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2023 In Comics
Notable events of 2023 in comics. Events January * January 17: Two years earlier, the Peter R. de Vries foundation and publisher Seb Van der Kaaden launched a series of comic strip adaptations of real-life unsolved Dutch crime cases, drawn by Meinte Strikwerda and Anco Dijkman. Episodes are printed in the newspaper Algemeen Dagblad in their advertising pages. On this day, it is announced that one of the comics about a previously unsolved rape crime in Vlaardingen brought new attention to the case, resulting in the arrest of another suspect. * January 25: French comic artist Riad Sattouf wins the Grand Prix de la ville d'Angoulême. * January 30: It is announced that the Marc Sleen Museum in Brussels will close down in the fall, with part of the collection being integrated into the Belgian Comic Strip Center. February * February 20: French comic artist Jean-Michel Arroyo is sentenced to four years and 30 months of jail time for domestic violence, sexual violence, and de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Earth-1610
Ultimate Marvel, later known as Ultimate Comics, was an imprint of comic books published by Marvel Comics, featuring re-imagined and modernized versions of the company's superhero characters from the Ultimate Marvel Universe. Those characters include Spider-Man, the X-Men, the Ultimates (the Ultimate Marvel Universe counterpart of the Avengers), the Fantastic Four, and others. The imprint was launched in 2000 with the publication of the series ''Ultimate Spider-Man'' and ''Ultimate X-Men'' in 2001, followed by ''The Ultimates'' and ''Ultimate Fantastic Four'' in 2002 and 2004 respectively providing new origin stories for the characters. The reality of Ultimate Marvel is designated as Earth-1610 as part of the Marvel Comics Multiverse. The Ultimate Universe, as a part of a large-scale reboot of the All-New, All-Different Marvel multiverse, ended at the conclusion of the 2015 "Secret Wars" storyline, when select characters from the Ultimate Universe moved to the mainstream univer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lee Garbett
Lee Garbett is a British comic book artist born in the West Midlands. He has worked on British comics. As of February 2011, he is working freelance after a period of exclusivity with DC Comics. Career He created the 4-issue mini-series ''Dark Mists'' with Annika Eade, which follows a group of Geisha blackmailed into becoming assassins. After AP Comics folded the title was picked up and reprinted by Markosia. Lee left the series after issue No. 3 and moved to '' 2000 AD'', most notably on the series ''London Falling'', co-created with Simon Spurrier. He also worked on a ''Judge Dredd'' strip for the Judge Dredd Megazine. He then moved to US publisher, DC Comics and their Wildstorm imprint. There he first worked on '' The Highwaymen'' before working with Keith Giffen on ''Midnighter'' and the DC/Wildstorm Universe crossover ''Dreamwar''. He is also providing the art for the two-part ''Batman'' story which follows the Batman R.I.P. storyline and links into Final Crisis. Lee dre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Becky Cloonan
Becky Cloonan (born 23 June) is an American comic book creator, known for work published by Tokyopop and Vertigo. In 2012 she became the first female artist to draw the main ''Batman'' title for DC Comics.Beck, Laura (February 8, 2013)"Meet the First Lady to Draw Batman Since His Inception in 1939" Jezebel. Early life Becky Cloonan was born in Pisa, Italy. She attended New York's School of Visual Arts. Career Cloonan and her friends produced a comics anthology that they called ''Meathaus''. Cloonan created minicomics as a member of the ''Meathaus'' collective before collaborating with Brian Wood on ''Channel Zero: Jennie One'' in 2003. Since then, her profile (and workload) has steadily risen; her best-known work to date has been the twelve-issue comics series ''Demo'' (2004), also with Wood. '' Wizard'' named ''Demo'' its 2004 Indie of the Year. The series was also nominated for two Eisner Awards in 2005, for Best Limited Series and Best Single Issue or One-Shot (the latter o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elsa Charretier
Elsa may refer to: ELSA (acronym) *ELSA Technology, a manufacturer of computer hardware *English Language Skills Assessment *English Longitudinal Study of Ageing *Ethical, Legal and Social Aspects research *European Law Students' Association * European League of Stuttering Associations *Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Australia, a group in the history of the Lutheran Church of Australia *Experimental light-sport aircraft (E-LSA) People * Elsa (given name), a female given name * Pedro Elsa (1901–unknown), Argentine Olympic athlete Characters * Elsa of Brabant, a character in the 1850 Richard Wagner opera ''Lohengrin'' * Elsa (''Frozen''), fictional character from the Disney animated franchise, ''Frozen'' Places * Elsa, California, a place in California, U.S. * Elsa, Texas, U.S. * Elsa, Yukon, Canada Other * 182 Elsa, an asteroid * ''Elsa'' (album), debut album of Elsa Lunghini * Elsa (river), Tuscany, Italy * Elsa the lioness, subject of the book and film ''Born Free'' * Sto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marc Bernardin
Marc Bernardin (born November 29, 1971) is an American journalist, public speaker, TV and comic book writer, and podcaster. He has served as film editor for the ''Los Angeles Times'' and senior editor for ''The Hollywood Reporter'' and ''Entertainment Weekly''. He has written for '' GQ'', ''Wired'', ''Details'', ''Vulture, Playboy, and'' ''Empire''. He has been a staff writer for ''Castle Rock'', ''Treadstone'' and ''Carnival Row'', and is currently a supervising producer on '' Star Trek: Picard''. Career Bernardin was an intern on '' Star Trek: Deep Space Nine''. He was a staff writer for the Syfy series ''Alphas'', Hulu's series '' Castle Rock'', based on the stories of Stephen King, USA Network’s series ''Treadstone'', based on the Jason Bourne franchise, and Amazon Prime’s fantasy series ''Carnival Row''. He has written comic books for Marvel, DC Comics, Image Comics and several independent comic publishers. He is the co-creator of the DC comic book series ''The'' ''Hig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian Azzarello
