Ken Levin Presents: From Comics to the Screen

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Sunday May 28, 2017 - 1:30 pm to 2:30 pm


Once they held their noses, now they can’t get enough. How exactly did comics take over the big and little screens? Find out from the person who has been fighting those battles for two decades (and can now take a victory lap!) Ken F. Levin negotiated and or set up the based-on- comics feature films ROAD TO PERDITION, WANTED, HELLBOY, and HELLBOY II: THE GOLDEN ARMY and the television series SABLE and PAINKILLER JANE. Since he moved into production, he has produced the feature film THE SCRIBBLER (starring Arrow’s Katie Cassidy) and is Executive Producer on the QUARRY television series (HBO/Cinemax) and Executive Producer on the coming television series THE BOYS (in development at SONY Television Studios), and is Executive Producer on PREACHER, whose 13 episode second season begins airing on AMC Network June 19th. In comics Ken co-founded and is Publisher at the iconic independent comics and graphic novel publisher 1First Comics, and is regularly named to Bleeding Cool’s annual list of the 100 most powerful people in the comics industry.


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