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Eric Powell (March 3, 1975) is an American comic book writer/artist, best known as the creator of ''The Goon''. Career Powell has written and provided artwork for Dark Horse Comics, Dark Horse, DC Comics and Marvel Comics, but is most regarded for his original series ''The Goon'', which debuted from the small publisher Avatar Press. Powell quickly switched to self-publishing under the moniker Albatross Exploding Funny Books,Johnston, Rich"Eric Powell Brings The Goon & Albatross Funnybooks Back To Dark Horse,"''Bleeding Cool'' (September 20, 2022). before being picked up by Dark Horse after only a handful of issues. ''The Goon'''s quality was recognized with an Eisner Award in 2004 for Eisner Award for Best Single Issue/One-Shot, Best Single Issue (Dark Horse ''The Goon'' #1) as well as an International Horror Guild award. The following year, Powell won Eisner's Best Humor Publication and Best Continuing Series awards. He is a featured interviewee in the movie ''Independents''. Po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Goon
''The'' () is a grammatical Article (grammar), article in English language, English, denoting persons or things already mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the Most common words in English, 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 pronouns 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 s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2008 In Comics
Events January *January 9: ''Teen Titans: The Lost Annual'', delayed since 2003, is published. * January 17: Trik wins the ''Inktspotprijs'' for ''Best Political Cartoon''. *January 22: Webcomic '' Yehuda Moon and the Kickstand Cyclery'' by Rick Smith begins publication. *January 23: ''Hellblazer'' #240, marking the 20th anniversary of the series, is released. February * Ji Kangmin begins the Korean webcomic ''Welcome to Convenience Store'' March *March 5: '' Fables: 1001 Nights of Snowfall'' by Bill Willingham softcover edition released under the Vertigo imprint. April * April 1: Acclaimed historian, political scientist and social critic Howard Zinn releases ''A People's History of American Empire''. The book was co-authored by historian Paul Buhle and cartoonist Mike Konopacki. *April 3: Graphic novel '' Britten and Brülightly'' by Hannah Berry is published by Random House under their Jonathan Cape imprint *April 7: Jessica Hagy's webcomic ''Indexed'' is voted best blo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Avatar Press
Avatar Press is an independent American comic book publisher founded in 1996 by William A. Christensen, and based in Rantoul, Illinois. Avatar Press is most notable for publishing Bad girl art, bad girl comics, such as ''Faust (Avatar Press), Faust'', ''Pandora (comics), Pandora'', ''Hellina'', ''Lookers'', ''The Ravening'', and Brian Pulido's ''Lady Death''. Such comics are currently published under the "Boundless Comics" imprint. Avatar has a strong web presence, anchored by Warren Ellis' ''FreakAngels'' webcomic, as well as the comics news site Bleeding Cool, helmed by Rich Johnston. History Publisher Christensen had been a freelance contributor to ''Wizard (magazine), Wizard'' magazine before founding Avatar Press. The company initially published only Limited series (comics), limited series. Avatar subsequently expanded to other formats. As part of an effort to expand beyond its reputation as a Bad girl art, bad girl publisher, Avatar offered a number of noted creators an o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harold Schechter
Harold Schechter (born June 28, 1948) is an American true crime writer who specializes in serial killers. He is a Professor Emeritus at Queens College, City University of New York where he taught classes in American literature and myth criticism for forty-two years. Schechter's essays have appeared in numerous publications including ''The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times'', and the ''International Herald Tribune''. He is the editor of the Library of America volume, ''True Crime: An American Anthology''. His newest book, published in March 2021, is ''Maniac: The Bath School Disaster and the Birth of the Modern Mass Killer''. Education Schechter attended the State University of New York at Buffalo where his PhD director was Leslie Fiedler. He is also a 1969 graduate of City College of New York. Career Schechter is Professor Emeritus at Queens College, and specializes in American true crime, specifically serial murders of the 19th and early 20th cen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ed Gein
Edward Theodore Gein (; August 27, 1906 – July 26, 1984), also known as the Butcher of Plainfield or the Plainfield Ghoul, was an American murderer and body snatcher. Gein's crimes, committed around his hometown of Plainfield, Wisconsin, gathered widespread notoriety in 1957 after authorities discovered that he had exhumed corpses from local graveyards and fashioned trophies and keepsakes from their bones and skin. Gein also confessed to killing two women: tavern owner Mary Hogan, in 1954, and hardware store owner Bernice Worden, in 1957. Gein was initially found unfit to stand trial and confined to a mental health facility. By 1968, he was judged competent to stand trial; he was found guilty of the murder of Worden, but he was found legally insane and was remanded to a psychiatric institution. He died at Mendota Mental Health Institute from respiratory failure, on July 26, 1984, aged 77. He is buried next to his family in the Plainfield Cemetery, in a now-unmarked grave. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Dark Horse Book Of The Dead
''The Dark Horse Book of...'' was the banner title given to a series of four Dark Horse Comics one-shot hardcover comic book horror anthologies edited by Scott Allie and featuring the work of Mike Mignola and others. In 2017 Dark Horse collected all four volumes together in ''The Dark Horse Book of Horror''. Volumes ''The Dark Horse Book of Hauntings'' This first volume was published on August 27, 2003 and featured Mike Mignola's only new ''Hellboy'' story for that year as well as a new ''Devil's Footprints'' story, a Victorian ghost story illustrated by Gary Gianni, and an interview with real-life séance medium L.L. Dreller. In his introduction editor Scott Allie states that he has loved anthologies for as long as he can remember and that the theme for this anthology came from the ''Hellboy'' story about a haunted house contributed by Mike Mignola, although he would later expand the remit somewhat to fit the works of Randy Stradler and others. Jill Thompson won the 2004 "B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kurt Busiek
