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X-Men Noir
''Marvel Noir'' is a 2009 in comics, 2009/2010 Marvel Comics metaseries, alternative continuity combining elements of film noir and pulp magazine, pulp fiction with the Marvel Universe. The central premise of the mini-series replaces super powers with driven, noir-flavored characterization. The reality of ''Marvel Noir'' is Earth-90214. Publication history The idea for ''Marvel Noir'' began when Fabrice Sapolsky, editor of the French magazine ''Comic Box'', pitched the idea of a 1930s pulp version of Spider-Man to David Hine in December 2006. This led to the announcement of ''Marvel Noir'' which would feature four mini-series, beginning in December 2008 with ''Spider-Man Noir'' and ''X-Men Noir'', later followed by ''Daredevil (Marvel Comics character), Daredevil Noir'' and ''Wolverine (character), Wolverine Noir''. Five more series followed, with ''Luke Cage Noir'' and ''Punisher Noir'' beginning in August 2009, the sequel series ''Spider-Man Noir: Eyes Without a Face'' and ''X ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dennis Calero
Dennis Calero is an American comic book artist and illustrator, known for his work on titles such as ''X-Men Noir'', ''Spider-Man Noir'', ''X Factor'', ''Legion of Superheroes'', and ''Kolchak''. Career Calero's work includes Acclaim Comics' licensed-product titles ''Sliders'' and ''Magic: The Gathering''; Moonstone Books' TV tie-in titles '' Cisco Kid'' and '' Kolchak: The Night Stalker'', Platinum Comics' ''Cowboys & Aliens''; IDW Publishing's ''Masters of Horror: Dreams in the Witch House''; and Marvel Comics' ''X-Factor'', during his tenure on which the title was nominated for the Harvey Award for Best New Series (2006).Harvey Award Nominees Announced (press release by Jonah Weiland, executive producer, Comic-Con International), |
Comic Book Resources
''Comic Book Resources'', also known by the initialism CBR, is a website dedicated to the coverage of comic book–related news and discussion. History Comic Book Resources was founded by Jonah Weiland in 1995 as a development of the Kingdom Come Message Board, a message forum that Weiland created to discuss DC Comics' then-new mini-series of the same name. Comic Book Resources features columns written by industry professionals that have included Robert Kirkman, Gail Simone, and Mark Millar. Other columns are published by comic book historians and critics such as George Khoury and Timothy Callahan. In April 2016, Comic Book Resources was sold to Valnet Inc., a Montreal-based company based known for its acquisition and ownership of media properties including Screen Rant. The site was relaunched as CBR.com on August 23, 2016, with the blogs integrated into the site. The company has also hosted a YouTube channel since 2008, with 3.97 million subscribers as of December 21, 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Newsarama
Newsarama is an American website that publishes news, interviews, and essays about the American comic book industry. It is owned by Future US. In June 2020, Newsarama was merged with the website GamesRadar+, also owned by FutureUS. History Newsarama began in mid-1995 as a series of Internet forum postings on the Prodigy comic book message boards by fan Mike Doran. In the forum postings, Doran shared comic book-related news items he had found across the World Wide Web and, as these postings became more regular and read widely, he gave them the title "Prodigy Comic Book Newswire." In January 1997, Doran began to post a version of the column titled ''The Comics Newswire'' on Usenet's various rec.arts.comics communities. The name of the column evolved to ''The Newswire'', and then to ''CBI Newsarama'', before finally becoming ''Newsarama'' in 1998. The posts quickly became popular due to the speed of reporting via the Internet. This meant Doran could break stories faster than ot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daredevil (Marvel Comics Character)
Daredevil is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Daredevil was created by writer-editor Stan Lee and artist Bill Everett, with an unspecified amount of input from Jack Kirby. The character first appeared in ''Daredevil'' #1 (April 1964). Writer/artist Frank Miller's influential tenure on the title in the early 1980s cemented the character as a popular and influential part of the Marvel Universe. Daredevil is commonly known by such epithets as "Hornhead", "The Man Without Fear" and "The Devil of Hell's Kitchen". Daredevil is the alias of Matthew Michael "Matt" Murdock, a blind lawyer. His origins stem from a childhood chemical accident that gave him special abilities. While growing up in the historically gritty or crime-ridden working class Irish-American neighborhood of Hell's Kitchen in New York City, Matt Murdock is blinded by a radioactive substance that falls from an out-of-control truck after he pushes a man out of the pat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marvel Universe
The Marvel Universe is a fictional shared universe where the stories in most American comic book titles and other media published by Marvel Comics take place. Super-teams such as the Avengers, the X-Men, the Fantastic Four, the Guardians of the Galaxy, and many Marvel superheroes live in this universe, including characters such as Spider-Man, Captain America, Iron Man, Thor, the Hulk, Ant-Man, the Wasp, Wolverine, Black Panther, Doctor Strange, Daredevil, and Captain Marvel, Blade, Black Widow, Hawkeye, among numerous others. It also contains well-known supervillains such as Doctor Doom, Magneto, Ultron, Thanos, Loki, The Green Goblin, Kang the Conqueror, Red Skull, The Kingpin, Doctor Octopus, Carnage, Apocalypse, Dormammu, Mysterio, Electro, and the Vulture. It also contains antiheroes such as Venom, Namor, Deadpool, Silver Sable, Ghost Rider, The Punisher, and Black Cat. The Marvel Universe is further depicted as existing within a " multiverse" consist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pulp Magazine
