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1996 In Comics
Events January * First issue of ''The Sensational Spider-Man'' (Marvel). * In ''ToyFare'' winter’s special, debut of the strip Twisted Mego Theatre. * ''L'homme qui aimait les poupées'' (The dolls lover) – by Jean-Charles Krahen (Glénat Editions); first album of the noir series ''Gill Saint-Andrè''. February * February 10: The final episode of ''Secret Agent X-9'' is published. * February 14: Ilah's ''Cordelia'' debuts in the Flemish newspaper ''De Morgen''. * '' The New Titans'' is canceled by DC with issue #130. * ''Star Trek'' vol. 2 is canceled by DC with issue #80. March * March 2: The Flemish newspapers Het Laatste Nieuws and De Nieuwe Gazet launch a weekly children comics supplement titled ''De Samson en Gert Krant'', based on the popular TV show '' Samson en Gert''. It will run until 1998, after which it is renamed. *March 14: '' Evronians'', by Alessandro Sisti, Ezio Sisto and Alberto Lavoradori, album "number zero" of PKNA ; debut of the principal charact ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Sensational Spider-Man
''The Sensational Spider-Man'' is a comic book series starring Spider-Man published by Marvel Comics for 35 issues (#0–33, with # -1 published in July 1997 between #17 and #18), from January 1996 until November 1998. Publication history ''The Sensational Spider-Man'' title was first used for various reprints, including ''Marvel Treasury Edition'' #14 (1977), 22 (1979) and 27 (1980) which featured various reprints from ''Marvel Team-Up'' and ''The Amazing Spider-Man'', a trade paperback in 1988 featuring Frank Miller's Spider-Man work, and a prestige format one-shot special called ''The Sensational Spider-Man: Nothing Can Stop the Juggernaut'' () in 1989 which reprinted ''The Amazing Spider-Man'' issues #229 and #230. The ongoing ''The Sensational Spider-Man'' series was initially conceived to be the flagship showcase for the new Ben Reilly Spider-Man. It replaced the ''Web of Spider-Man'' series. The initial seven issues (#0–6, January–July 1996) were written and pencil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfredo Castelli
Alfredo Castelli (born 26 June 1947) is an Italian comic book artist and writer. Biography Born in Milan, Castelli began his comic book career at an early age, creating the strip '' Scheletrino'', a humor series for Italian comic book ''Diabolik'', when he was only 16 years old. In 1966, with Paolo Sala, he created ''Comics Club 104'', the first Italian fanzine dedicated to comics. A year later Castelli started writing scripts for several Italian comic books, including '' Pedrito el Drito'' and ''Piccola Eva'' published by Universo, '' Cucciolo'' and '' Tiramolla'' for Edizioni Alpe, and ''Topolino'' for Mondadori. Castelli then expanded into television, writing several advertisements as well as the series ''Cappuccetto a Pois'' with Maria Perego and the screenplay for the movie '' Il tunnel sotto il mondo''. In 1969 he contributed to the humor magazine ''Tilt''. A year later, together with Pier Carpi, Castelli created ''Horror'' magazine, in which he published his strip '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Chronicle Of Deaths Foretold
A, or a, is the first letter and the first vowel of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''a'' (pronounced ), plural ''aes''. It is similar in shape to the Ancient Greek letter alpha, from which it derives. The uppercase version consists of the two slanting sides of a triangle, crossed in the middle by a horizontal bar. The lowercase version can be written in two forms: the double-storey a and single-storey ɑ. The latter is commonly used in handwriting and fonts based on it, especially fonts intended to be read by children, and is also found in italic type. In English grammar, " a", and its variant " an", are indefinite articles. History The earliest certain ancestor of "A" is aleph (also written 'aleph), the first letter of the Phoenician alphabet, which consisted entirely of consonants (for that reason, it is also called an abjad to distinguish it fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Black Eye Productions
Black Eye Books (formerly called Black Eye Productions) is a small but influential Canadian comic book publishing company founded by Michel Vrana. Under the auspices of Vrana, Black Eye was known as a publisher of artfully designed alternative comics and graphic novels, most of whose cartoonists have gone on to successful careers with fellow Canadian publisher Drawn & Quarterly. For several years, Vrana acted as Drawn & Quarterly's exclusive outside design consultant. In 2019 the company was relaunched as a micro-press with a focus on using crowdfunding to bring projects to fruition. History Vrana's first worked with publisher Tragedy Strikes Press, which operated out of Guelph, Ontario, from 1991–1993. Comics published by Tragedy Strikes Press included Nick Craine's ''The Cheeseheads'', the anthology series ''Reactor Girl'', Jay Stephens' ''Sin'', Carol Swain's ''Way Out Strips'', and the first issue of Dylan Horrocks' ''Pickle''. ''Sin'' and ''Pickle'' were picked up by Black ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jason Lutes
Jason Lutes (born December 7, 1967) at Comic Creator is an American creator. His work is mainly historical fiction, but he also works in traditional fiction. He is best-known for his '''' series, which he wrote and drew over 22 years. He has also written a handful of other s, as well as many short pieces for anthologies and compilations. He now teaches comics at the |
Berlin (comics)
''Berlin'' is a comic book series by Jason Lutes, published by Black Eye Productions and then Drawn & Quarterly. Planned as a series of 24 magazines, since reduced to 22, INTERVIEW: Jason Lutes Talks the Final Days of "Berlin" , July 28, 2015 then re-released in book form, it describes life in from 1928 to 1933, during the decline of the |
Chief O'Hara (Disney Comics)
