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The Daredevils
''The Daredevils'' was a comics magazine and anthology published by Marvel UK in 1983. Aimed for a more sophisticated audience than typical light superhero adventures, ''The Daredevils'' featured Captain Britain stories by Alan Moore and Alan Davis paired with reprints of Frank Miller's '' Daredevil'' stories. It has been speculated this was in response to Dez Skinn's new anthology ''Warrior''. Publishing history Editor Bernie Jaye gave writer Alan Moore and artist Alan Davis, rising stars in the comics industry at the time, considerable freedom in terms of the material they produced. Aside from the occasional pull-out posters, all contents were printed in black-and-white, not colour. The magazine had a circulation of around 25,000 copies, and lasted eleven issues before merging with '' The Mighty World of Marvel''. Content Comic strips ''Captain Britain'' Always the first story in any issue, ''Captain Britain'' continued the " Jaspers' Warp" storyline from '' Marvel Super- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Neary
Paul Neary (18 December 1949 – 10 February 2024) was a British comic book artist, writer and editor. His first work was for Warren Publishing in the 1970s before working with Dez Skinn at Marvel UK as well as work for '' 2000 AD''. He later became editor-in-chief of Marvel UK in the 1990s but is now best known for inking Bryan Hitch's work on '' The Ultimates'' for Marvel Comics. Biography His first published work was in Warren's anthology title, ''Eerie'', working on various stories and series including "Hunter" and its sequels, before drawing various ''Future Shocks'' for '' 2000AD'' for various writers, including Alan Moore. In 1979 he started working on '' Hulk Weekly'' for Marvel UK which had just been drastically revamped by Dez Skinn. During this time he drew various strips for Marvel UK, including ''Hulk'' and Nick Fury, plus helping new artists such as Alan Davis. During the early 1980s he created '' Madman'' for Dez Skinn's ''Warrior'' before becoming a regula ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stan Lee
Stan Lee (born Stanley Martin Lieber ; December 28, 1922 – November 12, 2018) was an American comic book author, writer, editor, publisher, and producer. He rose through the ranks of a family-run business called Timely Comics which later became Marvel Comics. He was Marvel's primary creative leader for two decades, expanding it from a small publishing house division to a multimedia corporation that dominated the comics and film industries. In collaboration with others at Marvelparticularly co-writers and artists Jack Kirby and Steve Ditkohe co-created iconic characters, including Spider-Man, the X-Men, Iron Man, Thor (Marvel Comics), Thor, the Hulk, Hank Pym, Ant-Man, the Wasp (character), Wasp, the Fantastic Four, Black Panther (character), Black Panther, Daredevil (Marvel Comics character), Daredevil, Doctor Strange, the Scarlet Witch, and Black Widow (Natasha Romanova), Black Widow. These and other characters' introductions in the 1960s pioneered a more naturalistic approa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eagle Awards
The Eagle Awards were a series of British awards for comic book titles and creators. They were awarded by UK fans voting for work produced during the previous year. Named after the UK's seminal boys' comic ''Eagle'', the awards were launched in 1977 for comics released in 1976. Burton, Richard "'The Eagles' are launched!" in Burton (ed.) ''Comic Media News'' #30 (Mar-Apr 1977), p. 11 " t up and financed by a group of dealers and fanzine editors" with the intention of including "people with... diverse interests... to make the poll as impartial as possible," the Eagles were described as "the first independent n the UK nationally organised comic art awards poll." The hope was that the Eagle Awards would "become a regular annual fandom event," and indeed, they were the preeminent British comics award in the 1980s and the 2000s (being mostly dormant in the 1990s), variously described as the country's comics equivalent of the Oscars or the BAFTAs. The Eagle Awards were usually prese ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lew Stringer
Lew Stringer (born 22 March 1959 in England) is a freelance comic artist and scriptwriter. Biography Stringer began his career from the late 1970s with a series of fanzines, many featuring his popular '' Brickman'' character; these were read by several professional creators (including Kevin O'Neill, Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons) who encouraged Stringer to try comics as a profession and Stringer recalls that "Alan Moore actually introduced me to one of the editors at Marvel UK – Bernie Jaye who was editor on '' The Daredevils''". He sold his first professional cartoon to Marvel UK (the British branch of Marvel Comics) in 1983 where it appeared in '' The Daredevils'' comic, after which he worked for a short time as art assistant to the cartoonist Mike Higgs (creator of ''Moonbird'' and ''The Cloak''). Since then Stringer has freelanced for numerous British comics for various companies and audiences. His best remembered creations are '' Tom Thug'' and '' Pete and His Pimple'' f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dave Gibbons
David Chester Gibbons (born 14 April 1949) is an English comics artist, writer and sometimes letterer. He is best known for his collaborations with writer Alan Moore, which include the miniseries ''Watchmen'' and the Superman story " For the Man Who Has Everything". He was an artist for '' 2000 AD'', for which he contributed a large body of work from its first issue in 1977. Early life Gibbons was born on 14 April 1949, at Forest Gate Hospital in London, to Chester, a town planner, and Gladys, a secretary. He began reading comic books at the age of seven. A self-taught artist, he illustrated his own comic strips. Gibbons became a building surveyor but eventually entered the UK comics industry as a letterer for IPC Media. He left his surveyor job to focus on his comics career. British comics work Gibbons's earliest published work was in British underground comics, starting with ''The Trials of Nasty Tales'', including the main cover illustration, and continuing in ''cOZmic C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Higgins (comics)
