The Pit and the Pendulum Comic Book release to honour EA Poe's 200th Anniversary

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(Free-Press-Release.com) February 10, 2009 -- The Pit and the Pendulum Comic Book release to honour EA Poe's 200th Anniversary

The success of the stop motion animated film adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's The Pit and the Pendulum has prompted the release of the comic book version of the film. Scheduled for a February 25th, 2009 release thru Bluewater Productions out of Portland, Oregon, the stop motion film to comic will be a first for production partners Bluewater Productions and Hand Made Heroes Film & Television, honoring Gothic horror maestro Edgar Allan Poe's 200th anniversary.

"While we were in the throes of production on the short, I had the idea of pursuing various media outlets for the film and the story itself", explains the film's director, Marc Lougee. " So much of what we've been doing over the last couple of years to promote the film has been involving the internet, social media and 'alternate ' means of promotion for the project, so I wanted to explore the options that were available to us in pushing the story a little further out into the world, outside of the traditional channels of distibution. Doing a comic was something I've always been keen to try, and not being much of an illustrator, I realized we could use the still images from the stop motion film as 'sequential art' in comic form; what we have as a result is a sort of hybrid between the film, a graphic novel and a short story comic. I think it's a very cool-looking way of telling the story, with afresh approach."

Sequential art in comics is a familiar sight for most everyone, but utilizing the images used in the film itself and re-processing them for another type of 'sequential art' made sense to Lougee and Producer Susan Ma.

" With the multitude of delivery systems available to the audience at large, be it print, online, broadcast, et al, there are so many way of supplying a film or story to your to people." states Susan, "A short film, being what it is, faces limitations in the sense it has much less of a chance of being screened outside of niche markets and events, such as film festivals. There are few real options to see shorts outside the festival circuit (location-based and online), unless you feel inclined to send it off thru a distributor. Many times we've found the film would be sold as a package with a host of other films, which I felt would lessen the impact and the exper

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