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Leo Bachle
Leo Henry Bachle (November 23, 1923 – May 2003), a.k.a. Les Barker, was a Canadian comic book artist in the era of the Canadian Whites, and later became a comedian. Biography Born in Toronto in November 1923, Bachle attended Danforth Collegiate and Technical Institute. In late 1941, fifteen-year-old Bachle was hired by John Ezrin, the manager of Bell Features in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, to come up with something exciting for the company's growing comic book line. He created the character Johnny Canuck, which debuted in the first issue of ''Dime Comics'' in February 1942. In the first Canuck story he confronts Adolf Hitler which helped to propel ''Dime Comics'' to becoming the best-selling comic in the Bell line. Leo became one of Bell's key artists, drawing characters such as Wild Bill, The Invisible Commando, Chip Piper, Southpaw, Super Sub, and The Brain. Bachle's success led to the company to hire a number of new, young artists, including Ross Saakel and Jerry Lazare. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canadians
Canadians (french: Canadiens) are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their being ''Canadian''. Canada is a multilingual and Multiculturalism, multicultural society home to people of groups of many different ethnic, religious, and national origins, with the majority of the population made up of Old World Immigration to Canada, immigrants and their descendants. Following the initial period of New France, French and then the much larger British colonization of the Americas, British colonization, different waves (or peaks) of immigration and settlement of non-indigenous peoples took place over the course of nearly two centuries and continue today. Elements of Indigenous, French, British, and more recent immigrant customs, languages, and religions have combined to form the culture of Canada, and thus a Canadian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Max Gaines
Maxwell Charles Gaines (born Max Ginzberg September 21, 1894 – August 20, 1947) was a pioneering figure in the creation of the modern comic book. In 1933, Gaines devised the first four-color, saddle-stitched newsprint pamphlet, a precursor to the color-comics format that became the standard for the American comic book industry. He was co-publisher of All-American Publications, a seminal comic-book company that introduced such enduring fictional characters as Green Lantern, Wonder Woman, and Hawkman. He went on to found Educational Comics, producing the series ''Picture Stories from the Bible''. He authored one of the earliest essays on comic books, a 1942 pamphlet titled ''Narrative Illustration, The Story of the Comics.'' After Gaines' death in 1947, Educational Comics was taken over by his son Bill Gaines, who transformed the company (now known as EC Comics) into a pioneer of horror, science fiction, and satirical comics. Early life Max Ginzberg was born in New York City t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fantagraphics Books
Fantagraphics (previously Fantagraphics Books) is an American publisher of alternative comics, classic comic strip anthologies, manga, magazines, graphic novels, and the erotic Eros Comix imprint. History Founding Fantagraphics was founded in 1976 by Gary Groth and Michael Catron in College Park, Maryland. The company took over an adzine named ''The Nostalgia Journal'', which it renamed ''The Comics Journal''. As comics journalist (and former Fantagraphics employee) Michael Dean writes, "the publisher has alternated between flourishing and nearly perishing over the years." Kim Thompson joined the company in 1977, using his inheritance to keep the company afloat.Dean, Michael"Comics Community Comes to Fantagraphics' Rescue," ''The Comics Journal'', Posted July 11, 2003. (He soon became a co-owner.) The company moved from Washington, D.C. to Stamford, Connecticut, to Los Angeles over its early years, before settling in Seattle in 1989.Matos, Michelangelo"Saved by the Beag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Comics Journal
