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Finals (comics)
''Finals'' is a four-issue mini-series published by DC under its Vertigo imprint from September to December 1999. Written by Will Pfeifer and illustrated by Jill Thompson, it is a black comedy about campus life at Knox State University, aka KAOS U, where the maxim "Strength Through Study" is taken very much to heart. Plot synopsis Various college students try to survive the 'finals' period literally. Common incidents at the learning institution include murders, world-changing wars and various cults. Characters * Wally Maurer - a film studies major, Wally is something of a slacker, struggling to find inspiration for his "extreme cinema verite" senior project. * Nancy Bierce - a comparative religions major, Nancy is Wally's girlfriend. She's set up her own cult as her senior thesis but is starting to feel the pressure of having dozens of girls looking to her for divine guidance. * Dave Oswald - a criminal justice major, Dave has been on a one-man crime wave, robbing local conven ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vertigo Comics
DC Vertigo, also known as Vertigo Comics or simply Vertigo, is an Imprint (trade name), imprint of the American comic book publisher DC Comics. Vertigo publishes comics with adult comics, adult content, such as nudity, drug use, profanity, and graphic violence, that do not fit the restrictions of DC's main line. Its comics include company-owned series set in the DC Universe, such as ''The Sandman (comic book), The Sandman'', ''Swamp Thing'', and ''Hellblazer'', and Creator ownership in comics, creator-owned works, such as ''Preacher (comics), Preacher'', ''Y: The Last Man'', and ''Fables (comics), Fables''. Vertigo originated from DC's 1980s adult comic line, which began after DC stopped submitting ''Swamp Thing (comic book), The Saga of the Swamp Thing'' for approval by the Comics Code Authority. Following the success of two adult-oriented 1986 Limited series (comics), limited series, ''Batman: The Dark Knight Returns'' and ''Watchmen'', DC's output of adult comics, edited by K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1999 In Comics
Notable events of 1999 in comics. Events and publications * Rough Cut Comics founded * WildStorm founded the America's Best Comics imprint * Kitchen Sink Press collapses * '' The Sandman: The Dream Hunters,'' novel tangential to '' The Sandman'' series, written by Neil Gaiman and illustrated by Yoshitaka Amano (Vertigo). * In ''The Forward'', '' The Jew of New York'' by Ben Katchor is serialized. * In ''The Guardian'', '' Gemma Bovery'', by Posy Simmonds, is serialized. * ''La settima congrega'' (The seventh congregation) by Elena de Grimani, self-published; debut of Rigel. * In the Korean magazine ''Monthly Junior Champ'', debut of the series '' Threads of Time,'' by Mi-young Noh. * In Canada, ''Louis Riel'' by Chester Brown ( Drawn & Quarterly) * The final episode of Angus McGill and Dominic Poelsma's ''Clive'' is published. January * January 12: in ''Topolino'' 2250, ''Topolino e la pietra di Sbilenque'' (The Silenque stone) by Giorgio Pezzin and Massimo De Vita, fir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Will Pfeifer
William "Will" Pfeifer (born July 28, 1967) is an American comic book writer. Career Personal life Will Pfeifer was born in 1967 in the town of Niles, Ohio. He attended Kent State University and graduated in 1989. He has resided in Rockford, Illinois since 1990, with his wife, Amy. Pfeifer, along with his comic writing duties, is the former assistant features editor at the '' Rockford Register Star''. He also wrote a weekly DVD column for the Sunday paper during his time there. Comics Pfeifer got his break working with artist Jill Thompson on Vertigo's ''Finals'' miniseries. Pfeifer wrote ''Catwoman'' for DC Comics until its cancellation, and temporarily took over for John Rogers on '' Blue Beetle''. He also wrote the ''Amazons Attack!'' miniseries, and an issue of ''Wonder Woman''. In July 2014, the Teen Titans was relaunched with a new issue 1 written by Pfeifer and art by Kenneth Rocafort. Podcast Pfeifer is a featured host on the Out of Theaters podcast, which launched ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jill Thompson
Jill Thompson (born November 20, 1966) is an American comics artist, illustrator and writer who has worked for stage, film, and television. Well known for her work on Neil Gaiman's ''The Sandman (Vertigo), The Sandman'' characters and her own ''Scary Godmother'' series, she has worked on ''The Invisibles'', ''Swamp Thing'', and ''Wonder Woman'' as well. Early life Thompson attended The American Academy of Art in Chicago, graduating in 1987 with a degree in Illustration and Watercolor.''Rockford Register Star'' staff. (November 7, 2005). "Meet a couple of comic book creators". ''The Rockford Register Star''. p. 1E Career Jill Thompson began her comics career working for such publishers as First Comics and Now Comics in the 1980s. She became the artist of DC Comics' ''Wonder Woman'' series in 1990. Her work on the "Chalk Drawings" story in ''Wonder Woman'' #46 (Sept. 1990) drew praise from writer George Pérez who stated "It was a good, quiet story, and I think Jill and I worked re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Limited Series (comics)
In the field of comic books, and particularly in the United States, a limited series is a comics series with a predetermined number of issues. A limited series differs from an ongoing series in that the number of issues is finite and determined before production, and it differs from a one shot in that it is composed of multiple issues. The term is often used interchangeably with miniseries (mini-series) and maxiseries (maxi-series), usually depending on the length and number of issues. In Dark Horse Comics' definition of a limited series, "this term primarily applies to a connected series of individual comic books. A limited series refers to a comic book series with a clear beginning, middle and end". Dark Horse Comics and DC Comics refer to limited series of two to eleven issues as miniseries and series of twelve issues or more as maxiseries, but other publishers alternate terms. Characteristics A limited series can "vary widely in length, but often run from three to ten issu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DC Comics
