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1983 In Comics
Notable events of 1983 in comics. Events and publications * Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird found Mirage Studios, which is headquartered at Northampton, Massachusetts. * Chicago-based First Comics makes a strong entry into the publishing field, putting out four ongoing titles, ''American Flagg!'', ''E-Man'', ''Jon Sable Freelance'', and ''Warp!''; featuring the talents of such established creators as Howard Chaykin, Mike Grell, Frank Brunner, and Joe Staton. * DC Comics acquires most of Charlton Comics' "Action Hero" superhero characters — including Blue Beetle, Captain Atom and Question (comics), The Question — from the failing publisher. * Long-time comics publisher Warren Publishing declares bankruptcy. * The publicly traded Archie Comics is acquired by Richard Goldwater (son of the original Archie co-founder John L. Goldwater) and Michael Silberkleit, returning the publisher to private ownership. * Noble Comics, original publisher of ''Justice Machine'', ceases publication. Te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kevin Eastman
Kevin Brooks Eastman (born May 30, 1962) is an American comic book writer and artist best known for co-creating the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles with Peter Laird. Eastman was also formerly the editor and publisher of the magazine ''Heavy Metal (magazine), Heavy Metal''. Early life and career Eastman was born in Portland, Maine. He attended Westbrook High School (Maine), Westbrook High School in Westbrook, Maine, with comic book illustrator Steve Lavigne. He grew up a comic book fan, with Jack Kirby as his idol and ''Kamandi'' as his favorite title of his. In 1983, he worked in a restaurant while he searched for publishers for his comics. He met a waitress who was attending the University of Massachusetts Amherst and followed her to Northampton, Massachusetts. While searching for a local underground newspaper to publish his work, he began a professional relationship with Peter Laird, who worked in nearby Dover, New Hampshire, and the two collaborated for a short time on variou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Question (comics)
Question is a name used by several fictional superhero characters appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. Created by Steve Ditko, the Question first appeared in Charlton Comics' '' Blue Beetle'' #1 (June 1967), and was acquired by DC Comics in the early 1980s and incorporated into the DC Universe. The Question's secret identity was originally Vic Sage, later retconned as Charles Victor Szasz. However, after the events of the 2006–2007 miniseries '' 52'', Sage's protégé Renee Montoya took up his mantle and became his successor. Following The New 52 relaunch, Question was reintroduced as an unknown mystical entity and Sage as a government agent, before being restored to his traditional detective persona and name after the events of DC Rebirth. As conceived by Ditko, the Question was an adherent of Objectivism during his career as a Charlton hero, much like Ditko's earlier creation, Mr. A. In the 1987–1990 solo series from DC, the character developed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hanco Kolk
Hanco Kolk (born 11 March 1957, Den Helder) is a Dutch cartoonist and comics artist. He is best known for his collaborations with Peter de Wit, with who he made '' Gilles de Geus'' and '' S1NGLE'' Kolk married author Isabelle Rosselin in 2016. Biography Kolk made his debut in the Dutch underground comics magazine ''Tante Leny presenteert!''. In 1980 he was one of the founders of ''Studio Arnhem'', a collective of comics artists and writers. After working anonymous for the magazine ''Donald Duck'' for several years he went to the magazine '' Eppo'', where he made the humoristic historical adventure comics series '' Gilles de Geus'' together with Peter de Wit from 1983 to 2003. Kolk and De Wit often work together and have created comics such as the photo novel ''Mannetje & Mannetje'' (''Sidekicks'' in English; 1988), which was adapted into a TV sketch show for VPRO in 1989 and the gag-a-day comic '' S1NGLE'' (2001), which was also adapted for television as a sitcom on NET 5. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gilles De Geus
Gilles de Geus ("Gilles de Geus") is a Dutch humoristic/historical comics series, created by Hanco Kolk and Peter de Wit in 1983. It is set in the 16th and 17th centuries during the Eighty Years' War and features the adventures of Gilles, a brave but not always too bright resistance fighter who is part of the Geuzen, an army who fight the Spanish oppressor in the Netherlands. The series has been compared to ''Asterix'' for being a humoristic comics series set in a historical time period, containing a lot of satirical winks and references. The series has been translated into English as "Bryant the Brigand" and was published by Alibris. It has also been translated into Spanish as ''Tristán el salteador''. Concept "Gilles de Geus" was pre-published in the Dutch comics magazine '' Eppo'' and later in ''Sjors en Sjimmie Stripblad''. Originally it was a gag-a-day comic, drawn by Hanco Kolk and written by Wilbert Plijnaar, with stories that lasted only a few pages and were mostly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blueberry (comics)