''The Comics Journal'', often abbreviated ''TCJ'', is an American magazine of news and criticism pertaining to comic books, comic strips and graphic novels. Known for its lengthy interviews with comic creators, pointed editorials and scathing reviews of the products of the mainstream comics industry, the magazine promotes the view that comics are a fine art, meriting broader cultural respect, and thus should be evaluated with higher critical standards. History In 1976, Gary Groth and Michael Catron acquired ''The Nostalgia Journal'', a small competitor of the newspaper adzine '' The Buyer's Guide for Comics Fandom''. At the time, Groth and Catron were already publishing ''Sounds Fine'', a similarly formatted adzine for record collectors that they had started after producing Rock 'N Roll Expo '75, held during the July 4 weekend in 1975 in Washington, D.C. The publication was relaunched as ''The New Nostalgia Journal'' with issue No. 27 (July 1976), and with issue No. 32 (Janua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Shuster Awards
The Joe Shuster Canadian Comic Book Creator Awards (or Joe Shuster Awards) are given out annually for outstanding achievements in the creation of comic books, graphic novels, webcomics, and comics retailers and publishers by Canadians. The awards, first handed out in April 2005, are named in honour of Joe Shuster (1914–1992), the Canadian-born co-creator of Superman. The Canadian Comic Book Creator Awards Association is a not-for-profit organization formed in 2004 to administer the awards. Overview The Joe Shuster Awards are comic book industry-oriented awards that recognize the achievements of Canadian citizens and permanent residents. Founded initially as an English-language comics award, the criteria have been changed and refined since 2006 to be inclusive of all works published in Canada (see Language criteria). The majority of the awards were initially committee-nominated, public-vote awards, with write-in nominations accepted for the International Creator award. This wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canada Post
Canada Post Corporation (french: Société canadienne des postes), trading as Canada Post (french: Postes Canada), is a Crown corporation that functions as the primary postal operator in Canada. Originally known as Royal Mail Canada (the operating name of the Post Office Department of the Canadian government founded in 1867, french: Poste Royale Canada), rebranding was done to the "Canada Post" name in the late 1960s, even though it had not yet been separated from the government. On October 16, 1981, the Canada Post Corporation Act came into effect. This abolished the Post Office Department and created the present-day Crown corporation which provides postal service. The act aimed to set a new direction for the postal service by ensuring the postal service's financial security and independence. Canada Post provided service to more than 16 million addresses and delivered nearly 8.4 billion items in 2016 and consolidated revenue from operations reached $7.88 billion. Delivery take ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Scarborough Hospital
Scarborough Health Network (SHN) is a hospital network in Scarborough, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It operates the Scarborough General, Centenary, and Birchmount hospitals. The three are major community health hospitals with teaching affiliations to the University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine. History In 1998, The Salvation Army merged the operations of Scarborough General and Birchmount hospitals under its subsidiary The Scarborough Hospital, while Centenary Hospital was under the Rouge Valley Health System with latter hospital network dissolved, transferring Centenary Hospital's administration to The Scarborough Hospital. The new network of the three hospitals was tentatively named Scarborough and Rouge Hospital in 2016. In 2018, it was officially renamed as the Scarborough Health Network. On January 24, 2019, the Scarborough Health Network approved the closure of pediatrics and obstetrics services at the Birchmount Hospital. As of 2019, the hospital network plans to reduce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norman Corwin Presents
''Norman Corwin Presents'' is a Canadian-produced drama anthology television series which aired on CBC Television from 1972 to 1973. The series also aired on Group W owned television stations in the US. Premise The series host was American broadcast writer Norman Corwin who introduced dramas of various genres and subjects. Production The series was a co-production of Group W and Arjo Productions (Arthur Joel Katz). It was recorded in Toronto on videotape. The series relied on American actors such as Diane Baker, Milton Berle, Beau Bridges, Stan Freberg, Fred Gwynne, Rip Torn and Cicely Tyson. They were supported by Canadian actors such as Gale Garnett, Lynne Gorman, Don Harron, Leslie Nielsen, William Shatner and Donald Sutherland. Scheduling This half-hour series was syndicated on American television. In Canada, it was broadcast on CBC Television from 19 June 1972 until 12 September 1973 approximately every week, scheduled on varying evening time slots during its sole seas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Class Of '44
