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Gutsville
''Gutsville'' is a currently on hiatus six issue comic book limited series from Image Comics which began in May 2007. It is written by Simon Spurrier and drawn by Frazer Irving. Publication history Spurrier and Irving had worked together on ''From Grace'' and ''The Simping Detective''. Spurrier had been looking to break into the American market and Irving seemed the ideal partner because he'd already worked at Marvel and DC. As Irving had spoken to people at Image Comics Spurrier prepared two pitches and Gutsville was picked "because it is more of a high-concept pitch."REFLECTIONS: Talking with Frazer Irving , April 1, 2007 Soon after getting th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simon Spurrier
Simon "Si" Spurrier (born 2 May 1981) is a British comics writer and novelist, who has previously worked as a cook, a bookseller, and an art director for the BBC. Getting his start in comics with the British small press, he went on to write his own series for '' 2000 AD'', like ''Lobster Random'', '' Bec & Kawl'', ''The Simping Detective'' and '' Harry Kipling'', as well as a number of stories for the flagship character ''Judge Dredd''. In recent years he has broken into the American comic book industry, writing mainly for Marvel Comics. He also wrote Marvel's ''X-Force'' in 2014 and 2015, which starred the characters Cable (comics), Cable, Betsy Braddock, Psylocke, Marrow (comics), Marrow and Fantomex. He started co-writing ''Star Wars: Doctor Aphra'' from Marvel Comics with Kieron Gillen in November 2017 on issues #14-19, taking over with issue #20 in May 2018. Simon has also written a number of novels, initially on other people's intellectual property, properties, but in 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frazer Irving
Frazer Irving (born 1970) is a British comic book artist known for the series '' Necronauts'', published by the British magazine '' 2000 AD''. After breaking into the American market he has worked on a number of superhero titles, including a series of collaborations with Grant Morrison. Career A native of Ilford, Essex, Irving studied art at the University of Portsmouth, England, after which he took various temporary jobs in London. He worked on '' Storming Heaven'', a psychedelic tale based around Timothy Leary and Charles Manson (written by Gordon Rennie), and ''The Simping Detective'' and ''From Grace'' written by Simon Spurrier. He has done illustration work for RPG companies like Wizards of the Coast, Hogshead Publishing and Guardians of Order, as well as small press publications like ''The End Is Nigh''. He also does animations on Flash for advertising agencies. Irving's style owes something to the art of Bernie Wrightson, but with a computer-driven edge. His work o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matt Timson
Matt Timson is a British comic book artist who resides in Leicester. Biography Timson has done a lot of work (especially covers) for British small press comics including ''Solar Wind'', ''The End Is Nigh'' and ''FutureQuake'', as well as working as a freelance illustrator. In recent years he has begun to get professional comics work, on '' Popgun'' with Leah Moore and John Reppion, and most recently on '' Impaler'', after the title moved from Image Comics to Top Cow. Comics critic Timothy Callahan in a review of ''Impaler'' #3 said: Bibliography Comics Interior comics work includes: * "The Ripper" (written by Arthur Wyatt, in ''FutureQuake'' #1, 2003) * "The Omnocular Man" (written by Paul Scott, in '' |
Image Comics
Image Comics is an American comic book publisher and is the third largest comic book and graphic novel publisher in the industry in both unit and market share. It was founded in 1992 by several high-profile illustrators as a venue for creator-owned properties, in which comics creators could publish material of their own creation without giving up the copyrights to those properties. Normally this isn't the case in the work for hire-dominated American comics industry, where the legal author is a publisher, such as Marvel Comics or DC Comics, and the creator is an employee of that publisher. Its output was originally dominated by superhero and fantasy series from the studios of the founding Image partners, but now includes comics in many genres by numerous independent creators. Its best-known publications include ''Spawn'', ''Savage Dragon'', ''Witchblade'', ''Bone'', '' The Walking Dead'', ''Invincible'', ''Saga'', '' Jupiter's Legacy'', '' Kick-Ass'' and '' Radiant Black''. Hist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Newsarama
Newsarama is an American website that publishes news, interviews, and essays about the American comic book industry. It is owned by Future US. In June 2020, Newsarama was merged with the website GamesRadar+, also owned by FutureUS. History Newsarama began in mid-1995 as a series of Internet forum postings on the Prodigy comic book message boards by fan Mike Doran. In the forum postings, Doran shared comic book-related news items he had found across the World Wide Web and, as these postings became more regular and read widely, he gave them the title "Prodigy Comic Book Newswire." In January 1997, Doran began to post a version of the column titled ''The Comics Newswire'' on Usenet's various rec.arts.comics communities. The name of the column evolved to ''The Newswire'', and then to ''CBI Newsarama'', before finally becoming ''Newsarama'' in 1998. The posts quickly became popular due to the speed of reporting via the Internet. This meant Doran could break stories faster than ot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Steampunk Works
