Cowboys & Aliens (comics)
| Cowboys & Aliens | |
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| Date | December 2006 |
| Page count | 105 pages |
| Publisher | Platinum Studios Comics/HarperCollins |
| Creative team | |
| Writers |
Fred Van Lente Andrew Foley |
| Artists | Dennis Calero and Luciano Lima |
| Colorists | Andrew Elder |
| Creator | Scott Mitchell Rosenberg |
| Original publication | |
| Language | English |
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| Followed by | Cowboys and Aliens: Worlds at War |
Cowboys & Aliens is a 105-page graphic novel created by Scott Mitchell Rosenberg and written by Fred Van Lente and Andrew Foley, with art by Dennis Calero and Luciano Lima. It was released by American publisher Platinum Studios in 2006.
Platinum Studios founder & chairman Rosenberg came up with the Cowboys & Aliens concept in 1997. Rosenberg and European rights agent Ervin Rustemagić had tried to sell the film rights to the Western comic Tex, but were not finding success. Instead, Rosenberg's employee Greg Noveck came up with a title: Cowboys and Aliens. Rosenberg had Noveck and another employee, Paul Benjamin, work up a film pitch, including character designs.
Using their one-sheet, Rosenberg and Rustemagić (represented by William Morris Agency) got film rights interest from such studios as Universal Pictures, DreamWorks Studios, Fox Family Films, Columbia Pictures, Walt Disney Entertainment, and Paramount Pictures. In May 1997, Universal Pictures and DreamWorks Studios acquired the rights to Cowboys & Aliens, which was described as a "graphic novel in development."
By the mid-2000s, with the project in turnaround, Rosenberg commissioned writers Fred Van Lente & Andrew Foley and artists Dennis Calero & Luciano Lima to create an Cowboys & Aliens original graphic novel, which was published in December 2006 by Platinum Studios Comics.
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