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1993 In Comics
Events January * January 11 ''Raider of the Copper Hill'' by Don Rosa. * January 24 – March 18: Hanco Kolk and Peter de Wit host a TV documentary series about cartooning on Teleac, which will often been repeated in the years that follow. * ''Doom Patrol'' #63: "The Empire of Chairs," Grant Morrison's final issue as ''Doom Patrol'' writer. * First appearance of Ghost Rider 2099 – The Punisher war journal # 50 Jan 1993 * ''Asterix and the class act'', by Goscinny and Uderzo. * In the first issue of ''Dylan Dog gigante'', ''Totentanz'', by Tiziano Sclavi and Giampiero Casertano. * Beginning of ''Il segreto del Morisco (''The Morisco's secret'')'', the longest Tex Willer's story, lasting 6 albums and 586 tables and strongly influenced by the archaeologic adventures of Indiana Jones and Martin Mystere. February * ''Action Comics'', with issue #686, suspends publication following "The Death of Superman." (DC Comics) * ''Clive Barker's Hellraiser'' is canceled by Epic Comics (Marve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Raider Of The Copper Hill
"The Raider of the Copper Hill" or "The King of the Copper Hill" is a 1993 Scrooge McDuck comic by Don Rosa. It is the fourth of the original 12 chapters in the series ''The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck''. The story takes place from 1884 to 1885. The story was first published in the Danish '' Anders And & Co.'' #1993-02; the first American publication was in ''Uncle Scrooge'' #288, in October 1994. Storyline The competition in the cattle business in the Montana Territory is growing bigger, and less profitable. Sixteen-seventeen year old teenager Scrooge McDuck's employer, Murdo MacKenzie decides to quit, and therefore has to let Scrooge go. Scrooge is not sad, but decides to try his luck as a silver prospector. There is no luck in it, but he does find some copper. Eating dinner in town at night with Marcus Daly, owner of the shut down Anaconda Silver Mine which has found tonnes of copper, he does find out that the government is putting up electric wire, made of copper, making ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Death Of Superman
"The Death of Superman" is a crossover story event featured in DC Comics' Superman-related publications. The crossover, which originated from editor Mike Carlin and writers Dan Jurgens, Roger Stern, Louise Simonson, Jerry Ordway, and Karl Kesel, began in December 1992 and lasted until October 1993. It was published in ''Superman'', ''Action Comics'', '' The Adventures of Superman'', '' Superman: The Man of Steel'', ''Justice League America'', and ''Green Lantern''. Since its initial publication, "The Death of Superman" has been reprinted in various formats and editions. Development began after a planned story, in which Clark Kent (Superman) and Lois Lane would be married, was postponed to coincide with a similar storyline in the television series '' Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman''. While pitching possible replacements, Ordway jokingly suggested that they should kill Superman. As Superman comic sales had declined in recent years, the writing teams felt the characte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fantasy Anime Comics Toys Space
FACTS or F.A.C.T.S. (Fantasy Animation Comics Toys Sciencefiction) is a Belgian speculative fiction convention. Launched in 1993 in Ghent, it has grown over the years and now welcomes over 30,000 visitors at each edition. From 1998 until 2008 the F.A.C.T.S. convention was held in the I.C.C. in Ghent, Belgium. The 2009 edition took place in Flanders Expo Flanders Expo is a multi-purpose arena and convention center located in Ghent, Flanders, Belgium. Flanders Expo was founded in 1986 and officially opened in May 1987 with the third edition of Flanders Technology International. It serves as a ven ... for the first time and has been expending there ever since. The convention currently covers more than 24,000 sq. m.. FACTS has been created by Emmanuel Van Melkebeke and 3 of his friends. External links Official FACTS websiteReview of FACTS 2004 @ Rebelscum Comics conventions Multigenre conventions Recurring events established in 1993 {{Multigenre conventions in Euro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The New Laird Of Castle McDuck
