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Mick Austin
Michael J. Austin is a fine artist who lives and works in the UK. Initially a comic book artist and illustrator, his painterly style led to him leaving this genre and concentrating on fine art in 1996. Biography Mick Austin started his artistic career in 1981 for Marvel Comics producing cover art and a very brief 'Timesmasher' (written by the then editor Paul Neary) series and also Blakes Seven before moving onto Warrior mainly painting cover art for which he won an Eagle Award in 1982 for his Marvelman cover. He then drew both Judge Dredd and Judge Anderson for '' 2000 AD'' between 1989 and 1995. He also drew the computer game based strip Urban Strike during this period, various Tharg's Future Shocks and the featured strip in Doctor Who Magazine during this period. He also worked for several other publications up to 1996, notably as features artist for The Sunday Times from 1982 to 1985; illustrating stories for the magazines Men Only, Mayfair, the TV Times as well as many book ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marvel Comics
Marvel Comics is an American comic book publishing, publisher and the flagship property of Marvel Entertainment, a divsion of The Walt Disney Company since September 1, 2009. Evolving from Timely Comics in 1939, ''Magazine Management/Atlas Comics'' in 1951 and its predecessor, ''Marvel Mystery Comics'', the ''Marvel Comics'' title/name/brand was first used in June 1961. Marvel was started in 1939 by Martin Goodman (publisher), Martin Goodman as Timely Comics, and by 1951 had generally become known as Atlas Comics (1950s), Atlas Comics. The Marvel era began in June 1961 with the launch of ''The Fantastic Four'' and other superhero titles created by Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko and many others. The Marvel brand, which had been used over the years and decades, was solidified as the company's primary brand. Marvel counts among List of Marvel Comics characters, its characters such well-known superheroes as Spider-Man, Iron Man, Captain America, Thor (Marvel Comics), Thor, Doc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Millar
Mark Millar (; born 24 December 1969) is a Scottish comic book writer and television producer who first came to prominence with a run on the superhero series '' The Authority'', published by DC Comics' Wildstorm imprint. Millar has written extensively for Marvel Comics, including runs on ''The Ultimates'', which has been called "the comic book of the decade" by ''Time'' magazine and described as a major inspiration for the 2012 film '' The Avengers'' by its screenwriter Zak Penn, ''X-Men'', '' Fantastic Four'' and ''Avengers'' for Marvel's Ultimate imprint, as well as ''Marvel Knights Spider-Man'' and ''Wolverine''. In 2006, Millar wrote the ''Civil War'' mini-series that served as the centrepiece for the eponymous company-wide crossover storyline and later inspired the Marvel Studios film '' Captain America: Civil War''. The "Old Man Logan" storyline, published as part of Millar's run on ''Wolverine'', served as the inspiration for the 2017 film '' Logan''. Millar has written ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Year Of Birth Missing (living People)
A year or annus is the orbital period of a planetary body, for example, the Earth, moving in its orbit around the Sun. Due to the Earth's axial tilt, the course of a year sees the passing of the seasons, marked by change in weather, the hours of daylight, and, consequently, vegetation and soil fertility. In temperate and subpolar regions around the planet, four seasons are generally recognized: spring, summer, autumn and winter. In tropical and subtropical regions, several geographical sectors do not present defined seasons; but in the seasonal tropics, the annual wet and dry seasons are recognized and tracked. A calendar year is an approximation of the number of days of the Earth's orbital period, as counted in a given calendar. The Gregorian calendar, or modern calendar, presents its calendar year to be either a common year of 365 days or a leap year of 366 days, as do the Julian calendars. For the Gregorian calendar, the average length of the calendar year (the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dan Abnett
Dan Abnett (born 12 October 1965) is an English comic book writer and novelist. He has been a frequent collaborator with fellow writer Andy Lanning, and is known for his work on books for both Marvel Comics, and their UK imprint, Marvel UK, since the 1990s, and also ''2000 AD (comics), 2000 AD''. He has also contributed to DC Comics titles, and his ''Warhammer Fantasy (setting), Warhammer Fantasy'' and ''Warhammer 40,000'' novels and graphic novels for Games Workshop's Black Library now run to several dozen titles and have sold over two million copies. In 2009 he released his first original fiction novels through Angry Robot books. Early life Abnett read English and matriculated at St Edmund Hall, Oxford in 1984, and graduated from there in 1987. Career As one of the more prolific ''2000 AD'' writers, Abnett was responsible for the creation of one of the comic's better known and longest-running strips, ''Sinister Dexter''. Other original stories include ''Black Light'', ''Badlan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vector 13
