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Helioscope Studio
Helioscope is a comics and illustration studio based in Portland, Oregon. Members of the studio work both individually and as collaborators on a number of high-profile mainstream and independent comic books. These include ''Superman'', ''Batman'', ''Wonder Woman'', ''Spider-Man'', ''The Fantastic Four'', ''World's Finest Comics'', ''Swamp Thing'', and ''Fables''. Helioscope was founded in 2002 by Matthew Clark, Terry Dodson, Paul Guinan, David Hahn, Drew Johnson, Karl Kesel, Steve Lieber, Ron Randall, Matthew Clark, Pete Woods, and Rebecca Woods as "Mercury Studio". The studio significantly expanded its membership and adopted a new name, "Periscope Studio", in June 2007. In April 2016, it was announced that the studio would change its name to "Helioscope". Notable members * Colleen Coover * Terry Dodson * Karl Kesel * Steve Lieber * Erika Moen * Jeff Parker * Ron Randall Former members * Kieron Dwyer * David Hahn * Joëlle Jones * Rick Remender * Chris Samnee * Pete Woods ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portland, Oregon
Portland (, ) is a port city in the Pacific Northwest and the largest city in the U.S. state of Oregon. Situated at the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers, Portland is the county seat of Multnomah County, the most populous county in Oregon. Portland had a population of 652,503, making it the 26th-most populated city in the United States, the sixth-most populous on the West Coast, and the second-most populous in the Pacific Northwest, after Seattle. Approximately 2.5 million people live in the Portland metropolitan statistical area (MSA), making it the 25th most populous in the United States. About half of Oregon's population resides within the Portland metropolitan area. Named after Portland, Maine, the Oregon settlement began to be populated in the 1840s, near the end of the Oregon Trail. Its water access provided convenient transportation of goods, and the timber industry was a major force in the city's early economy. At the turn of the 20th century, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karl Kesel
Karl Kesel (born January 7, 1959, Victor, New York) is an American comics writer and inker whose works have primarily been under contract for DC Comics. He is a member of Periscope Studio and is best known for his collaborations with fellow artist Tom Grummett on '' The Adventures of Superman'', ''Superboy'', and ''Section Zero''. Biography DC Comics After a friend at college complimented his inking, Karl Kesel began submitting his portfolio to Marvel Comics and DC Comics. Kesel's first work for DC Comics appeared in ''New Talent Showcase'' #4 (April 1984). He soon became the inker on '' Tales of the Legion of Super-Heroes'' — so soon, in fact, that he suspected that he was assigned ''New Talent Showcase'' #8 as a test run to see how well he jelled with ''Tales of the Legion'' penciller Terry Shoemaker. Kesel was discouraged that inks which looked smooth and clear on his original pages appeared clunky in the printed comics, and with some guidance from Dick Giordano he studied ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rick Remender
Rick Remender (born February 6, 1973) is an American animator, comic book writer and television producer who resides in Los Angeles, California. As a comic book creator, he is best known for his work on ''Uncanny X-Force'', ''Venom'', ''Captain America'' and ''Uncanny Avengers'', published by Marvel, as well as his creator-owned series ''Fear Agent'', ''Deadly Class'', '' Black Science'' and '' Low'', published by Image. In video games, he wrote EA's ''Dead Space'' and Epic Games' ''Bulletstorm''. In 2019, Sony Pictures Television adapted ''Deadly Class'' into a television series of the same name, for which Remender served as a showrunner and lead writer. Career Remender started out in animation, working on such films as ''The Iron Giant'', ''Anastasia'', ''Titan A.E.'' and '' The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle''.Rick Remender Kees K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joëlle Jones
