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The Extraordinary Works Of Alan Moore
''The Extraordinary Works of Alan Moore'' is a book written by George Khoury, published by TwoMorrows Publishing in 2003. An updated "Indispensable Edition" was released in 2009. Contents The book contains a long interview of Alan Moore about his life and comics career. It includes tributes by Neil Gaiman and Mark Buckingham, Rick Veitch, David Lloyd, John Totleben, Dave Gibbons, Brian Bolland, J.H. Williams III, Ian Gibson, Garry Leach, Hilary Barta, Chris Sprouse, Scott Dunbier, Sam Kieth, Todd Klein, and Kevin O'Neill. There is an extensive bibliography. It contains the following full works by Moore: *"Shrine of the Lizard" (a prose story reprinted from the 1971 fanzine ''Weird Window'' #2) *three strips from Roscoe Moscow *five strips of ''Maxwell the Magic Cat'' *"Nutters Ruin" (a 1979 strip, reprinted from ''Speakeasy'' #43) *"The Avenging Hunchback" (reprinted from ''Darkstar'' #19) *"Kultural Krime Komix" (reprinted from ''Darkstar'' #20) *"Old Gangsters Never D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Khoury (author)
George Khoury () is a writer and interviewer in the field of comic books. Khoury's most notable works focus on the UK comic book writer Alan Moore. Khoury is based in New Jersey. Early life Khoury recalls not being "completely enthralled by comic books until I discovered '' Star Wars'' #68 from Marvel Comics."Khoury, George, "The Roger Stern Interview: The Triumphs and Trials of the Writer" at MarvelMasterworks.com Accessed September 24, 2008 As a 12-year-old '' Star Wars'' fan, Khoury was introduced to Marvel Comics, and Khoury attended [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hilary Barta
Hilary Barta (born June 17, 1957) is an American comic book writer and artist. Biography Barta was born on June 17, 1957. His first comics work came in June 1982, when he helped Marvel inkers Al Milgrom, Joe Sinnott and Sal Trapani provide inks for the pencils of Don Perlin on '' The Defenders'' #108. He inked #115 solo and then inked Dave Cockrum's artwork for a backup feature to the '' Giant Size X-Men'' #1-reprint ''X-Men Special Edition'' #1 in February 1983.. Accessed March 20, 2008 Marvel and First Barta was the regular inker for most of the first 10 issues of John Byrne's ''The Thing'' during 1983–84, during-and-after which he moved from Marvel to First Comics to ink a couple of stories for their ''Warp'' comic (including some of the earliest work from Bill Willingham). Other inking work for First slowly saw Barta graduate from inks to pencils over a dozen issues of the John Ostrander-written ''Starslayer'', while he also inked a couple of issues of Howard Chaykin's ''Am ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Published Material By Alan Moore
This is a bibliography of works by British author and comic book writer Alan Moore. Comics Early work Short stories and strips published in various British magazines and newspapers include: * '' Embryo'' #5: "Once There Were Daemons" (script and art, Northampton Arts Lab, 1971) * '' Anon'' #1–5: "Anon E. Mouse" (script and art, 1974–1975) * '' The Back Street Bugle'' ( EOA Books): ** "St. Pancras Panda" (script and art, in #6–12, 14, 16, 18, 22, 25, 1978–1979) ** "Moeby Palliative" (script and art, in No. 15, 1979) ** "Fat Jap Defamation Funnies" (script and art, in No. 23, 1979) ** "Just Another Day" (script, with Dick Foreman, in No. 42, 1980) * '' Dark Star'' (as Curt Vile, Dark Star): ** "The Avenging Hunchback" (script and art, in No. 19, 1979) ** "Kultural Krime Komix" (script and art, in No. 20, 1979) ** "Talcum Power" (script and art, with Pedro Henry, aka Steve Moore, in No. 21, 1979) ** "Three Eyes McGurk and His Death Planet Commandos" (art, with Pedro Hen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
José Villarrubia
José Antonio Villarrubia Jiménez-Momediano (born 17 November 1961) – known professionally as José Villarrubia – is a Spanish-American artist and art teacher who has done considerable work in the American comic book industry, particularly as a colorist. Biography Villarrubia was born in Madrid, moved to Baltimore, Maryland, in 1980. His fine art photography has been exhibited in the U.S., Latin America and Europe, in institutions such as the Baltimore Museum of Art and the Inter-American Development Bank. From 2011 to 2016 he was Chair of the Illustration Department of the Maryland Institute College of Art, where he is a professor. He is currently the coordinator of the Sequential Art Concentration. Before the Maryland Institute College of Art he had taught at Towson University, the Baltimore School for the Arts and the Walters Art Museum. He has lectured extensively about art at Johns Hopkins University, the College Art Association, Dickinson College, the ICA in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maxwell The Magic Cat
''Maxwell the Magic Cat'' was a British comic strip written and drawn by Alan Moore under the pseudonym "Jill de Ray". Moore produced the strip for the weekly ''Northants Post'' from 1979 to 1986. Moore originally pitched the ''Post'' an adult-oriented strip called ''Nutter's Ruin'', which they rejected, advising him instead to propose a children's strip. Although ''Maxwell'' is on the surface intended for children, Moore inserted metafictional and surrealist elements, adult references, and social/political commentary into the strip throughout its run. In fact, the Jill de Ray pseudonym is a pun on the Medieval child murderer Gilles de Rais, something Moore found to be a "sardonic joke". Moore has stated that he would have been happy to continue Maxwell's adventures almost indefinitely, but ended the strip after the host newspaper the ''Northants Post'' ran a negative editorial on the place of homosexuals in the community. Meanwhile, Moore decided to focus more fully on writing c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kevin O'Neill (comics)
