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2000 In Comics
Events Year overall * German website Comicforum goes live * Rebellion Developments takes over the '' 2000 AD'' from Fleetway. * The merger of AOL and Time Warner is announced. *In Bologna, the cartoonist Igort and the editor Carlo Barbieri found Coconino press, publishing house specialized in authorial comics; the firm takes its name from the Arizona county, setting of the Krazy Cat’s strips. January * January 3: The final daily episode of Charles M. Schulz' ''Peanuts'' appears in print. The Sunday comics continue one month longer. * January 4: The British comics magazine '' Buster'' ends its run after 40 years. *'' The Voronov plot'', di Yves Sentie e Andrè Juliard, fourteenth episode of the series Blake and Mortimer. *Beginning of Apocalypse: The twelve, a cross-over involving all the X-Men comic books. *''Sotto un nuovo sole'' (Under a new sun) by Alessandro Sisti and Corrado Mastrantuono, marks a turning point for the PKNA series, with the destruction of the evil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Comicforum
Comicforum is an internet forum with a focus on comics that was founded in 2000. Development and content When the forum went online in 2000, it was the only comics-related discussion forum. Various large comic publishers like Carlsen, Egmont Ehapa, and Panini Comics Panini Comics is an Italian comic book publisher. A division of Panini Group, which also produces collectable stickers, it is headquartered in Modena, Italy. The company publishes comic books in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, France, Germany, Hunga ... opened official forums. Carlsen left Comicforum in 2002 and opened new official forums at Comics in Leipzig. In 2004, Panini left as well and opened its own Panini Comics Forum. Carlsen returned to Comicforum in March 2009. However, the Carlsen Manga-Forum remained at Comics in Leipzig until January 2012. Egmont Ehapa abandoned social media and left the Comicforum at the end of 2017. At this time, alongside the large publisher Carlsen, there are many comic publishers lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
X-Men
The X-Men are a superhero team appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics, first appearing in Uncanny X-Men, ''The X-Men'' #1 by artist/co-plotter Jack Kirby and writer/editor Stan Lee in 1963. Although initially cancelled in 1970 due to low sales, following its Giant-Size X-Men, 1975 revival and subsequent direction under writer Chris Claremont, it became one of the most recognizable and successful franchises of Marvel Comics. They have appeared in numerous books, X-Men in television, television shows, the 20th Century Fox X-Men (film series), ''X-Men'' films, and List of video games featuring the X-Men, video games. The ''X-Men'' title may refer to the superhero team itself, X-Men (comic book), the eponymous comic series, or the broader franchise including List of X-Men comics, various solo titles and team books such as the New Mutants, Excalibur (comics), Excalibur, and X-Force. In the Marvel Universe, Mutant (Marvel Comics), mutants are humans who are born ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gotham Knights
Gotham Knight or Gotham Knights refer to: * Batman * '' Batman: Gotham Knight'', a 2008 animated superhero anthology film * '' Batman: Gotham Knights'', a monthly American comic book series that was published by DC Comics * Gotham Knights (rugby union) The Gotham Knights Rugby Football Club is a division III men's club in the Metropolitan New York Rugby Union. Their home pitch is on Randalls Island in Manhattan. The team finished fourth in the 2012 Bingham Cup, an international gay rugby tourn ..., a division III men's club in the Metropolitan New York Rugby Union * ''Gotham Knights'' (video game), a 2022 video game * ''Gotham Knights'' (TV series), an upcoming television series {{Disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Legion Of Super-Heroes
The Legion of Super-Heroes is a fictional superhero team appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. Created by writer Otto Binder and artist Al Plastino, the Legion is a group of superpowered beings living in the 30th and 31st centuries of the , and first appears in '' Adventure Comics'' #247 (April 1958). Initially, the team was closely associated with the original Superboy character ( Superman when he was a teenager), and was portrayed as a group of time travelers. Later, the Legion's origin and back story were fleshed out, and the group was given its own monthly comic. Eventually, Superboy was removed from the team altogether and appeared only as an occasional guest star. The team has undergone two major reboots during its run. The original version was replaced with a new rebooted version following the events of the " Zero Hour" storyline in 1994 and another rebooted team was introduced in 2004. A fourth version of the team, nearly identical to the origi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eightball (comics)
