G.I. Joe Fan Fiction Unleashed

92YTribeca hosted a small army of G.I. Joe fans over the weekend at the G.I. Joe Stop Motion Film Festival. These toys have spawned hundreds of comic books and cartoons, and the film festival collected cinematic acts fan fiction from around the globe.

One GalleyCat editor has harbored a long obsession with these toy soldiers, and brought back a video dispatch from the festivities. We interviewed Kieran Healy, the New York City host of the traveling festival and co-creator of an upcoming full-length stop-motion animation feature, “Viva the ‘Nam.”

These toys represent a vast repository of stories, and Healy explained that publishers should be interacting with these dedicated communities of fan fiction creators–especially as G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra hits theaters next week.

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