Strips/Avatar maar niet Nickelodeon

I remember Avatar (Air Master) was once a comic book hero before the TV version came. Or am I wrong?

I don't mean a magazine, but a "real" comic that served as a model for the TV hero.

In 1991, DC Comics released a three-part series called Avatar, which was comic based on the TSR Forgotten Realms game.

As far as I know, 'The Avatar' first appeared in the computer RPG Ultima 4 in 1985. Maybe they 'borrowed' it somewhere too.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avatar:_The_Last_Airbender

Avatar: The Last Airbender was co-created and produced by Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko at Nickelodeon Animation Studios in Burbank, California. Animation work was mostly done by three animation studios in South Korea: JM Animation, DR Movie, and Moi Animation. According to Bryan Konietzko, the program was conceived in the spring of 2001 when he took an old sketch of a balding, middle-aged man and re-imagined the character as a child.^[1] Konietzko drew the character herding bison in the sky, and showed the sketch to Mike DiMartino. At the time, DiMartino was studying a documentary about explorers trapped in the South Pole. Konietzko described their early development of the concept:

“ We thought, "There's an air guy along with these water people trapped in a snowy wasteland... and maybe some fire people are pressing down on them..." ”

The co-creators successfully pitched the idea to Nickelodeon vice president and executive producer Eric Coleman just two weeks later.

Er was dus niet eerst een strip van.

Bij mijn weten is 'De Avatar' voor het eerst opgedoken in het computer RPG Ultima 4 in 1985. Misschien hebben zij hem ook ergens 'geleend'.

Dat is natuurlijk een andere Avatar, Zwendel. 
De term komt uit het hindoeïsme en is al duizende jaren oud.

Wie strips over de eerste avatars wil lezen, kan bij deze strips terecht. (erg leuke boekjes, kan ze aanraden)

http://www.zilverendolfijn.nl/zd/zd.pl?a=fc&c=0&kt=NL&s=m&k=CHAKRA%2C1&f=sb

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avatar:_The_Last_Airbender

Avatar: The Last Airbender was co-created and produced by Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko at Nickelodeon Animation Studios in Burbank, California . Animation work was mostly done by three animation studios in South Korea: JM Animation, DR Movie , and Moi Animation. According to Bryan Konietzko, the program was conceived in the spring of 2001 when it took an old sketch of a balding, middle-aged man and re-imagined the character as a child. ^[1] Konietzko drew the character herding bison in the sky, and showed the sketch to Mike DiMartino. At the time, DiMartino was studying a documentary about explorers trapped in the South Pole . Konietzko described their early development of the concept:

“ We thought, "There's an air guy along with these water people trapped in a snowy wasteland... and maybe some fire people are pressing down on them..." ”

The co-creators successfully pitched the idea to Nickelodeon vice president and executive producer Eric Coleman just two weeks later.

So there wasn't a comic of it first.

As far as I know, 'The Avatar' first appeared in the computer RPG Ultima 4 in 1985. Maybe they also 'borrowed' it from somewhere.

That, of course, is another Avatar, Scam.
The term comes from Hinduism and is thousands of years old.

If you want to read comics about the first avatars, you can go to these comics. (very nice books, can recommend them)

http://www. Zilverendolfijn.nl/zd/zd.pl?a=fc&c=0&kt=NL&s=m&k=CHAKRA%2C1&f=sb

Thanks for all the feedback! I thought I once saw such comics without the Nickelodeon logo and long before the TV series was there, but apparently my memory is no longer what it used to be.