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Brian Lewis (illustrator)
Brian Moncrieff Lewis (3 June 1929 – 4 December 1978)Steve Holland Bear Alley, 3 June 2008 was a British science fiction illustrator, comics artist, and animator. In the 1950s, he illustrated covers for pulp magazines like ''New Worlds (magazine), New Worlds'', ''Science Fantasy (magazine), Science Fantasy'', and ''Science Fiction Adventures (British magazine), Science Fiction Adventures''. In the 1960s, he drew adventure comic strips for ''Tiger (Fleetway), Tiger'', ''Boys' World'', ''Hurricane'', and ''Eagle (comic), Eagle''. He also used a more cartoony style to draw humor comic strips for ''Wham! (comics), Wham!'', ''Smash! (comics), Smash'', ''Cor!!'', and ''Buster (comics), Buster''. In the 1970s, Lewis focused on comics adaptations of television and horror film properties. Biography Lewis served in the Royal Air Force, and became involved in science fiction fandom in the early 1950s. His first professional illustration was for the ''Radio Times'', and he began contri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pulp Magazines
Pulp magazines (also referred to as "the pulps") were inexpensive fiction magazines that were published from 1896 to the late 1950s. The term "pulp" derives from the cheap wood pulp paper on which the magazines were printed. In contrast, magazines printed on higher-quality paper were called "glossies" or "slicks". The typical pulp magazine had 128 pages; it was wide by high, and thick, with ragged, untrimmed edges. The pulps gave rise to the term pulp fiction in reference to run-of-the-mill, low-quality literature. Pulps were the successors to the penny dreadfuls, dime novels, and short-fiction magazines of the 19th century. Although many respected writers wrote for pulps, the magazines were best known for their lurid, exploitative, and sensational subject matter, even though this was but a small part of what existed in the pulps. Successors of pulps include paperback books, digest magazines, and men's adventure magazines. Modern superhero comic books are sometimes considered ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Max Ernst
Max Ernst (2 April 1891 – 1 April 1976) was a German (naturalised American in 1948 and French in 1958) painter, sculptor, printmaker, graphic artist, and poet. A prolific artist, Ernst was a primary pioneer of the Dada movement and Surrealism in Europe. He had no formal artistic training, but his experimental attitude toward the making of art resulted in his invention of frottage (surrealist technique), frottage—a technique that uses pencil rubbings of textured objects and relief surfaces to create images—and Grattage (art), grattage, an analogous technique in which paint is scraped across canvas to reveal the imprints of the objects placed beneath. Ernst is noted for his unconventional drawing methods as well as for creating novels and pamphlets using the method of collages. He served as a soldier for four years during World War I, and this experience left him shocked, traumatised and critical of the modern world. During World War II he was designated an "undesirable forei ... [...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] |
House Of Hammer
''The House of Hammer'' was a British black-and-white magazine featuring articles and comics related to the Hammer Film Productions series of horror and science fiction films. The brainchild of Dez Skinn,Dakin, John. "'Marvel Revolution' in England," ''The Comics Journal'' #45 (Mar. 1979), p. 14. almost every issue of the magazine featured a comics adaptations of a Hammer film, as well as an original comics backup story, such as the long-running feature ''Van Helsing's Terror Tales''. Contributors to the magazine included some of the UK's top comics talents, such as Steve Moore, Brian Bolland, John Bolton, Trevor Goring, David Lloyd, John Stokes, and Brian Lewis. Lewis painted most of the covers, usually featuring the Hammer film being adapted in comics form in the interior pages. Regular columns by Denis Gifford and Ramsey Campbell were also part of the mix. Known colloquially as "''HoH''," the magazine endured a few name changes, becoming ''Hammer's House of Horror'', the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dez Skinn
Derek "Dez" Skinn (born 4 February 1951) Miller, John Jackson"Comics Industry Birthdays" ''Comics Buyer's Guide'', 10 June 2005. Accessed 14 August 2010WebCitation archive is a British comic and magazine editor, and author of a number of books on comics. As head of Marvel Comics' operations in England in the late 1970s, Skinn reformatted existing titles, launched new ones, and acquired the BBC license for '' Doctor Who Weekly''. After leaving Marvel UK, Skinn founded and edited ''Warrior'', which featured key works by Alan Moore. Called by some the "British Stan Lee," Skinn is one of British comics' most influential figures. He has also caused no small amount of controversy in his career, specifically related to legal issues regarding his publishing new adventures of the 1950s character Marvelman, as well as charges of plagiarism about Skinn's 2004 book ''Comix: The Underground Revolution''. Fandom Skinn first came to prominence in the world of British comics fandom. As a tee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TV Action
''Countdown'' was a British comic published weekly by Polystyle Publications – ultimately, under several different titles – from early 1971 to late summer 1973. The pages in each issue were numbered in reverse order, with page 1 at the end – a gimmick which was derived from the comic's title in order to create a ''countdown'' to the number one every week. ''Countdown'' initially featured many comic strips based on Gerry Anderson's Supermarionation TV shows which had been popular throughout the 1960s. (Much of this material was reprinted from an earlier publication called ''TV Century 21''.) The principle exceptions to this were the ''Doctor Who'' strip, which had previously appeared in Polystyle's long-established title ''TV Comic'', the Anderson's new live-action series ''UFO'', and (from issue 35) the Roger Moore/Tony Curtis vehicle ''The Persuaders!''. It was a high-quality (but expensive) publication, featuring full-colour art on the cover and on many of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Countdown (Polystyle Publications)
''Countdown'' was a British comic published weekly by Polystyle Publications – ultimately, under several different titles – from early 1971 to late summer 1973. The pages in each issue were numbered in reverse order, with page 1 at the end – a gimmick which was derived from the comic's title in order to create a ''countdown'' to the number one every week. ''Countdown'' initially featured many comic strips based on Gerry Anderson's Supermarionation TV shows which had been popular throughout the 1960s. (Much of this material was reprinted from an earlier publication called ''TV Century 21''.) The principle exceptions to this were the ''Doctor Who'' strip, which had previously appeared in Polystyle's long-established title ''TV Comic'', the Anderson's new live-action series ''UFO'', and (from issue 35) the Roger Moore/Tony Curtis vehicle ''The Persuaders!''. It was a high-quality (but expensive) publication, featuring full-colour art on the cover and on many of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
