Dec. 13. Details here. The first 12 Panel Pitch can be found here.
comic at link:
http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/12_panel_pitch/2013/10/_12_panel_pitch_a_pitch_for_a_historical_romance_set_among_the_radium_girls.html
Cool School:
The Center for Cartoon Studies (CCS) is a two year institution focusing on sequential art, specifically Comics and Graphic Novels,[1] Located in the village of White River Junction, in the town of Hartford, Vermont, the Center offers a Master of Fine Arts degree, both one and two-year certificate programs, as well as summer programs,[2] and is "the only college-level training program of its kind in the United States." [3]
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_for_Cartoon_Studies
http://www.cartoonstudies.org/
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