Kevin O'Neill ( – 3 November 2022) was an English comic book illustrator who was the co-creator of ''Nemesis the Warlock'', ''Marshal Law'' (with writer Pat Mills), and ''The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen'' (with Alan Moore). Career Early career O'Neill began working for the publishing company IPC at the age of 16 as an office boy for '' Buster'', which was a children's humour title. In 1975 he started publishing, as a personal side project, the fanzine ''Just Imagine: The Journal of Film and Television Special Effects'' which lasted five regular issues and one special issue through 1978. By 1976 he was working as a colourist on Disney comics reprints and British children's comics such as ''Monster Fun'' and ''Whizzer and Chips''. Tired of working on children's humour titles, he heard that a new science fiction title was being put together at IPC and went to see Pat Mills and asked to be transferred to the new comic which was to be called '' 2000 AD''. ''2000 AD'' O' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Todd Klein
Todd Klein (born January 28, 1951) is an American comic book letterer, logo designer, and occasional writer, primarily for DC Comics. Biography Early career Todd Klein broke into comics in the summer of 1977, hired by DC Comics as a staff production worker. This job entailed pasting together text pages (such as letter columns), putting logos, display lettering, and type on covers, and doing art and lettering corrections on comics pages. Other staffers included colorists Bob LeRose and Anthony Tollin, writer Bob Rozakis, inker Steve Mitchell, and letterer John Workman. Over the next months and years, Klein tried his hand at all those things, but found lettering suited him best. Workman helped Klein get started with the basic tools and techniques, and Klein studied the work of Gaspar Saladino, Workman, Ben Oda, and John Costanza; as well as Marvel Comics letterers Tom Orzechowski, Jim Novak, and Joe Rosen. Klein landed his first freelance lettering job in the fall of 1977, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sam Kieth
Sam Kieth (born January 11, 1963) is an American comics artist and writer, best known as the creator of ''The Maxx'' and ''Zero Girl''. Career Comics Kieth's first published work was "a story in the back of a Comico comic" when he was "about seventeen"; it was "about a killer rabbit named Max the Hare".'' Wizard: The Guide to Comics'' #2, October 1991; "Future Stars"; p. 121 He came to prominence in 1984 as the inker of Matt Wagner's ''Mage'', and a year later as the inker of ''Fish Police''. In 1989, he penciled the first five issues (the " Preludes & Nocturnes" story arc) of writer Neil Gaiman's celebrated series '' The Sandman'' and collaborated with Alan Grant on a Penguin story in ''Secret Origins Special'' #1. He illustrated two volumes of writer William Messner-Loebs' ''Epicurus the Sage'', drew an ''Aliens'' miniseries for Dark Horse Comics, and drew ''The Incredible Hulk'' #368, which led to drawing numerous covers for ''Marvel Comics Presents''. In 1993, Kieth left ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scott Dunbier
Scott Dunbier is an American comic book editor, best known as the Special Projects Editor at IDW Publishing. Career Dunbier rose to prominence in the comic book industry as executive editor of the Wildstorm comic book line. After several years as a dealer in original comic book artwork during the 1980s and 1990s, Dunbier began with Wildstorm in 1995 as Special Projects Editor. Two years later, he was named Editor-in-Chief, a title which was changed to Group Editor when Wildstorm became a part of DC Comics. Among the many projects Dunbier edited for Wildstorm were Alan Moore's America's Best Comics line ( including ''Promethea'', ''Tom Strong'', ''The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen'' & '' Top 10''), '' Arrowsmith'' and ''Challengers of the Unknown''. At Wildstorm, he also created the Absolute Absolute may refer to: Companies * Absolute Entertainment, a video game publisher * Absolute Radio, (formerly Virgin Radio), independent national radio station in the UK * Absolute Soft ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Sprouse
Chris Sprouse (born July 30, 1966) is an Americans, American comics artist. Sprouse has worked for multiple publishers and has won two Eisner Awards for his work on ''Tom Strong'', a series he created with writer Alan Moore. Early life Chris Sprouse was born in Charlottesville, Virginia. At the age of 3 he moved with his family to New Delhi, India where he first discovered comics as he was unable to play outside due to the dangerous amount of snakes in the house yard. When he was 6, his family returned to the United States to Dale City, Virginia, where he continued to read and draw comics. Before his debut in comics, Sprouse drew a comic strip entitled ''Ber-Mander'' for the school newspaper (''The Hyphen'') while attending Gar-Field Senior High School in Woodbridge. After graduating in 1984, Sprouse attended James Madison University where he studied graphic design. Career Sprouse launched his career in mainstream comics in 1989, his first credited work being a Chemical King st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Garry Leach
Garry Leach (19 September 1954 – 26 March 2022) was a British comics artist and publisher. Biography Garry Leach's early work for ''2000 AD'' included mainly one-off stories featuring '' Dan Dare'' and '' M.A.C.H. 1''.Garry Leach at Lambiek Comics Encyclopedia He later worked on the series '' The V.C.s''. In 1981 he joined 's company, where he worked as art director and was the first artist on |
TwoMorrows Publishing
TwoMorrows Publishing is a publisher of magazines about comic books, founded in 1994 by John and Pam Morrow out of their small advertising agency in Raleigh, North Carolina, United States. Its products also include books and DVDs. List of magazines TwoMorrows publishes the following magazines: * '' Alter Ego'' * ''Back Issue!'' * ''BrickJournal''TwoMorrows Publishing website - magazines webpage Retrieved September 20, 2021. * ''Comic Book Creator'' * '''' * ''Jack Kirby Collector'' * ''RetroFan'' Defunct magazines include * '' [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |