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ADAM WARREN inks on Dirty Pair, Empowered, Spin magazine

      Adam Warren is one of my favorite artists and writers. I love his Bubblegum Crisis: Grand Mal, Gen 13 Bootleg: Grunge: the Movie. and the later volumes of Dirty Pair. Adam's sexy superhero comedy Empowered includes 11 volumes in print in 2020. The cartoonist has expanded his social media outreach with EmpoweredComic twitter,sexy superhero comedy (or not) tumblr, adam_warren_art instagram, and started putting Empowered Comic online with commentary. Adam Warren Patreon
Notes from Adam's Fanimecon 2001 panel
      Adam introduced himself as writer and cover artist for DC/Wildstorm's Gen 13. He's done a 12-page back up story for Battle Chasers #9. Helps out with Seraphic Feather in Super Manga Blast. He does have a contract offer for doing a creator-owned series from DC/Wildstorm. A failed animation project took up three months of his time. Warren apologized for not getting more work out. He knows he's slow.
       Dark Horse is coming out with more Dirty Pair merchandise. As well as the shot glasses and lighters, they have t-shirts coming. Adam reports it is hard to get a comic project approved, but DH is doing very well with merchandise sales. There may be action figures or statues. No lunchboxes.
       Studio Proteus is anticipating doing Masamune Shirow's Ghost in the Shell sequel, Man Machine Interface. Adam said Shirow has fallen in love with the panty shot and outdoes Masakazu Katsura. (At the SP SD panel, Toren Smith said for one issue of the US comic release, there will be an adults only version offered in Diamonds adult catalog. Shirow will modify his work for the general version.) Shirow is also adding 20 pages for the soft cover Japanese release.
       Adam dislikes the trend toward smaller size books like Lone Wolf and Cub, but book stores really like that size. Warren spoke of the treasury size comics from DC and Marvel when he grew up and how he loved those.
       Opening up to questions, someone asked about his introduction to the Dirty Pair. Adam described being at the Joe Kubert school in the winter of 1985 and drawing the Phantom on an elephant and not enjoying it at all. He was disillusioned with American comics, although he liked American Flagg, Love & Rockets, and some of the independents. One weekend, a friend of his roommate brought over Dirty Pair and Urusei Yatsura episodes and a couple Hayao Miyazaki movies. They watched all of them and he got excited about anime. Seeking out the DP rights with Toren Smith, they made a deal with Studio Nue and DP creator and science fiction writer Haruko Takachiho, but did not have permission to use the Sunrise animation studios character designs. Adam almost had a nervous breakdown dealing with reinventing Kei and Yuri. It was also a sore topic with anime fans when the American comic came out not looking like the DP they were used to seeing. Now Adam is glad not to be confined to the studio look, but does feel somewhat restricted by dealing with someone else's characters. He has been pushing the idea of having some other artists like Terry Dodson or Bruce Timm doing the art for his story. That's doubtful, but he has hopes for getting Ryan Kinnaird, his Run from the Future inker, and Chynna Chugston-Major. For Chugston-Major, he wants to do a teen Kei and Yuri, before they join the WWA. He first needs to get approval from Studio Nue, but said Ryan is better than he was when he started doing the DP.
       Another fan complimented Adam on the ending of the Magical Drama Queen Roxy with its devolving B&W, then pencil, then script pages. Warren said it was a reference to Neon Genesis Evangelion and his own take on Hideaki Anno's final two episodes. He feared it was too coded a reference for American mainstream audiences.
       On Bubblegum Crisis and any follow up to the Grand Mal story, the rights to the series are all messed up. The Dark Horse book still sells and Toren Smith could not get any of the three companies holding BGC rights to accept the royalty check. The first time Adam became aware of the series was seeing the Japanese kana logo in a magazine and being intrigued trying to decipher it. Bubblegum crisis, what could it mean? He saw the first three episodes, then only saw the final four and the sequel Bubblegum Crash after he'd gotten the rights to do the Grand Mal story. Seeing the latter made him appreciate how good Bubblegum Crisis was.

