"So, without getting highfalutin' about it, he's got an existential dilemma: how to make some sense of his life--how to make it worthwhile. So he's ripe for conversion by passionate do-gooders."
Concrete debuted in 1986, and Chadwick launched the character's first mini-series in March 1987. The comics, drawn in simple black-and-white and printed on recycled paper, did not attract a lot of attention at first. But as Concrete's popularity grew, so did Chadwick's reputation and the success of Dark Horse Comics. In an Amazon.com on-line review of the 1994 anthology The Complete Concrete, fantasy writer Harlan Ellison hailed the comic books as the best "being published today by anyone, anywhere." Other observers must share Ellison's opinion, because Dark Horse Comics publisher Mike Richardson bought the screen rights to Concrete, and a feature film is in preparation, although its release date has not been announced. "I've learned I must be patient," Chadwick told Mike Gilman in an interview posted on the Dark Horse Web site.
In the years since Concrete's debut, Chadwick's signature creation has starred in numerous mini-series, been featured in short stories in scores of other Dark Horse comics, and earned his creator over a dozen important comic book industry awards.
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