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Criminal Macabre
''Criminal Macabre: A Cal McDonald Mystery'' is a comic book series starring Cal McDonald, an antihero American comic book character created in 1990 in comics, 1990 by writer Steve Niles. The character's adventures have been published by Dark Horse Comics and later IDW Publishing. Cal himself is akin to John Constantine, a DC Comics occult detective fiction, paranormal detective. He takes illicit drugs, and befriends a network of ghouls to assist him in his cases. Policemen do not really care to be involved with Cal. Publishing history Cal McDonald's first story, entitled "Big-Head", was released in 1990 as part of the comics anthology, anthology comic ''Fly in My Eye: Daughters of Fly In My Eye'' from Arcane Comix, with art by Jim Whiting. That story led directly to the four-part "Hairball", serialized in ''Dark Horse Presents'' #102-105 in 1996 in comics, 1996. Hairball was later printed as a one-shot (comics), one-shot comic. Cal's subsequent appearances were in two 2002 nove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Templesmith
Ben Templesmith (born 7 March 1984) is an Australian comic book artist best known for his work in the American comic book industry, most notably the Image Comics series ''Fell (comics), Fell'', with writer Warren Ellis, and IDW Publishing, IDW's ''30 Days of Night'' with writer Steve Niles, which was adapted into a 30 Days of Night (film), motion picture of the same name. He has also created book covers, movie posters, trading cards, and concept work for film. Early life Templesmith was born 7 March 1984, in Perth, Western Australia. He graduated from Curtin University with a bachelor's degree in Design, and holds a diploma of Cartoon and Graphic Art from the Australian College of Journalism.Giles, Keith (31 August 2001)"Artists on the Verge: Ben Templesmith" Comic Book Resources. Career Templesmith produced his first commercial American comics work in 2001, providing the art for Todd McFarlane, Todd McFarlane Productions' ''Hellspawn (comics), Hellspawn'', which was published b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |