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1983 In Comics
Events and publications * Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird found Northampton, Massachusetts-based Mirage Studios. * Chicago-based First Comics makes a strong entry into the publishing field, putting out four ongoing titles, ''American Flagg!'', ''E-Man'', '' Jon Sable Freelance'', and ''Warp!''; featuring the talents of such established creators as Howard Chaykin, Mike Grell, Frank Brunner, and Joe Staton. * DC Comics acquires most of Charlton Comics' "Action Hero" superhero characters — including Blue Beetle, Captain Atom and The Question — from the failing publisher. * Long-time comics publisher Warren Publishing declares bankruptcy. * Publicly traded Archie Comics acquired by Richard Goldwater (son of original Archie co-founder John L. Goldwater) and Michael Silberkleit, returning the publisher to private ownership. * Noble Comics, original publisher of ''Justice Machine'', ceases publication. Texas Comics picks up the title, publishing the ''Justice Machine Annual'', feat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kevin Eastman
Kevin Brooks Eastman (born May 30, 1962) is an American comics artist, comic book artist and writer best known for co-creating the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles with Peter Laird. Eastman was also formerly the editor and publisher of the magazine ''Heavy Metal (magazine), Heavy Metal''. Early life and career Eastman was born in Springvale, ME. He attended Westbrook High School (Maine), Westbrook High School in Westbrook, Maine, with comic book illustrator Steve Lavigne. He grew up a comic book fan, with Jack Kirby as his idol and ''Kamandi'' as his favorite title of his. In 1983 he worked in a restaurant while he searched for publishers for his comics. He met a waitress who was attending the University of Massachusetts Amherst and followed her to Northampton, Massachusetts. While searching for a local underground newspaper to publish his work, he began a professional relationship with Peter Laird, who worked at nearby Dover, New Hampshire, and the two collaborated for a short ti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warren Publishing
Warren Publishing was an American magazine company founded by James Warren (publisher), James Warren, who published his first magazines in 1957 and continued in the business for decades. Magazines published by Warren include ''After Hours (magazine), After Hours'', ''Creepy (magazine), Creepy'', ''Eerie'', ''Famous Monsters of Filmland'', ''Help! (magazine), Help!'', and ''Vampirella''. Initially based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the company moved by 1965 to New York City. Publishing history Founding Begun by James Warren, Warren Publishing's initial publications were the horror fiction, horror-fantasy--science fiction movie magazine ''Famous Monsters of Filmland'' and ''Monster World'', both edited by Forrest J Ackerman. Warren soon published ''Spacemen (magazine), Spacemen'' magazine and in 1960 ''Help! (magazine), Help!'' magazine, with the first employee of the magazine being Gloria Steinem. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hanco Kolk
Hanco Kolk (born 11 March 1957, Den Helder) is a Dutch cartoonist and comics artist. He is best known for his collaborations with Peter de Wit, with who he made '' Gilles de Geus'' and ''S1NGLE' Kolk married author Isabelle Rosselin in 2016. Biography Kolk made his debut in the Dutch underground comics magazine ''Tante Leny presenteert!''. In 1980 he was one of the founders of ''Studio Arnhem'', a collective of comics artists and writers. After working anonymous for the magazine ''Donald Duck'' for several years he went to the magazine '' Eppo'', where he made the humoristic historical adventure comics series '' Gilles de Geus'' together with Peter de Wit from 1983 to 2003. Kolk and De Wit often work together and have created comics such as the photo novel ''Mannetje & Mannetje'' (''Sidekicks'' in English; 1988), which was adapted into a TV sketch show for VPRO in 1989 and the gag-a-day comic ''S1NGLE'' (2001), which was also adapted for television as a sitcom on NET 5. The m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gilles De Geus
Gilles de Geus ("Gilles de Geus") is a Dutch humoristic/historical comics series, created by Hanco Kolk and Peter de Wit in 1983. It is set in the 16th and 17th centuries during the Eighty Years' War and features the adventures of Gilles, a brave but not always too bright resistance fighter who is part of the Geuzen, an army who fight the Spanish oppressor in the Netherlands. The series has been compared to ''Asterix'' for being a humoristic comics series set in a historical time period, containing a lot of satirical winks and references. The series has been translated into English as "Bryant the Brigand" and was published by Alibris. It has also been translated into Spanish as ''Tristán el salteador''. Concept "Gilles de Geus" was pre-published in the Dutch comics magazine '' Eppo'' and later in ''Sjors en Sjimmie Stripblad''. Originally it was a gag-a-day comic, drawn by Hanco Kolk and written by Wilbert Plijnaar, with stories that lasted only a few pages and were mostly ab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blueberry (comics)
''Blueberry'' is a Western comic series created in the Franco-Belgian ''bandes dessinées'' (BD) tradition by the Belgian scriptwriter Jean-Michel Charlier and French comics artist Jean "Mœbius" Giraud. It chronicles the adventures of Mike Steve Donovan alias Blueberry on his travels through the American Old West. Blueberry is an atypical western hero; he is not a wandering lawman who brings evil-doers to justice, nor a handsome cowboy who "rides into town, saves the ranch, becomes the new sheriff and marries the schoolmarm".R.J.M. Lofficier: Before Nick Fury, There was... Lieutenant Blueberry in Marvel Age #79 October, 1989. In any situation, he sees what he thinks needs doing, and he does it. The series spawned out of the 1963 ''Fort Navajo'' comics series, originally intended as an ensemble narrative, but which quickly gravitated around the breakout character "Blueberry" as the main and central character after the first two stories, causing the series to continue under his n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Giraud
