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Chuck Palahniuk, author of the forthcoming graphic novel sequel, 'Fight Club 2', coming from Dark Horse in 2015.

Bestselling authors George R.R. Martin and Chuck Palahniuk and director Quentin Tarantino, along with their respective comics publishers Avatar Press, Dark Horse, and Dynamite Entertainment, generated a lot of attention at the recent Comic-Con International about their forthcoming comics projects. But according to executives and editors at the comics houses, hiring celebrity authors isn’t easy—it can take years and lots of paperwork to launch such projects.

In August, Avatar Press will begin a six-issue miniseries based on Martin’s sci-fi novella In the House of the Worm, which chronicles a planet in peril. This is Martin’s third comics series with the publisher. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series, best known for the popular novel A Game of Thrones, was adapted by Dynamite Entertainment in 2011. In a panel at Comic-Con, Avatar’s CEO and editor-in-chief William Christensen explained that he and Martin have been talking about comics for years.
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