Brent Frankenhoff (born February 10, 1966) is an American author and editor of books and magazines about comic books, best known for his work on ''
Comics Buyer's Guide
''Comics Buyer's Guide'' (''CBG''; ), established in 1971, was the longest-running English-language periodical reporting on the American comic book industry. It awarded its annual Comics Buyer's Guide Fan Awards from 1983 to circa 2010. The publ ...
'' and the ''
Standard Catalog of Comic Books
The ''Standard Catalog of Comic Books'' is the world's largest book about comic books. A joint production of the team behind ''Comics Buyer's Guide'' magazine and the CD-ROM program ComicBase, the first edition was released in 2002 from Krause Pub ...
''.
A collector of comic books since childhood, he joined
Krause Publications in 1992 as an assistant to
Don Thompson and
Maggie Thompson
Maggie Thompson (born Margaret Curtis; November 29, 1942), is an American longtime editor of the now-defunct comic book industry news magazine ''Comics Buyer's Guide'', science fiction fan, and collector of comics.
Early life
Margaret (nicknam ...
. In 1995, he co-authored the first of a line of price guides, the ''Comic Book Checklist and Price Guide'' (now on its 15th edition). Named ''Comics Buyer's Guide''
's projects editor in 1998,
["News Watch: Krause Publications Names Editors," ''The Comics Journal'' #203 (April 1998), p. 30.] Frankenhoff became editor of the journal in 2006. He worked with
ComicBase creator
Peter Bickford to develop a joint comics database, which Krause used to launch the ''Standard Catalog of Comic Books'' series in 2002. The fifth edition of that publication was issued as a DVD-ROM in 2008.
References
External links
''Standard Catalog of Comic Books''
''Comics Buyer's Guide''
Comics critics
1966 births
Living people
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