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Classic Star Wars
''Classic Star Wars'' is a series of various classic ''Star Wars'' comics reprinted by Dark Horse Comics between 1992 and 1996. It notably includes compilations of the weekly newspaper ''Star Wars'' comic strips written by Archie Goodwin and illustrated by Al Williamson; these were published as 20 single issues between 1992 and 1994 with new cover art by Williamson and others, and collected as three trade paperbacks between 1994 and 1996. While originally achromatic, these comics were colorized for the Dark Horse reprints. The ''Classic Star Wars'' banner also includes reprints of Marvel's original adaptations of the original trilogy from the self-titled comic (over two issues each in 1994, with new colorization in the case of ''A New Hope''), Russ Manning's comic strip (as ''Classic Star Wars: The Early Adventures''), a reprint of issue #98 of Marvel's ''Star Wars'' (as ''Classic Star Wars: The Vandelhelm Mission''), and various colorized comics originally printed by Marvel UK ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Star Wars Comics
''Star Wars'' comics have been produced by various comic book publishers since the debut of the 1977 film ''Star Wars (film), Star Wars''. Marvel Comics launched its Star Wars (1977 comic book), original series in 1977, beginning with a six-issue comic adaptation of the film and running for 107 issues, including an adaptation of ''The Empire Strikes Back''. Marvel also released an adaptation of ''Return of the Jedi'' and spin-offs based on ''Star Wars: Droids, Droids'' and ''Ewoks (TV series), Ewoks''. A Star Wars (comic strip), self-titled comic strip ran in American newspapers between 1979 and 1984. Blackthorne Publishing released a three-issue run of stereoscopy, 3-D comics from 1987 to 1988. Dark Horse Comics published the limited series (comics), limited series ''Dark Empire'' in 1991, and ultimately produced over 100 ''Star Wars'' titles, including ''Tales of the Jedi (comics), Tales of the Jedi'' (1993–1998), ''Star Wars: X-wing – Rogue Squadron, X-wing: Rogue Squadro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adam Hughes
Adam Hughes (born May 5, 1967) is an American comics artist and illustrator best known to American comic book readers for his renderings of pinup-style female characters, and his cover work on titles such as ''Wonder Woman'' and ''Catwoman''. He is known as one of comics' foremost cheesecake artists, and one of the best known and most distinctive comic book cover artists. Throughout his career Hughes has provided illustration work for companies such as DC Comics, Marvel Comics, Dark Horse Comics, Lucasfilm, Warner Bros. Pictures, ''Playboy'' magazine, Joss Whedon's Mutant Enemy Productions, and Sideshow Collectibles. He is also a fixture at comics conventions where his commissioned sketches command long lines. Early life Adam Hughes was born on May 5, 1967 in Riverside Township, New Jersey and grew up in Florence Township, New Jersey, Florence, where he attended a private elementary school. He stayed in Florence until he was 24. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Splinter Of The Mind's Eye
''Splinter of the Mind's Eye'' is a 1978 science-fiction novel written by Alan Dean Foster as a sequel to the film '' Star Wars'' (1977). Originally published in 1978 by Del Rey, a division of Ballantine Books, the book was written with the intention of being adapted as a low-budget sequel to ''Star Wars'' in case the original film was not successful enough to finance a high-budget sequel. ''Splinter of the Mind's Eye'' was the first '' Star Wars'' novel with an original storyline published after the release of the original film, and is thus considered, alongside the ''Star Wars'' newspaper comic strip and Marvel's 1977 comic series, to mark the beginning of the ''Star Wars'' Expanded Universe. The story focuses on Luke Skywalker and Princess Leia, who are marooned together on the world of Mimban, where they encounter the locals and struggle against the forces of the evil Galactic Empire, including Darth Vader. Background and publication In 1976, Alan Dean Foster was co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Future Plc