''Blueberry'' is a Western comic series created in the Franco-Belgian ''bandes dessinées'' (BD) tradition by the Belgian scriptwriter Jean-Michel Charlier and French comics artist Jean "Mœbius" Giraud. It chronicles the adventures of Mike Steve Donovan alias Blueberry on his travels through the American Old West. Blueberry is an atypical western hero; he is not a wandering lawman who brings evil-doers to justice, nor a handsome cowboy who "rides into town, saves the ranch, becomes the new sheriff and marries the schoolmarm". In any situation, he sees what he thinks needs doing, and he does it. The series spawned out of the 1963 ''Fort Navajo'' comics series, originally intended as an ensemble narrative, but which quickly gravitated around the breakout character "Blueberry" as the main and central character after the first two stories, causing the series to continue under his name later on. The older stories, released under the ''Fort Navajo'' moniker, were ultimately reissue ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Giraud
Jean Henri Gaston Giraud (; 8 May 1938 – 10 March 2012) was a French artist, cartoonist, and writer who worked in the Franco-Belgian comics, Franco-Belgian ''bandes dessinées'' (BD) tradition. Giraud garnered worldwide acclaim predominantly under the pseudonym Mœbius (; ) for his fantasy/science-fiction work, and to a slightly lesser extent as Gir (), which he used for the ''Blueberry (comics), Blueberry'' series and his other Western (genre), Western-themed work. Esteemed by Federico Fellini, Stan Lee, and Hayao Miyazaki, among others,Screech, Matthew. 2005. "Moebius/Jean Giraud: ''Nouveau Réalisme'' and Science fiction". In Libbie McQuillan (ed.) ''The Francophone bande dessinée''. Rodopi. p. 1 he has been described as the most influential ''bande dessinée'' artist after Hergé. His most famous body of work as Gir concerns the ''Blueberry'' series, created with writer Jean-Michel Charlier, featuring one of the first antiheroes in Western comics, and which is parti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Michel Charlier
Jean-Michel Charlier (; 30 October 1924 – 10 July 1989) was a Belgian comics writer. He was a co-founder of the famed Franco-Belgian comics magazine '' Pilote''. Life Charlier was born in Liège, Belgium, in 1924.De Weyer, Geert (2005). "Jean-Michel Charlier". In België gestript, . Tielt: Lannoo. In 1945 he got a job as a draughtsman in Brussels with World Press, the syndicate of Georges Troisfontaines, which worked mainly for '' Spirou'' magazine. The following year he and artist Victor Hubinon created the four-page comic strip ''L'Agonie du Bismarck''. Charlier wrote the script and also drew the ships and airplanes. In 1947, Charlier and Hubinon began the long-running air-adventure comic strip '' Buck Danny''. After a few years, Charlier stopped all work on the drawings and concentrated only on the scenarios, on the advice of Jijé, then the senior artist at ''Spirou''. Unable to support himself writing comic scripts at a time when Dupuis concentrated almost solel ... [...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] |
Elementals (Comico Comics)
''Elementals'' is an American superhero comic book first published in 1984 and created by Bill Willingham, for which he was both writer and artist. Publication history The Elementals first appeared in the ''Justice Machine Annual'', published by Texas Comics in 1983. The Elementals were supposed to become a bimonthly series, alternating with the Justice Machine, but Texas Comics folded after publishing the one comic."Texas Comics Goes Under: Justice Machine Now Homeless", ''The Comics Journal'' #88 (Jan. 1984), p. 13. After Texas Comics folded, ''The Elementals'' were taken over by Comico: The Comic Company, Comico Comics. In a variety of specials and Limited series (comics), limited series, Comico published ''Elementals'' until 1996. Comico's publisher, Andrew Rev, purchased the ''Elementals'' property from Willingham in the 1990s. Fictional setting and characters When a centuries-old sorcerer named Lord Saker built a machine called the Shadowspear to harness the supernatura ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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] |
Justice Machine
The Justice Machine is a fictional team of superheroes originally created by Mike Gustovich and appearing in comic books from many small publishers in the 1980s and 1990s. In addition to Gustovich, writers Jenny Isabella and Mark Ellis have also had lengthy creative associations with ''Justice Machine''. Publication history Volume one ; 1981–1983 (Noble Comics) The characters debuted in ''Justice Machine'' #1 (June 1981), created by writer-penciler Mike Gustovich, published by the small independent publisher Noble Comics, with a cover penciled by John Byrne and inked by Gustovich. The ''Justice Machine'' series lasted five issues, cover-dated June 1981, Winter 1981, April 1982, Fall 1982, and Winter 1983. The first three issues were published in magazine format, with the fourth and fifth issues appearing in traditional comic-size format. The final two issues were also flip books with another Gustovich property, ''Cobalt Blue''. Noble Comics folded after the publication of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Noble Comics
Michael Gustovich (born November 15, 1953) is an American artist, known for his comic book art and inking in the 1980s and early 1990s for such publishers as Marvel Comics, DC Comics, First Comics, Comico, and Eclipse Comics. He is the creator of the superhero team Justice Machine, which throughout the 1980s and early 1990s was featured in comics from several publishers. Biography In 1976, Gustovich joined a consortium of fans and would-be professionals" — including Stu Fillmore — in Detroit "who adopted the company name" Noble Comics, and published ''The Lands of Prester John'', a 64-page one-shot of Gustovich's superhero, science fiction, and horror stories.Gustovich entry G-Man Comics. Retrieved Jan. 17, 2023. Gustovich then moved to fellow < ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
