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2013 In Comics
Notable events of 2013 in comics. It includes any relevant comics-related events, deaths of notable comics-related people, conventions and first issues by title. For an overview of the year in Japanese comics, see 2013 in manga. Events January * January 15: Dutch cartoonist Pieter Geenen wins the ''Inktspotprijs'' for ''Best Political Cartoon''. March * March 3: After 30 years of continuous publication, Philippe Geluck's ''Le Chat'' comes to an end. * March 8: The first new ''Tom Poes'' story after creator Marten Toonder's death in 2005, ''Tom Poes en de Pas-Kaart'', drawn by Dick Matena, starts serialisation in the magazine VertrekNL. * March 9–10: During the Stripdagen in Haarlem, Paul Teng receives the Stripschapprijs. The P. Hans Frankfurtherprijs is awarded to Comic House. The Bulletje en Boonestaakschaal goes to Richard's Studio. * March 26: Dupuis buys Marsu Productions. April * April 26: Dutch comic artist Jan van Haasteren is knighted in the Order of Orange Nass ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dany Vandenbossche
Dany Vandenbossche (2 April 1956 – 1 December 2013) was a Belgian politician. As a member of the sp.a, he served from 1999 to 2009 in the Flemish Parliament.Voormalig Vlaams parlementslid Vandenbossche overleden He left politics after his party offered him no electable position in the 2009 elections. In October 2013, he became president of the Louis Paul Boon Society and was also chairman of the Vermeylenfonds. He obtained a master's degree in law and criminology from the |
Archie Comics
Archie Comic Publications, Inc. (often referred to simply as Archie Comics) is an American comic book publisher headquartered in the village of Pelham, New York. The company's many titles feature the fictional teenagers Archie Andrews, Jughead Jones, Betty Cooper, Veronica Lodge, Reggie Mantle, Sabrina Spellman, Josie and the Pussycats and Katy Keene. The company is also known for its long-running ''Sonic the Hedgehog'' comic series, which it published from 1992 until 2016. The company began in 1939 as M.L.J. Magazines, Inc., which primarily published superhero comics. The initial Archie characters were created in 1941 by publisher John L. Goldwater and artist Bob Montana, in collaboration with writer Vic Bloom.''Pep Comics'' #22 at the |
Ken Penders
Kenneth W. Penders, II (born September 28, 1958) is an American comics artist and writer. Penders is known for his work on the Archie Comics series ''Sonic the Hedgehog'' and its ''Knuckles the Echidna'' spin-off, which he contributed to from 1993 to 2006, and subsequent lawsuits involving them. After leaving Archie, Penders filed for copyright over works he created for the comics, amounting to hundreds of original characters and concepts. Archie sued Penders to retain the rights, but ultimately lost them, and in 2013 rebooted the ''Sonic'' comic to remove many comic-original characters. Penders attempted to sue Sega and EA Games in 2011, for alleged plagiarism of his "Dark Legion" concept in the 2008 video game '' Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood'', but was dismissed. Penders, his work, and the lawsuits are controversial within the ''Sonic'' fandom, with some blaming him for the Archie ''Sonic'' series' eventual cancellation in 2016. In 2010, Penders announced ''The L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Retcon
Retroactive continuity, or retcon for short, is a literary device in fictional story telling whereby facts and events established through the narrative itself are adjusted, ignored, supplemented, or contradicted by a subsequently published work that recontextualizes or breaks continuity with the former. There are various motivations for applying retroactive continuity, including: * To accommodate desired aspects of sequels or derivative works which would otherwise be ruled out. * To respond to negative fan reception of previous stories. * To correct and overcome errors or problems identified in the prior work since its publication. * To change or clarify how the prior work should be interpreted. * To match reality, when assumptions or projections of the future are later proven wrong. Retcons are used by authors to increase their creative freedom, on the assumption that the changes are unimportant to the audience compared to the new story which can be told. Retcons can be dieg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sonic The Hedgehog (Archie Comics)
''Sonic the Hedgehog'' was an American comic book series published by Archie Comics and Sega of America, based on the Sonic video game franchise, and especially the 1993 ''Sonic'' saturday morning cartoon. After debuting with a four-issue miniseries cover dated February to May 1993, the first full-length issue was published in July 1993 and ran until December 2016. The series follows the Freedom Fighters, an organization of heroes led by Sonic and Sally Acorn in their battles against Doctor Eggman and other villains. While largely consisting of its own continuity, certain issues incorporated elements of the ''Sonic'' video games into their plots and settings. Over its history, the series had several spin-off series set in the same continuity, including '' Knuckles the Echidna'', ''Sonic Universe'', and two crossovers with Archie's ''Mega Man'' series. Alongside the series, Archie also produced comics series based on the ''Sonic X'' and ''Sonic Boom'' TV series. Following a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manus Island
