NEW YORK, NY (September 18, 2024) – Bear McCreary, the celebrated composer of projects as diverse as The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, The Walking Dead, God of War, Outlander, Godzilla: King of the Monsters, Battlestar Galactica and Percy Jackson and the Olympians, will spotlight his new rock concept album and graphic novel companion, The Singularity, on Friday, October 18, at New York Comic Con. The panel, entitled “Bear McCreary: Musical World-Building,” will take place from 2:30–3:30 p.m. on the Main Stage of the Javits Center.
McCreary, a Grammy-nominated and Emmy & BAFTA Award-winning composer, will discuss The Singularity as he continues to explore the dramatic impact of music on the creation of fictional worlds, fueled by collaborations with artists from across all disciplines. Those collaborators include his fellow panelists, all integral Singularity contributors from the music and comics realms, including Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter/composer Rufus Wainwright, renowned writer Mat Groom (Inferno Girl Red, Self/Made), comics writer & filmmaker Kyle Higgins (Radiant Black, No/One), and Eisner and Harvey Award-winning cartoonist Ramón K. Pérez (Jim Henson’s Tale of Sand, Jane).
McCreary and friends will be signing copies of The Singularity and other current and select works, just after the panel, at the Mondo booth (#1000, from 4:00–5:00 p.m.).
An ambitious project featuring unique, diverse talents from across a wide swath of the comics and music industries, The Singularity exists as an epic rock concept album, a graphic novel, and an incomparable concert experience. The album is packed with talents from a diverse array of musicians, including Wainwright, Slash, Corey Taylor (Slipknot), Joe Satriani, Kim Thayil (Soundgarden), Buck Dharma (Blue Öyster Cult), Steve Bartek (Oingo Boingo), Scott Ian (Anthrax), Mega Ran, Raya Yarbrough (Outlander), and many more, as well as the spoken-word contributions of Lee Pace (Foundation, The Hobbit trilogy), Danai Gurira (Black Panther, The Walking Dead), and Ryan Hurst (Sons of Anarchy).
The graphic novel is inspired by, and a companion to, the original conceptual rock album of the same name. Created by McCreary with Groom, the book is produced by Black Market Narrative and published by Image Comics. A cavalcade of comics’ greatest artists convenes under the guidance of creative director Kyle Higgins (Radiant Black, Moon Man), to tell an emotionally gripping, cosmic story about the lessons that loss can teach us, bursting with imaginative imagery as diverse and energetic as the album that sparked it.
For more information about The Singularity and Bear McCreary, please visit www.bearmccreary.com.
About Bear McCreary
Bear McCreary is a two-time Grammy Award-nominated, Emmy and BAFTA Award-winning composer who began his career as a protégé of legendary film composer Elmer Bernstein, before bursting onto the scene scoring the influential and revered series Battlestar Galactica in 2004. Since then, McCreary has been a four-time Emmy Award nominee and Emmy winner for Outstanding Original Main Title Theme for Da Vinci’s Demons and has won multiple International Film Music Critics Association Awards. Recent projects include the Amazon Original hit series The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power; Foundation for Apple TV+; the beloved Starz series Outlander, and Netflix’s Academy Award-nominated documentary Crip Camp (produced by Barack and Michelle Obama). McCreary’s acclaimed scores to Sony PlayStation’s blockbusters God of War and God of War Ragnarök have earned him honors including a Grammy Award nomination for Best Score Soundtrack for Video Games and awards from the Game Awards, the D.I.C.E. Awards, the Hollywood Music in Media Awards, the International Film Music Critics Association, the ASCAP Composers Choice Awards, and the BAFTA Games Awards. In 2024, McCreary released The Singularity, an epic hard-rock concept album and accompanying graphic novel. The album features a legendary lineup of rock talent, including Slash, Serj Tankian (System of a Down), Corey Taylor (Slipknot), Rufus Wainwright, and many more. Collaborations with other artists from across the musical spectrum include those with Hozier, Fiona Apple, Shirley Manson (Garbage), and the late Sinéad O’Connor. He has composed concert commissions for the Calder Quartet and Getty Center, the Hagen Philharmonic and Ballet in Germany, the Television Academy, the Seattle Symphony, and the Golden State Pops Orchestra. In July 2014, Maestro Gustavo Dudamel conducted a suite of McCreary’s music with the L.A. Philharmonic and L.A. Master Chorale at the Hollywood Bowl.
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