Future plc is an international multimedia company established in the United Kingdom in 1985. The company has over 220 brands that span magazines, newsletters, websites, and events in fields such as video games, technology, films, music, photography, home, and knowledge. Zillah Byng-Thorne has been CEO since 2014. The company is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index. History 1985–2012 The company was founded as Future Publishing in Somerton, Somerset, England, in 1985 by Chris Anderson with the sole magazine ''Amstrad Action''. An early innovation was the inclusion of free software on magazine covers; they were the first company to do so. It acquired GP Publications so establishing Future US in 1994. From 1995 to 1997, the company published ''Arcane'', a magazine which largely focused on tabletop games. Anderson sold Future to Pearson plc for £52.7m in 1994, but bought it back in 1998, with Future chief executive Greg Ingham and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Library Of American Comics
Library of American Comics (abbreviated as LoAC) is an American publisher of classic United States, American comic strips collections and comic history books, founded by Dean Mullaney and Bruce Canwell in 2007. History Background Dean Mullaney, the founder of the ''Library of American Comics'', developed his interest for comics in his early youth and by the 1970s he was a so-called letterhack, regularly sending in letters of comment to the Marvel Comics, Marvel comic books' letter pages. His career in comics began in 1977 when he, together with his brother Jan Mullaney as well as Don McGregor and Paul Gulacy, launched the publishing company Eclipse Comics, famous for publishing the graphic novel ''Sabre (Eclipse Comics), Sabre''. After some time at Eclipse Comics, Mullaney left the comics industry. In 2006, Mullaney was thinking about making a return to comics, and he found an online article about ''Sabre'' written by Bruce Canwell, a former DC Comics and Marvel Comics employee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ralph McQuarrie
Ralph Angus McQuarrie (; June 13, 1929 – March 3, 2012) was an American conceptual designer and illustrator. His career included work on the original ''Star Wars'' trilogy, the original ''Battlestar Galactica'' television series, the film '' E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial'', and the film '' Cocoon'', for which he won an Academy Award. Early life Ralph McQuarrie was born on June 13, 1929 in Gary, Indiana and was raised on a farm near Billings, Montana. He served in the United States Army during the Korean War, surviving a shot to the head. After returning from the war, McQuarrie moved to California in the 1960s, studying at the Art Center School, then in downtown Los Angeles. Career McQuarrie initially worked for a dentistry firm, illustrating teeth and equipment, before working as an Artist and Preliminary Design Illustrator for the Boeing Company, where he drew diagrams for a manual on constructing the 747 Jumbo Jet, as well as designing film posters and animating CBS News' co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russ Cochran (publisher)
Russ Cochran (; July 3, 1937 – February 23, 2020) was a publisher of EC Comics reprints, Disney comics, and books on Hopalong Cassidy, Chet Atkins, Les Paul, and vacuum tubes. He was a publisher for over 30 years, after quitting his job as a physics professor. His EC Comics reprints included the black-and-white '' The Complete EC Library'', the four-color '' EC Annuals'', and the full-color hardcover EC Archives. In 1982, he was awarded an Inkpot Award. Cochran was associated with Another Rainbow Publishing, Gladstone Publishing, and Gemstone Publishing. EC Comics reprints Cochran's reprints (which have been released through a number of publishers, including Cochran himself) were compiled primarily from copies of the original artwork pages (complemented when necessary by scans of the original printed comics), which were owned by EC Publisher William Gaines. Cochran befriended Gaines and also handled the resale of the original artwork to collectors via mail-auction catalogs duri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marvel Epic Collection
''Marvel Ultimate Collections''/''Complete Collections'', ''Complete Epics'' and ''Epic Collections'' are large, full-color Trade paperback (comics), trade paperback collections of previously published Marvel Comics, Marvel comics, typically containing 300–500 pages. The ''Ultimate Collection''/''Complete Collection'' Line (comics), lines collect entire runs of one title, or related titles by one creator. The ''Complete Epic'' line collects large crossovers spanning several titles. The ''Epic Collection'' line is a numbered collection of sequential issues of one title, sometimes including crossovers from related titles, starting from the beginning of a character. This collection is not released sequentially, as the priority is to fill in periods not covered by previous collections. ''Ultimate Collection''s/''Complete Collection''s ''Complete Epic''s ''Epic Collection''s Aliens Amazing Spider-Man Ant-Man/Giant-Man Avengers Avengers West Coast Black Panthe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Han Solo At Stars' End
