Comic Book Resources visited the Bristol International Comics Expo and chatted up creator Dave Gibbons. Gibbons, talked briefly about 'Watchmen', based on the graphic novel he illustrated.
Asked about “Watchmen's” many background details, Gibbons claimed that the film, if anything, "exceeds the level of detail in the comics" and said that he'll be "very surprised" if the film is anything other than fantastic. Discussing merchandise, he was aware that the action figures were something of a contentious matter, but said the license won't turn up anywhere, promising "no Rorschach Lunchbox."
Gibbons also went into further detail about the recently announced "Watching the Watchmen" hardback from Titan books, describing how glad he was to have Chip Kidd handling the design and hoping that it would be a "Nice complement to the movie." He did add the volume will be entirely about the graphic novel, containing unused and unfinished pages, script samples and more, right down to an early design of “Watchmen's” iconic smiling face logo. Gibbons expressed bemusement (and some regret) that he sold the original art for “Watchmen,” but kept all the preliminary notes and sketches that will now end up in this book. He also added that since it'll feed off movie publicity but be entirely about the comic, he hoped “Watching the Watchmen” would fuel interest in a way that highlights Alan Moore's role in creation of the source material without offending him by associating his name with the movie, from which the writer’s divorced himself, as he does routinely with such adaptations of his work.
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