The Mickey Mouse universe is a fictional shared universe which is the setting for stories involving Disney cartoon characters Mickey and Minnie Mouse, Pluto, Goofy, and many other characters. The universe originated from the ''Mickey Mouse'' animated short films produced by Disney starting in 1928. Still, its first consistent version was created by Floyd Gottfredson in the ''Mickey Mouse'' newspaper comic strip. Real-world versions also exist in Disneyland and Tokyo Disneyland, called Mickey's Toontown. Since 1990, the city in which Mickey lives is typically called Mouseton in American comics. In modern continuity, Mouseton is often depicted as being located in the fictional U.S. state of Calisota, analogous to Northern California. This fictional state was invented by comics writer Carl Barks in 1952 as the location for Donald Duck's home city, Duckburg. The most consistent aspect of the Mickey Mouse universe is the characters. The most well-known include Mickey's girlfriend M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Romano Scarpa
Romano Scarpa (September 27, 1927 – April 23, 2005) was one of the most famous Italian creators of Disney comics. Biography Growing up in Venice he developed a particular love for American cartoons and Disney comics, that, at the time, were published in the big format of the Topolino giornale which was then printing now classic Floyd Gottfredson's stories. In the 1940s he opened an Animation Studio in Venice in which he produced his first works: some commercials, a short titled ''E poi venne il diluvio'' and another one titled ''La piccola fiammiferaia'' (1953, based on Hans Christian Andersen's ''The Little Match Girl''), distributed in Italy together with Robert Aldrich's '' Attack!'' (1956). Right after that he stopped working in animation for a while and dedicated wholly to creating Disney comics. When in 1956 Italian editors had no more new Floyd Gottfredson's stories to reprint, he was given the responsibility to continue Gottfredson's stories about Mickey Mouse. Also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Topolino
''Topolino'' (from the Italian name for Mickey Mouse) is an Italian digest-sized comic series featuring Disney comics. The series has had a long running history, first appearing in 1932 as a comics magazine. It is currently published by Panini Comics. Topolino ''giornale'' (1932–1949) In 1932 the editor Mario Nerbini decided to open a new weekly newspaper for kids, containing illustrated tales with Mickey Mouse. The first issue of ''Topolino'' was published on December 31, 1932: it contained Mickey's first Italian story drawn by Giove Toppi. In this story, Mickey Mouse was chased by an elephant. However, Nerbini had not correctly secured the publication rights, so when Emmanuel (Disney's representative in Italy) protested, Nerbini changed the title of the comic book with issue #3 into ''Topo Lino'' (Mouse Lino), replacing Mickey Mouse with ''Topo Lino'', another mouse. When Nerbini bought the publication rights from Disney and King Features Syndicate, he changed the title ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Van Straaten
Peter van Straaten (25 March 1935 – 8 December 2016) was a Dutch cartoonist and comics artist. He is best known for his political cartoons as well as his satirical observations of everyday people. He also had a newspaper comic strip '' Vader & Zoon'', which ran in ''Het Parool'' for almost two decades. Biography Van Straaten was born in Arnhem in the Netherlands on 25 March 1935.Paul Steenhuis,Tekenaar Peter van Straaten (81) overleden, ''NRC Handelsblad'', 2016. Retrieved 9 December 2016. His elder brother Gerard also became a well-known illustrator. Van Straaten studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam and started his career on 26 July 1958 for the Dutch newspaper ''Het Parool'', where he illustrated news reports.Peter van Straaten stopt in Parool NOS, 25 februari 2012. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Kruis
Johannes Andries “Jan” Kruis (; 8 June 1933 – 19 January 2017) was a Dutch comics artist best known for the family strip '' Jack, Jacky and the Juniors'' (''Jan, Jans en de Kinderen''). Biography He began creating comics as a child. Later he worked for the Dutch comics pioneer Marten Toonder. Kruis started his own comics career drawing ''Prins Freddie'' for the magazine ''De Havenloods'', but became famous thanks to his series of one-pagers called '' Jan, Jans en de Kinderen'' (" Jack, Jacky and the Juniors"). It first appeared in the woman's magazine ''Libelle'' on December 12, 1970. In German-speaking Switzerland it appeared in the magazine ''Spick'' which targeted children and teenagers; and in Germany ''Favorit'' published it for some time under the name "Ulli, Ulla und die Kinder". He also had a gag comic named ''Gregor'' running in ''Tintin'', between 1965 and 1966, which was later reprinted in ''Pep''. Kruis took over ''Sjors en Sjimmie'' from Frans Piët in 1969 a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin Mystère
''Martin Mystère'' is both the title and protagonist of an Italian comics, Italian comic book. Created by writer Alfredo Castelli and artist Giancarlo Alessandrini, it was first published in Italy by Sergio Bonelli Editore in 1982. Dark Horse Comics has published the English version of the series in the United States. It is still published in Italy and has been translated in many other languages, sometimes with the name changed (''e.g.'', in Germany, the series is named ''Alan Dark''; in the United States, '' Martin Mystery''; in Croatia, ''Martin Mystery''/''Martin Mystère''; in Serbia, ''Marti Misterija''; in Turkey, ''Atlantis''; and in Tamil Nadu, ''Marma Manithan Martin''). The series is one of Bonelli's most popular comic books in Italy, selling over 20,000 copies each month. It has been adapted to various other media, such as an Martin Mystery, animated television series, video games, and books. Overview Martin Mystère is an art historian, archaeologist, anthropologist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
