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Bronwyn Carlton
Bronwyn Carlton is an American comic book author, editor, and radio DJ. She has written a number of DC Comics titles, including ''Catwoman'' and '' The Books of Faerie'', as well as the Paradox Press imprint title, '' The Big Book of Death. '' She has worked as an editor for both DC and Marvel. At DC, she worked on both the Paradox Press and Piranha Press imprints. At Marvel, she worked on the Marvel Knights line. In 2008, she was featured in the documentary film ''Guest of Cindy Sherman''. She is also a DJ for WFMU, a free-form radio station in New Jersey. She has hosted various shows since late 1988. These include "Truck Stop Tea Party" and hosted "Sportsy Talk with Bronwyn C. & Jim the Poet." Carlton has spoken publicly about her experience with "prosopagnosia" ("face blindness"), and is an advocate for recognition of that condition as a disability. Personal life Ms. Carlton attended Reed College in Portland, Oregon, where she earned a Bachelor's degree in psychology/ani ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reed College
Reed College is a Private college, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Portland, Oregon, United States. Founded in 1908, Reed is a residential college with a campus in the Eastmoreland, Portland, Oregon, Eastmoreland neighborhood, Tudor style architecture, Tudor-Gothic Revival architecture, Gothic style architecture, and a forested canyon nature preserve at its center. Reed List of Reed College people, alumni include 123 Fulbright Scholars, 73 Thomas J. Watson Fellowship, Watson Fellows, and three Churchill Scholarship, Churchill Scholars. Its 32 Rhodes Scholars are the second-most for a liberal arts college. Reed is ranked fourth in the United States for the percentage of its graduates who earn a PhD. History The Reed Institute (the legal name of the college) was founded in 1908 and held its first classes in 1911. Reed is named for Oregon pioneers Simeon Gannett Reed (1830–1895) and Amanda Reed (died 1904). Simeon was an entrepreneur in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Comics Writers
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Living People
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John Francis Moore (writer)
John Francis Moore is an American comic book writer known for stints as writer on such Marvel Comics series as ''X-Force'', ''X-Factor'', ''Doom 2099'' and '' X-Men 2099''. He also wrote ''Elseworld's Finest'' and co-wrote '' Batman/Houdini: The Devil's Workshop'' with Howard Chaykin for DC's Elseworlds series, and was the writer for Howard Chaykin's '' American Flagg!'' series. Bibliography DC Comics *''The Batman Chronicles'' #11 (1998) *'' Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight'' #42-43 (1993) *'' Batman/Houdini: The Devil's Workshop'' Original Graphic Novel (1993) *''Batman: Family'' #1-8 (2002–2003) *''Batman: Poison Ivy'' (1997) *''Batman/Scarecrow 3-D'' #1 (1998) *''Birds of Prey: Batgirl/Catwoman'' (2003) *''Birds of Prey: Catwoman/Oracle'' (2003) *'' Catwoman vol. 2'' #92-94 (2001) *''Chronos'' #1-11, #1000000 (1998–1999) *''Detective Comics'' #773-775 (2002) *''Elseworld's Finest'' #1-2 (1997) *''Fate'' #0-4 (1994–1995) *''Legends of the DC Universe 80-Page Giant'' # ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Ostrander
John Ostrander (born April 20, 1949) is an American writer of comic books, including ''Suicide Squad'', '' Grimjack'' and '' Star Wars: Legacy''. He co-created the Oracle persona for Barbara Gordon and created the second and modern version of the antihero/supervillain team the Suicide Squad, of which the films ''Suicide Squad'' (2016) and ''The Suicide Squad'' (2021) are based on. Career Ostrander studied theology with the intent of becoming a Catholic priest, but now describes himself as an agnostic. Originally an actor in the Organic Theater Company in Chicago, Ostrander moved into writing comics in 1983. His first published works were stories about the character "Sargon, Mistress of War", and appeared in the First Comics series ''Warp!'', based on a series of plays by that same Chicago theater company. He and Timothy Truman co-created the character Grimjack, who originally appeared in a backup story in the First Comics title, '' Starslayer'', before receiving his own titl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''NYT'') is an American daily newspaper based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' covers domestic, national, and international news, and publishes opinion pieces, investigative reports, and reviews. As one of the longest-running newspapers in the United States, the ''Times'' serves as one of the country's Newspaper of record, newspapers of record. , ''The New York Times'' had 9.13 million total and 8.83 million online subscribers, both by significant margins the List of newspapers in the United States, highest numbers for any newspaper in the United States; the total also included 296,330 print subscribers, making the ''Times'' the second-largest newspaper by print circulation in the United States, following ''The Wall Street Journal'', also based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' is published by the New York Times Company; since 1896, the company has been chaired by the Ochs-Sulzberger family, whose current chairman and the paper's publ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sean Taggart
