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Death Rattle (comics)
''Death Rattle'' was an American black-and-white horror anthology comic book series published in three volumes by Kitchen Sink Press in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. ''Death Rattle'' is not related to the Australian one-shot comic ''Death Rattle'', published by Gredown in . Starting out as an underground comix homage to classic horror comics like ''Tales from the Crypt'',Sabin, Roger (1996). "Going underground". ''Comics, Comix & Graphic Novels: A History Of Comic Art''. London, United Kingdom: Phaidon Press. pp. 92; 94–95; 103–107; 110; 111; 116; 119; 124–126; 128. . ''Death Rattle'' did not fall under the purview of the Comics Code, allowing the title to feature stronger content — such as profanity, nudity, and graphic violence — than other comparable horror titles.Fox, M. Steven"Death Rattle, Volume 1" ComixJoint. Accessed Oct. 23, 2016. Publication history ''Death Rattle'' volume 1 was published from June 1972–June 1973 under the Krupp Comic Works imprint, putting ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Corben
Richard Corben (October 1, 1940December 2, 2020) was an American illustrator and comic book artist best known for his comics featured in '' Heavy Metal'' magazine, especially the ''Den'' series which was featured in the magazine's first film adaptation in 1981. He was the winner of the 2009 Spectrum Grand Master Award2009 Spectrum Grand Master Announced from '''' and the 2018 Grand Prix at Angoulême. In 2012 he was elected to the Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame. Biography Richard Corben wa ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Coleman (painter)
Joseph Coleman (born November 22, 1955) is an American painter, illustrator actor and performance artist. He has been described as the "walking ghost of Old America" by his wife, photographer Whitney Ward, for his over-riding interest in the historical arcana and personae that often populate his paintings. Of Coleman's work, the New York Times wrote that, “If P. T. Barnum had hired Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Breughel or Hieronymous Bosch, Bosch to paint sideshow banners, they might have resembled the art of Joe Coleman.” While Berlin's ''Der Tagesspiegel, Tagesspiegel'' said of Coleman, "Like George Grosz, [George] Grosz in the 1920s, he holds a drastic mirror up to his own times." ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Denis Kitchen
Denis Kitchen (born August 27, 1946) is an Americans, American underground comix, underground cartoonist, publisher, author, agent, and the founder of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund. Early life Kitchen grew up in Wisconsin, attending William Horlick High School, Racine, Wisconsin, Racine, where he cofounded and edited ''Klepto'', an unofficial school paper, also contributing stories and illustrations to the paper. He continued this interest at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, where in 1967 he cofounded and served as art director for the humor magazine ''Snide'', also supplying cartoons. He also provided cartoons for the ''UWM Post''. Originally a member of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps, ROTC on campus, Kitchen left ROTC, a decision he later attributed to an allergy to the wool uniform pants ("...had the pants been made out of cotton, I might be a lieutenant colonel today," he later said). He took classes in journalism and started frequenting a local coffeehouse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Ott
Thomas Ott (born 10 June 1966) is a Swiss comic artist. His comics have been published in German-speaking countries, France, the United States, Spain, Denmark, Italy and other places. Ott's often wordless comics feature a dark, grim atmosphere; he works mainly with cutters and scratchboard. Biography After graduating from the School of Design in Zurich in 1987, Ott worked as a comic artist in Zurich and Paris. His first book, ''Tales of Error'', was published by Edition Moderne in 1989. Other books followed with the same publisher as well as the French publisher L'Association. He has worked for ''Strapazin'', ''Lapin'', ''L'Écho des Savanes'' and various newspapers, among other publications. From 1998 to June 2001, Ott studied film at the Zurich School of Art and Design. His diploma film was the 15-minute ''Sjeki vatcsh!!''. In 2013, Ott released another new work after three years: ''Dark Country'' is the story of a nightmarish honeymoon and is a standalone adaptation of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matt Howarth
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Matt may refer to: *Matt (name), people with the given name ''Matt'' or Matthew, meaning "gift from God", or the surname Matt *In British English, of a surface: having a non-glossy finish, see gloss (material appearance) *Matt, Switzerland, a municipality *"Matt", the cartoon by Matthew Pritchett in the UK ''Telegraph'' newspapers See also * Maat (other) * MAT (other) * Mat (other) * Matte (other) * Matthew (name) * Mutt (other) A mutt is a mongrel (a dog of unknown ancestry). Mutt may also refer to: People * Mutt, a derogatory term for mixed-race people Nickname * Larry Black (sprinter) (1951-2006), American sprinter * Mutt Carey (1886–1948), New Orleans jazz trumpe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Sutton
Thomas F. Sutton (April 15, 1937 – May 1, 2002) He enlisted in the U.S. Air Force after graduating from high school in 1955, and worked on art projects while stationed at Fort D.A. Russell (Wyoming), Fort Francis E. Warren, near Laramie, Wyoming. Later, stationed at Itami base in Japan, Sutton created the Caniff-style adventure strip ''F.E.A.F Dragon'' for a base publication. Sutton's first professional comics work, it led to a long-hoped-for placement on the military's ''Stars and Stripes (newspaper), Stars and Stripes'' newspaper. At the Tokyo office of ''Stars and Stripes'', he drew the comic strip ''Johnny Craig'', a character name inspired by the EC Comics, EC artist Johnny Craig. Sutton recalled that he worked on this strip "for two years and some odd months. I did it seven days a week, I think. It was all stupid. It was a kind of cheap version of ''Johnny Hazard'', I think it was". On his return to civilian life in 1959, Sutton lived and worked in San Francisco, where ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Wooley
