Martinbrough, Illidge and Williamson Bring "The Ren" to Life

[CBR News]

Shawn Martinbrough, Joseph Illidge and Gray Williamson expound on their upcoming graphic novel "The Ren," which explores a love story during the Harlem Renaissance, coming soon from First Second.


Full article here.

[Blade X]

Joe Illidge is a really good/nice guy (based on the conversations I had with online at the old comixtreme forums) and I hope that this GN is a huge success. The story sounds very interesting and the art looks really good. Heck, this GN would make a great movie.

[rasmane]

I’ve followed Grey’s art for some time (before I knew he had a last name). Frankly, this is something special. I don’t know that a movie (a compromised product crafted by committee) could capture even half of how special I believe this graphic novel’s going to be because he’s drawing it.

I’m looking forward to reading Joe Illidge’s story. His DC editorships and web content/film producing didn’t prepare me to see this from him. (I’m not even going to say anything about Shawn Martinbrough because we need him to keep lifting a normal-sized head off his pillow in the morning.)

Hopefully, in the ever-present din of mainstream re-launches and other superhero (non-)events, The Ren will find its audience.

I’m in, anyway, “cats.”