Brian Azzarello (born August 11, 1962 in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American comic book writer and screenwriter who first came to prominence with the hardboiled crime series ''100 Bullets'', published by DC Comics' mature-audience imprint Vertigo. Azzarello is best known for his numerous collaborations with artists Eduardo Risso (''100 Bullets'', " Batman: Broken City", '' Spaceman'', ''Moonshine'') and Lee Bermejo ('' Batman/Deathblow'', '' Luthor'', '' Joker'', '' Batman: Damned''), his contributions to the ''Watchmen'' prequel project ''Before Watchmen'' and ''The Dark Knight Returns'' sequel series '' DK III: The Master Race'', as well as for his stints on the long-running Vertigo series ''Hellblazer'' and The New 52 relaunch of the ''Wonder Woman'' title. Early life Azzarello grew up in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, where his mother managed a restaurant and his father was a salesman. As a child, he read monster and war comic books, but avoided the superhero genre. He attended the Clev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mirka Andolfo
Mirka Andolfo (born 17 June 1989) is an Italian comics artist from Naples and creator of the comic book ''Sweet Paprika'' which won the Harvey Award for ''Best International Book'' of 2021. Andolfo has worked with numerous major comic book publishers including DC Comics and BOOM! Studios, contributing to well-known titles such as ''Wonder Woman'', ''The Amazing World of Gumball'', and ''Ms. Marvel''. Biography Career In 2015, Andolfo began working with DC comics. She has worked on a number of series, including '' Hex Wives'', ''Wonder Woman'' and ''Harley Quinn.'' Working with BOOM! Studios, Andolfo created the cover art for and contributed to the writing of ''The Amazing World of Gumball: Spring Break Smash'' in 2019. Matt Gagnon, Editor in Chief at BOOM! Studios, stated that she 'has distinguished herself as one of the most popular writers and artists in comics today.' She has also worked with Marvel Studios as an artist. Andolfo illustrated the cover of the final issue of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DSTLRY
DSTLRY (pronounced "Distillery") is an independent American comic book publisher founded in May 2023. It was founded by David Steinberger and Chip Mosher. DSTLRY publishes original content that is intended to cater to both the collector's experience through its hardcopy books, but which is also published digitally. Digital issues go on sale for a week in which fans are able to buy comics directly from the company, after which owners are able to buy and sell comics on the secondary market. History David Steinberger and Chip Mosher, the co-founder and chief executive officer of comiXology and comiXology head of content respectively, announced on April 13, 2023, a new comics and collectibles publisher called DSTLRY. David Steinberger said that DSTLRY will focus on ethics, creator empowerment, and equity. Along with up-front participation by the founding creators, DSTLRY set aside an additional 3% of company equity to be distributed among the creators who have projects relea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Locals
Locals Technology Inc., also referred to as locals.com, is a creator crowdfunding site cofounded by Dave Rubin and Assaf Lev. It started in 2019 and is based in Miami. The site was founded after Rubin and Jordan Peterson left Patreon in response to its banning of Carl Benjamin for paraphrasing hate speech. The startup raised just over $1 million from 10 506(b) private placement investors in March 2020. Locals announced further funding of $3.8 million on April 20, 2021 led by Craft Ventures. The site deviates from the advertising and views model adopted by traditional social media, in favor of a paywall approach that provides several benefits for both creators and consumers according to interviews. Assaf Lev is the President and CEO; Lev was previously an executive at QualiSystems. Andrew Conru is also a director. Locals was acquired by Rumble in October 2021. Notable creators * Scott Adams * Michael Malice * Dave Rubin * Tulsi Gabbard * David Freiheit * Andy Ngo * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portfolio (publisher)
Portfolio is a division of Penguin Group (USA) and Penguin Random House founded in 2001 by Adrian Zackheim as a business book imprint dedicated to technology, economics, entrepreneurship, biography, and investigative journalism. Some of Portfolio’s bestsellers include ''Start with Why'' by Simon Sinek, ''#Girlboss'' by Sophia Amoruso, ''The Obstacle Is The Way'' by Ryan Holiday, ''Team of Teams'' by General Stanley McChrystal, ''This Is Marketing'' by Seth Godin, ''The Bullet Journal Method'' by Ryder Carroll, ''Brotopia'' by Emily Chang, and ''The Four'' by Scott Galloway Scott Robert Galloway (born 25 April 1995) is an Australian professional football (soccer) player who plays as a fullback for Melbourne City in the A-League. Born in Perth, Galloway played youth football for the Australian Institute of Spor .... Penguin launched Portfolio UK in 2010. References {{reflist External links www.penguin.com/publishers/portfolio Penguin Random House ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dilbert
''Dilbert'' is an American comic strip written and illustrated by Scott Adams, first published on April 16, 1989. It is known for its satirical office humor about a white-collar, micromanaged office with engineer Dilbert as the title character. It has spawned dozens of books, an animated television series, a video game, and hundreds of themed merchandise items. ''Dilbert Future'' and ''The Joy of Work'' are among the most read books in the series. In 1997, Adams received the National Cartoonists Society Reuben Award and the Newspaper Comic Strip Award for his work. ''Dilbert'' appears online and as of 2013 was published daily in 2,000 newspapers in 65 countries and 25 languages. Publication history ''Dilbert'' began syndication by United Feature Syndicate (a division of United Media) in April 1989. On June 3, 2010, United Media sold their licensing arm, along with the rights to ''Dilbert'', to Iconix Brand Group. This led to ''Dilbert'' leaving United Media. In late Decembe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |