#NYCC14: IDW Publishing Bringing Douglas Adams’ Dirk Gently to Comics
IDW Publishing has announced a partnership with Ideate Media to bring Dirk Gently to his first-ever comic book series in 2015, helping to prove the interconnectedness of all things, the precept by which Gently, Douglas Adams’ beloved fictional “holistic detective,” lives.
Following the recent announcement that Gently will be developed for television by IDW Entertainment and Ideate Media with Circle of Confusion as executive producers and Max Landis as showrunner, IDW will also launch an ongoing series of all-new Dirk Gently adventures as comic books.
For those unfamiliar with the source material, author Adams himself described Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency, first published in 1987, as a “thumping good detective-ghost-horror-whodunnit-time travel-romantic-musical-comedy-epic.” A little something for everyone, right?
The comics, set to launch in the spring of 2015, will be written by Chris Ryall, IDW’s Chief Creative Officer/Editor-in-Chief and creator/writer of series such as Zombies vs. Robots, Groom Lake, and The Hollows. The artist will be Tony Akins (Fables), and Chew co-creator Rob Guillory has contributed the first cover image.
“I know that an American writing Dirk comics is going to get a certain segment of British Adams fans a bit brassed off,” said Ryall, “but, much like in the case of the oft-referenced Schrödinger’s cat in the Dirk novels, we can all agree that until the world opens these comics, they are both good and not good, right? And certainly Adams’ writing transcends all borders and has rightfully earned him a worldwide following. I can’t wait to bring Dirk into the world of comics.”
“Douglas was best known for Hitchhiker, but his real creative passion was always Dirk. Of the two series, this was his secret favorite. I know he would have smiled upon its reincarnation as a comic book,” said Ed Victor, Douglas Adams’ longtime agent and friend.
Adams’ Gently, who appeared in Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency; Dirk Gently’s Long, Dark Tea-time of the Soul; and the unfinished Dirk Gently fragment that Douglas was writing at the time of his death, The Salmon of Doubt, is a charismatic, mysterious, troubled, brilliant figure—cursed with a relentless intellect, psychic powers he doesn’t fully understand or want, a gift for self-mythologizing, and a supernatural ability to detect disturbances in the fabric of reality. He has found a strange calling as a private detective for impossible crimes, the likes of which will take many forms in the comics.
Full story details and release information will follow soon so stay tuned.
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