Jean Henri Gaston Giraud (; 8 May 1938 – 10 March 2012) was a French artist, cartoonist, and writer who worked in the Bandes dessinées, Franco-Belgian ''bandes dessinées'' (BD) tradition. Giraud garnered worldwide acclaim under the pseudonym Mœbius (; ), as well as Gir () outside the English-speaking world, used for the ''Blueberry (comics), Blueberry'' series—his most successful creation in the non-English speaking parts of the world—and his Western (genre), Western-themed paintings. Esteemed by Federico Fellini, Stan Lee, and Hayao Miyazaki, among others,Screech, Matthew. 2005. Moebius/Jean Giraud: ''Nouveau Réalisme'' and Science fiction. in Libbie McQuillan (ed) "The Francophone bande dessinée" Rodopi. p. 1 he has been described as the most influential ''bande dessinée'' artist after Hergé. His most famous works include the series ''Blueberry'', created with writer Jean-Michel Charlier, featuring one of the first antiheroes in Western comics. As Mœbius, he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Michel Charlier
Jean-Michel Charlier (; 30 October 1924 – 10 July 1989) was a Belgian comics writer. He was a co-founder of the famed Franco-Belgian comics magazine ''Pilote''. Life Charlier was born in Liège, Belgium, in 1924.De Weyer, Geert (2005). "Jean-Michel Charlier". In België gestript, . Tielt: Lannoo. In 1945 he got a job as a draughtsman in Brussels with World Press, the syndicate of Georges Troisfontaines, which worked mainly for '' Spirou'' magazine. The following year he and artist Victor Hubinon created the four-page comic strip ''L'Agonie du Bismarck''. Charlier wrote the script and also drew the ships and airplanes. In 1947, Charlier and Hubinon began the long-running air-adventure comic strip ''Buck Danny''. After a few years, Charlier stopped all work on the drawings and concentrated only on the scenarios, on the advice of Jijé, then the senior artist at ''Spirou''. Unable to support himself writing comic scripts at a time when Dupuis concentrated almost solely on t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Comic Company
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of the archaic pron ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elementals (Comico Comics)
''Elementals'' was an American superhero comic book first published in 1984 and created by Bill Willingham, for which he was both writer and artist. Published by Comico Comics, it lasted until 1996, including a series of specials and miniseries. Comico's publisher, Andrew Rev, purchased the ''Elementals'' property from Willingham in the 1990s. Fictional setting When a centuries-old sorcerer named Lord Saker built a machine called the Shadowspear to harness the supernatural powers of the world, he upset the natural order of the universe. In response, the four elements, unimaginably powerful spirits who together formed the foundation of existence, each chose an ordinary human who had been killed by their element, and resurrected him or her. They granted each control of that particular element, eternal youth, and the ability to heal from any wound (given sufficient time). Characters The team consisted of: *Morningstar, aka Jeanette Crane, a Los Angeles homicide detective who had ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Willingham
William Willingham (born 1956) is an American writer and artist of comics, known for his work on the series ''Elementals (Comico Comics), Elementals'' and ''Fables (comics), Fables''. Career William Willingham was born in Fort Belvoir, Virginia. During his father's military career the family also lived in Alaska, California, and finally three years in Germany. Willingham got his start from the late 1970s to early 1980s as a staff artist for TSR, Inc., where he illustrated a number of their role-playing game products. He was the cover artist for the ''AD&D Player Character Record Sheets'', ''Against the Giants'', ''Secret of Bone Hill'', the Gamma World book ''Legion of Gold'', and provided the back cover for ''Scourge of the Slave Lords, In the Dungeons of the Slave Lords''. He was an interior artist on ''White Plume Mountain'', ''Scourge of the Slave Lords, Slave Pits of the Undercity'', ''Ghost Tower of Inverness'', ''Secret of the Slavers Stockade'', ''Secret of Bone Hill'', '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Texas Comics
Texas Comics was an American independent comics company set up in 1983 by several Texas-based comic book fans, who had worked together before on the ''Comics Informer'' fanzine. Texas Comics licensed the then-popular superhero series Justice Machine from its creator Mike Gustovich after his previous publisher Noble Comics had closed. Texas Comics was operated out of the offices of the retailer Camelot Comics. Texas Comics had planned to bring out a bimonthly ''Justice Machine'' series, but in the end only produced one comic, the ''Justice Machine Annual''. This, however, was significant because it contained the first appearance of Bill Willingham's '' Elementals'', as well as a crossover between the Justice Machine and the T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents,Sodaro, Robert J. "The Resplendent Sound of T.H.U.N.D.E.R.!" ''Comics Value Annual'' (1999). Archived oThunderAgents.com Accessed Feb. 8, 2014. a famous 1960s superhero team originally published by Tower Comics Tower Comics was an Americ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Justice Machine
The Justice Machine is a fictional team of superheroes originally created by Michael Gustovich and appearing in comic books from many small publishers in the 1980s and 1990s. Publication history Justice Machine debuted in Noble Comics' ''Justice Machine'' #1 (June 1981), created by writer-penciler Michael Gustovich, with the first issue cover penciled by John Byrne and inked by Gustovich. This initial series lasted five issues, cover-dated Winter 1981, April 1982, Fall 1982, and Winter 1983. The first three issues were published in magazine format. An annual publication, ''Justice Machine Annual'' #1 (1983) was published by Texas Comics, and featured a crossover with the then-defunct Tower Comics' superhero team T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents, by writer William Messner-Loebs (as Bill Loeb) and penciler Bill Reinhold. A second story, by writer-penciler Bill Willingham, introduced the superhero team the Elementals. This led to a miniseries, ''Justice Machine featuring the Elementals' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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