Fabrice Giger
Fabrice A Giger (born 7 January 1965 in
In 1988, at the age of 23, Giger took over the Paris-based publishing house
In 1995, he co-founded the CGI animation studio,
In 1998, in Los Angeles, he founded Humanoids, Inc., the American counterpart of Les Humanoïdes Associés.[4]
In the years 1999-2000, he partnered with directors
While having developed and published dozens of new titles every year in various genres since his inception of the company, with most of them having been translated into numerous languages, Giger published a new and limited series of the anthology
At the end of 2004, Giger stepped down from all his duties and took a sabbatical of several years, including one spent in Pondicherry, India, near the Sri Aurobindo Ashram.
In 2008, he resumed his career as the group's CEO and publisher, which subsequently, in 2010, included a successful reboot of the publishing activities in the English language.[9][10][11]
Following the increasing presence of Humanoids titles in Asia (the best-selling Sci-Fi graphic novel ever, The Incal, is still the record holder for having the highest sales of a non-Japanese graphic novel in Japan),[12] including China,[13] and in the European markets, Giger announced at the New York Comic Con in October 2018 a major foray into the American comic book industry with the creation of a new line of content and a shared universe.[14]
In November 2021, Giger launched the film and television branch of Humanoids with the announcement of the adaptation of The Incal into a feature film, that he is producing. [15][16]
Over his career, Giger has continuously developed and published graphic novels and spin-off series within
Several other movies and television series are being developed and produced by Humanoids and its subsidiaries, including original content such as Whiskey On The Rocks for Disney+ and SVT1 which started shooting in October 2023.[21][22]
References
- ^ Imdb
- ^ Libération 01.22.1998 (French)
- ^ Wikipedia's list of Emmy winners
- ^ Publishers Weekly 11.16.2010
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- ^ Humanoids' press release 12.19.2001, Comic Book Resources
- ^ "Comicbookdb.com". Archived from the original on 2013-05-16. Retrieved 2013-03-14.
- ^ Imdb
- ^ Newsarama 08.01.2008
- ^ "Livres Hebdo 10.23.2007 (French)". Archived from the original on 2007-10-31. Retrieved 2013-03-14.
- ^ Publishing Perspectives 11.22.2010
- ^ Shopro (Japanese) Archived 2013-03-08 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "惊爆点-后浪出版公司". Archived from the original on 2018-09-08.
- ^ "Humanoids Unveils Shared Comic Book Universe at New York Comic Con". The Hollywood Reporter. 5 October 2018.
- ^ "Taika Waititi to Direct The Incal Film Adaptation". The Hollywood Reporter. 4 November 2021.
- ^ "L'Incal sera adaptée au cinéma par Taika Waititi (French)". Le Point. 4 November 2021.
- ^ "The Incal: Psychoverse Is a Mind-Bending Prequel to a Graphic Novel Masterpiece". IGN. 15 November 2022.
- The Beat. 20 April 2023.
- Popverse. 8 May 2023.
- Deadline.com. 4 November 2021.
- Deadline.com. 5 September 2022.
- ^ "Sweden's SVT, Disney+ dive into Cold War submarine satire Whiskey On the Rocks". C21Media. 6 July 2023.