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Comics writer Olivia Cuartero-Briggs talks about adapting a well-established property from another medium (animation) and what it’s like to create in someone else’s playground.
Olivia also talks about balancing writing in several different arenas with real life, and the challenges of meeting deadlines.
Continuing on from the Netflix live action series “Winx Fate” — which spun off from the popular animated series — Volume 2 of the “FATE: The Winx Saga” graphic novel series, picks up right after Volume 1, with the fairies of the magical school Alfea picking up the pieces after devastating losses, and still needing to fight against the encroaching darkness threatening to swallow their world.
FATE: The Winx Saga Volume 2: The Shadow War will be available July 22 from Maverick / Mad Cave Studios.
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What a huge mistake whoever wrote this. Could you at least do some research? The graphic novels aren’t a continuation of the animated series; they’re a continuation of the Netflix live-action series. It is not a continuation either, due to the changes made due to the publisher’s lack of intelligence.
The promotional material I’d received wasn’t clear enough on that for me, alas.
I’d always thought Winx Fate was a live action continuation from the animated Winx Saga, thus me thinking the graphic novels were only following those same characters into another series of adventures. Never realized there was no continuity between the two TV series.
I did enjoy the Volume 2 graphic novel, however, and it seems Volume 3 will be going into even darker consequences for what’s left of the school.
Great interview! And it’s good that it clarifies some things. But this interview…. was it requested by the publisher or by you to the author?
I requested it. I always get a little curious when TV shows or films get abandoned or canceled then continue later on in comics or graphic novels, so how writers and illustrators handle the necessary changes to move the adaptions to new media formats intrigues me.
I hold out hope because there are several properties that were either cancelled too soon (for me), or have been in development hell for a decade or more… maybe someone will get those adapted into graphic novels as well someday.