There are 10 Pieces of Art In This Gallery.    

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Dirty Pair: Fatal But Not Serious #1 page 25 illustration by Adam Warren

Art Details

Artist:	Adam Warren (All)
Media Type:	Pen and Ink
Art Type:	Pin Up
For Sale Status:	NFS
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Dirty Pair: Fatal But Not Serious #1 page 25 illustration by Adam Warren
Artist: Adam Warren (All)
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Dirty Pair Sim Hell letter column illustration by Adam Warren

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Artist:	Adam Warren (All)
Media Type:	Pen and Ink
Art Type:	Pin Up
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views	1847
Comments:	1
Added to Site:	8/5/2009

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Dirty Pair Sim Hell letter column illustration by Adam Warren
Artist: Adam Warren (All)
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Dirty Pair: I Honestly Hate You page 5 by Adam Warren

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Artist:	Adam Warren (All)
Media Type:	Pen and Ink
Art Type:	Interior Page
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views	4194
Comments:	0
Added to Site:	3/21/2008

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Dirty Pair: I Honestly Hate You page 5 by Adam Warren
Artist: Adam Warren (All)
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Gen 13 card #84 Acrobat (Freefall) by Adam Warren

Art Details

Artist:	Adam Warren (All)
Media Type:	Pen and Ink
Art Type:	Pin Up
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views	3298
Comments:	3
Added to Site:	3/10/2008

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Gen 13 card #84 Acrobat (Freefall) by Adam Warren
Artist: Adam Warren (All)
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Adam Warren Sketchbook (1996) wraparound cover

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Artist:	Adam Warren (All)
Media Type:	Pen and Ink
Art Type:	Cover
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views	10481
Comments:	4
Added to Site:	8/1/2011

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Adam Warren Sketchbook (1996) wraparound cover
Artist: Adam Warren (All)
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Gen 13 #60 page 4 by Adam Warren and Jason Martin

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Artist:	Adam Warren (Penciller) Jason Martin (Inker)
Media Type:	Pen and Ink
Art Type:	Interior Page
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views	1066
Comments:	0
Added to Site:	3/11/2008

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Gen 13 #60 page 4 by Adam Warren and Jason Martin
Artist: Adam Warren (Penciller)
Jason Martin (Inker)
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Spin illustration of car and cat by Adam Warren

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Artist:	Adam Warren (All)
Media Type:	Pen and Ink
Art Type:	Illustration
For Sale Status:	0
Views	1275
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Added to Site:	3/10/2008

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Spin illustration of car and cat by Adam Warren
Artist: Adam Warren (All)
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Mr. Mxyptlk original background by Adam Warren

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Artist:	Adam Warren (All)
Media Type:	Pen and Ink
Art Type:	Pin Up
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views	832
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Added to Site:	7/3/2009

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Mr. Mxyptlk original background by Adam Warren
Artist: Adam Warren (All)
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Spin illustration of Cupid by Adam Warren with colors by Joe Rosas

Art Details

Artist:	Joe Rosas (Colorist)
Media Type:	Mixed Media
Art Type:	Illustration
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views	1405
Comments:	0
Added to Site:	3/10/2008

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Spin illustration of Cupid by Adam Warren with colors by Joe Rosas
Artist: Joe Rosas (Colorist)
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Spin illustration of girl and computer by Adam Warren with colors by Joe Rosas

Art Details

Artist:	Joe Rosas (Colorist)
Media Type:	Marker
Art Type:	Illustration
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views	2113
Comments:	0
Added to Site:	3/10/2008

About the Owner

Steven Ng
Member Since:	July 2005

Spin illustration of girl and computer by Adam Warren with colors by Joe Rosas
Artist: Joe Rosas (Colorist)
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There are 10 Pieces of Art In This Gallery.    

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