Pulp magazines (also referred to as "the pulps") were inexpensive fiction magazines that were published from 1896 to the late 1950s. The term "pulp" derives from the cheap wood pulp paper on which the magazines were printed. In contrast, magazines printed on higher-quality paper were called "glossies" or "slicks". The typical pulp magazine had 128 pages; it was wide by high, and thick, with ragged, untrimmed edges. The pulps gave rise to the term pulp fiction in reference to run-of-the-mill, low-quality literature. Pulps were the successors to the penny dreadfuls, dime novels, and short-fiction magazines of the 19th century. Although many respected writers wrote for pulps, the magazines were best known for their lurid, exploitative, and sensational subject matter, even though this was but a small part of what existed in the pulps. Successors of pulps include paperback books, digest magazines, and men's adventure magazines. Modern superhero comic books are sometimes considere ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Film Noir
Film noir (; ) is a cinematic term used primarily to describe stylish Hollywood crime dramas, particularly those that emphasize cynical attitudes and motivations. The 1940s and 1950s are generally regarded as the "classic period" of American ''film noir''. Film noir of this era is associated with a low-key, black-and-white visual style that has roots in German Expressionist cinematography. Many of the prototypical stories and much of the attitude of classic noir derive from the hardboiled school of crime fiction that emerged in the United States during the Great Depression. The term ''film noir'', French for 'black film' (literal) or 'dark film' (closer meaning), was first applied to Hollywood films by French critic Nino Frank in 1946, but was unrecognized by most American film industry professionals of that era. Frank is believed to have been inspired by the French literary publishing imprint Série noire, founded in 1945. Cinema historians and critics defined the category ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Metaseries
A media franchise, also known as a multimedia franchise, is a collection of related media in which several derivative works have been produced from an original creative work of fiction, such as a film, a work of literature, a television program or a video game. Bob Iger, chief executive of the Walt Disney Company, defined the word ''franchise'' as “something that creates value across multiple businesses and across multiple territories over a long period of time.” Transmedia franchise A media franchise often consists of cross-marketing across more than one medium. For the owners, the goal of increasing profit through diversity can extend the commercial profitability of the franchise and create strong feelings of identity and ownership in its consumers. Those large groups of dedicated consumers create the franchise's fandom, which is the community of fans that indulge in many of its mediums and are committed to interacting with and keeping up with other consumers. Large franchis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2009 In Comics
Events January *January 1: The direct-to-DVD movie ''Hulk Vs'' is released. *January 6: The third and final volume of '' Hollow Fields'' has been released. * January 15: Dutch cartoonist Tom Janssen wins his second Inktspotprijs for ''Best Political Cartoon''. * January 28: The Dutch comics magazine Eppo returns to the market after having discontinued a decade ago. It manages to remain in print, as of today. February *The ''Ultimate Marvel'' titles ''Ultimate X-Men'' and ''Ultimate Fantastic Four'' are both cancelled at milestones: ''Ultimate X-Men'''s series finale ends issue #100, while ''Ultimate Fantastic Four'''s ends at issue #60. *To celebrate the inauguration of Barack Obama, Amazing Spider-Man #583 presented an all-new story teaming up President Obama and Spider-Man in " Spidey Meets the President!" The title featured five variant covers. April * April 19: In Boechout, Belgium, a memorial plaque is attached to the former house of comic author George Van Raemdonck. A lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tomm Coker
Tomm Coker, also known as Thomas L. Coker (born November 3, 1972), is an American comic book artist and film director/writer. Career Coker's career started in the early nineties drawing comic books for Image Comics, Dark Horse Comics, Marvel Comics and DC Comics. Throughout the 1990s he worked on such titles as ''Gen 13 Bootleg'', '' Nightfall: The Black Chronicles'' and ''Penthouse Comix''. After a short absence, he returned to comics in 2003, illustrating the popular Vertigo mini-series '' Blood & Water''. This series also marked a stylistic change, in which his art evolved in a much more realistic direction. His short film ''A Day Between'' premiered at the 2003 Sacramento International Film and Music Festival. His first feature-length film, '' Catacombs'', starring Shannyn Sossamon and pop singer Pink, was released in 2007. In 2009, he drew MTV's "motion comic" series ''Audio Quest: A Captain Lights Adventure'', starring the singer Lights. Works Films *''A Day Between' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carmine Di Giandomenico
Carmine Di Giandomenico (born 1973 in Teramo, Italy) is an Italian comics artist. In 1995 he drew the limited series Examen for publishers Phoenix. Then he drew an issue of ''Conan the Barbarian'' (1997) for Marvel Italia, written by Chuck Dixon. In 1999, he headed in a new artistic direction with writer Alessandro Bilotta, and produced the limited series ''Le strabilianti vicende di Giulio Maraviglia-inventore'', which won the Fumo di China prize. Still with Bilotta's storylines, he pursued in 2002 an experimental course with ''La Dottrina''. He followed this with his first work as sole author ''Oudeis'' in 2004. In 2005, Marvel published his limited series ''Vegas'', and a '' What If...'' featuring Captain America. He followed that with work on the plot, script, and pencils of ''Daredevil: Battlin' Jack Murdock'', co-wrote with Zeb Wells. His most recent Marvel project is '' Spider-Man: Noir'' with author David Hine. He is also initially illustrating ''The Flash'' for DC. Di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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