The Beat Interviews Dean DeBois and Richard Hamilton on ''How to Train Your Dragon''
The How to Train Your Dragons franchise is one of the biggest critical successes in animation from the last decade.
Spawning two movies and three seasons of television, the story of a scrawny viking boy and his toothless dragon have captured hearts and minds through screens around the world. Now, film series director Dean DeBois and Dreamworks’ Dragons show writer Richard Hamilton are teaming up with Dark Horse Comics to bring How to Train your Dragon to comics through a series of graphic novels. The first, titled The Serpent’s Heir, will be released in 2016.During New York Comic Con, we got a chance to sit down with Richard and Dean to discuss the new collaboration and learn about how they hope to expand the How to Train Your Dragon universe using the unique strengths of the comics medium.
By Alexander Lu
Alex Lu: How to Train Your Dragon was one of my favorite films of the past few years. It meant a lot to me, especially because it is so beautifully animated. At the “Dark Horse: Classified!” Panel you talked about how expensive it is to animate water. It was definitely worth it!
Dean DeBois: Thank you, water and clouds [laughs]. Those amorphous forms that have to interact with solid material and people…
Lu: So Dean, how does it feel to be accomplishing your dream of publishing a comic?
DeBois: Feels amazing! A lot of things are becoming kind of full circle for me. I was such a comics fan when I was a kid and it was my escape. I grew up pretty poor and there was a little smoke shop in a strip mall very close to my house. They knew I was a poor kid so they would let me come in on weekends and read everything on the rack for free. Then I’d commit it all to memory and go home and draw. I owe my story-telling sense, my drawing ability and my general sense of imagination to the many comic books that I was a fan of when I was a kid. To be able to now take something that we have grown with animation like How to Train Your Dragon and then explore and expand it in the world of comic books, especially with a company like Dark Horse…that’s amazing.
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