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Wolverine Noir
Marvel Noir is a 2009–2010 Marvel Comics metaseries, alternative continuity combining elements of film noir and pulp magazine, pulp fiction with the Marvel Universe. The central premise of the mini-series replaces superpowers with driven, noir-flavored characterization. The reality of Marvel Noir is Earth-90214. Publication history The idea for Marvel Noir began when Fabrice Sapolsky, editor of the French magazine ''Comic Box'', pitched the idea of a 1930s pulp version of Spider-Man to David Hine in December 2006. This led to the announcement of Marvel Noir which would feature four mini-series, beginning in December 2008 with ''Spider-Man Noir'' and ''X-Men Noir'', later followed by ''Daredevil Noir'' and ''Wolverine (character), Wolverine Noir''. Five more series followed, with ''Luke Cage Noir'' and ''Punisher Noir'' beginning in August 2009, the sequel series ''Spider-Man Noir: Eyes Without a Face'' and ''X-Men Noir: Mark of Cain'' beginning in December 2009, and the final ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dennis Calero
Dennis Calero is an American comic book artist and illustrator, known for his work on titles such as '' X-Men Noir'', '' Spider-Man Noir'', ''X Factor'', '' Legion of Superheroes'', and '' Kolchak''. Career Calero's work includes Acclaim Comics' licensed-product titles '' Sliders'' and '' Magic: The Gathering''; Moonstone Books' TV tie-in titles '' Cisco Kid'' and '' Kolchak: The Night Stalker'', Platinum Comics' '' Cowboys & Aliens''; IDW Publishing's ''Masters of Horror: Dreams in the Witch House''; and Marvel Comics' ''X-Factor'', during his tenure on which the title was nominated for the Harvey Award for Best New Series (2006). In 2006, IDW announced that Calero would be one of the cover artists on its six-issue '' Star Trek: The Next Generation'' TV tie-in miniseries ''The Space Between'', scheduled for 2007. Calero was one of the principal artists for the graphic novel '' 28 Days Later: The Aftermath'', published in 2007. Calero drew an arc of ''Legion of Super-Heroes'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spider-Man
Spider-Man is a superhero in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by writer-editor Stan Lee and artist Steve Ditko, he first appearance, first appeared in the anthology comic book ''Amazing Fantasy'' #15 (August 1962) in the Silver Age of Comic Books. Considered one of the most popular and commercially successful superheroes, he has been featured in List of Spider-Man titles, comic books, Spider-Man in television, television shows, Spider-Man in film, films, List of video games featuring Spider-Man, video games, Spider-Man in literature, novels, and plays. Spider-Man has the secret identity of Peter Benjamin Parker. Initially, