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Wasteland (comic)
''Wasteland'' is a monthly comic book series written by Antony Johnston, drawn by Christopher Mitten with covers by Ben Templesmith, and published by Oni Press. It debuted in July 2006 in comics, 2006 and ended in April 2015 in comics, 2015. The series is set one hundred years after the Big Wet, an unspecified disaster that destroyed modern society and, it is assumed, changed the world's coastlines. The story takes place somewhere in United States of America, America, now a barren desert and dustbowl without modern technology. The seas are poisonous, and subsistence farming with small amounts of livestock appears to be the norm. The book also has theme music, composed and performed by Johnston, which can be downloaded from thofficial website Format Each issue of ''Wasteland'' is 32 pages long (with the exception of issue #1, which was a special double length premiere) and contains 22 pages of comic story, one episode of the prose serial travelogue ''Walking The Dust'', a Comic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2006 In Comics
Events January * January 1, 2006: ''Newsweek'' offer a look back at 2005 through editorial cartoons. * January 1, 2006: After 109 years of continuous publication the longest-running comic strip of all time, ''The Katzenjammer Kids'' (originally created by Harold H. Knerr) comes to an end. * January 2, 2006: ''The Cincinnati Enquirer'' cartoonist Jim Borgman starts a blog to detail his creative process. * January 3, 2006: ** Todd Hignite interviews Brian Walker, co-curator of the ''Masters of American Comics'' exhibition currently on at the Hammer Museum and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. ** The London Metropolitan Police refuse to distribute '' Cops and Robbers'', a comic book detailing first hand stories of criminals embracing the Christian faith. The police cite the book's failure to cover a multitude of faiths as reason. * January 5, 2006: 2005 Pulitzer Prize winner Nick Anderson is to move from the ''Louisville Courier-Journal'', where he thrived, to the ''Hous ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |