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Minx (comics)
Minx was an imprint of DC Comics that published graphic novels aimed at teenage girls. It ran from 2007 to 2008. History Launch Minx was announced in November 2006, following several years of planning. Senior Vice President Karen Berger and Group Editor Shelly Bond were supervising the imprint. DC had contracted Alloy Marketing + Media to market the line's books, with a budget of $125,000 to $250,000. Berger said that the success of translated manga and Marjane Satrapi's ''Persepolis'' among teenage girls helped motivate the creation of the imprint. Rachel Kitzmann, a Los Angeles Public librarian, emphasized that the Minx imprint was focused "on real world, plausible situations" and that the "''MINX'' books are an attempt to contract two different formats: the content of YA literature with various types of art. ..The content of MINX diverged from the traditional aim as American comic books don't typically put the focus on an internal emotional journey, and even manga aimed a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DC Comics
DC Comics (originally DC Comics, Inc., and also known simply as DC) is an American comic book publisher owned by DC Entertainment, a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Discovery. DC is an initialism for "Detective Comics", an American comic book series first published in 1937. DC Comics is one of the largest and oldest American comic book companies, the first comic under the DC banner being published in 1937. The majority of its published stories are set in the fictional DC Universe and feature numerous List of DC Comics characters, culturally iconic heroic characters, such as Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, and the Flash (DC Comics character), Flash; as well as famous fictional teams, including the Justice League, the Teen Titans, the Suicide Squad, and the Legion of Superheroes. The universe contains an assortment of well-known supervillains, such as Lex Luthor, the Joker (character), Joker, Darkseid, and the antihero Catwoman. The company has published non-DC Universe-related mater ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Hahn (cartoonist)
David Hahn is a western Montana-based comic book artist born in 1967. He is best known for his work illustrating the comic book mini-series ''Bite Club (comics), Bite Club'' and its sequel ''Bite Club: Vampire Crime Unit'' for DC Comics, where he also illustrated stories for ''Robin (comics), Robin'', ''Fables (comic), Fables'', ''Batman: The Ultimate Training Guide'', and ''Lucifer (DC Comics), Lucifer''. Career Much of his early work was published by Antarctic Press in ''Fun and Perils in the Trudyverse''. Hahn later moved his work to Slave Labor Graphics and restarted the series under the name ''Private Beach'', which garnered him an Eisner Award nomination. He has also written an X-Men story for ''Ultimate X-Men'' #11 for Marvel Comics and drawn a story for Michael Chabon's ''The Escapist (character), The Escapist'' #5, written by Howard Chaykin, drawn several issues of Marvel Adventures:The Fantastic Four, as well five issues of ''Spider-Man Loves Mary Jane''. In 2011, he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joëlle Jones
Joëlle Jones (born February 20, 1980) is an American comic book artist and writer, best known for her work on '' Lady Killer'', a series published in 2015–2017 by Dark Horse Comics, for her cover work on various Marvel Comics series, and for her work writing and illustrating DC Comics series including ''Batman'' and ''Catwoman''. Early life Joëlle Jones is a native of Boise, Idaho. She attended the Pacific Northwest College of Art, where she studied oil painting. She left school to pursue comic book illustration. She stayed in the Portland, Oregon area for several years, where she worked as a freelance artist for Dark Horse Comics and Oni Press. Career Jones's first credited work was as a colorist for Harris Comics in 2004, back when the company had the rights to Vampirella. In 2006, her illustrations appeared in the anthology ''Sexy Chix'', published by Dark Horse Comics. The following year, she drew "How are the new Three Little Pigs adjusting to being pigs?", which appear ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mariko Tamaki