Joëlle Jones (born February 20, 1980) is an American comic book artist and writer, best known for her work on '' Lady Killer'', a series published in 2015–2017 by Dark Horse Comics, for her cover work on various Marvel Comics series, and for her work writing and illustrating DC Comics series including '' Batman'' and ''Catwoman''. Early life Joëlle Jones is a native of Boise, Idaho. She attended the Pacific Northwest College of Art, where she studied oil painting. She left school to pursue comic book illustration. She stayed in the Portland, Oregon area for several years, where she worked as a freelance artist for Dark Horse Comics and Oni Press. Career Jones's first credited work was as a colorist for Harris Comics in 2004, back when the company had the rights to Vampirella. In 2006, her illustrations appeared in the anthology ''Sexy Chix'', published by Dark Horse Comics. The following year, she drew "How are the new Three Little Pigs adjusting to being pigs?", which appea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kieron Dwyer
Kieron Dwyer (born March 6, 1967) is an American comics artist. He is best known for his work for Marvel Comics and DC Comics as well as for his creator-owned projects. Biography During his career, Dwyer has worked on such comic book titles as '' Captain America'' (1987–1990), '' Danger Unlimited'' (on the "Torch of Liberty" story) (1994), ''Action Comics'' (1995–1996), '' The Avengers'' vol. 3 (2001–2003), and his creator-owned series, ''LCD: Lowest Comic Denominator''. Dwyer's first published comics work was the story "The Ghost of Masahiko Tahara" in '' Batman'' #413 (Nov. 1987) and he was soon offered the pencilling duties on the monthly Captain America title at Marvel, which he drew for nearly two years during the storyline when John Walker (formerly Super-patriot) was given the mantle of Captain America while Steve Rogers took on the costume and identity of "The Captain." With Steve Rogers reinstated as the official Captain America in issue 350, Dwyer continued pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeff Parker (cartoonist)
Jeff Parker (born October 25, 1966) is an American comic book writer and comic book artist, artist. He is a member of Helioscope Studio (formerly Periscope Studio, also known as Mercury Studio). Early life Parker, a son of a grocery store owner, grew up in Burlington, North Carolina. His first exposure to comics came from reading the titles sold on the store's spinner racks, which included ''Dennis the Menace (U.S. comics), Dennis the Menace'' as well as various Archie Comics, Archie and Harvey Comics, Harvey publications. After graduating from East Carolina University, where he majored in English Literature and Communications, Parker joined the Hillsborough, North Carolina, Hillsbourough-based illustration studio Artamus Studios, whose other members over the years included Mike Wieringo, Richard Case, Scott Hampton, Dave Johnson (comics), Dave Johnson, Craig Gilmore (artist), Craig Gilmore and Casey Jones (artist), Casey Jones. Career Parker began his career in comics as an artis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erika Moen
Erika Moen (born 1983) is an People of the United States, American comic book artist, known for her Autobiographical comics, autobiographical comic ''DAR'', and the educational/Erotic comics, erotic comic ''Oh Joy, Sex Toy''. Biography Moen was born in 1983 and based in Portland, Oregon, Portland, Oregon. She graduated from Pitzer College with a BA in Illustrated Storytelling in 2006. She identifies as queer. She and her husband, fellow artist Matthew Nolan, have been married since October 2008. Moen is the creator of the self-published autobiographical online comic ''DAR!'' which has been collected into self-published print volumes. She also has contributed comic work to ''Best Erotic Comics'' 2008 (Last Gasp (publisher), Last Gasp), ''True Porn Volume 2'' (Alternative Comics (publisher), Alternative Comics), ''Flight (comics), Flight Volume 1''; and ''Unsafe for All Ages'', a collection of erotic short stories by gay and lesbian artists published by Prism Comics in 2005. In 2004 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colleen Coover
Colleen Coover (born July 14, 1969) is a comic book artist and author based in Portland, Oregon and is known for creating the lesbian-themed erotic comic book ''Small Favors'' from Eros Comix, illustrator of the comic book limited series ''Banana Sunday'' from Oni Press, and for illustrating several short stories in '' X-Men: First Class'' from Marvel Comics. Early life Coover was born in Iowa on July 14, 1969.. She identifies as bisexual. Coover met writer Paul Tobin at a drama class, and would go on to meet again at a local comic book store she regularly frequented. Coover and Tobin were married August 25, 2007. Coover grew up reading comics. She dropped out of art school and says that she is entirely self-taught as a comic book artist. She began drawing comics after meeting her husband. She credits the Hernandez brothers, Milton Caniff, Wendy Pini, Seth's ''Palookaville'', Peter Arno, Dan DeCarlo, Curt Swan, and Neal Adams as artistic influences. Career Coover has contribut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pete Woods
