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- Title
'What am I looking at, Mulder?'.
- Authors
Pillai, Nicolas
- Abstract
Licensed comics are conventionally discussed as merchandise, with little regard for their status as transmedia narratives. This article compares comic tie-ins to The X-Files (US 1993-2002), charting different strategies adopted by Topps Comics (license holders 1995-8) and DC Comics (2008-) in continuing the adventures of Mulder and Scully. Using primary interviews with Frank Spotnitz and Stefan Petrucha, this article repositions licensed comics away from the discussion of mimetics toward a study of the creative freedoms open to those producing these works. Licensed comics are defined by the tension between memory of a television series and the unique textuality of the comic book form. I conclude that the materiality of a comic book lends itself especially to the perpetuation of a franchise once it has disappeared from our screens.
- Subjects
X-Files, The (TV program); COMIC books, strips, etc.; STORYTELLING; TIE-ins (Marketing); INTERTEXTUALITY; TELEVISION programs
- Publication
Science Fiction Film & Television, 2013, Vol 6, Issue 1, p101
- ISSN
1754-3770
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3828/sfftv.2013.9