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Geoff Senior
Geoff Senior (born 1960) is a British artist, best known for his work in the comic book field in the 1980s, mainly for Marvel UK. Senior is perhaps best remembered for his art for the Marvel ''Transformers (Marvel UK), Transformers'' series. Biography Senior illustrated the 1985 book ''Space Assassin''. He debuted on the British ''Transformers'' title drawing #42, and became one of the title's most prolific and popular artists (always inking his own pencils), thanks to his geometric style, which perfectly suited the dynamics of the series. He worked on a number of other titles for Marvel UK, including ''Doctor Who Magazine'' (1988), ''Dragon's Claws'' (which he co-created with Simon Furman, and drew all ten issues of), ''Death's Head'' (another character he helped create, initially as a guest star for ''Transformers'') and ''Action Force Weekly'', as well as several Marvel UK annuals. He followed Furman across to Marvel USA in 1989, drawing ''Transformers'' US #61, and four more ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Europe, off the north-western coast of the continental mainland. It comprises England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. The United Kingdom includes the island of Great Britain, the north-eastern part of the island of Ireland, and many smaller islands within the British Isles. Northern Ireland shares a land border with the Republic of Ireland; otherwise, the United Kingdom is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, the North Sea, the English Channel, the Celtic Sea and the Irish Sea. The total area of the United Kingdom is , with an estimated 2020 population of more than 67 million people. The United Kingdom has evolved from a series of annexations, unions and separations of constituent countries over several hundred years. The Treaty of Union between the Kingdom of England (which included Wales, annexed in 1542) and the Kingdom of Scotland in 170 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warrior (comics)
''Warrior'' was a British comics anthology that ran for 26 issues between March 1982 and January 1985. It was edited by Dez Skinn and published by his company Quality Communications. It featured early work by comics writer Alan Moore, including ''V for Vendetta'' and ''Marvelman''. This series of 26 issues in the 1980s was essentially a Volume #2; Skinn had edited/published #s 1-6 of a black-and-white fanzine version of ''Warrior'' (full title: ''Warrior: Heroic Tales Of Swords and Sorcery'') in 1974-75, with reprint and new strips, art and writing from Steve Parkhouse, Dave Gibbons esigned logo Michael Moorcock, Frank Bellamy, Don Lawrence, Barry Windsor-Smith, et al. Rivalling '' 2000 AD'', ''Warrior'' won 17 Eagle Awards during its short run (including nine Eagles in 1983 alone). Because of traditional distribution and its format, it was one of the comic books in the British market that didn't just rely upon distribution through then format-driven specialist shops and expensiv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Judge Dredd
Judge Joseph Dredd is a fictional character created by writer John Wagner and artist Carlos Ezquerra. He first appeared in the second issue of ''2000 AD (comics), 2000 AD'' (1977), which is a British weekly anthology Comic book, comic. He is the magazine's longest-running character. He also appears in a number of film and video game adaptations. Judge Dredd is a law enforcement and judicial officer in the dystopian future city of Mega-City One, which covers most of the east coast of North America. He is a "Judge (2000 AD), street judge", empowered to summarily arrest, convict, sentence, and execute criminals. In Great Britain, the character of Dredd and his name are sometimes invoked in discussions of police states, authoritarianism, and the rule of law. Over the years, ''Judge Dredd'' has been hailed as one of the best satires of American and British culture with an uncanny trend to predict upcoming trends and events such as mass surveillance, the rise of populist leaders, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2000 AD (comic)
