Eisner Award-winning writer Ram V has launched Mirror Maker Studios, a new creative studio and ideas incubator built around projects developed by Ram V and his collaborators. The launch is accompanied by a new Mirror Maker YouTube channel focused on the creative process behind comics, writing, animation, games, and other narrative work.
The channel will feature creator discussions, process-focused videos, and behind-the-scenes material from ongoing projects. Mirror Maker also plans to begin publishing episodic narrative fiction through the channel in 2027.
Ram V commented:
“I believe that the ability to create things and make art is one of humanity’s most beautiful aspects; worth valuing and encouraging,” said Ram V. “At a time when companies seem to want to push both creators and consumers to accept mass produced content devoid of human perspective and endeavour, I think more creators should convey the magic that exists in the process of making things, not merely in the product. The YouTube launch is an exciting way to document these and give readers, viewers and fans a place to engage with the process and people behind the things they love and enjoy– especially at a time when the primacy of the creative human mind and experience as the force behind making art is being challenged.”
The studio’s launch coincides with DEICIDIUM Volume 1, the first entry in a planned nine-volume graphic novel series created by Ram V and artist Evan Cagle, with additional contributions from Anand Radhakrishnan, Tom Muller, Aditya Bidikar, and others.
The series blends science fiction, mythology, and crime fiction in a future where religious belief has become an economic and political system. Corporations and engineered religions maintain control over society until ancient gods begin returning through ordinary people. In response, a group of 12 orphans raised to operate without faith or attachment are deployed against them.
DEICIDIUM Volume 1 will be published internationally by French publisher Morgen and released in the United States through Image Comics. It will arrive in American comic shops on November 11, followed by bookstores on December 8. Anime Corner has the exclusive opportunity to share some pages from the book:
The first Mirror Maker YouTube episode focuses on the DEICIDIUM creative team and the early development of the series. Future episodes are expected to feature guests including Esoteric of Czarface, Kickstarter CEO Everette Taylor, Becky Cloonan, Anand RK, and others.
Ram V said:
“The Mirror Maker channel is meant to be a place where people engage with the process behind how creative things are made. To sync that with an early creative session in the making of my next book DEICIDIUM seemed like a logical step,” explained Ram V. “So we brought together a bunch of creative people at the top of their game from all over the world; we locked ourselves into a small apartment and filmed the creative energy, early decisions and ideas behind making the book. It’s like watching a band come together to make a song that is somehow more than the sum of its individual parts.”
Cagle also commented on his collaboration with Ram V:
“It’s not hard to find ‘idea people.’ What is hard is finding creators curious enough about their own ideas to trust that they haven’t explored anything like enough of what those ideas could be, and who generously allow a partner in that journey of exploration. I have been exceptionally fortunate to find that in Ram,” added Evan Cagle.
Mirror Maker Studios is also connected to Ram V’s wider plan of projects, including an opera adaptation of The Many Deaths of Laila Starr. The two-and-a-half-hour production was commissioned through Minnesota Opera’s New Works Initiative and adapts the graphic novel by Ram V and Filipe Andrade.
The opera features music by Kamala Sankaram and a libretto by Minita Gandhi, with Mary Birnbaum directing. Its score incorporates elements of Konnakol, Raga, and EDM. The world premiere has been temporarily postponed and is expected to be rescheduled.
Ram V added:
“For every person there must be a relationship with art and artists beyond mere consumerism and fandom,” said Ram V. “I believe if people see the electricity and wonder in the creative process, we’ll learn to value it that much more.
Mirror Maker Studios follows Ram V’s recent work across titles including New Gods, Detective Comics, Rare Flavours, Dawnrunner, Blue in Green, and The Many Deaths of Laila Starr, with the new studio intended to provide a broader framework for projects spanning publishing and other media.
Source: Press Release
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