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Mam Tor Publishing
Mam Tor Publishing is an United Kingdom, English independent comic book publisher founded by Liam Sharp and his wife Christina McCormack. The company's headquarters are in Derby, East Midlands. The name "Mam Tor" comes from the landmark Mam Tor, high peak near Castleton, Derbyshire, Castleton in the Peak District National Park, High Peak of Derbyshire, England. History During 2004, Mam Tor Publishing was established by Liam & Christina McCormack-Sharp to publish ''Sharpenings, The Art of Liam Sharp''.Liam Sharp Launches Mam Tor & Event Horison Newsarama, December 14, 2004 It, a personal artbook featuring previously unreleased art samples of Sharp, was initially a portfolio showcase he could send publishers. Mam Tor has published the anthology ''Mam Tor: Event Horizon''. Cu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Worry Doll
Worry dolls (also named trouble dolls; Spanish Muñeca quitapena) are small, mostly hand-made dolls that originate from the highland indigenous people of Guatemala. Description and material Worry dolls are mostly hand-made. In Guatemala, they are made of wire, wool and colorful textile leftovers. The dolls are then dressed in traditional Mayan style. The size of the doll can vary between ½ inch and 2.0 inches. In western culture, the dolls are mostly made of pressed paper, adhesive tape, paper and colorful wool. Here, the dolls can be remarkably larger in size.Nicole Joiner, Dagmar Rücker: ''Knüllen, falten, schneiden, färben: Kunterbunte Ideenkiste für Kinder von 3–8 Jahren''. Ökotopia Verlag, Münster 2010, , page 41. Function In the dolls original Guatemalan tradition, a local legend about the origin of the ''Muñeca quitapena'' refers to a Maya princess named ''Ixmucane''. The princess received a special gift from the sun god which would allow her to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Johnson (comics)
James Johnson may refer to: Artists, actors, authors, and musicians *James Austin Johnson (born 1989), American comedian & actor, ''Saturday Night Live'' cast member * James B. Johnson (born 1944), author of science nonfiction novels *James P. Johnson (1894–1955), New Jersey jazz musician, known for his "stride" piano playing *James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938), African-American figure in the Harlem Renaissance * James Johnson (author and priest) (1674–1740), English author and cleric *James Johnson (engraver) (1753–1811), Scottish publisher * James Johnson (artist) (1803–1834), English artist *James "Stump" Johnson (1902–1969), St. Louis blues musician *Jamey Johnson (born 1975), country musician * J. C. Johnson (1896–1981), songwriter and jazz pianist sometimes erroneously known as James C. Johnson, best known for his collaborations with Fats Waller * James F. Johnson (1926–2000), American blues musician *Super Chikan (James Johnson, born 1951), American blues musici ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nick Wray
Nick may refer to: * Nick (given name) * A cricket term for a slight deviation of the ball off the edge of the bat * British slang for being arrested * British slang for a police station * British slang for stealing * Short for nickname Places * Nick, Hungary * Nick, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, Poland Other uses * Nick, the Allied codename for Japanese World War II fighter Kawasaki Ki-45 * Nick (DNA), an element of DNA structure * Nick (German TV channel) * ''Nick'' (novel), a 2021 novel by Michael Farris Smith * Nick's, a jazz tavern in New York City * Désirée Nick, a German actress and writer * Nickelodeon, a children's cable channel See also * Nicks, surname * * * NIC (other) * Nik (other) * 'Nique (other) * Nix (other) * Old Nick (other) * Knick (other) * Nick Nack (other) Knick Knack is an English equivalent of bric-à-brac. Knick Knack, Knickknack or Nick Nack may also refer to: * ''Knick Knack' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Graphic Novel
A graphic novel is a long-form, fictional work of sequential art. The term ''graphic novel'' is often applied broadly, including fiction, non-fiction, and anthologized work, though this practice is highly contested by comic scholars and industry professionals. It is, at least in the United States, typically distinct from the term ''comic book'', which is generally used for comics periodicals and trade paperbacks (see American comic book). Fan historian Richard Kyle coined the term ''graphic novel'' in an essay in the November 1964 issue of the comics fanzine ''Capa-Alpha''. The term gained popularity in the comics community after the publication of Will Eisner's '' A Contract with God'' (1978) and the start of the ''Marvel Graphic Novel'' line (1982) and became familiar to the public in the late 1980s after the commercial successes of the first volume of Art Spiegelman's '' Maus'' in 1986, the collected editions of Frank Miller's '' The Dark Knight Returns'' in 1986 and Alan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boris Johnson
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (; born 19 June 1964) is a British politician, writer and journalist who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party from 2019 to 2022. He previously served as Foreign Secretary from 2016 to 2018 and as Mayor of London from 2008 to 2016. Johnson has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Uxbridge and South Ruislip since 2015, having previously been MP for Henley from 2001 to 2008. Johnson attended Eton College, and studied Classics at Balliol College, Oxford. He was elected president of the Oxford Union in 1986. In 1989, he became the Brussels correspondent — and later political columnist — for ''The Daily Telegraph'', and from 1999 to 2005 was the editor of '' The Spectator''. Following his election to parliament in 2001 he was a shadow minister under Conservative leaders Michael Howard and David Cameron. In 2008, Johnson was elected mayor of London and resigned from the House of Common ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roger Langridge
