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Comic-book studio Dabel Brothers Productions has joined forces with Marvel Comics to adapt the best-selling Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter book series and other fantasy, SF and horror titles into comics and graphic novels. The first project under the agreement is an adaptation of Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake series, Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter in Guilty Pleasures, which comes out in October. The series will feature the artwork of Brett Booth (Heroes Reborn: Fantastic Four) and tell a story of fantasy, romance and horror centering on an alternate reality where the U.S. government has declared the undead as legal beings. While attempting to coexist with humans, the vampires, zombies and werewolves still wreak havoc at times, and that's when Blake steps in. In the coming months, Marvel and the Dabel Brothers will adapt George R. R. Martin's Hedge Knight series, Orson Scott Card's Red Prophet and Raymond E. Feist's Magician: Apprentice. Marvel has signed on as the exclusive publisher for Dabel Brothers Productions, obtaining the marketing, print and distribution rights. The Dabel Brothers will continue to operate as an independent entity w**king with science fiction, fantasy and horror authors on story development. |