Manus Island is part of Manus Province in northern Papua New Guinea and is the largest of the Admiralty Islands. It is the fifth-largest island in Papua New Guinea, with an area of , measuring around . Manus Island is covered in rugged jungles which can be broadly described as lowland tropical rain forest. The highest point on Manus Island is Mt. Dremsel, above sea level at the centre of the south coast. Manus Island is Volcanic rock, volcanic in origin and probably broke through the ocean's surface in the late Miocene, 8 to 10 million years ago. The substrate of the island is either directly volcanic or from uplifted coral limestone. Lorengau, the capital of Manus Province, is located on the island. Momote Airport, the terminal for Manus Province, is located on nearby Los Negros Island. A bridge connects Los Negros Island to Manus Island and the provincial capital of Lorengau. In the 2000 census, the whole Manus Province had a population of 50,321. The Austronesian Manus l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christmas Island
Christmas Island, officially the Territory of Christmas Island, is an States and territories of Australia#External territories, Australian external territory in the Indian Ocean comprising the island of the same name. It is about south of Java and Sumatra and about north-west of the closest point on the mainland Australia, Australian mainland. It has an area of . Christmas Island's geographic isolation and history of minimal human disturbance has led to a high level of endemism among its flora and fauna, which is of interest to scientists and naturalists. The territory derives its name from its discovery on Christmas Day 1643 by Captain William Mynors. The first European to sight Christmas Island was Richard Rowe of the ''Thomas'' in 1615. Mynors gave it its name. It was first settled in the late 19th century, after abundant phosphate deposits were found, originally deposited as guano, leading Britain to annex the island in 1888 and begin commercial mining in 1899. The J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Légion D'Honneur
The National Order of the Legion of Honour ( ), formerly the Imperial Order of the Legion of Honour (), is the highest and most prestigious French national order of merit, both military and Civil society, civil. Currently consisting of five classes, it was originally established in 1802 by Napoleon, Napoleon Bonaparte, and it has been retained (with occasional slight alterations) by all later French governments and regimes. The order's motto is ' ("Honour and Fatherland"); its Seat (legal entity), seat is the Palais de la Légion d'Honneur next to the Musée d'Orsay, on the left bank of the Seine in Paris. Since 1 February 2023, the Order's grand chancellor has been retired General François Lecointre, who succeeded fellow retired General Benoît Puga in office. The order is divided into five degrees of increasing distinction: ' (Knight), ' (Officer), ' (Commander (order), Commander), ' (Grand Officer) and ' (Grand Cross). History Consulate During the French Revolution, all ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert Uderzo
Alberto Aleandro Uderzo (; 25 April 1927 – 24 March 2020), better known as Albert Uderzo (), was a French comic book artist and scriptwriter. He is best known as the co-creator and illustrator of the '' Astérix'' series in collaboration with René Goscinny. He also drew other comics such as '' Oumpah-pah'', again with Goscinny. Uderzo retired in September 2011. Early life Uderzo was born in Fismes in the Marne department of France on 25 April 1927 as the fourth child of Italian immigrants Silvio Uderzo (1888–1985), a carpenter, and his wife Iria Uderzo (, 1897–1997). His parents had met in 1915 in La Spezia, where Silvio Uderzo was recovering after being wounded while serving in the Royal Italian Army during World War I. Uderzo's mother, Iria Crestini, was working in the arsenals of La Spezia, along with many young Italian women at the time. Silvio was discharged from military service after the war, on 19 June 1919. The two became a couple and married shortly before t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kamagurka
Luc Zeebroek (born 5 May 1956), better known as Kamagurka, is a Belgium, Belgian cartoonist, playwright, comic strip artist, painter, comedian, comedic singer and television producer, known for the Absurd humor, absurd nature of his work. He created various comic strip characters, but Bert (comics), "Bert" is the most well known. He also writes the scenarios for Herr Seele's comic strip, ''Cowboy Henk''. Early life and education Luc Zeebroek was born on 5 May 1956 in Nieuwpoort, Belgium, Nieuwpoort in Belgium. Kamagurka studied Art in Bruges and later performed studies at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (Ghent), Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent. However, he quit school before he would graduate. During a schooltrip in Paris Kamagurka decided to visit to the editorial building of the magazine ''Hara-Kiri (magazine), Hara Kiri'' on his own. Only twenty years old, he ended up going there every two weeks to stay there for three days. Kamagurka still believes this to be his true ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Speech Balloon
Speech balloons (also speech bubbles, dialogue balloons, or word balloons) are a graphic convention used most commonly in comic books, comics, and cartoons to allow words (and much less often, pictures) to be understood as representing a character's speech or thoughts. A formal distinction is often made between the balloon that indicates speech and the one that indicates thoughts; the balloon that conveys thoughts is often referred to as a thought bubble or conversation cloud. History One of the earliest antecedents to the modern speech bubble were the " speech scrolls", wispy lines that connected first-person speech to the mouths of the speakers in Mesoamerican art between 600 and 900 AD. Earlier, paintings, depicting stories in subsequent frames, using descriptive text resembling bubbles-text, were used in murals, one such example written in Greek, dating to the 2nd century, found in Capitolias, today in Jordan. In Western graphic art, labels that reveal what a pictured fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
