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Hall Of Heroes
''Hall of Heroes'' was an American independent comic book company that existed in the mid-to-late 1990s. Based in Elkhart, Indiana, Hall of Heroes operated from 1993 to 1999. The company's longest-running titles were two volumes of the anthology ''Hall of Heroes Presents'', which totaled 9 issues; Matt Martin's ''Vortex'' (6 issues); and ''Bog Swamp Demon'', which ran 4 issues. ( Stephen R. Bissette contributed covers for ''Bog Swamp Demon.'') Creators associated with Hall of Heroes were Ethan Van Sciver, Keith Alan Morris, Doug Brammer, Trent Kaniuga, Matt Martin, and Andy Brase. Titles *''Bog Swamp Demon'' by Ryan Brown et al. (4 issues, 1996–1997; later stories published by Image Comics and Numbskull Press) *''Creed'' by Trent Kaniuga (2 issues, 1994–1995; title later acquired by Lightning Comics, then Avatar Press, and then Image Comics) *''Cyberfrog'' by Ethan van Sciver (2 issues; 1994; title later acquired by Harris Publications) *''Dragon's Bane: The New Dark A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1993 In Comics
Events January * January 11 ''Raider of the Copper Hill'' by Don Rosa. * January 24 – March 18: Hanco Kolk and Peter de Wit host a TV documentary series about cartooning on Teleac, which will often been repeated in the years that follow. * ''Doom Patrol'' #63: "The Empire of Chairs," Grant Morrison's final issue as ''Doom Patrol'' writer. * First appearance of Ghost Rider 2099 – The Punisher war journal # 50 Jan 1993 * ''Asterix and the class act'', by Goscinny and Uderzo. * In the first issue of ''Dylan Dog gigante'', ''Totentanz'', by Tiziano Sclavi and Giampiero Casertano. * Beginning of ''Il segreto del Morisco (''The Morisco's secret'')'', the longest Tex Willer's story, lasting 6 albums and 586 tables and strongly influenced by the archaeologic adventures of Indiana Jones and Martin Mystere. February * ''Action Comics'', with issue #686, suspends publication following "The Death of Superman." (DC Comics) * ''Clive Barker's Hellraiser'' is canceled by Epic Comics (Marv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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] |
Defunct Comics And Manga Publishing Companies
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Defunct (no longer in use or active) may refer to: * ''Defunct'' (video game), 2014 * Zombie process or defunct process, in Unix-like operating systems See also * * :Former entities * End-of-life product * Obsolescence Obsolescence is the state of being which occurs when an object, service, or practice is no longer maintained or required even though it may still be in good working order. It usually happens when something that is more efficient or less risky r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Comic Book Publishing Companies Of The United States
a medium used to express ideas with images, often combined with text or other visual information. It typically the form of a sequence of panels of images. Textual devices such as speech balloons, captions, and onomatopoeia can indicate dialogue, narration, sound effects, or other information. There is no consensus amongst theorists and historians on a definition of comics; some emphasize the combination of images and text, some sequentiality or other image relations, and others historical aspects such as mass reproduction or the use of recurring characters. Cartooning and other forms of illustration are the most common image-making means in comics; '' fumetti'' is a form that uses photographic images. Common forms include comic strips, editorial and gag cartoons, and comic books. Since the late 20th century, bound volumes such as graphic novels, comic albums, and ' have become increasingly common, while online webcomics have proliferated in the 21st century. The history ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Comic Book Resources
''Comic Book Resources'', also known by the initialism CBR, is a website dedicated to the coverage of comic book–related news and discussion. History Comic Book Resources was founded by Jonah Weiland in 1995 as a development of the Kingdom Come Message Board, a message forum that Weiland created to discuss DC Comics' then-new mini-series of the same name. Comic Book Resources features columns written by industry professionals that have included Robert Kirkman, Gail Simone, and Mark Millar. Other columns are published by comic book historians and critics such as George Khoury and Timothy Callahan. In April 2016, Comic Book Resources was sold to Valnet Inc., a Montreal-based company based known for its acquisition and ownership of media properties including Screen Rant. The site was relaunched as CBR.com on August 23, 2016, with the blogs integrated into the site. The company has also hosted a YouTube channel since 2008, with 3.97 million subscribers as of December 21, 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harris Publications
Harris Publications Inc. was an American special interest media company, operating over 75 brands with print, digital, mobile and live event platforms prior to its sale to Athlon Media in 2016. It produced magazines that educate, entertain, inform and inspire. Subject matters spanned an array of interests including decorating, gardening, beauty, automotive, sports, outdoor living, history, tactical, entertainment and wellness. Harris' titles covered a variety of markets and focused on niche special interests, primarily in the United States. Harris Comics (sold in 2010 to Dynamic Forces) published the former Warren Publishing character Vampirella for nearly two decades. Harris sold additional magazine brands including the basketball magazine Slam in 1998, African-American women's lifestyle magazine Honey in 1999, Guitar World in 2003 and XXL in 2014. Athlon Media acquired Harris Publications' magazine brands and websites in 2016 including Harris Farmers Almanac, American Frontie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ethan Van Sciver