Mariko Tamaki (born 1975) is a Canadian artist and writer. She is known for her graphic novels '' Skim'', ''Emiko Superstar,'' and '' This One Summer''."Mariko Tamaki". CBC Radio, '' The Next Chapter'', 12 November 2012. In 2016 she began writing for both Marvel and DC Comics. She has twice been named a runner-up for the Michael L. Printz Award. Early life Mariko Tamaki was born in Toronto, Ontario. She is of Japanese and Jewish descent. Mariko attended Havergal College, an all girls' secondary school. She studied English literature at McGill University, graduating in 1994. Career Tamaki has worked as a writer and performance artist in Toronto, including with Keith Cole's Cheap Queers and in the performance group Pretty Porky & Pissed Off with Joanne Huffa, Allyson Mitchell, Abi Slone, Tracy Tidgwell, and Zoe Whittall. Tamaki published the novel ''Cover Me'' in 2000. Told in a series of flashbacks, it is about a depressed teenager dealing with self-harm and feeling like ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Hollywood Reporter
''The Hollywood Reporter'' (''THR'') is an American digital and print magazine which focuses on the Cinema of the United States, Hollywood film industry, film, television, and entertainment industries. It was founded in 1930 as a daily trade paper, and in 2010 switched to a weekly Wide-format printer, large-format print magazine with a revamped website. As of 2020, the day-to-day operations of the company are handled by Penske Media Corporation through a joint venture with Eldridge Industries. The magazine also sponsors and hosts major industry events. History Foundation and early years ''The Hollywood Reporter'' was founded in 1930 by William R. Wilkerson, William R. "Billy" Wilkerson (1890–1962) as Hollywood's first daily entertainment trade newspaper. The first edition appeared on September 3, 1930, and featured Wilkerson's front-page "Tradeviews" column, which became influential. The newspaper appeared Monday-to-Saturday for the first 10 years, except for a brief period, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Rugg
Jim Rugg (born February 1, 1977) is an American cartoonist and illustrator from Pittsburgh known for his tongue-in-cheek evocation of 1970s-era comics and popular culture, pop culture. His graphic novels and comics collections include ''Street Angel (comics), Street Angel'', ''Afrodisiac (comics), Afrodisiac'', ''The P.L.A.I.N. Janes'' and ''Janes in Love'', ''One Model Nation'', and ''The Guild (web series)#Comic books, The Guild''. Rugg has also produced short comics for VH1, ''New York (magazine), New York'' magazine, ''True Porn'', ''Meathaus'', ''Cinema Sewer'', ''Strange Tales'', the Small Press Expo, SPX Annual, ''Project Superior, Project: Superior'', ''Dark Horse Presents'', and the ''Next Issue Project''. Rugg also co-hosted the YouTube channel ''Cartoonist Kayfabe'' with fellow Pittsburgh native cartoonist Ed Piskor. Biography Rugg was born in the town of Connellsville, Pennsylvania and moved to Pittsburgh. His art influences include Frank Miller (comics), Frank M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cecil Castellucci
Cecil C. Castellucci (born October 25, 1969, in New York City), also known as Cecil Seaskull, is an American-born Canadian young adult novelist, indie rocker, and director. She currently lives in Los Angeles, California. Biography Castellucci grew up in New York City where she attended the Laguardia High School of the Performing Arts. She later studied theatre in Paris at the École Florent. She attended Concordia University in Montreal and received a B.F.A. in Film Production. In Montreal, she embarked on her music career as part of Bite, which was then the only all-female indie band in Montreal. When she was kicked out of Bite, she formed Nerdy Girl with Gordon Hashimoto. When Hashimoto left, she joined with Ron Woo, Gabe Levine, and Kim Temple to continue the band. After recording their only album ''Twist Her'', Levine and Temple left the group, and Jessica Moss and Eric Craven took their places. She later moved to Los Angeles after Nerdy Girl broke up for good, and she recor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Little, Brown And Company
Little, Brown and Company is an American publishing company founded in 1837 by Charles Coffin Little and James Brown in Boston. For close to two centuries, it has published fiction and nonfiction by American authors. Early lists featured Emily Dickinson's poetry and '' Bartlett's Familiar Quotations''. Since 2006, Little, Brown and Company is a division of the Hachette Book Group. History 19th century Little, Brown and Company had its roots in the book selling trade. It was founded in 1837 in Boston by Charles Little and James Brown. They formed the partnership "for the purpose of Publishing, Importing, and Selling Books". It can trace its roots before that to 1784 to a bookshop owned by Ebenezer Battelle on Marlborough Street. They published works of Benjamin Franklin and George Washington, and specialized in legal publishing and importing titles. The company was the most extensive law publisher in the United States, and also the largest importer of standard English law an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Image Comics