Peter Woods is an American comic book artist, known for his work on titles such as ''Backlash'', ''Deadpool'', '' Robin'', ''Catwoman'', '' Amazons Attack'', and ''Action Comics''. Career Woods worked as an intern for Wildstorm comics in April 1996 working under artist Jim Lee. Here he got his first major comics work filling in on '' Stormwatch'' and ''Wetworks'' in 1996, before getting a short run on ''Backlash'' in 1997. He moved over to Marvel Comics to draw a few issues of ''Excalibur'' before starting a critically acclaimed run on ''Deadpool'' with Joe Kelly. He was then picked up by DC Comics for a four-year stint on '' Robin'', from 2000–2004, followed by an exclusive contract in 2001 and further work in DC titles. He later partnered with other Portland, Oregon area artists and formed Mercury Studio in 2002. Mercury Studio increased in membership and changed its name to "Periscope Studios" in June 2007, but remains a collective of cartoonists, illustrators, writers, c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ron Randall
Ron Randall (born November 22, 1956) is an Americans, American comic book creator, comic book artist best known as the creator of the character Trekker (comics), Trekker. Career A graduate of The Kubert School, Ron Randall's first published comic book work was a two-page backup story titled "Killers Above -- Killers Below!" which was written by Robert Kanigher and appeared in ''Unknown Soldier (DC Comics), Unknown Soldier'' #243 (September 1980). Randall then drew several stories for the ''Sgt. Rock'' title with Joe Kubert, as well as for many of DC's mystery titles. He and writer Gary Cohn (comics), Gary Cohn co-created the "Barren Earth" feature as a backup in ''Warlord (DC Comics), The Warlord'' #63 (November 1982) and it was spun off into a four-issue Limited series (comics), limited series in 1985. Randall became the artist on the ''Arak (comics), Arak, Son of Thunder'' series with issue #26 (October 1983). He collaborated with writer Greg Potter on the "Me & Joe Priest" g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Lieber
Steve Lieber (born May 19, 1967) is an American comic book illustrator known for his work on books such as ''Detective Comics'' and ''Hawkman'', and the critically acclaimed miniseries '' Whiteout'', which was adapted into a 2009 feature film starring Kate Beckinsale. His other works include the Eisner Award-winning sequel '' Whiteout: Melt'', and the thrillers ''Shooters'' and ''Underground''. With writer Nat Gertler, he co-authored ''The Complete Idiot's Guide to Creating a Graphic Novel''. Lieber has described his career as being about "telling your own unified stories with finality." Early life Lieber grew up in the Squirrel Hill section of Pittsburgh in the state of Pennsylvania. He graduated in 1985 from Allderdice High School, studied at Pennsylvania State University but left there before graduating to finish his artistic education at The Kubert School for cartoonists in New Jersey. He studied with Joe Kubert, whom he cites as a significant influence on his career and ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Hahn (cartoonist)
David Hahn is a western Montana-based comic book artist born in 1967. He is best known for his work illustrating the comic book mini-series '' Bite Club'' and its sequel ''Bite Club: Vampire Crime Unit'' for DC Comics, where he also illustrated stories for '' Robin'', ''Fables'', ''Batman: The Ultimate Training Guide'', and ''Lucifer''. Career Much of his early work was published by Antarctic Press in '' Fun and Perils in the Trudyverse''. Hahn later moved his work to Slave Labor Graphics and restarted the series under the name ''Private Beach'', which garnered him an Eisner Award nomination. He has also written an X-Men story for ''Ultimate X-Men'' #11 for Marvel Comics and drawn a story for Michael Chabon's '' The Escapist'' #5, written by Howard Chaykin, drawn several issues of Marvel Adventures:The Fantastic Four, as well five issues of ''Spider-Man Loves Mary Jane''. In 2011, he released his second creator-owned alternative mini-series, a five-issue story called ''All Ni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