Sean Taggart is an American illustrator and artist. He began his career in the early 1980s doing flyers and album covers for bands in the New York Hardcore scene, such as Agnostic Front, Murphy's Law, and the Cro-Mags, and was the artist of the iconic Crumbsuckers first album cover. He has also done art for the bands Carnivore, Prong, and Napalm Death, among many others. In the 1990s, Taggart was the character designer and illustrator for the Jerky Boys, and drew the poster art for the Jerky Boys film. His drawing of the Frank Rizzo character was featured in the "Bud Light, I said!" advertising campaign for Budweiser. Taggart's fine art paintings have been exhibited in both group and one-man shows at Brooklyn's McCaig-Welles Gallery and at Exit Art in New York City. Interviews with Taggart have appeared in many fan magazines, as well as in the book '' American Hardcore: A Tribal History'', by Steven Blush. Taggart also appears in the 2006 Sony Pictures documentary film '' A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
LinkedIn
LinkedIn () is an American business and employment-oriented Social networking service, social network. It was launched on May 5, 2003 by Reid Hoffman and Eric Ly. Since December 2016, LinkedIn has been a wholly owned subsidiary of Microsoft. The platform is primarily used for professional networking and career development, and allows jobseekers to post their Curriculum vitae, CVs and employers to post jobs. From 2015, most of the company's revenue came from Information broker, selling access to information about its members to recruiters and sales professionals and has also introduced their own ad portal named LinkedIn Ads to let companies advertise in their platform. LinkedIn has more than 1 billion registered members from over 200 countries and territories. LinkedIn allows members (both employees and employers) to create profiles and connect with each other in an online social network which may represent real-world professional relationships. Members can invite anyone (whet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WFMU
WFMU (91.1 MHz) is a non-commercial educational station, non-commercial, listener-supported, independent radio, independent community radio station city of license, licensed to East Orange, New Jersey, with studios in Jersey City. It is owned by Auricle Communications, broadcasting a free form radio, free-form radio format. The station holds periodic on-air fundraisers and seeks donation on its website. WFMU is a list of broadcast station classes, Class A station. It has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 1,250 watts. The station's transmitter is on Prospect Avenue and Mount Pleasant Avenue in West Orange, New Jersey, West Orange. Programming is also heard on 10-watt FM translator W220EJ at 91.9 FM in Weehawken. The lower Catskill Mountains, Catskills, parts of Northern New Jersey and Eastern Pennsylvania can receive sister station WMFU's simulcast on 90.1 MHz, licensed to Mount Hope, New York, with its transmitter in Otisville, New York, Otisville. That station also has ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piranha Press
Piranha Press, an imprint of DC Comics from 1989 to 1994, was a response by DC to the growing interest in alternative comics. The imprint was edited by Mark Nevelow, who instead of developing comics with the established names in the alternative comics field, chose to introduce several unknown illustrators with an eclectic and diverse line of experimental graphic novels and stories. Unusual for the time, Nevelow succeeded in getting DC to agree to contracts giving creator ownership to writers and artists. History DC announced its plan to form the Piranha imprint in 1987. Nevelow's associate editor on the imprint was Karen McBurnie. Designer Dean Motter created the signature Piranha cover format and logo. After the initial 1989 titles were art directed by John Workman, the in-house Piranha production design was by Bhob Stewart from 1989 to 1992, with other design contributions by Dale Crain, Rick Spanier, Richard Bruning, Veronica Carlin, Margaret Clark and Rick Keene. Artist- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
