At a time when the film industry is snagging the rights up to every great graphic novel and comic series I believe it's time to look at the small screen and see how televesion may have possibly just jumped on the biggest bandwagon of this age with two of the most respected comics being produced as hour long drama's on two networks.
Fables is being produced by NBC and The Walking Dead is being produced for AMC. If you haven't heard or read either of these I highly suggest you do. Fables will probably be butchered on ABC but with Mad Men's success AMC looks to understand how to adapt such an ambitious project. Robert Kirkman the actual The Walking Dead writer is writing the show along with Frank Darabont (Shawshank, Green Mile) as writer directer and executive produce. These two shows will help pave the way for more indy themed comic's being brought to the big and little screens.
Both of these series may never even see a pilot but it's intresting to watch the small screen copying film's strategy of adapting lesser known written works to a non print format.
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