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2002 In Comics
Notable events of 2002 in comics. Events * Chuck Rowles and Steve Rowles begin the webcomic '' Gods of Arr-Kelaan'' * First KomMissia festival held in Moscow. * Jeroom creates his gag comic ''Reetman''. January * January 29: Zak becomes the first Belgian cartoonist to win the Dutch ''Inktspotprijs'' for ''Best Political Cartoon'' (edition 2001). March * '' Adventures of Superman'' #600: super-sized anniversary issue by Joe Casey, Mike Wieringo, and Jose Marzan, Jr. (DC Comics) * In ''Anders and & Co''., " Forget It!" by Don Rosa. April * ''Batman'' #600: " Bruce Wayne: Fugitive," part one, 64-page giant, written by Ed Brubaker. May * May 4: The first Free Comic Book Day is established. . * The British satirical cartoon magazine '' Punch'', which had ended in 1992 but briefly revived since 1996, is once again disestablished. June * June 3: Webcomic ''A Miracle of Science'' by Jon Kilgannon and Mark Sachs debuts. * June 14: British comic artist Posy Simmonds ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert Chartier
Albert Chartier (16 June 1912 – 25 February 2004) was a French-Canadian cartoonist and illustrator, best known for having created the comic strip ''Onésime''. Biography Albert Chartier was the son of Joseph Chartier, a traveling salesman who lived in the United States, an employee of the company Lowney's. He inherited his father's innate sense for business practice and perfect command of English which enabled him to become a comic artist of international caliber. Boasting a bilingual family, Albert Chartier decided to perfect his English by entering the Montreal High School because, in the late 1920s, English was an essential tool for any young person who dreamed of escaping poverty that touched so many Canadian homes. After high school, he made an attempt at the offices of an insurance company to find out after one day that paperwork was not for him. Charles Maillard, Director of the School of Fine Arts in Montreal, was a regular at the Chartier home and encouraged the young ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stripschapprijs
The Stripschapprijs is a Dutch prize awarded to List of comic creators, comic creators for their entire body of work. It is awarded annually by the ''Stripschap'', the Dutch Society of comics fans, since 1974. The prize is non-pecuniary, but is considered the most important award for comics in the country. Winners References External linksList of winners Awards established in 1974 1974 establishments in the Netherlands Comics awards in the Netherlands Winners of the Stripschapsprijs, Long stubs with short prose {{art-award-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eric Schreurs
Eric Schreurs (15 September 1958, Leiden – 29 May 2020, Leiden) was a Dutch comics artist. He was the winner of the 2002 Stripschapprijs. He is most famous for his long-running humor comics series ''Joop Klepzeiker'', in magazine Nieuwe Revu, which had satirical elements. Later in his career he was also active as a painter. In his comics series "Joop Klepzeiker" Eric Schreurs depicts a Hogarthesque view on Dutch cities like Amsterdam and mocks the Dutch permissive society of the eighties and nineties: in Schreurs view, the streets and canals of Amsterdam are lined with dirt, dog poo, greasy bars and sex shops. If the main character Joop Klepzeiker, a permanent loser, goes for an outing in the park (where most dogs, humans and animals are seen practicing free love), bums and drunks will frequently try to scam him. If the Klepzeiker character gets an outing to the beach he often suffers rejection by topless bathing beauties or he will land on the nude beach by no fault of his ow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Den Bosch
s-Hertogenbosch (), colloquially known as Den Bosch (), is a List of cities in the Netherlands by province, city and List of municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality in the Netherlands with a population of 160,783. It is the capital of the Provinces of the Netherlands, province of North Brabant and its fourth largest city by population. The city is south of the Meuse, Maas river and near the Waal (river), Waal. History The city's official name is a contraction of the (archaic) Dutch language, Dutch — . The duke in question was Henry I, Duke of Brabant, whose family had owned a large estate at nearby Orthen for at least four centuries. He founded a new town located on some forested dunes in the middle of a marsh. At age 26, he granted 's-Hertogenbosch City rights in the Netherlands, city rights and the corresponding trade privileges in 1185. This is the traditional date given by later chroniclers; the first mention in contemporaneous sources is 1196. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles M
Charles is a masculine given name predominantly found in English and French speaking countries. It is from the French form ''Charles'' of the Proto-Germanic name (in runic alphabet) or ''*karilaz'' (in Latin alphabet), whose meaning was "free man". The Old English descendant of this word was '' Ċearl'' or ''Ċeorl'', as the name of King Cearl of Mercia, that disappeared after the Norman conquest of England. The name was notably borne by Charlemagne (Charles the Great), and was at the time Latinized as ''Karolus'' (as in ''Vita Karoli Magni''), later also as '' Carolus''. Etymology The name's etymology is a Common Germanic noun ''*karilaz'' meaning "free man", which survives in English as churl (James (wikt:Appendix:Proto-Indo-European/ǵerh₂-">ĝer-, where the ĝ is a palatal consonant, meaning "to rub; to be old; grain." An old man has been worn away and is now grey with age. In some Slavic languages, the name ''Drago (given name), Drago'' (and variants: ''Drago ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Santa Rosa, California