DC Comics (originally DC Comics, Inc., and also known simply as DC) is an American comic book publisher owned by DC Entertainment, a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Discovery. DC is an initialism for "Detective Comics", an American comic book series first published in 1937. DC Comics is one of the largest and oldest American comic book companies, the first comic under the DC banner being published in 1937. The majority of its published stories are set in the fictional DC Universe and feature numerous List of DC Comics characters, culturally iconic heroic characters, such as Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, and the Flash (DC Comics character), Flash; as well as famous fictional teams, including the Justice League, the Teen Titans, the Suicide Squad, and the Legion of Superheroes. The universe contains an assortment of well-known supervillains, such as Lex Luthor, the Joker (character), Joker, Darkseid, and the antihero Catwoman. The company has published non-DC Universe-related mater ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Imprint (trade Name)
An imprint of a publisher is a trade name under which it publishes a work. A single publishing company may have multiple imprints, often using the different names as brands to market works to various demographic consumer segments. Description An imprint of a publisher is a trade name—a name that a business uses for trading commercial products or services—under which a work is published. Imprints typically have a defining character or mission. In some cases, the diversity results from the takeover of smaller publishers (or parts of their business) by a larger company. In the video game industry, some game companies operate various publishing labels. Electronic Arts' (EA) 2008 CEO, John Riccitiello, stated that, with the establishing of Rockstar, Take-Two Interactive effectively invented the "label" corporate structure, which EA followed into in 2008. This model has influenced rivals including Activision Blizzard, ZeniMax, Electronic Arts from 2008 to 2018, Warner ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Film Studies
Film studies is an academic discipline that deals with various film theory, theoretical, history of film, historical, and film criticism, critical approaches to film, cinema as an art form and a medium. It is sometimes subsumed within media studies and is often compared to television studies. Film studies is less concerned with advancing proficiency in Filmmaking, film production than it is with exploring the Narrative film, narrative, artistic, cultural, economic, and political implications of the cinema. In searching for these social-ideological values, film studies takes a series of critical approaches for the analysis of production, theoretical framework, context, and creation. Also, in studying film, possible careers include critic or production. Overall the study of film continues to grow, as does the Film industry, industry on which it focuses. List of film periodicals, Academic journals publishing film studies work include ''Sight & Sound'', ''Film Comment'', ''Film Inte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theology
Theology is the study of religious belief from a Religion, religious perspective, with a focus on the nature of divinity. It is taught as an Discipline (academia), academic discipline, typically in universities and seminaries. It occupies itself with the unique content of analyzing the supernatural, but also deals with religious epistemology, asks and seeks to answer the question of revelation. Revelation pertains to the acceptance of God, gods, or deity, deities, as not only transcendent or above the natural world, but also willing and able to interact with the natural world and to reveal themselves to humankind. Theologians use various forms of analysis and argument (Spirituality, experiential, philosophy, philosophical, ethnography, ethnographic, history, historical, and others) to help understanding, understand, explanation, explain, test, critique, defend or promote any myriad of List of religious topics, religious topics. As in philosophy of ethics and case law, arguments ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Engineering
Engineering is the practice of using natural science, mathematics, and the engineering design process to Problem solving#Engineering, solve problems within technology, increase efficiency and productivity, and improve Systems engineering, systems. Modern engineering comprises many subfields which include designing and improving infrastructure, machinery, vehicles, electronics, Materials engineering, materials, and energy systems. The Academic discipline, discipline of engineering encompasses a broad range of more Academic specialization, specialized fields of engineering, each with a more specific emphasis for applications of applied mathematics, mathematics and applied science, science. See glossary of engineering. The word '':wikt:engineering, engineering'' is derived from the Latin . Definition The American Engineers' Council for Professional Development (the predecessor of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology aka ABET) has defined "engineering" as: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthropology
Anthropology is the scientific study of humanity, concerned with human behavior, human biology, cultures, society, societies, and linguistics, in both the present and past, including archaic humans. Social anthropology studies patterns of behaviour, while cultural anthropology studies cultural meaning, including norms and values. The term sociocultural anthropology is commonly used today. Linguistic anthropology studies how language influences social life. Biological anthropology, Biological (or physical) anthropology studies the biology and evolution of Human evolution, humans and their close primate relatives. Archaeology, often referred to as the "anthropology of the past," explores human activity by examining physical remains. In North America and Asia, it is generally regarded as a branch of anthropology, whereas in Europe, it is considered either an independent discipline or classified under related fields like history and palaeontology. Etymology The abstract noun ''wikt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