''Vector 13'' is a comic strip published in the British magazine '' 2000 AD''. It featured the eponymous agency set up to investigate anomalous phenomena and conspiracy theories. It was influenced by American TV drama ''The X-Files'' (which was at the height of its popularity at the time) and other events such as the 1995 release of the alien autopsy film; as the general interest in the paranormal and parapolitics waned, the series was wound up and replaced by ''Pulp Sci-Fi'' as a venue for single issue self-contained stories. In turn it foreshadowed other comics series dedicated to similar agencies, such as Caballistics, Inc. The format was created by former'' 2000 AD ''editor and long-time contributor Alan McKenzie. Plot Each story was presented by the Men in Black, as being a true file from their cases touching on a whole range of Forteana from Mothman to the Chupacabras and broader conspiracy theories such as those surrounding Project MKULTRA. In the middle of the series run ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthony Williams (comics)
Anthony Williams is a Welsh comic book artist. Biography He broke into comics at Marvel UK, drawing for the series ''Action Force,'' ''The Real Ghostbusters'' and ''Transformers'', among others. Subsequent British work has included the venerable science fiction comic '' 2000 AD'', for which he has drawn features including ''Kola Commandos,'' ''Mean Arena'', '' PJ Maybe'' and ''Robo-Hunter''. His best-known work includes DC Comics' Doctor Fate series ''Fate''; writer Mark Millar's ''The Unfunnies'' for Avatar Press; and for Marvel Comics, the first ''X-Men'' movie adaptation, and the nine-issue run of ''Hokum & Hex'', a superhero title created by author Clive Barker for Marvel's Razorline imprint. Williams has additionally drawn issues of comics starring Batman, Spider-Man, Superman and Scooby-Doo, with notable work that includes Marvel's '' Squadron Supreme: New World Order'' bookshelf-format one-shot (Sept. 1998); DC's ''Elseworlds'' prestige-format one-shot "The Superman M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve White (comics)
Steve White is a British comic book writer, paleoartist, and occasional colourist who has mainly worked with '' 2000 AD''. Career White's career in comics began in the 1980s at Marvel UK in London, where he worked in various roles on titles like '' The Real Ghostbusters'', ''Transformers'', ''Dragon's Claws'', ''Knights of Pendragon'' and '' The Sleaze Brothers''. He has co-authored work with Dan Abnett, of '' Majestic'' fame. He is currently a senior editor for Titan Magazines comics, overseeing popular licenses such as ''Wallace & Gromit'', ''Shaun the Sheep'', ''The Simpsons Comics'', ''Transformers'' and Star Wars. He was previously a graphic novels editor for Titan Books. White is also a talented illustrator, specialising in drawing dinosaurs. Illustration credits include ''Dinosaurs: A Celebration'' (Marvel, 1997), and he has edited and published several newer books about palaeoart. Bibliography Comics *''Judge Dredd'': "The Juve Mutated Kung Fu Kleggs" (with Dermot Power ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indigo Prime
''Indigo Prime'' is the umbrella name for a series of stories written by John Smith for British comics magazine '' 2000 AD''. It is about an agency - existing out of time and whose members are dead - which police the multiverse of parallel realities. Plot Indigo Prime is an extra-dimensional agency dedicated to the maintenance and repair of breaks and distortions across the multiverse. However, they're not above making a few 'alterations' for any rich clientele that approach them (although it appears that this is never at the expense of the harmony of the multiverse itself). Their base of operations exists outside the multiverse and time itself in a hypothetical 'nullzone', which every event in time and space throughout the multiverse transects. All Indigo Prime agents are chosen, upon their death, based on the presence of a certain gene (the "Rembrant Index") that occurs in one in twelve million people across the multiverse; given a new body, and then trained in a range of a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Tomlinson (comics)
John Tomlinson is a British comic book writer and editor known for his work on various '' 2000 AD'' strips. He has occasionally been credited as Sonny Steelgrave. Biography Tomlinson worked at Marvel UK in the early 1990s and helped nurture various talents, including Matthew Bingham and John Freeman. He has co-written strips with Nick Abadzis. He was editor of '' 2000 AD'' from 1994 to 1996, and the ''Judge Dredd Megazine'' and ''Judge Dredd – Lawman of the Future'' briefly in 1996. He also wrote several stories for ''2000 AD''. Tomlinson currently works for British part work publisher Eaglemoss. Bibliography His comic work includes: *''Tharg's Future Shocks'': ** "Fat Chance" (with Simon Jacob, in ''2000 AD'' No. 609, 1989) ** "At Twilight's Last Gleaming" (with Stephen Baskerville, in ''2000 AD'' No. 613, 1989) ** "Guilt" (with Paul Marshall, in ''2000 AD'' No. 671, 1990) ** "It's Alive!" (with Mick Austin, in ''2000 AD'' No. 717, 1991) ** "Retribution" (with Arthur R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Smith (comics)
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] |
Future Shocks
''Tharg's Future Shocks'' is a long-running series of short strips in the British weekly comic '' 2000 AD'' in 1977. The name originates from the fictional editor of 2000 AD and the book titled ''Future Shock'', written by Alvin Toffler, published in 1970. Publishing history The series began in issue 25 of ''2000 AD'' titled "Tharg's Future Shocks" in a single short story written by Steve Moore, who also created the format. This established the pattern of the series which would be two- or three-page short stories, which were normally self-contained. These stories would be a testing ground for new artists and writers and creators resulting in the stories having a very mixed level of quality. Some successful authors such as Peter Milligan, Alan Davis, Alan Moore, and Grant Morrison found some of their earliest work published as ''Future Shocks''. Spin-offs Some characters proved popular enough to either appear in their own stories, or have multiple appearances in ''Future Sh ... [...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] |