''2000 AD'' is a weekly British science fiction-oriented comic magazine. As a comics anthology it serialises stories in each issue (known as "progs") and was first published by IPC Magazines in 1977, the first issue dated 26 February. Since 2000 it has been published by Rebellion Developments. ''2000 AD'' is most noted for its ''Judge Dredd'' stories, and has been contributed to by a number of artists and writers who became renowned in the field internationally, such as Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons, Grant Morrison, Brian Bolland, Mike McMahon, John Wagner, Alan Grant and Garth Ennis. Other series in ''2000 AD'' include ''Rogue Trooper'', '' Sláine'', ''Strontium Dog'', ''ABC Warriors'', ''Nemesis the Warlock'' and ''Nikolai Dante''. History ''2000 AD'' was initially published by IPC Magazines. IPC then shifted the title to its Fleetway comics subsidiary, which was sold to Robert Maxwell in 1987 and then to Egmont UK in 1991. Fleetway continued to produce the title until ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Fleisher
Michael Lawrence Fleisher (November 1, 1942 — February 2, 2018) was an Americans, American writer known for his DC Comics of the 1970s and 1980s, particularly for the characters Spectre (DC Comics character), Spectre and Jonah Hex. Biography Early life and career Fleisher was raised in New York City. His parents divorced when he was four years old, and Fleisher developed the foundation of his later Western comics, Western writing by spending Saturdays with his visiting father at Western movie double features. "I saw two Westerns every Saturday for years," Fleisher recalled in 2010. "So it wasn't very hard to write [Westerns] at all." Fleisher wrote three volumes of ''The Encyclopedia of Comic Books Heroes'', doing some research on-site at DC Comics. He started comic book scripting in 1972, co-writing with Lynn Marron the full-issue supernatural story "Death at Castle Dunbar" in DC's ''Secrets of Sinister House'' #5 (July 1972). He co-wrote supernatural short stories with Maxen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harlem Heroes
''Harlem Heroes'' is a British comic strip that formed part of the original line-up of stories in '' 2000 AD'' (February 1977). Inspired by the popularity during the 1970s of kung fu films and the Harlem Globetrotters, ''Harlem Heroes'' was devised by Pat Mills, employing elements from his '' Hellball'' comic strip, and scripted by Tom Tully. Initially, the series was to have been drawn by Carlos Trigo but the Spanish artist was replaced by Dave Gibbons prior to the first issue's publication. From issue (or "prog") 25 Massimo Belardinelli drew the concluding episodes of the first series and would be retained as its regular artist for the strip's reinvention as ''Inferno''. Harlem Heroes ''By the year 2050,'' ''the game of Aeroball has swept the world! It's Football, Boxing, Kung Fu and Basketball all rolled into one! Players roar through the air wearing jet packs (controlled by buttons on their belts) and score "air strikes" by getting the ball in the "score tank". One of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Higgins (comics)
John Higgins (born 1949) is an English comic book artist and writer. He did significant work for '' 2000 AD'', and he has frequently worked with writer Alan Moore, most notably as colourist for ''Watchmen''. Biography John Higgins was born in Walton, Liverpool. After leaving school when he was 15, he joined the army and, on leaving, spent some time in a commune in Wiltshire. He returned to Liverpool and, in 1971, resumed his studies at Wallasey College of Art. There, in 1974 he qualified in technical illustration, which allowed him to get a job as a medical illustrator at The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust. After getting his first comic book art published in ''Brainstorm'' in 1975, he drew the cover for '' 2000 AD'' No. 43 in 1977 and decided to go freelance in 1978, with an eye on becoming a comic artist. In 1981 he started getting regular work at ''2000 AD'', one of his early projects being the art for a ''Tharg's Future Shocks'' by Alan Moore, as well as doing covers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zoids (comics)
''Spider-Man and Zoids'' was a comic book series by Marvel UK that was a tie-in with the toys of the same name. The comics anthology included reprints of '' Spider-Man'' stories and an original series of ''Zoids'' tales. (The latter has no continuity with the anime ''Zoids'' and it was created to go along with the original UK—and subsequent Australian—model kit releases.) ''Spider-Man and Zoids'' is notable for featuring early work by Grant Morrison, including the epic and apocalyptic Black Zoid storyline. Publication history The 1985–1986 Marvel UK title ''Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars'' reprinted the vast majority of the ''Secret Wars'' and ''Secret Wars II'' sagas (incorporating the ''Secret Wars II'' cross-overs in chronological order). Featuring Zoids stories in issues #20–#26, the success of the Zoids storyline prompted the release of their own title, ''Spider-Man and Zoids'' (which picked up shortly after the demise of the long-running Marvel UK Spider-Man week ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Transformers (Marvel Comics)
