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Okko
''Okko'' is a comic book written and illustrated by Humbert Chabuel, who goes by the pen name Hub, with colors done by Hub and Stephan Pecayo. It was originally published in French as a series of books starting in 2005. An English translation by Edward Gauvin began to be published in 2006 by the French Delcourt and Archaia Studios Press. The Okko series consists of five "cycles", ending with ''The Cycle of Emptiness'' published by Delcourt in 2015-2016. Premise The action of the first cycle of ''Okko'', ''The Cycle of Water'', takes place at the far end of the known lands of the Empire of Pajan. Pajan itself is a vast and diversified island, surrounded by a multitude of archipelagoes. Its name is derived from that of its Imperial Family. Though the Pajans have reigned for a millennium, in the last few decades three major families—the ''Ataku'', the ''Bashimon'', and the ''Yommo''—have called into question their legitimacy and now refuse to cease their battles against the I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Delcourt (publisher)
Delcourt () is a French publishing, publishing house that specializes in comics and manga founded in 1986 through the fusion of the magazines ''Charlie Mensuel'' and ''Pilote''. Guy Delcourt, chief editor of the latter, named the new publishing house Guy Delcourt Productions. Delcourt is the third largest publisher of Franco-Belgian comics, behind Média-Participations and Glénat (publisher), Glénat, and produces some 480 comics a year. Publications Bandes Dessinées (Franco-Belgian comics) Delcourt * ''À l'Ombre de l'Échafaud'' (since 2001) * ''Aquablue'' (since 1988) * ''Amenophis IV'' (since 2000) * ''Asphodèle'' * '':fr:Angela (bande dessinée), Angela'' * ''Après la Nuit'' (since 2008) * '':fr:Baker Street (bande dessinée), Baker Street'' * ''List of artistic depictions of Beowulf#Graphic novels, Beowulf'' * ''Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis'' * ''Bienvenue en Chine'' * ''C.O.P.S.'' * ''Ceux qui rampent'' * ''Chasseurs de Dragons'' * ''Chronicles of The Dragon Knights'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2005 In Comics
Notable events of 2005 in comics. Events January * January 14: French cartoonist Piem is named Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres. * January 20: Dutch cartoonist wins his first (edition 2004) for ''Best Political Cartoon''. During the same ceremony Joep Bertrams receives his first Inktspotprijs too *January 31: John R. Norton begins the '' George'' comic strip. April *April 13: **DC Comics announces the discontinuation of its Humanoids and 2000 AD titles. **Powerade and DC Comics show the first of four new online comics starring LeBron James as superhero "King James". Written by Ron Perazza with art by Rick Leonardi (''Batgirl''). *April 20: DC Comics launches the new DC Direct website. *April 26: Artist Ed Benes (''Superman'') extends his exclusive agreement with DC Comics for an additional three years. *April 28: ** Marvel Enterprises and Paramount Pictures announce an agreement under which Paramount will distribute up to ten films over an eight-year period to be produc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Language
French ( or ) is a Romance languages, Romance language of the Indo-European languages, Indo-European family. Like all other Romance languages, it descended from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire. French evolved from Northern Old Gallo-Romance, a descendant of the Latin spoken in Northern Gaul. Its closest relatives are the other langues d'oïl—languages historically spoken in northern France and in southern Belgium, which French (Francien language, Francien) largely supplanted. It was also substratum (linguistics), influenced by native Celtic languages of Northern Roman Gaul and by the Germanic languages, Germanic Frankish language of the post-Roman Franks, Frankish invaders. As a result of French and Belgian colonialism from the 16th century onward, it was introduced to new territories in the Americas, Africa, and Asia, and numerous French-based creole languages, most notably Haitian Creole, were established. A French-speaking person or nation may be referred to as Fra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Archaia Studios Press
Archaia Entertainment, LLC, commonly known as Archaia (formerly known as Archaia Studios Press), is an imprint of American comic book and graphic novel publisher Boom! Studios. Archaia Entertainment, LLC was originally an American comic book publishing company established by Mark Smylie in 2002. On June 24, 2013, Archaia was acquired by Boom! Studios and became a wholly owned imprint. As of 2017, 20th Century Fox purchased a minority stake in Boom! Studios, valued at $10 million. and in 2019, The Walt Disney Company inherited Fox's stake in Boom! Studios after Disney acquired 21st Century Fox's assets on March 20, 2019. As of September 10, 2024, Disney has sold Boom! Studios to Random House. History Mark Smylie formed the company as a home for his comic book series '' Artesia''. The original Artesia publisher, Sirius Entertainment, published the first 6 issue mini-series ''Artesia'' in 1999 and the second 6 issue mini-series ''Artesia Afield'' in 2000 in full color. In an at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2006 In Comics
Notable events of 2006 in comics. Events January * January 1: ''Newsweek'' offers a look back at 2005 through editorial cartoons. * January 1: After 109 years of continuous publication the longest-running comic strip of all time, '' The Katzenjammer Kids'' (originally created by Harold H. Knerr) comes to an end. * January 2: Gabrielle, AKA 'Gaby', Scaon-Possompes, director of the comics museum ''Musée de la BD'' in Angoulême, is honoured with the title Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres. * January 2: ''The Cincinnati Enquirer'' cartoonist Jim Borgman starts a blog to detail his creative process. * January 3: ** Todd Hignite interviews Brian Walker, co-curator of the ''Masters of American Comics'' exhibition currently on at the Hammer Museum and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. ** The London Metropolitan Police refuse to distribute '' Cops and Robbers'', a comic book detailing first hand stories of criminals embracing the Christian faith. The police cite the book's ... [...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] |