''The Han Solo Adventures'' is a trilogy of novels set in the ''Star Wars'' fictional universe by American science-fiction novelist Brian Daley. It follows the smuggling days of Han Solo and Chewbacca two years before the events of the original ''Star Wars'' film. The books were released in 1979–1980, making them the first non-movie ''Star Wars'' books published, except for ''Splinter of the Mind's Eye'' (1978). They were also the last published until ''The Adventures of Lando Calrissian'' trilogy in 1983; both trilogies were originally published by Del Rey, a division of Ballantine Books. The three Han Solo books were also published as an omnibus edition in 1992. The events of the series are incorporated into the ''Star Wars'' Expanded Universe by being contextualized in interludes in ''Rebel Dawn'' (1998), the final book of Ann C. Crispin's '' Han Solo Trilogy''. Works ''Han Solo at Stars' End'' ''Han Solo at Stars' End'' is the first book of the trilogy. It was publis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Stokes (comics)
John Stokes is a British comics artist who has largely worked for IPC and Marvel UK and is best known for his work on '' Fishboy''. Biography Stokes got into the comics industry thanks to his brother, George Stokes, who already worked for IPC. He lived in India until the age of 8 or 9, and when he came to England the first comic work he saw was that of his brother and colleagues, as well the comic ''Eagle'', which launched around the same time. This sparked a lifelong interest in comics and he moved from drawing comics in his spare time at school and trying not to draw comics at art school (where his interest was discouraged), to doing it professionally, starting in the early 1960s. He worked, largely uncredited (as was the practice at the time), for IPC for 16 years where, among other things, he drew all 360 installments of '' Fishboy'' as well as a number of other '' Buster'' strips. From 1964 to 1967, he also drew the strip ''Britain in Chains'' (later editions were entit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Moore
Alan Moore (born 18 November 1953) is an English author known primarily for his work in comic books including ''Watchmen'', ''V for Vendetta'', ''The Ballad of Halo Jones'', ''Swamp Thing'', ''Batman:'' ''The Killing Joke'', and ''From Hell''. He is widely recognised among his peers and critics as one of the best comic book writers in the English language. Moore has occasionally used such pseudonyms as Curt Vile, Jill de Ray, Brilburn Logue, and Translucia Baboon; also, reprints of some of his work have been credited to The Original Writer when Moore requested that his name be removed. Moore started writing for British underground and alternative fanzines in the late 1970s before achieving success publishing comic strips in such magazines as '' 2000 AD'' and ''Warrior''. He was subsequently picked up by DC Comics as "the first comics writer living in Britain to do prominent work in America", where he worked on major characters such as Batman ('' Batman: The Killing Joke'') ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marvel UK
Marvel UK was an imprint of Marvel Comics formed in 1972 to reprint US-produced stories for the British weekly comic market. Marvel UK later produced original material by British creators such as Alan Moore, John Wagner, Dave Gibbons, Steve Dillon, and Grant Morrison. There were a number of editors in charge of overseeing the UK editions. Although based in the United States, Tony Isabella oversaw the establishment of Marvel UK. He was succeeded by UK-based editors Peter L. Skingley (a.k.a. Peter Allan) and then Matt Softly – both of whom were women who adopted male pen names for the job (in reality, they were Petra Skingley and Maureen Softly). They were then replaced by Neil Tennant, who later found fame with the pop group the Pet Shop Boys. Nick Laing succeeded him, but with a turbulent market and falling sales, Laing was let go and Dez Skinn took over. Skinn revived much of the brand in his two years on the job, and was then succeeded by Bernie Jaye (another woman with a mal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
