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When Is A Star Wars Comic Not A Star Wars Comic? When It's A Cinestory

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This was a story that Bleeding Cool ran last week, looking at Joe Books' solicitations for September 2016.

We received word from Joe Books that Disney wasn't happy. That the Star Wars Rebels book wasn't a comic, but a "cinestory". And could we change the title?

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A cinestory, is when you take the actual screencaps of the movie, arrange them into panels, script and letter them into a comic book. They've had a variety of levels of popularity over the decades, but Joe Books has made a cottage industry in applying it to Disney movies, with Frozen being their biggest seller.

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But it is, whatever your definition, a comic. Just a subset of comics.

It turns out this may be more a licensing issue. Marvel has the license to make Star Wars comics, so Joe Books isn't allowed to. Even if they are. So they have to be described as cinestories – or at a push, cinestory comics.

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Go on then. We're in a generous mood…

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Rich JohnstonAbout Rich Johnston

Founder of Bleeding Cool. The longest-serving digital news reporter in the world, since 1992. Author of The Flying Friar, Holed Up, The Avengefuls, Doctor Who: Room With A Deja Vu, The Many Murders Of Miss Cranbourne, Chase Variant. Lives in South-West London, works from Blacks on Dean Street, shops at Piranha Comics. Father of two. Political cartoonist.
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