Humbert Chabuel
Humbert, Umbert or Humberto (Latinized ''Humbertus'') is a Germanic given name, from ''hun'' "warrior" and '' beraht'' "bright". It also came into use as a surname. Given name ;Royalty and Middle Ages * Emebert (died 710) * Humbert of Maroilles (before 652 – 680) * Humbert (bishop of Würzburg) (died 842) * Humbert I, Count of Savoy (980 – 1047 or 1048) * Humbert II, Count of Savoy (1065–1103) * Humbert III, Count of Savoy (1135–1189) * Humbert, bastard of Savoy (c.1318–1374), soldier * Humbert V de Beaujeu (1198–1250) * Humbert I of Viennois (1240–1307), Dauphin of the Viennois * Humbert II of Viennois (1312–1355), Dauphin of the Viennois * Humbert I of Italy (1844–1900) * Humbert II of Italy (1904–1983) * Humbert of Silva Candida (1015–1061), Roman Catholic cardinal and Benedictine oblate * Humbert of Romans (died 1277), master general of the Dominicans ;Others *Humbert Achamer-Pifrader, Austrian jurist, member of the SS of Nazi Germany and commander ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Archipelago
An archipelago ( ), sometimes called an island group or island chain, is a chain, cluster, or collection of islands. An archipelago may be in an ocean, a sea, or a smaller body of water. Example archipelagos include the Aegean Islands (the origin of the term), the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, the Stockholm Archipelago, the Malay Archipelago (which includes the Indonesian and Philippine Archipelagos), the Lucayan (Bahamian) Archipelago, the Japanese archipelago, and the Hawaiian Archipelago. Etymology The word ''archipelago'' is derived from the Italian ''arcipelago'', used as a proper name for the Aegean Sea, itself perhaps a deformation of the Greek Αιγαίον Πέλαγος. Later, usage shifted to refer to the Aegean Islands (since the sea has a large number of islands). The erudite paretymology, deriving the word from Ancient Greek ἄρχι-(''arkhi-'', "chief") and πέλαγος (''pélagos'', "sea"), proposed by Buondelmonti, can still be found. Geograph ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japan
Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asia, Asian mainland, it is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan and extends from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea in the south. The Japanese archipelago consists of four major islands—Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, and Kyushu—and List of islands of Japan, thousands of smaller islands, covering . Japan has a population of over 123 million as of 2025, making it the List of countries and dependencies by population, eleventh-most populous country. The capital of Japan and List of cities in Japan, its largest city is Tokyo; the Greater Tokyo Area is the List of largest cities, largest metropolitan area in the world, with more than 37 million inhabitants as of 2024. Japan is divided into 47 Prefectures of Japan, administrative prefectures and List of regions of Japan, eight traditional regions. About three-quarters of Geography of Japan, the countr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bunraku
is a form of traditional Japanese puppet theatre, founded in Osaka in the beginning of the 17th century, which is still performed in the modern day. Three kinds of performers take part in a performance: the or (puppeteers), the (chanters), and musicians. Occasionally other instruments such as drums will be used. The combination of chanting and playing is called and the Japanese word for puppet (or dolls, generally) is . It is used in many plays. History 's history goes as far back as the 16th century, but the origins of its modern form can be traced to around the 1680s. It rose to popularity after the playwright Chikamatsu Monzaemon (1653–1724) began a collaboration with the chanter Takemoto Gidayu (1651–1714), who established the Takemoto puppet theater in Osaka in 1684. Originally, the term referred only to the particular theater established in 1805 in Osaka, which was named the after the puppeteering ensemble of , an early 18th-century puppeteer from Awaji ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2005 Comics Debuts
5 (five) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number, and cardinal number, following 4 and preceding 6, and is a prime number. Humans, and many other animals, have 5 digits on their limbs. Mathematics 5 is a Fermat prime, a Mersenne prime exponent, as well as a Fibonacci number. 5 is the first congruent number, as well as the length of the hypotenuse of the smallest integer-sided right triangle, making part of the smallest Pythagorean triple ( 3, 4, 5). 5 is the first safe prime and the first good prime. 11 forms the first pair of sexy primes with 5. 5 is the second Fermat prime, of a total of five known Fermat primes. 5 is also the first of three known Wilson primes (5, 13, 563). Geometry A shape with five sides is called a pentagon. The pentagon is the first regular polygon that does not tile the plane with copies of itself. It is the largest face any of the five regular three-dimensional regular Platonic solid can have. A conic i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Archaia Studios Press Titles
Archaia Entertainment, LLC, commonly known as Archaia (formerly known as Archaia Studios Press), is an imprint of American comic book and graphic novel publisher Boom! Studios. Archaia Entertainment, LLC was originally an American comic book publishing company established by Mark Smylie in 2002. On June 24, 2013, Archaia was acquired by Boom! Studios and became a wholly owned imprint. As of 2017, 20th Century Fox purchased a minority stake in Boom! Studios, valued at $10 million. and in 2019, The Walt Disney Company inherited Fox's stake in Boom! Studios after Disney acquired 21st Century Fox's assets on March 20, 2019. As of September 10, 2024, Disney has sold Boom! Studios to Random House. History Mark Smylie formed the company as a home for his comic book series '' Artesia''. The original Artesia publisher, Sirius Entertainment, published the first 6 issue mini-series ''Artesia'' in 1999 and the second 6 issue mini-series ''Artesia Afield'' in 2000 in full color. In an at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
