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Arcanum (comics)
''Arcanum'' was an American comic book published by Image Comics in 1996, under the Top Cow banner. The series was created by artist Brandon Peterson Brandon Peterson (born 1969) is an American comic book writer and artist, known for his work on Marvel Comics and Top Cow's ''Codename: Strykeforce'' in the 1990s. Career Peterson's early works for Marvel include a ''New Warriors'' annual and a ..., in what was his first attempt at writing a series. It was vaguely a fantasy title, relying heavily on magical themes that were similar to other series Top Cow was publishing at the time. Peterson kept the title going for eight issues plus a 1/2 issue published by Wizard Entertainment, but the series was cancelled by Top Cow. Peterson wrapped up all plotlines in the final issue. ReferencesArcanum @ comicbookdb Top Cow titles {{Image-Comics-stub ...
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Arcanum may refer to: Music * ''Arcanum'' (album), a 1996 album by Acoustic Alchemy * ''The Arcanum'' (album), a 2000 album by Suidakra * ''Arcanum'', a piece of music by Ezequiel Viñao * ''Arcanum'', song off the album Dog Whistle by Show Me the Body * Arckanum, a black metal band Other uses * Arcanum, Ohio, a village in the United States * ''Arcanum'' (encyclical), a 1880 Catholic encyclical letter * ''Arcanum'' (comics), an American comic book published by Image Comics * '' Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura'', a 2001 computer role-playing game * ''The Arcanum'' (role-playing game), a 1981 pen-and-paper role-playing game * ''The Arcanum'' (novel), a 2005 novel by Thomas Wheeler * ''The Arcanum'' (non fiction), a 1998 non-fiction book on the history of porcelain * ''Arcanum'', a Conex Research-proposed space probe in the exploration of Neptune * The Grand Arcanum, the secret of the philosopher's stone The philosopher's stone is a mythic alchemical substa ...
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Comic Book
A comic book, comic-magazine, or simply comic is a publication that consists of comics art in the form of sequential juxtaposed panel (comics), panels that represent individual scenes. Panels are often accompanied by descriptive prose and written narrative, usually dialogue contained in word balloons emblematic of the comics art form. ''Comic Cuts'' was a British comic published from 1890 to 1953. It was preceded by ''Ally Sloper's Half Holiday'' (1884), which is notable for its use of sequential Cartoon, cartoons to unfold narrative. These British comics existed alongside the popular lurid "penny dreadfuls" (such as ''Spring-heeled Jack''), boys' "story papers" and the humorous ''Punch (magazine), Punch'' magazine, which was the first to use the term "cartoon" in its modern sense of a humorous drawing. The first modern American comic book, American-style comic book, ''Famous Funnies: A Carnival of Comics'', was released in the US in 1933 and was a reprinting of earlier newsp ...
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Image Comics
Image Comics is an independent American American comic book, comic book publisher and is the third largest direct market comic book and graphic novel publisher in the industry by market share. Its best-known publications include ''Spawn (comics), Spawn'', ''The Walking Dead (comic book), The Walking Dead'', ''Kick-Ass (comic book), Kick-Ass'', ''Invincible (comics), Invincible'', ''Jupiter's Legacy (comic), Jupiter's Legacy'', ''Witchblade'', ''The Maxx'', ''Savage Dragon'', ''Bone (comics), Bone'', ''Saga (comics), Saga'', ''Radiant Black'' and ''Stray Dogs (comic), Stray Dogs''. It was founded in 1992 by several high-profile illustrators as a venue for creator ownership, creator-owned properties, in which comics creators could publish material of their own creation without giving up the copyrights to those properties. Normally this is not the case in the work-for-hire-dominated American comics industry, where the legal author is a publisher, such as Marvel Comics or DC Comics, ...
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Top Cow
Top Cow Productions is an American comics publisher, an imprint (trade name), imprint of Image Comics. It was founded by Marc Silvestri in 1992. The company is known for publishing titles such as ''Cyber Force (comics), Cyberforce'', ''The Darkness (character), The Darkness'', ''Sunstone (comics), Sunstone, Wanted (comics), Wanted,'' and ''Witchblade''. It was the original publisher of Michael Turner (comics), Michael Turner's ''Fathom (comics), Fathom'' and published the first ''Tomb Raider'' comics. History 1990s Marc Silvestri was one of the original seven founders of Image Comics, along with Erik Larsen, Rob Liefeld, Jim Lee, Todd McFarlane, Jim Valentino, and Whilce Portacio. When Image Comics first launched in 1992, Silvestri was still part of the Homage Studios group which at the time he co-owned Lee, Joe Chiodo, Portacio, and Scott Williams. Silvestri's first title for Image Comics was ''Cyber Force (comics), Cyberforce''. By the time the second issue was released in M ...
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Brandon Peterson
Brandon Peterson (born 1969) is an American comic book writer and artist, known for his work on Marvel Comics and Top Cow's ''Codename: Strykeforce'' in the 1990s. Career Peterson's early works for Marvel include a ''New Warriors'' annual and a fill-in in ''X-Factor (comics), X-Factor'' in 1992. Later in the year, he had a short run in ''Uncanny X-Men'', drawing the title's issues of the "X-Cutioner's Song" storyline. Peterson left Marvel to join Top Cow, pencilling the ongoing title ''Codename: Strykeforce''. After the title's cancellation, he wrote and drew the creator-owned title ''Arcanum (comic book series), Arcanum'', before returning to Marvel in 1999 to work on several X-Men spinoff mini-series. He left Marvel once more to become Art Director of CrossGen Comics,The Brandon Pete ...
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