} John Steven Wooley (born April 4, 1949) is a writer, novelist, historian, lecturer, filmmaker, and radio and TV host who specializes in the movies, literature, and music of the 1930s and ‘40s as well as other pop-culture histories. He has written, co-written, or edited more than 50 books, including the 1930's-set epistolary horror trilogy The Cleansing (consisting of ''Seventh Sense'', ''Satan's Swine'', and ''Sinister Serpent'')'','' with Robert A. Brown; ''Right Down the Middle'', the as-told-to biography of famed New York Yankees pitcher Ralph Terry, a northeastern Oklahoma boy who went on to become 1962 World Series MVP; the critically acclaimed biography of moviemaker Wes Craven, ''The Man, and His Nightmares''; and ''Shot in Oklahoma'', a look at Sooner State-lensed pictures that were named Best Book on Oklahoma History for 2011 by the Oklahoma Historical Society. He and collaborator Brett Bingham have written two nonfiction entertainment books: ''Thanks – Thanks A L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tony Millionaire
Tony Millionaire (born Scott Richardson in 1956) is an American cartoonist, illustrator and author known for his syndicated comic strip ''Maakies'' and the ''Sock Monkey'' series of comics and picture books. He lives in Yarmouth, Maine at Pleasant St. Studios with artist and educator Kat Gillies. Early life Millionaire grew up in and around the seaside town of Gloucester, Massachusetts. He came from a family of artists – his father was a commercial illustrator, his mother and grandparents were painters – and was encouraged to draw from an early age. His grandfather, who was a friend of the cartoonist Roy Crane, had a large collection of old Sunday comics, which were an early source of inspiration to Millionaire. He drew his first comic strip, "about an egg-shaped superhero who flew around talking about how great he was and then crashing into a cliff," when he was nine years old. During high school, Millionaire continued to draw comic strips for his own amusement. Career A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Maleev
Alex Maleev (Bulgarian: Алекс Малеев) is a Bulgarian comic book illustrator, best known for the Marvel Comics' series ''Daredevil'' (vol. 2) with frequent collaborator Brian Michael Bendis. Career Coming from a fine arts background, Maleev made his first foray into comics in Bulgaria for ''Godan'' (''Годън'' in Bulgarian) and ''Carthel of Dead'' published in ''Riko'' magazine since 1991 and 1992, respectively. Upon arriving in the United States in 1995, he enrolled at The Kubert School where, within a month, he was promoted from first to second year status at the suggestion of instructor Alec Stevens. Maleev left the school in early 1996, already securing professional comics work on James O'Barr's The Crow (''Dead Time'' and ''Flesh and Blood'') and subsequently storyboarding the "Lost in Space" film at Continuity Associates before entering a successful run at DC Comics on ''Batman: No Man's Land''. In his comics, he sometimes references his Bulgarian origins. For ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark A
Mark may refer to: Currency * Bosnia and Herzegovina convertible mark, the currency of Bosnia and Herzegovina * East German mark, the currency of the German Democratic Republic * Estonian mark, the currency of Estonia between 1918 and 1927 * Finnish markka ( sv, finsk mark, links=no), the currency of Finland from 1860 until 28 February 2002 * Mark (currency), a currency or unit of account in many nations * Polish mark ( pl, marka polska, links=no), the currency of the Kingdom of Poland and of the Republic of Poland between 1917 and 1924 German * Deutsche Mark, the official currency of West Germany from 1948 until 1990 and later the unified Germany from 1990 until 2002 * German gold mark, the currency used in the German Empire from 1873 to 1914 * German Papiermark, the German currency from 4 August 1914 * German rentenmark, a currency issued on 15 November 1923 to stop the hyperinflation of 1922 and 1923 in Weimar Germany * Lodz Ghetto mark, a special currency for Lodz Ghetto. * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian Biggs
Brian Biggs (born March 9, 1968, in Little Rock, Arkansas) is a children's book author and illustrator. He has been published by HarperCollins and Random House, among others, and has illustrated two Little Golden Books. Early work Brian Biggs got his start as a cartoonist for the ''North Texas Daily'', the school newspaper of the North Texas State University. His comic, ''Roommates'', ran until his transfer to Parsons. Then, in the 1990s, Biggs began to draw comic books, often as a part of the 90's underground comix scene. Notable works from this period include ''Frederick and Eloise'' (1999), published by Fantagraphics, and ''Dear Julia'' (1996–97), published by Black Eye Productions. ''Dear Julia'' was later made into a short film directed by Isaac E. Gozin. Children's books Brian Biggs later began to illustrate for small projects, and eventually illustrated a children's book series, ''Shredderman'', written by Wendelin Van Draanen in 2004-05, which was turned into the Ni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Miller (comics)
Frank Miller (born January 27, 1957) is an American comic book writer, penciller and inker, novelist, screenwriter, film director, and producer known for his comic book stories and graphic novels such as his run on Daredevil (Marvel Comics series), ''Daredevil'' and subsequent Born Again (comics), ''Daredevil: Born Again'', ''The Dark Knight Returns'', ''Batman: Year One'', ''Sin City'', and ''300 (comics), 300''. He also directed the film version of ''The Spirit (film), The Spirit'', shared directing duties with Robert Rodriguez on ''Sin City (film), Sin City'' and ''Sin City: A Dame to Kill For'', and produced the film ''300 (film), 300''. His film ''Sin City'' earned a Palme d'Or nomination, and he has received every major comic book industry award. In 2015, Miller was inducted into the Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame. He created the comic book character Elektra (comics), Elektra for Marvel Comics' ''Daredevil (Marvel Comics series), Daredevil'' series. Miller is noted for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
