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Black Eye Books
Black Eye Books (formerly called Black Eye Productions) is a small but influential Canadian comic book publishing company founded by Michel Vrana. Under the auspices of Vrana, Black Eye was known as a publisher of artfully designed alternative comics and graphic novels, most of whose cartoonists have gone on to successful careers with fellow Canadian publisher Drawn & Quarterly. For several years, Vrana acted as Drawn & Quarterly's exclusive outside design consultant. In 2019 the company was relaunched as a micro-press with a focus on using crowdfunding to bring projects to fruition. History Vrana's first worked with publisher Tragedy Strikes Press, which operated out of Guelph, Ontario, from 1991–1993. Comics published by Tragedy Strikes Press included Nick Craine's ''The Cheeseheads'', the anthology series ''Reactor Girl'', Jay Stephens' ''Sin'', Carol Swain's ''Way Out Strips'', and the first issue of Dylan Horrocks' ''Pickle''. ''Sin'' and ''Pickle'' were picked up by Blac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toronto
Toronto ( , locally pronounced or ) is the List of the largest municipalities in Canada by population, most populous city in Canada. It is the capital city of the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Ontario. With a population of 2,794,356 in 2021, it is the List of North American cities by population, fourth-most populous city in North America. The city is the anchor of the Golden Horseshoe, an urban agglomeration of 9,765,188 people (as of 2021) surrounding the western end of Lake Ontario, while the Greater Toronto Area proper had a 2021 population of 6,712,341. As of 2024, the census metropolitan area had an estimated population of 7,106,379. Toronto is an international centre of business, finance, arts, sports, and culture, and is recognized as one of the most multiculturalism, multicultural and cosmopolitanism, cosmopolitan cities in the world. Indigenous peoples in Canada, Indigenous peoples have travelled through and inhabited the Toronto area, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hicksville (graphic Novel)
''Hicksville'' is a graphic novel by Dylan Horrocks originally published by Black Eye Comics in 1998. The novel explores the machinations of the comic book industry, and contains a slightly fictionalized account of the history of mainstream American comics, with particular attention paid to the era of Image Comics. Publication history Much of ''Hicksville'' was serialized in Horrocks' ten-issue solo series ''Pickle'', published by Black Eye from 1993 to 1996. The collected edition, which featured much redrawn art, was released by Black Eye in 1998, shortly before the company went out of business. ''Hicksville'' was republished by Canadian publisher Drawn & Quarterly in 2001 and again in 2010. In 2010 the graphic novel was republished by New Zealand publisher Victoria University Press. ''Hicksville'' has been translated into Spanish (Astiberri Ediciones), Italian (Black Velvet), German (Reprodukt), French (Casterman and L'Association) and Croatian (Fibra). Plot Canadian writ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grand Comics Database
The Grand Comics Database (GCD) is an Internet-based project to build a database of comic book information through user contributions. The GCD project catalogues information on creator credits, story details, reprints, and other information useful to the comic book reader, comic collector, fan, and scholar. The GCD is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization incorporated in Arkansas. History One of the earliest published catalogues of comic books appeared in the 1960s, when Jerry Bails and Howard Keltner put together some projects to catalogue the comic books of the " Golden Age". These efforts were Bails' ''The Collector's Guide to the First Heroic Age of Comics'', and ''Howard Keltner's Index to Golden Age Comic Books'', and their collaboration on ''The Authoritative Index to DC Comics''. The next big step in organizing data about comic books was Robert Overstreet's '' Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide'', which is still being published. This guide is sometimes referred to as the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Kochalka
James Kochalka (born May 26, 1967, in Springfield, Vermont) is an American comic book artist, writer, animator, and rock and roll, rock musician. His comics are noted for their blending of the real and the surreal. Largely autobiographical, Kochalka's cartoon expression of the world around him includes such real-life characters as his wife, children, cat, friends and colleagues, but always filtered through his own observations and flights of whimsy. In March 2011 he was declared the cartoonist laureate of Vermont, serving a term of three years. Early life and early career Kochalka grew up in Springfield, Vermont. He attended the Maryland Institute College of Art and has an MFA in painting. His first published comics work was around 1994. He has cited cartoonist Daniel Clowes as being a key inspiration in leading him "towards a whole world of comics that [he] never knew existed." Kochalka strongly believes that simplicity is desirable in comics and says that "craft is the enemy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sean Scoffield
The Beguiling is a Direct market, comic shop in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It specializes in Underground comix, underground and alternative comics, classic comic strip reprints, and foreign comics. It has built an international reputation for focusing on and promoting non-superhero comics in the superhero-dominated North American comic book market. The store has made effort to promote comics culture in Toronto by organizing the annual Toronto Comic Arts Festival (TCAF) in coöperation with the Toronto Public Library, which also hosts Page & Panel, a nonprofit shop to support TCAF. The Beguiling also runs a sister store, Little Island Comics, the first North American comic shop aimed exclusively at children. History Founded in 1987 by Steve Solomos and Sean Scoffield on Harbord Village, Harbord Street near the University of Toronto in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, The Beguiling quickly built a reputation for the diversity of its stock, focused on art-oriented, avant-garde, U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matt Madden
