Sharad Devarajan
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Sharad Devarajan is the co-founder, Chief Executive Officer and Publisher of Virgin Comics LLC and Virgin Animation Pvt. Ltd, a set of companies he co-founded with Sir Richard Branson and the Virgin Group, acclaimed author Deepak Chopra, filmmaker Shekhar Kapur and entrepreneurs Gautam Chopra and Suresh Seetharaman.[1] Recently Mr. Devarajan led a management buyout of Virgin Comics and renamed the Company, Liquid Comics.[2]
At Liquid Comics, Mr. Devarajan has built a studio of artists and writers to create a new wave of mythic character properties to be marketed worldwide in comics, games, animation and live-action films. Mr. Devarajan has also created entertainment products with acclaimed filmmakers, actors and musicians including John Woo,[3] Guy Ritchie,[4] Dave Stewart, Duran Duran, Terry Gilliam, Edward Burns[5] and Nicolas Cage.[6]
Mr. Devarajan is also a Producer / Executive Producer on a number of theatrical live-action film projects based on Virgin’s comic properties including, The Sadhu; the Warner Bros. film adaptation of Gamekeeper with director Guy Ritchie and producer Joel Silver; Virulents with New Regency[7] and The Leaves with Summit Entertainment.[8] He is also a Creative Director on an MMO game being developed by Sony Online Entertainment based on the comic series, Ramayan 3392 A.D[9] and a creator of Ani-Max and First Family, two television shows in development with FremantleMedia Enterprises.[10]
Previously, Mr. Devarajan was the Co-Founder, President & CEO of Gotham Entertainment Group, South Asia's leading comic book publisher. Mr. Devarajan was instrumental in securing and launching the South Asian publishing program for DC Comics, Marvel Comics, Dark Horse Comics, Cartoon Network and Warner Bros. introducing the South Asian market to such notable comic magazines including Superman, Spider-Man, Batman, Hulk, and X-Men. In 2004, Mr. Devarajan worked with Marvel Comics to reinvent the Spider-Man character as an Indian boy growing up in Mumbai. Unlike traditional translations of western comic magazines, the new series, Spider-Man: India was heralded as the industry’s first “trans-creation” where instead of a literal translation for a foreign market, the character was "trans-created" into an Indian boy named Pavitr Prabhakar living in Mumbai.[11]
[edit] References
- ^ http://www.comicbloc.com/forums/showthread.php?t=41367
- ^ http://www.newsarama.com/comics/090824-VirginLiquid.html
- ^ http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117946678.html?categoryid=1350&cs=1
- ^ http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117969172.html?categoryid=13&cs=1
- ^ http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117969198.html?categoryid=13&cs=1
- ^ http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118003646.html?categoryid=1236&cs=1
- ^ http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117969813.html?categoryid=13&cs=1
- ^ http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117989351.html?categoryid=1350&cs=1
- ^ http://variety.com/article/VR1117969913.html?categoryid=1236&cs=1
- ^ http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118006360.html?categoryid=1236&cs=1
- ^ http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/005/181egxmv.asp?pg=1
[edit] External links
- NPR Radio Interview: a Spider-Man: India radio interview on NPR with one of the creators Sharad Devarajan
- Newsweek: a Newsweek International article on Spider-Man India
- New York Magazine: a New York Magazine article on Spider-Man India
- Weekly Standard: an essay from the Weekly Standard comparing Spider-Man India and Manifest Destiny
- BBC article on the Indian Spider-Man
- WSJ article on Virgin Comics
- Businessweek article on Virgin Comics
- Time Magazine article on Virgin Comics
- Fremantle dives in with Liquid Comics
- Liquid Comics website
- Liquid Comics Digital Comics
- Devarajan’s Business Educators Member Profile