"The New Laird of Castle Mcduck" is a 1993 Scrooge McDuck comic by Don Rosa. It is the fifth of the original 12 chapters in the series The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck. The story takes place in 1885. The story was first published in the Danish '' Anders And & Co.'' #1993-11; the first American publication was in ''Uncle Scrooge'' #289, in December 1994. Plot Scrooge has travelled back to Scotland to help his family save the McDuck castle. During his dramatic fight against the clan's nemesis, the Whiskervilles, Scrooge again gets some help from the ghost of Sir Quackly McDuck, however, this leads to Scrooge falling into the moat A moat is a deep, broad ditch, either dry or filled with water, that is dug and surrounds a castle, fortification, building or town, historically to provide it with a preliminary line of defence. In some places moats evolved into more extensive ... and becoming unconscious. He dreams that he has died and gone to "McDuck Heaven", where his forefathe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flash Gordon
Flash Gordon is the protagonist of a space adventure comic strip created and originally drawn by Alex Raymond. First published January 7, 1934, the strip was inspired by, and created to compete with, the already established '' Buck Rogers'' adventure strip. Creation The ''Buck Rogers'' comic strip had been commercially very successful, spawning novelizations and children's toys, and King Features Syndicate decided to create its own science fiction comic strip to compete with it. At first, King Features tried to purchase the rights to the '' John Carter of Mars'' stories by Edgar Rice Burroughs. However, the syndicate was unable to reach an agreement with Burroughs. King Features then turned to Alex Raymond, one of their staff artists, to create the story. One source for Flash Gordon was the Philip Wylie novel '' When Worlds Collide'' (1933). The themes of an approaching planet threatening the Earth, and an athletic hero, his girlfriend, and a scientist traveling to the new p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leo Ortolani
Leonardo Ortolani (born 14 January 1967), better known as Leo, is an Italian comics author, creator of the comic book series '' Rat-Man''. Early life He was born in Pisa. In 1968 Ortolani moved to Parma, where he still lives with his wife Caterina and his adoptive daughters Johanna and Lucy Maria. From an early age, Ortolani showed a great passion for the world of comic books, and in particular'' The Fantastic Four'' by Jack Kirby and Stan Lee, which will affect its style of narrative. After finishing high school, he enrolled at the University of Parma to study Geology. While at university, Ortolani draws his characters first, and the theme of geology became a catchphrase of the first issues of his major work,'' Rat-Man''. Career First works and the creation of Rat-Man In 1989 joined publishing house'' Comic Art'' to work on two stories: the tragic and the other comic. Publisher Rinaldo Traini published the comic story on the second'' Spot'' (supplement of'' Eternauta'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
L'ultima Burba
''L'ultima Burba'' (translates as ''The Last Rookie'') is a comic strip series written by Leo Ortolani during the years preceding his public acclamation as comics author. It tells, through a series of humorous incidents, the adventures of the young Leonardo Ortolani as he confronts the difficulties of military service, his comrades in arms, the loathsome experiences of working in the kitchen or at the typewriter. ''L'ultima Burba'' was published in its entirety in the form of single strips in the first 40 issues of the ''Rat-Man'' Collection. Italian comics titles {{Italy-comics-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sturmtruppen
''Sturmtruppen'' is a successful Italian series of anti-war comic books written and drawn by Bonvi, the artistic pseudonym of Franco Bonvicini. It started as four-frame comic strips back in 1968 and evolved into fully sized collector books by the 1990s. The series continued until the early 2000s. Subject ''Sturmtruppen'' concerns the misadventures of an anonymous Germany, German army unit (which is implied to be a battalion) in various war theatres of World War II, by portraying the daily life, sufferings, problems and joys of the average, anonymous soldier. The Sturmtruppen never see a single enemy soldier in the course of decades of comic strips, though the enemy's presence is felt through sniper- tank- and artillery fire, whose lethal effects rake all too often through the ranks of the Sturmtruppen's forgotten soldiers. The series never explicitly mentioned that the war being fought is actually World War II, since no specific date is ever mentioned. There are, however, occas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Sacco
