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Tundra UK
Tundra Publishing was a Northampton, Massachusetts-based comic book publisher founded by Kevin Eastman in 1990. The company was founded to provide a venue for adventurous, creator-owned work by talented cartoonists and illustrators. Its publications were noted in the trade for their high production values, including glossy paper stock, full-color printing, and square binding. Tundra was one of the earlier creator-owned companies, before the formation of Image Comics and Dark Horse Comics' Legend (comic imprint), Legends imprint. Creators and projects involved with Tundra included Alan Moore and Bill Sienkiewicz's ''Big Numbers (comics), Big Numbers'', Moore & Eddie Campbell's ''From Hell'', Moore & Melinda Gebbie's ''Lost Girls (graphic novel), Lost Girls'' (these last two original serialised in Stephen R. Bissette's ''Taboo (comic), Taboo'' anthology, which was also part-published by Tundra), ''The Crow,'' Mike Allred's ''Madman (Mike Allred character), Madman'' and Dave McKean's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Comics
a medium used to express ideas with images, often combined with text or other visual information. It typically the form of a sequence of panels of images. Textual devices such as speech balloons, captions, and onomatopoeia can indicate dialogue, narration, sound effects, or other information. There is no consensus amongst theorists and historians on a definition of comics; some emphasize the combination of images and text, some sequentiality or other image relations, and others historical aspects such as mass reproduction or the use of recurring characters. Cartooning and other forms of illustration are the most common image-making means in comics; ''fumetti'' is a form that uses photographic images. Common forms include comic strips, editorial and gag cartoons, and comic books. Since the late 20th century, bound volumes such as graphic novels, comic albums, and ' have become increasingly common, while online webcomics have proliferated in the 21st century. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
