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Bill Willingham
William Willingham (born 1956) is an American writer and artist of comics, known for his work on the series '' Elementals'' and ''Fables''. Career William Willingham was born in Fort Belvoir, Virginia. During his father's military career the family also lived in Alaska, California, and finally three years in Germany. Willingham got his start from the late 1970s to early 1980s as a staff artist for TSR, Inc., where he illustrated a number of their role-playing game products. He was the cover artist for the ''AD&D Player Character Record Sheets'', '' Against the Giants'', '' Secret of Bone Hill'', the Gamma World book '' Legion of Gold'', and provided the back cover for '' In the Dungeons of the Slave Lords''. He was an interior artist on '' White Plume Mountain'', '' Slave Pits of the Undercity'', '' Ghost Tower of Inverness'', ''Secret of the Slavers Stockade'', ''Secret of Bone Hill'', '' Palace of the Silver Princess'', '' Isle of Dread'', '' The Mansion of Mad Professor Ludlo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York Comic Con
The New York Comic Con is an annual New York City fan convention dedicated to comics, Western comics, graphic novels, anime, manga, video games, cosplay, toys, Film, movies, and television. It was first held in 2006. With an attendance of 200,000 in 2022, it is North America's most attended fan convention. The New York Comic Con is a for-profit event produced and managed by ReedPop, a division of Reed Exhibitions, RX and Reed Elsevier, and is not affiliated with the long running non-profit San Diego Comic-Con, nor the Big Apple Comic Con, Big Apple Convention, later known as the Big Apple Comic-Con, owned by Wizard Entertainment. History Previous conventions in New York The first recorded "official" comic book convention occurred in 1964 in New York City. Known as the "New York Comicon",Ballman"The 1964 New York Comicon: The True Story Behind the World's First Comic Book Convention (The 1960s: The Silver Age of Comic Conventions) (Volume 1)"/ref>History Channel"Superheroes Dec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dragon (magazine)
''Dragon'' was one of the two official magazines for source material for the ''Dungeons & Dragons'' role-playing game and associated products, along with ''Dungeon (magazine), Dungeon''. TSR, Inc. originally launched the monthly printed magazine in 1976 to succeed the company's earlier publication, ''The Strategic Review''. The final printed issue was #359 in September 2007. Shortly after the last print issue shipped in mid-August 2007, Wizards of the Coast (part of Hasbro, Inc.), the publication's current copyright holder, relaunched ''Dragon'' as an online magazine, continuing on the numbering of the print edition. The last published issue was No. 430 in December 2013. A digital publication called ''Dragon+'', which replaced ''Dragon'' magazine, was launched in 2015. It was created by the advertising agency Dialect in collaboration with Wizards of the Coast, and its numbering system for issues started at No. 1. History TSR In 1975, TSR, Inc. began publishing ''The Strate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Green Lantern
Green Lantern is the name of several superheroes appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. They fight evil with the aid of rings that grant them a variety of extraordinary powers, all of which come from imagination, fearlessness, and the electromagnetic spectrum of emotional willpower. The characters are typically depicted as members of the Green Lantern Corps, an intergalactic law enforcement agency. The first Green Lantern character, Alan Scott, was created in 1940 by Martin Nodell with scripting or co-scripting of the first stories by Bill Finger during the Golden Age of Comic Books and usually fought common criminals in Capitol City (and later, Gotham City) with the aid of his magic ring. For the Silver Age of Comic Books, John Broome and Gil Kane reinvented the character as Hal Jordan in 1959 and introduced the Green Lantern Corps, shifting the nature of the character from fantasy to science fiction. During the Bronze Age of Comic Books, Dennis O'Neil a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Comic Company
''The'' is a grammatical article in English, denoting nouns that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of the archaic pronoun ''thee' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
YouTube
YouTube is an American social media and online video sharing platform owned by Google. YouTube was founded on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim who were three former employees of PayPal. Headquartered in San Bruno, California, it is the second-most-visited website in the world, after Google Search. In January 2024, YouTube had more than 2.7billion monthly active users, who collectively watched more than one billion hours of videos every day. , videos were being uploaded to the platform at a rate of more than 500 hours of content per minute, and , there were approximately 14.8billion videos in total. On November 13, 2006, YouTube was purchased by Google for $1.65 billion (equivalent to $ billion in ). Google expanded YouTube's business model of generating revenue from advertisements alone, to offering paid content such as movies and exclusive content produced by and for YouTube. It also offers YouTube Premium, a paid subs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Master Of Orion
''Master of Orion'' (abbreviated as MoO) is a turn-based, 4X science fiction strategy game in which the Player character, player leads one of ten races to dominate the galaxy through a combination of diplomacy and conquest while developing technology, exploring and Space colonization, colonizing Star systems in fiction, star systems. Sometimes described as a scifi-themed spin-off of classic ''Civilization (video game), Civilization'', the game has proven to be quite enduring, becoming a cult classic in its niche of sci-fi-themed 4X strategy games. It has received several direct sequels, and additionally, a number of other games published since have been described as inspired by it, with reviewers and players divided on whether any has succeeded at recapturing the feeling and gameplay of the original. The game was released in 1993 by MicroProse on the MS-DOS operating system. It was ported to Classic Mac OS, Mac OS in 1995 by Take-Two Interactive and distributed by GameTek. It is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Island Of Doctor Apocalypse
''The Island of Doctor Apocalypse'' is an adventure published by Fantasy Games Unlimited (FGU) in 1982 for the superhero role-playing game ''Villains and Vigilantes''. Plot summary ''The Island of Doctor Apocalypse'' begins immediately where the preceding adventure, '' Death Duel with the Destroyers'', ended: The superheroes (player characters) have just defeated the Destroyers, but they have less than a day to find Dr. Apocalypse before he destroys multiple cities in the United States. Publication history FGU published the first superhero role-playing game, ''Villains & Vigilantes'', in 1979. They published their first adventure for the game in 1981, and followed that in 1982 with ''Death Duel with the Destroyers''. The sequel to that adventure, also published in 1982, was ''The Island of Doctor Apocalypse'', a 22-page saddle-stapled softcover book written and illustrated by Bill Willingham. Reception William A. Barton reviewed ''The Island of Dr. Apocalypse'' in ''The Space Ga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Death Duel With The Destroyers
''Death Duel with the Destroyers'' is an adventure published by Fantasy Games Unlimited (FGU) in 1982 for the superhero role-playing game ''Villains and Vigilantes''. Plot summary The second adventure published by FGU for ''Villains & Vigilantes'', this scenario depicts the first of several battles between a team of player character superheroes and the supervillain scientist Dr. Apocalypse. A series of monster storms strikes the Eastern United States while a holographic figure of Dr. Apocalypse appears in the skies and mocks the people. The superheroes (player characters) are then alerted to a giant robot attacking Times Square, before they take on the group of supervillains known as The Destroyers. Publication history FGU published the first superhero role-playing game, ''Villains & Vigilantes'', in 1979. They published their first adventure for the game in 1981, and followed that in 1982 with ''Death Duel with the Destroyers'', a 21-page saddle-stapled softcover book written and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