''Class of '44'' is a 1973 American coming-of-age comedy-drama film based on the memoirs of screenwriter Herman Raucher. Directed by Paul Bogart, it is structured as a sequel to the 1971 film ''Summer of '42'' which recounted the events in the earlier portion of Raucher's memoirs. The film is a slice-of-life style autobiography of sorts, depicting Herman Raucher's ( Gary Grimes) freshman year in college, where he falls in love with Julie (Deborah Winters) under the shadow of the growing threat of World War II. Jerry Houser and Oliver Conant reprise their roles as Oscar "Oscy" Seltzer and Benjy, the two other members of Raucher's circle of friends, "The Terrible Trio," but Conant only makes a very brief appearance. Plot Friends Hermie (an aspiring artist), Oscy (a jock), and Benjy (a nerd) graduate high school in the spring of 1944, under the looming threat of World War II. At a post-graduation party, Hermie and Oscy are startled when Benjy tells them that he's enlisted in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
125 Rooms Of Comfort
''125 Rooms of Comfort'' is a 1974 Canadian drama film directed by Patrick Loubert. The film stars Tim Henry as Billie Joyce, a gay former musician who has been involuntarily institutionalized in an asylum by his family since showing up to his father's funeral in drag. When his father's will leaves him possession of a smalltown hotel in St. Thomas, Ontario, he returns home intending to sell the hotel to American real estate developer Oscar Kidd (Robert A. Silverman), but soon finds himself in the position of defending the rights of the hotel's staff against Kidd's renovation plans.Gerald Pratley, ''A Century of Canadian Cinema''. Lynx Images, 2003. . p. 161. Cast * Tim Henry as Billie Joyce * Jackie Burroughs as Bobbie Kidd * Robert Warner as Jim McKeagan * Robert A. Silverman as Oscar Kidd * Les Barker as Leo Basho * Sean Sullivan as Jack * Michael Lewis as Pete * Jackie Crossland as Marge * Marcia Diamond as Doris * Russ Little as Announcer * Leonard Glenn as Byron Joyce * B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Welcome To Blood City
''Welcome to Blood City'' is a 1977 science fiction Western film directed by Peter Sasdy and starring Jack Palance, Keir Dullea and Samantha Eggar. Plot Five strangers awake finding themselves with no memory in a world resembling the wild west. Their task is to become exempt from being killed – what the townspeople refer to as being "immortal" – by killing twenty of the other inhabitants of the town under the scrutiny of the sheriff (Jack Palance), otherwise they will spend their lives in slavery. Cast *Jack Palance as Frendlander *Keir Dullea as Lewis *Samantha Eggar as Katherine *Barry Morse as Supervisor *Hollis McLaren as Martine *Chris Wiggins as Gellor Production Shot in Cinespace Film Studios in Kleinburg, a village north of Toronto Toronto ( ; or ) is the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario. With a recorded population of 2,794,356 in 2021, it is the most populous city in Canada and the fourth most populous city in North America. The city ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marlene Dietrich
Marie Magdalene "Marlene" DietrichBorn as Maria Magdalena, not Marie Magdalene, according to Dietrich's biography by her daughter, Maria Riva ; however Dietrich's biography by Charlotte Chandler cites "Marie Magdalene" as her birth name . (, ; 27 December 1901 – 6 May 1992) was a German and American actress and singer whose career spanned from the 1910s to the 1980s. In 1920s Berlin, Dietrich performed on the stage and in silent films. Her performance as Lola-Lola in Josef von Sternberg's ''The Blue Angel'' (1930) brought her international acclaim and a contract with Paramount Pictures. She starred in many Hollywood films, including six iconic roles directed by Sternberg: ''Morocco'' (1930) (her only Academy Award nomination), ''Dishonored'' (1931), '' Shanghai Express'' and ''Blonde Venus'' (both 1932), ''The Scarlet Empress'' (1934) and '' The Devil Is a Woman'' (1935), ''Desire'' (1936) and ''Destry Rides Again'' (1939). She successfully traded on her glamorous persona a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