Steampunk is a subgenre of fantasy and speculative fiction that came into prominence in the 1980s and early 1990s. The term denotes works set in an era or world wherein steam power is still widely used—usually the 19th century, and often set in Victorian era England—but with prominent elements of either science fiction or fantasy, such as fictional technological inventions like those found in the works of H. G. Wells and Jules Verne, or real technological developments like the computer occurring at an earlier date. Other examples of steampunk contain alternate history-style presentations of "the path not taken" of such technology as dirigibles or analog computers; these frequently are presented in an idealized light, or with a presumption of functionality. Although many works now considered seminal to the genre were published in the 1960s and 1970s, the term "steampunk" originated in the late 1980s, as a tongue-in-cheek variant of cyberpunk. This article is a list of works in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James White (author)
James White (7 April 1928 – 23 August 1999) was a Northern Irish author of science fiction novellas, short stories and novels. He was born in Belfast and returned there after spending some early years in Canada. After a few years working in the clothing industry, he worked at Short Brothers Ltd., an aircraft company based in Belfast, from 1965 until taking early retirement in 1984 as a result of diabetes. White married Margaret Sarah Martin, another science fiction fan, in 1955 and the couple had three children. He died of a stroke. He became a fan of science fiction in 1941 and co-wrote two fan magazines, from 1948 to 1953 and 1952 to 1965. Encouraged by other fans, White began publishing short stories in 1953, and his first novel was published in 1957. His best-known novels were the twelve of the Sector General series, the first published in 1962 and the last after his death. White also published nine other novels, two of which were nominated for major awards, unsuccessful ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Watch Below
''The Watch Below'' (1966) is a science fiction novel by British writer James White about a colony of humans stranded underwater in a sunken ship, who survive by air pockets, and a water-breathing alien species in search of a new home. The two generation ships encounter each other in the Earth's ocean. Reception Algis Budrys of ''Galaxy Science Fiction'' liked the novel, stating that it was the first generation ship story to expand on Robert Heinlein's ''Orphans of the Sky ''Orphans of the Sky'' is a science fiction novel by American writer Robert A. Heinlein, consisting of two parts: "Universe" (''Astounding Science Fiction'', May 1941) and its sequel, "Common Sense" (''Astounding Science Fiction'', October 1941). ...''. References External links * * 1966 British novels 1966 science fiction novels Novels by James White (author) British science fiction novels Ballantine Books books 20th-century Irish novels Irish science fiction novels Underwater civilizations ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Goliath Awaits
''Goliath Awaits'' is a 1981 American made-for-television action adventure science fiction thriller film originally broadcast in two parts in November 1981 on various stations as a part of Operation Prime Time's syndicated programming. It is about an ocean liner sunk by a German U-boat in 1939 whose wreck is discovered in 1981, with over 300 survivors and their descendants living in an air bubble inside the ship. Plot On September 4, 1939, the British ocean liner RMS ''Goliath'', carrying 1,860 passengers, is torpedoed by a German U-boat and sinks within minutes while on a transatlantic crossing to the United States three days after the outbreak of war. Scientists aboard a research ship in 1981 discover the wreck of the ''Goliath'' lying upright in 1,000 feet (305 m) of water, and divers are sent down to investigate the wreck. Oceanographer Peter Cabot (Mark Harmon) hears systematic banging and music coming from the ship and is shocked to see the face of a beautiful young ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leviathan (comic)
''Leviathan'' is a horror comic series created by Ian Edginton and D'Israeli and, which appeared in the British magazine '' 2000 AD ''starting in 2003. The story is set on a mile-long ocean liner (the ''Leviathan'' of the title) which has been transported to some sort of parallel world with no land or landmarks. The story appeared in ten parts followed by three stand alone "Tales of the ''Leviathan''" which expanded on the history of the ship as well as featuring new characters. Characters * Detective Sergeant Aurelius Lament, a police officer investigating the mystery. His wife, Mary, died in child birth five years earlier, the result of the ship's doctor being drunk. * William Ashbless, the ship's architect (his name is a reference to William Ashbless) * Sky Baker, a "Mace", one of the unofficial police who maintain order in Steerage class. Her mother was killed by the Stokers about six months before the story starts. * Hastur, the demon influencing/powering the ship ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boo Cook
Boo Cook (born 1972) is a British comic artist, whose work mainly features in the comic ''2000 AD (comics), 2000 AD''. Career Cook's art has appeared in the ''ABC Warriors'' and ''Judge Dredd'', as ''Asylum'' (written by Rob Williams (comics), Rob Williams) and ''Dead Men Walking'' (written by David Bishop (writer), David Bishop). In 2005, Cook graduated to regular work on the flagship story on ''2000 AD'', ''Judge Dredd'', mostly to scripts by Gordon Rennie and Simon Spurrier. With Spurrier he developed new comedy character ''Harry Kipling''. Boo Cook started and contributed to the 2000AD Online Charity Auction. Cook has also been providing the art for the latest Judge Anderson stories by Alan Grant (writer), Alan Grant, and providing cover artwork on titles such as Marvel Comics, Marvel's ''X-Factor (comics), X-Factor'', the ''Elephantmen: War Toys'' prequel mini-series, and subsequently, the interior art for ''Elephantmen'' #21. In 2014, he began working on Doctor Who titles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
