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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] |
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 chara ... [...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 Rando ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Richardson (publisher)
Mike Richardson (born June 29, 1950) is an American publisher, writer, and Emmy-winning producer. In 1986, he founded Dark Horse Comics, an award-winning international publishing house located in Milwaukie, Oregon. Richardson is also the founder and President of the Things From Another World retail chain and president of Dark Horse Entertainment, which has developed and produced numerous projects for film and television based on Dark Horse properties or licensed properties. In addition, he has written numerous graphic novels and comics series, including '' The Secret'', '' Living with the Dead'', and ''Cut'' as well as co-authoring two non-fiction books: '' Comics Between the Panels'' and '' Blast Off!''. Early life Mike Richardson was born June 29, 1950, in Portland, Oregon. His family moved to Milwaukie, a suburb of Portland, in 1955. He is a graduate of Portland State University, where he majored in art and played for the university basketball team. Career While in colleg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Randy Stradley
Randy Stradley (born March 4, 1956) is an American comic book writer and editor, who spent 35 years in an executive position at Dark Horse Comics. He has written under pseudonyms Mick Harrison and Welles Hartley. Career Stradley began working in comics in 1984 with issue 86 of Marvel's ''Star Wars''. In 1986, he co-founded Dark Horse Comics with Mike Richardson and became its vice president. In 1988, Dark Horse acquired the rights to Twentieth Century Fox's ''Aliens'' franchise and a year later the ''Predator Predation is a biological interaction where one organism, the predator, kills and eats another organism, its prey. It is one of a family of common feeding behaviours that includes parasitism and micropredation (which usually do not kill th ...'' license. In 1990, Stradley wrote the crossover, ''Aliens Versus Predator''. In the early 1990s Dark Horse acquired the license for ''Star Wars'' comics and relaunched the line. Stradley and Richardson co-wrote the ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barbara Kesel
Barbara Randall Kesel (born October 2, 1960) is an American writer and editor of comic books. Her bibliography includes work for Crossgen, Dark Horse Comics, DC Comics, IDW Publishing, Image Comics, and Marvel Comics. Biography Barbara Kesel initially entered the comics industry as college student after writing a 10-page letter to editor Dick Giordano regarding the portrayal of female comic book characters and Giordano offered her a writing job. Her first published comics story (credited as "Barbara J. Randall") was "He with Secrets Fears the Sound...", a Batgirl backup feature, in ''Detective Comics'' #518 (Sept. 1982)., , and After receiving her college degree in drama studies in 1983, she became an associate editor at DC Comics in 1984 and was promoted to editor the following year. and In 1988, she wrote a ''Batgirl Special'' and then co-wrote, with her then-husband Karl Kesel, a ''Hawk and Dove'' miniseries, followed by an ongoing series that ran from 1989 until 1991. As a s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jerry Prosser
Jerry Prosser is an American comic book writer and editor, best known for his work with Dark Horse Comics. Prosser was part of Dark Horse Comics from its early days, and was one of five creators, who as ''Team CGW'' created the Comics' Greatest World line for Dark Horse Comics. Since then, he has written for many Dark Horse titles, and moved into editorial duties, most notably on Frank Miller's ''Sin City: A Dame to Kill For'', and various licensed Aliens and Predator comics. He also penciled part of ''Godzilla'' No. 5, one of Dark Horse's earliest licensed properties, in December 1988. In addition to his work with Dark Horse, Prosser wrote the final ten issues (#80–89) of the Grant Morrison-launched DC/Vertigo series ''Animal Man'' in 1995, and has written comics set in the world of Magic: the Gathering for Armada/Acclaim Comics. Bibliography Writer *''The Mark'' #4–6 (Sep 1988 – Jan 1989) *''Spacehawk'' No. 1 (Nov 1989) *''Mayhem'' #1–4 (Dark Horse, May–Sep 1989 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Warner (comics)
Chris Warner (born 1955) is an American comic book writer, artist, and editor for Dark Horse Comics. He worked extensively on their mid-1990s line of Comics' Greatest World and Dark Horse Heroes. Warner has also worked sporadically for other companies, such as DC Comics and Marvel Comics. Career Warner illustrated several comics based on the ''Predator'' franchise and came up with the idea for an ''Aliens vs. Predator'' crossover. He is listed as the creator of ''Barb Wire'' and the developer of the setting of Steel Harbor for these lines. His work on this line includes writing and penciling the mini-series ''Barb Wire: Ace of Spades'' (#1–4), penciling issues #10–12 of ''X'', being the image illustrator (i.e., the visual creator) of characters like ''Ghost'' and is given creator credit on Wolf Gang', '' Pit Bulls'' and '' Motorhead''. He also worked on ''Will to Power'' (issues #4–6 as writer & #10–12 as penciler) and the second volume of ''Ghost'', on which he acted as w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Golden City (Comics Greatest World)
Golden City may refer to: Places *Golden, Colorado, originally named Golden City *Golden City, Missouri, a city in Golden City Township, Barton County, Missouri, United States * Golden City Township, Barton County, Missouri, a township in Barton County, Missouri, United States Colloquial names *Cities in Victoria, Australia, nicknamed "Golden City" due to their gold production during the Victorian Gold rush **Ballarat **Bendigo *Chrysopolis or ''Golden City'', former name of Üsküdar, Istanbul *Jaisalmer, Rajasthan, India *Koduvally, Kerala, India *Kolar, "The Golden city of India", Karnataka, India *Prague, the capital of Czech Republic, commonly referred to as ''Zlatá Praha'' (Golden Prague) *Golden City, a nickname for San Francisco *Sonipat, a city in Haryana, India, known as ''Swarnprastha'' (Golden City) in ancient times Other * ''The Golden City'' (novel), the third in Fourth Realm Trilogy of dystopian novels by John Twelve Hawks *''The Golden City'', a book on archite ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Eury
Michael "Mike" Eury (born September 28, 1957) is an editor and writer of comic books, and of reference works pertaining to comic books and other aspects of pop culture. He has worked for DC Comics, Dark Horse Comics and Comico Comics, having worked on books including ''Maze Agency'' and '' The Legion of Super-Heroes'', originating practices such as the loose leaf format of DC's ''Who's Who in the DC Universe'' reference series. In 2002 he began workin for TwoMorrows Publishing, and since 2003, has edited the retrospective magazine ''Back Issue!'' He is also an advisor for the ''Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide'', and , he has written over two dozen books examining aspects of pop culture. Eury was diagnosed with otosclerosis in 1994, and wears dual hearing aids. He is an advocate for the rights of people with hearing loss. Early life Michael Eury was born September 28, 1957. He grew up in Concord, North Carolina. Eury first became interested in comics characters at age eight, w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
