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The Next Issue Project
The Next Issue Project is a series of American comic-book anthology one-shots published by Image Comics beginning in February 2008. The multi-title project, edited by Erik Larsen, creator of Savage Dragon, features comic book characters that have fallen into the public domain. The premise behind the series, according to Larsen, is: Publication history Each issue of the Next Issue Project utilizes features from a title published during the 1930s and 1940s period historians and fans call the Golden Age of Comic Books, with similar dimensions and page count, both larger than the modern-day standard. Each issue continues the name and numbering of each title. The first issue, ''Fantastic Comics'' #24 came out in February 2008. It was followed by '' Silver Streak Comics'' #24 in December 2009 and later ''Crack Comics'' #63. Issues ''Fantastic Comics'' #24 Continuing from Fox Feature Syndicate's ''Fantastic Comics''. This issue was released on February 13, 2008. It contained th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erik Larsen
Erik J. Larsen (born December 8, 1962) is an American comic book artist, writer, and publisher. He currently acts as the chief financial officer of Image Comics. He gained attention in the early 1990s with his art on Spider-Man series for Marvel Comics. In 1992 he was one of several artists who stopped working for Marvel to found Image Comics, where he launched his superhero series ''Savage Dragon'' – one of the longest running creator-owned superhero comics series – and served for several years as the company's publisher. Early life Larsen was born on December 8, 1962, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He has one older brother and two younger sisters. Growing up in Bellingham, Washington, he became interested in comics through his father, a professor of English who read EC Comics, and owned a large collection of ''Captain Marvel Adventures''. Through him, Larsen was exposed to those books and those of Marvel Comics, and began to buy comics in earnest in the mid-1970s. It was Larsen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Yeates
Thomas Yeates (born January 19, 1955) is an American comic strip and comics artist, comic book artist best known for illustrating the comic strips ''Prince Valiant'' and ''Zorro'' and for working on characters created by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Career Thomas Yeates was part of the first graduating class from The Kubert School. His first published comics work was "Preacher" a five-page backup feature in ''Sgt. Rock'' #312 (Jan. 1978). He provided spot illustrations for a Batman prose story in ''Detective Comics'' #500 (March 1981) written by Walter B. Gibson, longtime writer of ''The Shadow''. Yeates and Jack C. Harris briefly revived Claw the Unconquered as a backup feature in ''Warlord (DC Comics), The Warlord'' #48-49. "Dragonsword" was a backup feature by Paul Levitz and Yeates which appeared in ''The Warlord'' #51-54 (Nov. 1981–Feb. 1982). In 1982, Yeates and writer Martin Pasko revived Swamp Thing in a new series titled ''Swamp Thing (comic book), Saga of the Swamp Thing' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Grist (comics)
Paul Grist (born 9 September 1960) is a British comic book creator, noted for his hard-boiled police series '' Kane'' and his unorthodox superhero series ''Jack Staff''. Biography Grist was born in Sheffield, West Riding of Yorkshire, England. His first work was published in the 1980s by DC Thomson and Fleetway. His early work also includes '' St. Swithin's Day'' (written by Grant Morrison and published by Trident Comics), ''Grendel: Devil in Our Midst'' (written by Steven T. Seagle and published by Dark Horse Comics), and a Judge Dredd adventure, ''Kinky Boots'' authored by Robbie Morrison. He later founded his own publishing company, Dancing Elephant Press, under which ''Kane'' and ''Jack Staff'' were first published, but both titles later moved to Image Comics. He also published '' Burglar Bill'' under the Dancing Elephant umbrella (though it had partly appeared in an earlier form published by Trident Comics). Grist's art is notable for its spare - sometimes stiff - style, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silver Streak (comics)
Silver Streak is a fictional superhero character created by Joe Simon that first appeared in ''Silver Streak Comics'' #3 (cover-dated March 1940), from Lev Gleason Publications.Archivedfrom the original on June 3, 2017. He is believed to be the second-ever comic book superhero whose primary power is speed; All-American Publications' The Flash preceded him by two months. However, Silver Streak beat out National Allied Publications' Johnny Quick (who debuted in 1941) as the first superhero whose two powers were speed and flight. Silver Streak has a kid sidekick called "Mercury" (soon changed to "Meteor"); he is also assisted by a falcon named "Whiz". Publication history ''Silver Streak Comics'' was originally published by Arthur Bernhardt's Rhoda Publications, and the title was inspired by Bernhardt's car, a Pontiac Silver Streak. With issue #3, the title was taken over by Lev Gleason Publications and Silver Streak himself first appeared. Silver Streak appeared in ''Silver Streak Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daredevil (Lev Gleason Publications)
Daredevil is a fictional superhero created by Jack Binder, who starred in comics from Lev Gleason Publications during the 1930s–1940s period historians and fans call the Golden Age of comic books before being retroactively established into the Image Universe by Image Comics in the 1990s as its first character. The character is unrelated to Marvel Comics' Daredevil. As a child, Bart Hill had been rendered mute by the shock of seeing his father murdered and himself being branded with a hot iron. Orphaned, he grew up to become a boomerang marksman, in homage to the boomerang-shaped scar left on his chest. Like Batman, introduced a year earlier, he took up a costume to wage vigilante vengeance. Editor Jack Cole, who would create the classic Plastic Man a year later, revamped the character in the next issue as Bill Hart, pitting him against ''Silver Streak''s lead character, the villainous Claw, for a five-issue battle that made Daredevil a star. Publication history Lev Gleason ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lev Gleason Publications
