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Schrage (G.I. Joe)
''G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero'' is a comic book that was published by Marvel Comics from 1982 to 1994. Based on Hasbro's G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero line of military-themed toys, the series has been credited for making ''G.I. Joe'' into a pop-culture phenomenon. ''G.I. Joe'' was also the first comic book to be advertised on television, in what has been called a "historically crucial moment in media convergence". The series was written for most of its 155-issue run by comic book writer, artist, and editor Larry Hama, and was notable for its realistic, character-based storytelling style, unusual for a toy comic at the time. Hama wrote the series spontaneously, never knowing how a story would end until it was finished, but worked closely with the artists, giving them sketches of the characters and major scenes. While most stories involved the G.I. Joe Team battling against the forces of Cobra Command, an evil terrorist organization, many also focused on the relationships ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herb Trimpe
Herbert William Trimpe (; May 26, 1939 – April 13, 2015) was an American comics artist and occasional writer, best known as the seminal 1970s artist on ''The Incredible Hulk'' and as the first artist to draw for publication the character Wolverine, who later became a breakout star of the X-Men. Early life Herb Trimpe was born May 26, 1939, in Peekskill, New York,Additional , October 7, 2010. the son of Anna (Jamison) and Herbert Trimpe. He graduated from Lakeland High School. His brother, Mike Trimpe, inked an Ant-Man story that Trimpe pencilled in ''Marvel Feature'' #6 (Nov. 1972). Of his childhood art and comics influences, he said in 2002, "I really loved the Disney stuff, Donald Duck and characters like that. Funny-animal stuff, that was kind of my favorite, and I liked to draw that kind of thing. And I also liked ... Plastic Man. ... I loved comics since I was a little kid, but I was actually more interested in syndicating a comic strip than working in comics."Trimpe int ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lee Weeks
Lee Weeks (born 1962) is an American comics artist known for his work on such titles as ''Daredevil''. Career Lee Weeks attended The Kubert School and made his professional comics debut penciling, inking, and lettering a short story ("Friends Don't Let Friends Drive Drunk") in ''Tales of Terror'' #5 (March 1986), a horror anthology published by Eclipse Comics. He is best known for his work for Marvel Comics on the ''Daredevil'' series (1990–1992), where he pencilled the ''Last Rites'' storyline. It featured the fall of the Kingpin and is a sequel of sorts to Frank Miller and David Mazzucchelli's ''Born Again.'' He collaborated with writer Howard Mackie on the '' Gambit'' limited series in 1993–1994. At Dark Horse Comics, Weeks drew the ''Predator vs. Magnus, Robot Fighter'' and '' Tarzan vs. Predator: At the Earth's Core'' crossovers. Back at Marvel, he wrote and drew the ''Spider-Man: Death and Destiny'' limited series in 2000 and worked with Tom DeFalco on ''Spider-M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Palmer (comics)
Thomas John Palmer (July 13, 1941 – August 18, 2022) was an American comic book artist best known as an inker for Marvel Comics. Biography Although Tom Palmer created a small amount of penciling work (as well as some cover art and some coloring), the vast majority of his artistic output since the 1960s was as a comic book inker. Reminiscing about how he came to be an inker, Palmer recounted: Palmer's extensive work for Marvel Comics includes runs paired with pencilers Neal Adams on '' The Avengers'' and ''Uncanny X-Men''; Gene Colan, on titles such as ''Doctor Strange'', '' Daredevil'', and ''Tomb of Dracula''; and John Buscema, on ''The Avengers''. He also inked the entire run of John Byrne's '' X-Men: The Hidden Years''. Palmer is widely considered the definitive inker for Gene Colan, whose use of grey textures made his pencils notoriously difficult to ink in a way that did them justice. Colan has stated publishers never answered his requests to be paired with a speci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fred Fredericks
Harold "Fred" Fredericks, Jr. (August 9, 1929 – March 10, 2015) was an American cartoonist who drew the ''Mandrake the Magician'' comic strip from June 1965, taking over for the late Phil Davis. Creator Lee Falk modernized the comic when Fredericks took over the strip, making it more reality-based by focusing less on science fiction and fantasy, and making Mandrake operate more like a secret agent, often helping out the police with cases they could not solve.Dallas, Keith, and Wells, John. ''American Comic Book Chronicles: 1965-69''. Raleigh, NC., TwoMorrows Publishing, 2014. (p.56) Fredericks is also well known for inking '' The Phantom'' Sunday strips 1995 to 2000 (pencilled by George Olesen); Graham Nolan succeeded Fredericks when he decided to concentrate fully on Mandrake. He was also known for writing the comic strip "Rebel" for Scholastic Magazine from 1964 to the early 1990s, and for drawing the following comic books: '' Nancy'', ''Boris Karloff'', '' The Twi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Randy Emberlin