Santa Rosa (Spanish language, Spanish for "Rose of Lima, Saint Rose") is a city in and the county seat of Sonoma County, California, Sonoma County, in the North Bay (San Francisco Bay Area), North Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area, Bay Area in California. Its population as of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census was 178,127. It is the largest city in California's Wine Country and Redwood Empire, Redwood Coast. It is the fifth most populous city in the Bay Area after San Jose, California, San Jose, San Francisco, Oakland, California, Oakland, and Fremont, California, Fremont; and the List of largest California cities by population, 27th-most populous city in California. History Early history Before the arrival of Europeans, what became known as the Santa Rosa Plain was home to a strong and populous tribe of Pomo people known as the Bitakomtara. The Bitakomtara controlled the area closely, barring passage to others until permission was arranged. Those who entered wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dick Giordano
Richard Joseph Giordano (; July 20, 1932 – March 27, 2010) was an American comics artist and editor whose career included introducing Charlton Comics' "Action Heroes" stable of superheroes and serving as executive editor of DC Comics. Early life Dick Giordano, an only child, was born in New York City on July 20, 1932, in the borough of Manhattan to Josephine Labruzzi and Graziano "Jack" Giordano. He attended the School of Industrial Art. Career Charlton Comics Beginning as a freelance artist at Charlton Comics in 1952, Giordano contributed artwork to dozens of the company's comics, including such Western titles as '' Annie Oakley'', '' Billy the Kid'', and '' Wyatt Earp'', the war comic '' Fightin' Army'', and scores of covers. Giordano's artwork from Charlton's '' Strange Suspense Stories'' was used as inspiration for artist Roy Lichtenstein's 1965/1966 Brushstroke series, including '' Brushstroke'', '' Big Painting No. 6'', '' Little Big Painting'' and '' Yellow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Modesty Blaise
''Modesty Blaise'' is a British comic strip featuring a fictional character of the same name, created by author Peter O'Donnell and illustrator Jim Holdaway in 1963. The strip follows Modesty Blaise, an exceptional young woman with many talents and a criminal past, and her trusty sidekick Willie Garvin. It was adapted into films in 1966, 1982, and 2003, and from 1965 onwards, 11 novels and two short-story collections were written. Fictional character biography In 1945, a nameless girl escapes from a displaced person (DP) camp in Kalyros, Greece. She remembers nothing from her short past and wanders through post-World War II Mediterranean, the Middle East, and regions of North Africa, where she learns to survive the hard way. She befriends Lob, another wandering refugee, who is a Jewish Hungarian scholar from Budapest. He gives her an education and a first name: Modesty. Sometime later, Modesty chooses her last name, Blaise, after Merlin's tutor from the Arthurian legends. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter O'Donnell
Peter O'Donnell (11 April 1920 – 3 May 2010) was an English writer of mysteries and of comic strips, best known as the creator of '' Modesty Blaise'', an action heroine/undercover trouble-shooter. He was also an award-winning gothic historical romance novelist who wrote under the female pseudonym Madeleine Brent, in 1978, his novel ''Merlin's Keep'' won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association. Biography Born on 11 April 1920 in Lewisham, London, O'Donnell was the son of Bernard O'Donnell, a journalist on the '' Empire News'', and was educated at Catford Central School. He began to write professionally at the age of 16. In 1938 he joined the British Army, and during the war served as an NCO in mobile radio detachment (3 Corps) of Royal Corps of Signals in the 8th Army. He saw active service in Persia in 1942, after which his unit was moved to Syria, Egypt, the Western Desert, and Italy, and he was with forces that went into Greece ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Lee
Jim Lee (; born August 11, 1964) is a Korean-born American comic book artist, writer, editor, and publisher. As of 2023, he is the President, Publisher, and Chief creative officer, Chief Creative Officer of DC Comics. In recognition of his work, Lee has received a Harvey Award, Inkpot Award and three Wizard Fan Awards. Lee got his start in the industry in 1987 as an artist for Marvel Comics, illustrating titles such as ''Alpha Flight (comic book), Alpha Flight'' and ''The Punisher War Journal'' before becoming widely popular through his work on ''The Uncanny X-Men''. On that book, Lee worked with writer Chris Claremont, with whom he co-created the character Gambit (Marvel Comics), Gambit. That led to a 1991 spinoff series on which Lee and Claremont were the initial creative team. The debut issue, ''X-Men: Legacy, X-Men'' #1, which Lee penciled and co-wrote with Claremont, became the best-selling comic book of all time, according to ''Guinness World Records''. Lee's style was lat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