Image Comics is an independent American American comic book, comic book publisher and is the third largest direct market comic book and graphic novel publisher in the industry by market share. Its best-known publications include ''Spawn (comics), Spawn'', ''The Walking Dead (comic book), The Walking Dead'', ''Kick-Ass (comic book), Kick-Ass'', ''Invincible (comics), Invincible'', ''Jupiter's Legacy (comic), Jupiter's Legacy'', ''Witchblade'', ''The Maxx'', ''Savage Dragon'', ''Bone (comics), Bone'', ''Saga (comics), Saga'', ''Radiant Black'' and ''Stray Dogs (comic), Stray Dogs''. It was founded in 1992 by several high-profile illustrators as a venue for creator ownership, creator-owned properties, in which comics creators could publish material of their own creation without giving up the copyrights to those properties. Normally this is not the case in the work-for-hire-dominated American comics industry, where the legal author is a publisher, such as Marvel Comics or DC Comics, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Becky Cloonan
Becky Cloonan (born 23 June) is an American comic book creator, known for work published by Tokyopop and Vertigo. In 2012 she became the first female artist to draw the main ''Batman'' title for DC Comics.Beck, Laura (February 8, 2013)"Meet the First Lady to Draw Batman Since His Inception in 1939". Jezebel. Early life Becky Cloonan was born in Pisa, Italy. She attended New York's School of Visual Arts. Career Cloonan and her friends produced a comics anthology that they called ''Meathaus''. Cloonan created minicomics as a member of the ''Meathaus'' collective before collaborating with Brian Wood on ''Channel Zero: Jennie One'' in 2003. Since then, her profile (and workload) has steadily risen; her best-known work to date has been the twelve-issue comics series '' Demo'' (2004), also with Wood. '' Wizard'' named ''Demo'' its 2004 Indie of the Year. The series was also nominated for two Eisner Awards in 2005, for Best Limited Series and Best Single Issue or One-Shot (the latter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dark Horse Comics
Dark Horse Comics is an American comic book, graphic novel, manga and Artist's book, art book publisher founded in Milwaukie, Oregon, by Mike Richardson in 1986. The company was created using funds earned from Richardson's chain of Portland, Oregon, comic book shops known as Pegasus Books and founded in 1980. Dark Horse Comics has emerged as the fourth-largest comic publishing company in the United States of America. Profit sharing, Dividing profits with artists and writers, as well as supporting artistic and creative rights in the comic book industry, Dark Horse Comics has become a strong proponent of publishing licensed material that often does not fit into mainstream media. Several titles include: ''Sin City'', ''Hellboy'', ''Buffy the Vampire Slayer comics, Buffy the Vampire Slayer'', ''300 (comics), 300'', ''Ninja Gaiden#Comics, Ninja Gaiden'', and ''Star Wars comics#Dark Horse (1991–2014), Star Wars''. In December 2021, Swedish gaming company Embracer Group launched it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vertigo Comics
DC Vertigo, also known as Vertigo Comics or simply Vertigo, is an Imprint (trade name), imprint of the American comic book publisher DC Comics. Vertigo publishes comics with adult comics, adult content, such as nudity, drug use, profanity, and graphic violence, that do not fit the restrictions of DC's main line. Its comics include company-owned series set in the DC Universe, such as ''The Sandman (comic book), The Sandman'', ''Swamp Thing'', and ''Hellblazer'', and Creator ownership in comics, creator-owned works, such as ''Preacher (comics), Preacher'', ''Y: The Last Man'', and ''Fables (comics), Fables''. Vertigo originated from DC's 1980s adult comic line, which began after DC stopped submitting ''Swamp Thing (comic book), The Saga of the Swamp Thing'' for approval by the Comics Code Authority. Following the success of two adult-oriented 1986 Limited series (comics), limited series, ''Batman: The Dark Knight Returns'' and ''Watchmen'', DC's output of adult comics, edited by K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