Joe Sacco (; born October 2, 1960) is a Maltese-American cartoonist and journalist. He is best known for his comics journalism, in particular in the books '' Palestine'' (1996) and '' Footnotes in Gaza'' (2009), on Israeli–Palestinian relations; and '' Safe Area Goražde'' (2000) and '' The Fixer'' (2003) on the Bosnian War. In 2020, Sacco released ''Paying the Land'', published by Henry Holt and Company.Steinhauer, Jillian"The Outsider: Joe Sacco's comics journalism,"''The Nation'' (Dec. 28, 2020). Biography Sacco was born in Malta on October 2, 1960. Drawn & Quarterly (2004)Joe Sacco: Biography Retrieved April 24, 2006. His father Leonard was an engineer and his mother Carmen was a teacher.Duncan Campbell (October 23, 2003) ''The Guardian''. Retrieved April 26, 2006. At the age of one, he moved with his family to Melbourne, Australia,Read Yourself RAWProfile: Joe Sacco. Retrieved April 25, 2006. where he spent his childhood until 1972, when they moved to Los Angeles. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Palestine (comics)
''Palestine'' is a non-fiction graphic novel written and drawn by Joe Sacco about his experiences in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip in December 1991 and January 1992. Sacco's portrayal of the situation emphasizes the history and plight of the Palestinian people, as a group and as individuals. Publication history The complete graphic novel, published in 2001 by Fantagraphics Books, collects nine issues of Sacco's ''Palestine'' comic book, published by Fantagraphics from 1993 to 1995; the single volume edition includes an introduction by Edward Said. In 1996, Fantagraphics had released a two-part collection of the series — ''Palestine, a Nation Occupied'' (collecting ''Palestine'' #1-5) and ''Palestine: In the Gaza Strip'' (collecting issues #6-9). An expanded edition was released in 2007. Plot summary The book takes place over a two-month period in late 1991 / early 1992, with occasional flashbacks to the expulsion of the Arabs, the beginning of the Intifada, the Gulf War a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Denys Cowan
Denys B. Cowan (born January 30, 1961) is an American comics artist, television producer, media executive and one of the co-founders of Milestone Media. Early life Denys Cowan was first inspired by superheroes as a child from reruns of the 1950s TV show '' Adventures of Superman'' with George Reeves. He did not yet know what a comic book was, and would not learn about them until the third grade. After Cowan's mother died, he moved in with his grandparents, and attended school in that district, where he met a future fellow comics creator, Derek Dingle, who drew comics with his brother. Dingle showed Cowan his first comic book, an issue of Jack Kirby's '' New Gods''.Cowan, Denys (December 2018). "How I broken into comics with...Denys Cowan", ''DC Nation'' #5, Page 2, DC Comics (Burbank, California). Cowan attended the High School of Art and Design in New York City. One day in the school lunchroom, the 14-year-old Cowan met someone who worked for artist and Deathlok creator Rich ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dwayne McDuffie
Dwayne Glenn McDuffie (February 20, 1962February 21, 2011) was an American writer of comic books and television, known for producing and writing the animated series ''Static Shock'', '' Damage Control'', ''Justice League Unlimited'' and ''Ben 10'', and co-founding the pioneering minority-owned-and-operated comic book company Milestone Media, which focused on underrepresented minorities in American comics. McDuffie earned three Eisner Award nominations for his work in comics. Early life and education McDuffie was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, the son of Leroy McDuffie and Edna (Hawkins) McDuffie Gardner. He attended and graduated from the Roeper School, a school for gifted children in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, in 1980. Of African-American characters in comics, he later, said: In 1983, he graduated with a bachelor's degree in English from the University of Michigan, followed by a master's degree in physics. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