Roger Langridge (born 14 February 1967) is a New Zealand comics writer, artist and letterer, currently living in Britain. Biography Langridge originally came to public prominence most notably with the ''Judge Dredd Megazine'' series ''The Straitjacket Fits'' (written by David Bishop), a surreal, hallucinatory, convention-bending strip set in an insane asylum with a cast of characters who realised they were in a comic strip and burst from the edge of the frame. He had previously been a regular artist for the 1988 issues of the Auckland University Students' Association's magazine Craccum. His cartoon style proved perfect for the series and he continued to work for the ''Megazine'', in addition to a series of comedy books dedicated to his Buster Keaton-inspired character ''Fred the Clown'', which he wrote and drew as a webcomic before self-publishing the material as small press titles. These were collected as a single volume by Fantagraphics Books in 2004. His work on Fred the Cl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Guardian
''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in 1821 as ''The Manchester Guardian'', and changed its name in 1959. Along with its sister papers ''The Observer'' and ''The Guardian Weekly'', ''The Guardian'' is part of the Guardian Media Group, owned by the Scott Trust. The trust was created in 1936 to "secure the financial and editorial independence of ''The Guardian'' in perpetuity and to safeguard the journalistic freedom and liberal values of ''The Guardian'' free from commercial or political interference". The trust was converted into a limited company in 2008, with a constitution written so as to maintain for ''The Guardian'' the same protections as were built into the structure of the Scott Trust by its creators. Profits are reinvested in journalism rather than distributed to owners or shareholders. It is considered a newspaper of record in the UK. The editor-in-chief Katharine Viner succeeded Alan Rusbridger in 2015. Since 2018, the paper's main news ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kev Crossley
Kev can refer to: Given name * Kev Adams, French comedian, actor, screenwriter and film producer born Kevin Smadja in 1991 * Kevin Kev Carmody (born 1946), Indigenous Australian singer-songwriter * Kev Coghlan (born 1988), Scottish Grand Prix motorcycle racer * Kev Hopper (born 1961), English composer and musician, bass guitarist with the 1980s band Stump * Kevin Kev Lingard (born 1942), Australian politician * Kevin Naiqama (born 1989), Australian rugby league footballer * Kev Orkian (born 1974), British-Armenian musician, comedian and actor * Kev F. Sutherland (born 1961), Scottish comedian and comic strip creator * Kevin Kev Walker, British comics artist and illustrator Other uses *Kiloelectronvolt (keV), a unit of energy *Krefelder Eislauf-Verein 1936 e.V. (KEV), original name of Krefeld Pinguine, a German ice hockey team formed in 1936 * kev, ISO 639-3 code for the Kanikkaran language of southern India * KEV, IATA airport code for Halli Airport, a military airport in Kuorevesi, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dave Kendall (comics)
Dave Kendall is a British-born journalist, editor, producer and VJ. He was first known to the public as the creator and host of MTV's ''120 Minutes'', an alternative music program that played Sunday nights at midnight from 1986 through the 1990s. He regularly played the LA club scene as a DJ during these decades and the VJ/DJ mixed the ''A Voyage into Trance vol. 2'' CD album released in 2001. Kendall is attributed co-artist on each track in the list on iTunes, whereas on Amazon, Kendall is listed as the sole author/composer on tracks 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 9, 10 and other artists for the other tracks. Since the cancellation of ''120 Minutes'', he has worked on the internet, creating programs such as ''The Daily Dish'', as a DJ, spinning records at clubs in New York and London, and as a producer at TechTV/ G4, Sky, Channel 4, Travel Channel and Animal Planet. Kendall is now a producer/reporter with the Bangkok Post TV channel, and a host/producer on the travel show ''Destination Thai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Weston
Chris Weston (born 1969) is a British comics artist who has worked both in the US and UK comics industries. Biography Weston was born in January 1969 in Rinteln, Germany, and lived in various countries as a child. His career began when he was apprenticed for a year to work with Don Lawrence, by the end of which he had secured paid work on the major British strip ''Judge Dredd''. He worked with writer John Smith on the ten-part ''Indigo Prime'' story, "Killing Time" in which characters battled Jack the Ripper aboard a time travelling train. Weston's work in America began with on ''Swamp Thing'' during Mark Millar's time as scriptwriter. He has since gone on to be published in ''The Invisibles'', ''Starman'', '' JSA'', ''Lucifer'', and '' The Authority''. He has also worked on '' The Filth'' and '' Ministry of Space''. The former a creator-owned written by Grant Morrison, the latter a "what if?" limited series written by Warren Ellis which saw Britain winning the Space Race. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