Lev Gleason Publications, founded by Leverett Stone Gleason (1898–1971), was the publisher of a number of popular comic books during the 1940s and early 1950s, including '' Daredevil Comics'', '' Crime Does Not Pay'', and ''Boy Comics''. Background Lev Gleason Publications, founded by Leverett Gleason in 1939,Comics through Time: A History of Icons, Idols, and Ideas volumes by M. Keith Booker, p. 163 was based in Manhattan, New York City, and was among the first to produce comic books aimed at an adult audience. He labeled some of his books "illustories" to suggest that they were a new, different form. Gleason began his career in 1931 as an artist and advertising director for ''Open Road for Boys'' magazine. from 1932 to circa 1934, he served as advertising manager under Harry Wildenberg at Eastern Color Printing, a printer that became a comics-publishing pioneer in 1933 with the first American comic books. Becoming an editor at the newspaper syndicate United Feature, Gleason ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jason Latour
David Jason Latour (born 1977) is an American comic book artist and writer known for his work for Image, Dark Horse, Marvel and DC comics on titles such as ''Wolverine (comic book), Wolverine'', ''Bucky Barnes, Winter Soldier'', ''Southern Bastards'' and ''Spider-Gwen''. Early life Jason Latour was born in Charlotte, NC and graduated from West Mecklenburg High School. He has a Bachelor's degree from East Carolina University where he also served as the student paper's head illustrator and cartoonist. Career Latour minored in art at East Carolina University, graduating in 1999. While at ECU he began his first foray into the comics field with work on his creator owned humor comic strip "4 Seats Left". In late 2004 Latour and writer B. Clay Moore created the short lived series ''The Expatriate'' at Image Comics. In 2009, he was hired to illustrate the Vertigo Comics Crime Line graphic novel ''Noche Roja'' with Simon Oliver, to be published in 2011, and has since worked as an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Allred
Michael Dalton Allred is an American comic book artist and writer most famous for his independent comics creations, ''Madman'' and ''iZombie''. His style is often compared to pop art, as well as commercial and comic art of the 1950s and 1960s. Early life Allred was raised as a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Upon his parents' divorce, he was raised with his father in Oregon, while his brothers and mother moved to Utah. He considers himself a Mormon, though a liberal-leaning one, and has stated that he still identifies with the beliefs, and considers the Book of Mormon to be a phenomenal and fascinating story, irrespective of its factual accuracy. Career Mike Allred began his career as a radio host on KYES AM 950 (KY95) in Roseburg, Oregon. He later became a television reporter in Europe, and started drawing comics in 1989 with the 104-page graphic novel ''Dead Air'' ( Slave Labor Graphics). The story loosely followed his stint in radio as a sidebar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Keatinge
Joe Keatinge is an American comic book Comic book creator, writer and editor, best known for his writing work with Marvel Comics and Image Comics, and as the co-editor of ''Popgun (comics), Popgun'' with Mark Andrew Smith. Early life Joe Keatinge was born on June 11, 1982 in Santa Monica, California. He attended school in Portland, Oregon. Career After finishing school, Keatinge left for San Francisco, California to pursue a career in comics, eventually working with Savage Dragon creator Erik Larsen, leading to his hiring at Image Comics shortly after Larsen became Publisher. Keatinge's career at Image spanned various positions including Public Relations and Marketing, as well as Sales and Licensing. He has contributed to anthology titles such as ''Negative Burn'' with artist Evan Bryce and ''Fantastic Comics'' #24 with artists Michael Allred and Laura Allred, which was part of ''The Next Issue Project''. In 2018, Keatinge collaborated with artist Bret Blevins on the ''Stellar'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stardust The Super Wizard
Stardust the Super Wizard is a fictional superhero from the Golden Age of Comics who originally appeared in American comic books published by Fox Feature Syndicate. The character was created by writer-artist Fletcher Hanks. Stardust the Super Wizard made his first appearance in ''Fantastic Comics'' #1 (December 1939). Publication history Golden Age stories Stardust the Super Wizard was featured in 16 issues of ''Fantastic Comics'' (December 1939–March 1941) and ''Big 3'' #2 (January 1941). All features, with exceptions of ''Fantastic Comics'' #6 and #9, were both written and illustrated by Fletcher Hanks. According to ''Jess Nevins' Encyclopedia of Golden Age Superheroes'', Stardust's foes include "ordinary criminals, the Brain-Men of Mars, the Super Fiend, Skullface Kurd, and Yew Bee and his Fifth Column". Reprints and collections Stardust stories were reprinted in: * ''Raw #5'' (March 1983) * ''Crack #2'' (April 1984) * ''Men of Mystery Comics'' (2001, 2005, 2007, 2015) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ashley Wood
Ashley Wood (born 1971) is Australian comic book artist and award-winning illustrator"2002 Spectrum Awards" . The Locus Index to SF Awards. ''''. Retrieved 7 December 2013. known for his cover art, concept design and his work as an art director. Wood initially worked in both the UK and international comic book industries, working on characters such as the British character , before breaking into the US market, where he worked for such companies as |
Fred Hembeck
Fred Hembeck (born January 30, 1953) is an American cartoonist best known for his parodies of characters from major American comic book publishers. His work has frequently been published by the firms whose characters he spoofs. His characters are always drawn with curlicues at the elbows and knees. He often portrays himself as a character in his own work, in the role of "interviewer" of various comic book characters. Interviewer Daniel Best has said of his work, "If you take your comic books seriously, and think that those characters are real, then you're probably not a fan of Hembeck." Early life Hembeck was born January 30, 1953.''Comics Buyer's Guide'' #1650; February 2009; Page 107 He grew up in Yaphank, Long Island.Hembeck, Fred"The Fred Hembeck Show: Episode 13" IGN. 2005. Retrieved August 15, 2008. Career Fresh out of college, and failing to get work as a traditional comic book artist, Hembeck developed a unique artistic style based on the version of himself he used to wri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