Ethan Daniel Van Sciver (No date on article; date appears in the website') (; born September 3, 1974) is an American comics artist and social media personality. He is known for illustrating or drawing covers for a number of superhero titles in the 2000s, primarily for DC Comics, including ''Green Lantern'' and '' The Flash: Rebirth'', and '' New X-Men'' for Marvel Comics. In the late 2010s he became known for his "ComicArtistPro Secrets" channel on YouTube, through which he became a central figure in Comicsgate. Early life Ethan Van Sciver was born September 3, 1974 in Utah. He and his younger brother, alternative cartoonist Noah Van Sciver, grew up in Merchantville in southern New Jersey, and he graduated from Pennsauken High School in 1992. Van Sciver decided on a career in the comic-book field after seeing the 1978 movie ''Superman'' as a child, but only began to read comics intently with John Byrne's '' The Man of Steel'' in 1986. He cites Chris Claremont and Jon Bogdanov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cyberfrog
Ethan Daniel Van Sciver (No date on article; date appears in the website') (; born September 3, 1974) is an American comics artist and social media personality. He is known for illustrating or drawing covers for a number of superhero titles in the 2000s, primarily for DC Comics, including ''Green Lantern'' and '' The Flash: Rebirth'', and '' New X-Men'' for Marvel Comics. In the late 2010s he became known for his "ComicArtistPro Secrets" channel on YouTube, through which he became a central figure in Comicsgate. Early life Ethan Van Sciver was born September 3, 1974 in Utah. He and his younger brother, alternative cartoonist Noah Van Sciver, grew up in Merchantville in southern New Jersey, and he graduated from Pennsauken High School in 1992. Van Sciver decided on a career in the comic-book field after seeing the 1978 movie ''Superman'' as a child, but only began to read comics intently with John Byrne's '' The Man of Steel'' in 1986. He cites Chris Claremont and Jon Bogdanove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Avatar Press
Avatar Press is an independent American comic book publisher founded in 1996 by William A. Christensen, and based in Rantoul, Illinois. Avatar Press is most notable for publishing Bad girl art, bad girl comics, such as ''Faust (Avatar Press), Faust'', ''Pandora (comics), Pandora'', ''Hellina'', ''Lookers'', ''The Ravening'', and Brian Pulido's ''Lady Death''. Such comics are currently published under the "Boundless Comics" imprint. Avatar has a strong web presence, anchored by Warren Ellis' ''FreakAngels'' webcomic, as well as the comics news site Bleeding Cool, helmed by Rich Johnston. History Publisher Christensen had been a freelance contributor to ''Wizard (magazine), Wizard'' magazine before founding Avatar Press. The company initially published only Limited series (comics), limited series. Avatar subsequently expanded to other formats. As part of an effort to expand beyond its reputation as a Bad girl art, bad girl publisher, Avatar offered a number of noted creators an o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lightning Comics (1990s)
Lightning Comics was an American independent comic publisher headquartered in Oakland County, Michigan, that operated from 1993 to 1998. Founders Joseph and Steve Zyskowski wanted to make comic books unlike the ones they had read before. They believed the newest comics "seemed to lack substance." The first comic published by Lightning Comics, ''Bloodfire'' #1, sold 50,000 comics. The company's idea was to make each issue a limited printing to enhance collectability. Also, after that first book, Greg Weed was hired to move the company from marker to airbrush. ''Bloodfire'' eventually ran 13 issues. Other long-running titles for Lightning Comics were ''Judgement Day'' and ''Perg'', which ran 8 issues each. Trent Kaniuga's ''Creed'' appeared in a number of titles, one-shots, and crossovers, including one with the ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles''. Similar, Hellina appeared in more than 15 separate specials, crossovers, and one-shots. Lightning Comics later became the first of se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Numbskull Press '', a UK comic strip in ''The Beano''
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Numbskull may refer to: * "Numbskull" (song), a 1999 song by Ash *''Numbskull – San Luis Obispo Ca 11/2/05'', a 2006 rock album * Numskull (born 1976), rapper from Oakland, California * Numbskull Emptybrook (Finnish: ), the main character of the Finnish comedy film Uuno Turhapuro and its sequels * ''The Numskulls ''The Numskulls'' is a comic strip in ''The Beano'', and previously in ''The Beezer'' and ''The Dandy'' – UK comics owned by D.C Thomson. The strip is about a team of tiny human-like technicians who live inside the heads of various people, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ryan Brown (comics)
Ryan Brown (born May 2, 1962,''Comics Buyer's Guide'' #1485; May 3, 2002; Page 29 in Lodi, Ohio) is a comic book writer and artist and toy designer best known for his work on ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles'' and the animated series ''Wild West C.O.W.-Boys of Moo Mesa''. Early life Ryan Brown is a 1980 graduate of Norwayne High School, in Creston, Ohio. Career Brown created Ninja April O'Neil in a 1985 pin-up published in the fourth printing of ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles'' #1. He would later bring his interpretation of the character to the ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures'' title published by Archie Comics. Brown began Inker, inking the ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles'' title in 1985 and continued until 1988, when he and partner Steve Lavigne began producing artwork for licensed TMNT products. Brown worked primarily as inker over Lavigne's pencils. In 1986 Brown and writer Doug Brammer published (under the company name Rion Productions) two issues of ''Rion 2990'', a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