John Higgins (born 1949) is an English comic book artist and writer. He did significant work for '' 2000 AD'', and he has frequently worked with writer Alan Moore, most notably as colourist for ''Watchmen''. Biography John Higgins was born in Walton, Liverpool. After leaving school when he was 15, he joined the army and, on leaving, spent some time in a commune in Wiltshire. He returned to Liverpool and, in 1971, resumed his studies at Wallasey College of Art. There, in 1974 he qualified in technical illustration, which allowed him to get a job as a medical illustrator at The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust. After getting his first comic book art published in '' Brainstorm Comix'' in 1975, he drew the cover for '' 2000 AD'' No. 43 in 1977 and decided to go freelance in 1978, with an eye on becoming a comic artist. In 1981 he started getting regular work at ''2000 AD'', one of his early projects being the art for a '' Tharg's Future Shocks'' by Alan Moore, as well as d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jerry Paris (comics)
William Gerald Paris (July 25, 1925 – March 31, 1986) was an American actor and director best known for playing Jerry Helper, the dentist and next-door neighbor of Rob and Laura Petrie, on ''The Dick Van Dyke Show'', and for directing the majority of the episodes of the sitcom ''Happy Days''. Early life Paris was born on July 25, 1925 in San Francisco, California. His parents (married in 1921) were Samuel Aaron Paris and Esther Mohl. His mother subsequently married Milton Grossman when Paris was a small child,but Paris never legally adopted his stepfather's surname. After serving in the United States Navy during World War II, he attended New York University and the Actors Studio in New York City. After graduating, Paris moved to Los Angeles, where he attended UCLA and studied acting at the Actors Lab in Hollywood. Career Paris had roles in films such as ''The Caine Mutiny'', ''The Wild One'', and '' Marty''. He also played Martin "Marty" Flaherty, one of Eliot Ness's m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Garry Leach
Garry Leach (19 September 1954 – 26 March 2022) was a British comics artist and publisher. Biography Garry Leach's early work for ''2000 AD'' included mainly one-off stories featuring ''Dan Dare'' and '' M.A.C.H. 1''.Garry Leach at Lambiek Comics Encyclopedia He later worked on the series '' The V.C.s''. In 1981 he joined Dez Skinn's company, where he worked as art director and was the first artist on |
Fanzines
A fanzine (blend word, blend of ''fan (person), fan'' and ''magazine'' or ''zine'') is a non-professional and non-official publication produced by enthusiasts of a particular cultural phenomenon (such as a literary or musical genre) for the pleasure of others who share their interest. The term was coined in an October 1940 science-fiction fanzine by Russ Chauvenet and first popularized within science fiction fandom, and from there the term was adopted by other communities. Typically, publishers, editors, writers and other contributors of Article (publishing), articles or illustrations to fanzines are not paid. Fanzines are traditionally circulated free of charge, or for a nominal cost to defray postage or production expenses. Copies are often offered in exchange for similar publications, or for contributions of art, articles, or letters of comment (LoCs), which are then published. Some fanzines are typed and photocopied by amateurs using standard home office equipment. A few fa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Moore (comics)
Steve Moore (11 June 1949 – 16 March 2014) was a British comics writer. Moore was credited with showing writer Alan Moore (no relation), then a struggling cartoonist, how to write comic scripts. His career has subsequently been quite closely linked with the more famous Moore – the pair collaborated under pseudonyms (Steve's pseudonym was "Pedro Henry", Alan's was " Curt Vile") on strips for '' Sounds'', including one which introduced the character Axel Pressbutton, who was later to feature in the '' Warrior'' anthology comic, as well as a standalone series published by Eclipse Comics. Biography Moore has long been linked to Alan Moore, who has known him "since he lanwas fourteen" referring to him as "a friend... fellow comic writer nda fellow occultist". The two have so often been linked together that Alan joked that Steve would have 'no relation' engraved on his tombstone. Moore was an editor of Bob Rickard's long-running UK-based "Journal of the Unexplained" '' Fort ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hulk Comic
''Hulk Comic'' (later ''The Incredible Hulk Weekly'') was a black-and-white Marvel UK comics anthology published under the editorship of Dez Skinn starting in 1979. Publication history After starring for many years in the Marvel UK flagship title, '' The Mighty World of Marvel'', the Hulk was given his own weekly publication. Explaining the thinking behind the comic Dez Skinn said: "I was wanting an adventure anthology title more than a super-hero one. Super-heroes had never been big sellers in the UK, we had plenty of legends of the past to spin fantasies about. So I went that route, picking existing Marvel characters who weren't really cut from the super-hero cloth." Like many titles published by the company under Dez Skinn, ''Hulk Comic'' featured new material produced by British creators such as Steve Dillon, David Lloyd and Steve Parkhouse—along with a smattering of American reprints drawn from the Lee/ Kirby Marvel back-catalogue. Once Skinn was replaced by Paul Ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Collins (comics)
Mike Collins is an English comic book artist and writer and has been working in comics since the mid-1980s. Biography Collins moved to Wales in 1985 after an abortive stab at a career in the law, in London. Despite his law degree and experience working in law courts Mike decided that he enjoyed the fiction-based life of comic book characters over the fiction-based statements of clients. He was married to Karen Collins and they have three daughters, Bethan, Rebecca and Rhiannon and a granddaughter Annie. He lives in Cardiff. He is the grandson of Military Medal-winning World War One soldier Thomas Guinane. UK comics In the mid-to-late 1980s, Mike wrote and drew strips for Marvel Comics United Kingdom division, amongst them; ''Spider-Man'', ''Transformers ''Transformers'' is a media franchise produced by American toy company Hasbro and Japanese toy company Tomy, Takara Tomy. It primarily follows the heroic Autobots and the villainous Decepticons, two Extraterrestrials in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