Randy Emberlin is a comic book inker best known for his ink work on the Spider-Man comic books. Per the bio on his website, he currently lives in Portland, Oregon. He has spent the past 30 years working in a variety of creative fields, including as an illustrator of educational books and an animator on over fifty television commercials. Over the last 20 years he is probably best known for his work as an inker in comics, with a résumé that includes long runs on ''The Amazing Spider-Man'', ''G.I. Joe'', ''Doctor Strange'', ''Alien Legion'', ''Ghost'', and recently the ''Left Behind'' series for Tyndale House. He has worked with a wide range of pencilers. Bibliography (selected) *''Web of Spider-Man'' (including #117 and many more) *''The Amazing Spider-Man'' (including #345, #347, #362,#390, and many more) * Dark Horse's ''Ghost'' (issues 12–16, 18–25, 28–31, 33–36) *''Mr. T'' (the whole 2005 British APComics series) *''Buffy the Vampire Slayer ''Buffy the Vampire Sl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keith Williams (comics)
Keith Williams (born September 16, 1957) is an American comic book and comic strip artist. He is best known for illustrating The Phantom for over a decade together with George Olesen. He also worked on Superman with John Byrne. Since Paul Ryan took over the Phantom strip, Williams has mainly worked in comic books, like '' Kolchak: The Night Stalker'','' Buckaroo Banzai'' and'' Domino Lady'' from Moonstone Books Moonstone Books is an American comic book, graphic novel, and prose fiction publisher based in Chicago focused on pulp fiction comic books and prose anthologies as well as horror and western tales. The company began publishing creator-owned com .... References * * 1957 births Living people American comics artists {{Comic-strip-creator-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Leialoha
Steve Leialoha (born January 27, 1952) is an Americans, American comics artist whose work first came to prominence in the 1970s. He has worked primarily as an inker, though occasionally as a penciller, for several publishers, including Marvel Comics and later DC Comics. Early life Steve Leialoha was born in San Francisco, California, the son of a Native Hawaiians, Native Hawaiian father. He began reading comics as a child, explaining, "My dad would always give me comics. I mean, he would like to read all sorts of stuff, and he would pass everything along to me. Harvey comics and that kind of thing, when I was six or seven. As I got older, the Marvel Age, which I think of starting like in 1962, I was ten, which is certainly a good age for reading that stuff." Career Steve Leialoha's career began in 1975 with the early independent comic book ''Star*Reach'', drawing the five-page story "Wooden Ships on the Water", adapted by writer Mike Friedrich from the Wooden Ships, song by David ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chic Stone
Charles Eber "Chic" Stone (January 4, 1923 – July 28, 2000)Charles E. Stone at the via GeanealogyBank.com. Retrieved on October 6, 2013. was an American best known as one of 's [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jon D'Agostino
John P. D'Agostino Sr., generally credited as Jon D'Agostino (June 13, 1929November 28, 2010) was an Italian-American comic-book artist best known for his Archie Comics work. As well, under the pseudonym Johnny Dee, he was the letterer for the lead story in the Marvel Comics landmark ''The Amazing Spider-Man'' No. 1 (March 1963), as well as other seminal Marvel comics. D'Agostino is not the French comics artist Tony D'Agostino, a.k.a. Tony Dagos, whose early work was signed "D'Agostino". He is also not the concurrent early-Marvel letterer John Duffy a.k.a. John Duffi. Biography Early career Jon D'Agostino was born in Cervinara, Italy, the son of Pasquale and Annunziata Pitanello D'Agostino."Archie Artist Jon D'Agostino Passes Away at 81" |
Jack Abel
Jack Abel (July 15, 1927 – March 6, 1996) at the Lambiek Comiclopedia. November 24, 2009. was an United States of America, American Comic book creator, comic book artist best known as an inker for leading publishers DC Comics and Marvel Comics. He was DC's primary inker on the Superman titles in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and inked penciler Herb Trimpe's introduction of the popular superhero Wolverine (character), Wolverine in ''The Incredible Hulk (comic book), The Incredible Hulk'' #181 (Nov. 1974). He sometimes used the pseudonym Gary Michaels. Biography Early life and career Abel's published work stretches to 1951, when he penciled and inked horror fiction, horror stories for such comics anthology, anthology series as Mr. Publications' (Mike Esposito (comics), Mike Esposito & Ross Andru's company)[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob McLeod (comics)
Bob McLeod (born August 9, 1951) is an American comics artist best known for co-creating the ''New Mutants'' with writer Chris Claremont.DeMatteis, J.M.; Mike Zeck; and Bob McLeod. (1995, 2nd printing). "About the Creators". In ''Spider-Man, Fearful Symmetry: Kraven's Last Hunt'', p. 159. Marvel Comics. Early life McLeod was born in Tampa, Florida. He was educated at Auburn University and The Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale. Career Bob McLeod began his career working in the production department of Marvel Comics in 1973 on a recommendation from Neal Adams. He began penciling and inking for Marvel's ''Crazy Magazine'', doing several movie satires and the "Teen Hulk" strip. He was a member of The Crusty Bunkers inkers Theakston, Greg and Nowlan, Kevin, et al., at while working at Adams' Continuity Studios, and he became an inker at Marvel and DC Comics on many series, including ''The Incredible Hulk'', ''Conan the Barbarian'', '' Legion of Super Heroes'', '' Detective Comics' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Batista
Chris Batista is an American comic book artist, known for his work on a number of titles for Marvel Comics and DC Comics, including ''Steel'', ''Spaceknights'' and '' Thunderbolts''. Career Batista is an alumnus of Manhattan's School of Visual Arts, having studied under Klaus Janson, who helped obtain for him his first professional work.Chris Batista , , accessed April 21, 2011. Titles Batista has contributed to include '''' (1993–1995), '' |
