What American comics outside of Marvel, DC and TMNT keep getting Movies/Shows?

[neatoman]

I'm honestly a bit curious. Marvel/DC characters keep getting movies and TV shows and have consistantly since the 40's. Which makes sense because they're the top sellers and it's in the company's interest too keep the characters as high as possible for as long as possible. Though as far as I can tell, this isn't really as common outside of Marvel and DC. The obvious exception to us is TMNT, six theatrical movies and five TV shows. But what others are there?

Some basic rules so people don't just pick any comic that happens to have a movie adaptation:

At least three movies or TV shows
At least one of each
Definitely not owned by Marvel or DC
Preferably not published by them even if the creators keep the copyright, it is still in their interest to promote comics they make some profit from
Corporate ownership is allowed as long as it isn't Marvel/DC or their parent companies Disney/Warner
It has to have started out as comic, a comic intended to market a toyline or a franchise that just happens to have more comics than anything else is not allowed. A toyline drives too many of the creative decisions and almost any successful franchise has more comics than anything else because they're dirtcheap to produce.
It has to be American, maybe Canadian can fly because nobody cares about the difference but in general American. If we counted things like Dragon Ball and Tintin it would be way too easy.

[sdp]

The Phantom has gotten plenty of incarnations over the years from serials, shows, movie, cartoons.
The tick has also gotten cartoons and live action show (https://miscrave.com/articles/the-tick/) and recent show on Amazon prime (https://miscrave.com/articles/the-tick-revival/).

Spawn of course has gotten a decent movie (https://miscrave.com/articles/spawn-movie/), an absolute classic cartoon (https://miscrave.com/articles/spawn-hbo//) and will most likely get new media sooner rather than later.

The 90s thanks to comics we got plenty of indie comic adaptations to cartoons thanks to the success of the X-Men for the most part and BTAS, we got Savage Dragon (https://miscrave.com/articles/savage-dragon/), gen13, wild cats, Ultraforce (https://miscrave.com/articles/ultraforce/), among others that I'm forgetting. We also have Xenozoic Tales / Cadillacs and dinosaurs (https://miscrave.com/articles/cadillacs-dinosaurs-cartoon/). But most of these were only one offs.

We also have Dilbert, Garfield, Peanuts if comic strips count. Tarzan, A princess of mars, have all gotten plenty of adaptations over the years despite starting as novels first they were comics also. But I guess th Not everything has to be caped superheroes.


It has to be American, maybe Canadian can fly because nobody cares about the difference but in general American. If we counted things like Dragon Ball and Tintin it would be way too easy.
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Why american only? I can understand excluding Japan because manga would dominate the thread but Tintin definitely deserves to be put on the list as do other comics from around the world.

[IMJ]

Batman has had a variety of animation over the years along with Batman on film.

[neatoman]

The Phantom has gotten plenty of incarnations over the years from serials, shows, movie, cartoons.
The tick has also gotten cartoons and live action show (https://miscrave.com/articles/the-tick/) and recent show on Amazon prime (https://miscrave.com/articles/the-tick-revival/).

Spawn of course has gotten a decent movie (https://miscrave.com/articles/spawn-movie/), an absolute classic cartoon (https://miscrave.com/articles/spawn-hbo//) and will most likely get new media sooner rather than later.

The 90s thanks to comics we got plenty of indie comic adaptations to cartoons thanks to the success of the X-Men for the most part and BTAS, we got Savage Dragon (https://miscrave.com/articles/savage-dragon/), gen13, wild cats, Ultraforce (https://miscrave.com/articles/ultraforce/), among others that I'm forgetting. We also have Xenozoic Tales / Cadillacs and dinosaurs (https://miscrave.com/articles/cadillacs-dinosaurs-cartoon/). But most of these were only one offs.

We also have Dilbert, Garfield, Peanuts if comic strips count. Tarzan, A princess of mars, have all gotten plenty of adaptations over the years despite starting as novels first they were comics also. But I guess th Not everything has to be caped superheroes.



Why american only? I can understand excluding Japan because manga would dominate the thread but Tintin definitely deserves to be put on the list as do other comics from around the world.

If it's not from America, it's obviously not Marvel or DC. Part of the reasoning behind this thread is that their tendency to dominate the American comics market results in Hollywood to use their characters instead of someone else's. When it comes to some French studio goes about getting the license to a French comic like Asterix, they're obviously not being forced to get the approval of American publishers like Marvel or DC, but rather the estate of the creators (if I'm not mistaken and Asterix has ended up in corporate hands that is).

The French market forces that allow Asterix to keep getting adaptations are similar in the sense that popularity leads to adaptation but the insidious work-for-hire cancer also isn't a thing, meaning no one company or creator can be dominant when it comes to adaptations.

Batman has had a variety of animation over the years along with Batman on film.

Batman is a corporate owned DC character.

[IMJ]

Oh right I gotcha. Sorry I just saw the specific point in the thread there...

[Shark_Blade]

Watchmen. Haven’t watched the tv show but the movie is grand.

[neatoman]

Watchmen. Haven’t watched the tv show but the movie is grand.

That is still DC comics, maybe I should have been a bit more clear about it being about DC and Marvel as publishers, wheter or not it's part of their "Universes" isn't really relevant. The forces that allow Superman/Batman movies to get made are exactly the same ones that allow adaptations of Watchmen.