''Eightball'' is a comic book by Daniel Clowes and published by Fantagraphics Books. It ran from 1989 to 2004. The first issue appeared soon after the end of Clowes's previous comic book, ''Lloyd Llewellyn''. ''Eightball'' has been among the best-selling series in alternative comics. Early issues of ''Eightball'' feature a mixture of very short, often crudely humorous comics ("Zubrick and Pogeybait", "The Sensual Santa"), topical rants and satires (" Art School Confidential", "On Sports"), longer, more reflective self-contained stories ("Caricature", "Immortal Invisible"), and serialized works. The first extended story serialized in ''Eightball'' was ''Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron'', which ran in issues #1–10. ''Glove'' was followed by '' Ghost World'' (issues #11–18). Beginning with #19 each issue of ''Eightball'' has been devoted to a single storyline, as opposed to the more eclectic format of the earlier issues. Issues #19–21 serialized the graphic novel ''David B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Boring
''David Boring'' is a graphic novel by American cartoonist Daniel Clowes. It was Serial (literature), serialized in issues #19–21 of Clowes's comic book ''Eightball (comics), Eightball'' and appeared in collected form from Pantheon Books in 2000. The book depicts the misadventures of its eponymous character, whose main interests are finding the "perfect woman" and learning more about his father, an obscure comic artist whom he has never met. All this occurs in a nameless American city, against the background of a looming conflict involving germ warfare. Trying to imagine what a one-sentence sales pitch for ''David Boring'' would sound like, Clowes told an interviewer "It's like Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Fassbinder meets half-baked Vladimir Nabokov, Nabokov on ''Gilligan's Island''." Publication ''David Boring''s three chapters (which Clowes called "acts") first appeared from May 1998 to February 2000 in issues of Clowes's comic book ''Eightball (comics), Eightball'', published ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Clowes
Daniel Gillespie Clowes (; born April 14, 1961) is an American cartoonist, graphic novelist, illustrator, and screenwriter. Most of Clowes's work first appeared in '' Eightball'', a solo anthology comic book series. An ''Eightball'' issue typically contained several short pieces and a chapter of a longer narrative that was later collected and published as a graphic novel, such as ''Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron'' (1993), '' Ghost World'' (1997), ''David Boring'' (2000) and ''Patience'' (2016). Clowes's illustrations have appeared in ''The New Yorker'', ''Newsweek'', ''Vogue'', ''The Village Voice'', and elsewhere. With filmmaker Terry Zwigoff, Clowes adapted ''Ghost World'' into a 2001 film and another ''Eightball'' story into the 2006 film, '' Art School Confidential''. Clowes's comics, graphic novels, and films have received numerous awards, including a Pen Award for Outstanding Work in Graphic Literature, over a dozen Harvey and Eisner Awards, and an Academy Award nomination ... [...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] |
François Corteggiani
François Corteggiani (21 September 1953 – 21 September 2022) was a French comics artist and writer. Biography He was born on 21 September 1953 in France. He got a degree in art before becoming an artist for advertising. He created his first comic in 1974 for ''S.E.P.P.'' and ''Mucheroum'' for '' Spirou'' magazine. He illustrated works for various magazines and then, along with Michel Motti, he drew '' Pif le chien'' for ''Pif gadget''. He also produced Disney comics for ''Le Journal de Mickey''. Taking over more work as scenarist, Corteggiani wrote for several series, among others succeeding 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). ... as writer for '' Young Blueberry''. He died on his 69th birthday. References External links * François Corteggi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tibet (cartoonist)
Tibet (), the pseudonym of Gilbert Gascard (; 29 October 1931 – 3 January 2010), was a French cartoonist in the Franco-Belgian comics tradition. Tibet, who debuted in 1947, is known for work produced for the Franco-Belgian comics magazine ''Tintin'', most notably the long-running series ''Ric Hochet'' and ''Chick Bill''. References Bibliography * ''Chick Bill'', with scripts by Greg, André-Paul Duchâteau, René Goscinny, 71 albums published since 1954, Le Lombard * ''Ric Hochet'', with André-Paul Duchâteau (scenario), 76 albums published since 1963, Le Lombard * ''Le Club des "Peur-de-Rien", with Greg, (scenario), 9 albums published since 1966, Le Lombard * ''El Mocco le terrible'', 1977, Chlorophylle * ''Dave O'Flynn'', 2 albums in 1979, Chlorophylle Chlorophylle was a Belgian comics series and Raymond Macherot's best known work, alongside '' Sibylline''. It is a fantasy comic about anthropomorphic forest animals, including the title character Chlorophylle, who is a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
André-Paul Duchâteau
André-Paul Duchâteau (8 May 1925 – 26 August 2020) was a Belgian comics writer and mystery novelist. Biography He worked with Tibet (comics), Tibet on the detective comics series ''Ric Hochet'' and the more humoristic western comic ''Chick Bill''. He also wrote under the pseudonym Michel Vasseur. Duchâteau additionally wrote several detective novels and radio plays. As a dramatist he is most famous for his play ''5 à 7 Avec La Mort'' (1960), which has been adapted into various media. Duchâteau died on 26 August 2020. Awards *1974: Grand Prix de Littérature Policière - French Prize *2003: Prix Saint-Michel - Best story *2010: Grand Prix Saint-Michel Works *Hans (comic book) Notes External links Duchâteau's official site (French) 1925 births 2020 deaths Writers from Tournai Belgian male novelists Belgian comics writers Belgian radio writers B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