Matt Madden (born 1968 in New York City) is an American comic book writer and artist. He is best known for original alternative comics, for his coloring work in traditional comics, and for the experimental work '' 99 Ways to Tell a Story: Exercises in Style'', which is based on the idea of Raymond Queneau's '' Exercises in Style''. He also teaches comics at the School of Visual Arts and Yale University. Career Madden began his career self-publishing minicomics in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in the early 1990s. He was co-editor with Matt Feazell and Sean Bieri of the anthology ''5 O'Clock Shadow''. After several of his short pieces appeared in established publications, Madden's first graphic novel, ''Black Candy'', was published by Black Eye Books in 1998. In the mid-1990s Madden began writing reviews for ''The Comics Journal'' and other publications. He is a consulting editor for the mini-comic Le Sketch. He works in illustration and comics coloring and also teaches comics story ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jason Lutes
Jason Lutes (born December 7, 1967) such as unit portraits for the open-source video game Battle for Wesnoth (2006), a map for ''Dominions 3: The Awakening'' (2006), and website illustration for ''City of Heroes'' (2005). References External links ''Coyote vs. Wolf'' Jason Lutes' Blog Jason Lutes at ''Drawn & Quarterly'' * ''Jar of Fools'' at Drawn & Quarterly. Stories at The Center for Cartoon Studies * {{DEFAULTSORT:Lutes, Jason People from New Jersey Artists from Missoula, Montana Rhode Island School of Design alumni Living people 1967 births ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Hart (comics)
Tom Hart (born October 8, 1969, in Kingston, New York) is an American comics creator and educator best known for his graphic novel ''Rosalie Lightning'' and his ''Hutch Owen'' series of comics. He is the co-founder of SAW, the Sequential Artists Workshop. Career Tom Hart began making mini-comics while living in Seattle in the early 1990s. Like many of his colleagues including Megan Kelso, Dave Lasky, Jason Lutes, Jon Lewis, and James Sturm, he was an early recipient of the Xeric Foundation grant for cartoonists. His Xeric-winning book, ''Hutch Owen's Working Hard'' was 56 pages and self-published in 1994. Hart returned to the Hutch Owen series and published a first collection of stories with Top Shelf Productions in 2000. Later books in the series have also been published by Top Shelf. ''Time'' magazine called ''Hutch Owen'' "A devastating satire hichfeels like a scalding hot poker cauterizing the open wound of American corporate and consumer culture." ''Hutch Owen'' was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ed Brubaker
Ed Brubaker (; born November 17, 1966) is an American comic book writer, cartoonist and screenwriter who works primarily in the crime fiction genre. He began his career with the semi-autobiographical series '' Lowlife'' and a number of serials in the ''Dark Horse Presents'' anthology, before achieving industry-wide acclaim with the Vertigo series '' Scene of the Crime'' and moving to the superhero comics such as ''Batman'', ''Catwoman'', '' The Authority'', ''Captain America'', '' Daredevil'' and ''Uncanny X-Men''. Brubaker is best known for his long-standing collaboration with British artist Sean Phillips, starting with their Elseworlds one-shot '' Batman: Gotham Noir'' in 2001 and continuing with a number of creator-owned series such as ''Criminal'', '' Incognito'', '' Fatale'', '' The Fade Out'' and '' Kill or Be Killed''. He is also known for co-creating the Winter Soldier identity of Bucky Barnes with Steve Epting. Brubaker has won numerous awards for his comics work, inc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian Biggs
Brian Biggs (born March 9, 1968, in Little Rock, Arkansas) is a children's book author and illustrator. He has been published by HarperCollins and Random House, among others, and has illustrated two Little Golden Books. Early work Brian Biggs got his start as a cartoonist for the ''North Texas Daily'', the school newspaper of the North Texas State University. His comic, ''Roommates'', ran until his transfer to Parsons. Then, in the 1990s, Biggs began to draw comic books, often as a part of the 90's underground comix scene. Notable works from this period include ''Frederick and Eloise'' (1999), published by Fantagraphics, and ''Dear Julia'' (1996–97), published by Black Eye Productions. ''Dear Julia'' was later made into a short film directed by Isaac E. Gozin. Children's books Brian Biggs later began to illustrate for small projects, and eventually illustrated a children's book series, ''Shredderman'', written by Wendelin Van Draanen in 2004-05, which was turned into the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jar Of Fools
''Jar of Fools'' is a once-weekly comic strip by Jason Lutes that was compiled, first into a two-part anthology, and then a graphic novel. The work has received praise from ''The New York Times Book Review'', ''Spin'', ''Wired'', and acclaimed comics creator Chris Ware."Jar of Fools" webpage at Drawn & Quarterly's website. ''Jar of Fools'' is the story of a tormented magician named Ernie Weiss (likely based on , whose name was originally Ehrich Weiss [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Berlin (comics)
''Berlin'' is a comic book series by Jason Lutes, published by Black Eye Productions and then Drawn & Quarterly. Planned as a series of 24 magazines, since reduced to 22, INTERVIEW: Jason Lutes Talks the Final Days of "Berlin" , July 28, 2015 then re-released in book form, it describes life in from 1928 to 1933, during the decline of the |