Kurt Busiek ( ) (born September 16, 1960) is an American comic book writer. His work includes the ''Marvels'' limited series, his own series titled ''Astro City'', a four-year run on ''The Avengers (comic book), The Avengers, Thunderbolts (comics), Thunderbolts'' and ''Superman (comic book), Superman.'' Early life Busiek was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He grew up in various towns in the Boston area, including Lexington, Massachusetts, Lexington, where he befriended future comic book creator Scott McCloud. Busiek did not read comics as a youngster, as his parents disapproved of them. He began to read them regularly around the age of 14, when he picked up a copy of ''Daredevil (Marvel Comics series), Daredevil'' #120 (April 1975). This was the first part of a continuity-heavy four-part story arc; Busiek was drawn to the copious history and cross-connections with other series. Throughout high school and college, he and McCloud practiced making comics. The pair also contributed to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albatross Exploding Funny Books
Eric Powell (March 3, 1975) is an American comic book writer/artist, best known as the creator of ''The Goon''. Career Powell has written and provided artwork for Dark Horse, DC Comics and Marvel Comics, but is most regarded for his original series ''The Goon'', which debuted from the small publisher Avatar Press. Powell quickly switched to self-publishing under the moniker Albatross Exploding Funny Books,Johnston, Rich"Eric Powell Brings The Goon & Albatross Funnybooks Back To Dark Horse,"''Bleeding Cool'' (September 20, 2022). before being picked up by Dark Horse after only a handful of issues. ''The Goon'''s quality was recognized with an Eisner Award in 2004 for Best Single Issue (Dark Horse ''The Goon'' #1) as well as an International Horror Guild award. The following year, Powell won Eisner's Best Humor Publication and Best Continuing Series awards. He is a featured interviewee in the movie ''Independents''. Powell co-wrote the first two volumes of IDW's '' Godzilla: Kin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephanie Buscema
John Buscema (; ; born Giovanni Natale Buscema, December 11, 1927 – January 10, 2002)Social Security Death Index for Buscema, John N., Social Security Number 108-20-9641. was an American comic book artist and one of the mainstays of Marvel Comics during its 1960s and 1970s ascendancy into an industry leader and its subsequent expansion to a major popular culture, pop-culture Conglomerate (company), conglomerate. His younger brother Sal Buscema is also a comic book artist. Buscema is best known for his run on the series ''The Avengers (comic book), The Avengers'' and ''The Silver Surfer (comic book), Silver Surfer'', and for over 200 stories featuring the sword-and-sorcery hero Conan the Barbarian. In addition, he penciller, pencilled at least one issue of nearly every major Marvel title, including long runs on two of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trade Paperback (comics)
In comics in the United States, a trade paperback (shortened: TPB or trade) is a collection of stories originally published in comic books, reprinted in book format, usually presenting either a complete miniseries, a story arc from a single title, or a series of stories with an arc or common theme. A trade paperback may reproduce the stories either at the same size in which they were originally presented (in comic book format), in a smaller "digest-sized" format, or a larger-than-original hardcover. This article applies to both paperback and hardcover collections. In the comics industry, the term "trade paperback market" may refer to the market for any collection, regardless of its actual cover. A trade paperback differs from a graphic novel in that a graphic novel is usually original material. It is also different from the publishing term '' trade paperback'', which is a book with a flexible cardstock cover that is larger than the standard mass market paperback format. Histor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kyle Hotz
Kyle Hotz is an American Comics artist, comic book artist and Comics writer, writer. His work has appeared in series published by Marvel Comics, DC Comics and Dark Horse Comics. Comics career Hotz graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts, bachelor's degree in fine arts in 1993. While still in the final year he started working as a comic book artist on horror titles such as ''Slash'' and ''Cold Blooded''. After finishing school he was hired by Malibu Comics (later acquired by Marvel Comics) to illustrate the superhero comic ''Night Man''. He was soon noticed by Marvel, who employed him on titles such as Doctor Strange (comic book), ''Doctor Strange'', ''Ghost Rider 2099'' and two ''Carnage (comics), Carnage'' one-shots. He went on to draw most of the popular Marvel characters, such as Spider-Man, Hulk, Captain America and Venom (Marvel Comics character), Venom. In 2000 he co-created the Marvel supervillain ''The Hood'' with writer Brian K. Vaughan and illustrated two eponymous seri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billy The Kid's Old-Timey Oddities
''Billy the Kid's Old Timey Oddities'' is a four issue American comic book limited series published in 2005, by Dark Horse Comics. The series stars a fictional version of Billy the Kid, still alive in the year 1881 after the real life Billy the Kid was allegedly killed by Pat Garrett. Written by Eric Powell, with artwork provided by Kyle Hotz, the series teams Billy the Kid with members of a travelling freak show in a quest to retrieve a powerful object from the castle of Dr. Victor Frankenstein. Characters *Billy the Kid: Based on the historic figure, this fictional version is an uncouth, foul mouthed man. A childhood filled with abuse, that resulted in claustrophobia, is depicted in flashbacks throughout the series. *Fineas Sproule: The owner and leader of Sproule's Biological Curiosities. Sproule has functional hands instead of feet and bills himself as the Human Spider. *Aldwin Callahan: Born with reptilian skin and features, Callahan bills himself as the Alligator Man. *Isa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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