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Steel Harbor
Steel Harbor is a fictional city, one of the settings in Dark Horse Comics' defunct Comics' Greatest World imprint. While the entire Team CGW was involved with the creation of each of the settings, Chris Warner was tasked with the majority of design for the Steel Harbor locale. The city was based on a combination of Detroit and Watts during the 1960s riots; however, in the comic, the violence is between powerful gangs fighting over territory. One feature of the various Steel Harbor series was the commentary, supposedly on the radio, by a brassy talk-show host who bemoaned the plight of his city and called out the weak police and political powers in Steel Harbor for allowing the city to descend into such violence. Series set in Steel Harbor Several series were set in Steel Harbor. Only ''Barb Wire'' was truly successful: * Barb Wire * The Machine * Wolf Gang * Motorhead Creative Staff * Series 1-5: D.G.Chichester, writer; Karl Waller, pencils; Tim Bradstreet, inks; Simon Bisley ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dark Horse Comics
Dark Horse Comics is an American comic book, graphic novel, and manga publisher founded in Milwaukie, Oregon by Mike Richardson in 1986. The company was created using funds earned from Richardson's chain of Portland, Oregon comic book shops known as Pegasus Books and founded in 1980. Dark Horse Comics has emerged as the fourth largest comic publishing company in the United States of America. Dividing profits with artists and writers, as well as supporting artistic and creative rights in the comic book industry, Dark Horse Comics has become a strong proponent of publishing licensed material that often does not fit into mainstream media. Several titles include: '' Sin City, Hellboy, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, 300, and Star Wars.'' In December 2021, Swedish gaming company Embracer Group launched its acquisition of Dark Horse Media, Dark Horse Comics' parent company, and completed the buyout in March 2022. In June 2022, Dark Horse announced a business partnership with Penguin Ra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Comics' Greatest World
Comics' Greatest World was an imprint of Dark Horse Comics. It was created by Team CGW. Originally conceived in 1990, it took three years for the line to be released, which led to an industry-wide perception that it was created to capitalize on the speculator mania of the early 1990s. When the mania ended, most of the titles were canceled. '' Ghost'', one of the imprint's more unorthodox titles, managed to survive the longest. It was canceled twice, first in early 1998, before being revived later that year and canceled again after a run of just less than two years. All Comics' Greatest World titles took place in a shared universe. Most of the action centered on four cities in a slightly skewed version of America: Arcadia, Golden City, Steel Harbor, and the Cinnibar Flats area of Nevada, home of an interdimensional rift called the "Vortex". The series started off with a story in ''Dark Horse Comics'' before kicking off in four weekly limited series, introducing the cities and c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Team CGW
Team CGW, short for Team Comics' Greatest World, is the group of five creators of the Comics' Greatest World line for Dark Horse Comics. The members are: * Mike Richardson, Dark Horse Comics' Publisher * Randy Stradley, creative director * Barbara Kesel, managing editor * Jerry Prosser, editorial coordinator * Chris Warner, explained editor/designer With the exception of Richardson, who wrote the 1 page prologue at the beginning of each issue, each of the members wrote one of the four environment introductions: Stradley wrote The Vortex, Kesel wrote Golden City, Prosser wrote Arcadia, and Warner wrote Steel Harbor and penciled Arcadia Week 1 and Steel Harbor Week 3. Warner was also the Steel Harbor Week 3 cover artist. After Team CGW The group stayed mostly in charge of the line until it was replaced by and absorbed into ''Dark Horse Heroes''. That line was headed by group editor Michael Eury Michael "Mike" Eury (born September 28, 1957) is an editor and writer of comic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barb Wire (character)
''Barb Wire'' is a superhero published by Comics Greatest World, an imprint of Dark Horse Comics. The character first appeared in ''Comics' Greatest World: Steel Harbor'' in 1993. The original ''Barb Wire'' series published nine issues between 1994 and 1995 and was followed by a four-issue miniseries in 1996. A reboot was published in 2015 and lasted eight issues. In 1996, the character was adapted into a film starring Pamela Anderson. Unlike the comics, the film takes place in a possible future rather than an alternate version of present-day Earth. Creators ;Regular series * 1: John Arcudi, writer/ Lee Moder, pencils/Ande Parks, inks * 2–3: Arcudi, writer/ Dan Lawlis, pencils/Parks, inks * 4–5: Arcudi, writer/Lawlis, pencils/Ian Akin, inks * 6–7: Arcudi, writer/ Mike Manley, pencils/Parks, inks * 8: Arcudi, writer/ Andrew Robinson, pencils/ Jim Royal, inks * 9: Anina Bennett & Paul Guinan, writers/ Robert Walker, pencils/Jim Royal, inks ;''Ace of Spades'' miniseries ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karl Waller
Karl Waller is an American artist whose work has appeared in comic books and roleplaying and collectible card games. Early life and education He graduated from the Pennsylvania School of Art in 1987, with a diploma in communication arts. Career Karl Waller produced interior illustrations for many ''Dungeons & Dragons'' books and ''Dragon'' magazine from 1988 to 1998. He has also produced artwork for other role-playing games including ''Shadowrun'' and ''Earthdawn'' (FASA), ''Shatterzone'', ''Torg'', and '' Bloodshadows'' (West End Games), '' Aria: Canticle of the Monomyth'' ( Last Unicorn Games), and ''In Nomine'' and ''GURPS'' (Steve Jackson Games), '' Vampire: The Masquerade'' and '' Wraith: The Oblivion'' ( White Wolf), and '' Mutants & Masterminds'' (Green Ronin Publishing). Waller has also illustrated cards for Last Unicorn Games' collectible card game '' Heresy: Kingdom Come''. Waller has also worked in the comic book industry, including illustrating the prequel comic b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tim Bradstreet
Tim Bradstreet (born on February 16, 1967)is an American artist and illustrator, best known for his work on comic books, book covers, movie posters, roleplaying games and trading cards. Early life Tim Bradstreet was born February 16, 1967, in Cheverly, Maryland. Career Bradstreet entered the comic book industry in 1990, working with Tim Truman on ''Dragon Chiang''. Bradstreet’s work on White Wolf Publishing’s '' Vampire: The Masquerade'' garnered him much critical praise. This, in turn, led to the addition of many major comic book publishers to his clientele. He has since drawn for scores of comics-related projects including Dark Horse's '' Hard Looks'' and ''Another Chance to Get It Right'' (with author Andrew Vachss), ''Star Wars'', Clive Barker’s ''Age of Desire'', Marvel's '' The Punisher'' and ''Blade'', and Vertigo’s ''Gangland'', '' Unknown Soldier'', '' Human Target'', and ''Hellblazer''. Bradstreet's work has also extended to games of many types. His work ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simon Bisley
Simon Bisley is a British comic book artist best known for his 1990s work on '' ABC Warriors'', '' Lobo'' and '' Sláine''. Early life Simon Bisley began drawing when he was six years old. He is self-taught, with only a short one-year stay at an art college, saying "I found it very difficult to get any kind of feedback from the art teachers. They weren't interested at all in what I was doing, so I became kind of very introverted with regard to my artwork and yeah, I was just all self-taught." Career Bisley started his career doing magazine and album covers, his first work being a T-shirt design for heavy metal magazine ''Kerrang!'' Eventually, even though he had no experience in comics strip drawing at the time, he was hired by the magazine '' 2000 AD'' after they saw his interpretations of their magazine characters. According to the Comic Book Database, "while still a student, Bisley did a painting of a robot holding a baby that he sent to the offices of 2000 AD. The image ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