''The Transformers'' was an 80-issue American comic book series published by Marvel Comics telling the story of the Transformers. Originally scheduled as a four-issue miniseries, it spawned a mythology that would inform other versions of the saga. It also had a UK sister title that spliced original stories into the continuity, running for 332 issues. US title Story arcs There were several story arcs that ran through the U.S. series. Issues # 1-4 - The Autobots and Decepticons land on Earth via the Ark, paralleling the cartoon. The Autobots are reformatted by the Ark to resemble cars and trucks; the Decepticons take the form of jets, weapons or in the case of Soundwave, a cassette deck with tapes. The Decepticons wreak havoc, steal energy and build a fortress. The Autobots, seen here as very weak underdogs, unsuited for war, fight valiantly to stop their foes. Ultimately, it is the humans that the Autobots befriend that save the day. Buster Witwicky's father, captured by the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alex Stewart (writer)
Alexander Michael Stewart (born 25 July 1958) is a British writer. His best known work is fiction written under the pseudonym Sandy Mitchell—Warhammer and Warhammer 40,000 novels, including the Ciaphas Cain series. A full-time writer since the mid-1980s, the majority of his work (as Sandy Mitchell) has been tie-in fiction for Games Workshop's Warhammer fantasy and Warhammer 40,000 science fiction lines, as well as a novelisation of episodes from the high tech thriller series Bugs, for which he also worked as a scriptwriter under his real name. He has also contributed some Warhammer roleplaying game material (including '' Scourge the Heretic'', the first tie-in book to the Dark Heresy roleplaying game) as well as a number of short stories and magazine articles. He lives in the North Essex village of Earls Colne, with his wife and daughter. As a member of the Midnight Rose Collective he edited the Temps and EuroTemps collections of short stories with Neil Gaiman. Selected w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Smith (comics Writer)
John Smith (born 1967) is a British comic book writer best known for his work on the weekly anthology '' 2000 AD'' and its spin-off title ''Crisis'', particularly the ''Indigo Prime'', '' Devlin Waugh'' and '' New Statesmen'' serials. Career Smith's earliest published work appeared in the DC Thomson's science fiction comic '' Starblazer'' in the mid-1980s. Soon after, he became a regular contributor for '' 2000 AD'' and followed up with the political superhero serial '' New Statesmen'' for ''2000 ADs spin-off title ''Crisis''. Many of Smith's series created for ''2000 AD'' shared the same continuity under the umbrella of Indigo Prime, a multi-dimensional organisation that policed reality, recruiting recently dead people as its agents. The original run of Indigo Prime stories ended with "Killing Time", in which agents Winwood and Cord pursued a demon that had hitched a ride on a Victorian time machine, one of the legitimate passengers of which turned out to be Jack the Ripper ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grant Morrison
Grant Morrison, MBE (born 31 January 1960) is a Scottish comic book writer, screenwriter, and producer. Their work is known for its nonlinear narrative A narrative, story, or tale is any account of a series of related events or experiences, whether nonfictional (memoir, biography, news report, documentary, travel literature, travelogue, etc.) or fictional (fairy tale, fable, legend, thriller (ge ...s, humanist philosophy and counterculture, countercultural leanings. Morrison has written extensively for the American comic book publisher DC Comics, penning lengthy runs on ''Animal Man (comic book), Animal Man'', ''Doom Patrol'', ''JLA (comic book), JLA'', ''Action Comics'', and ''The Green Lantern'' as well as the graphic novels ''Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth, Arkham Asylum'' and ''Wonder Woman: Earth One'', the meta-series ''Seven Soldiers'' and ''The Multiversity'', the mini-series ''DC One Million'' and ''Final Crisis'', both of which served as centrepieces ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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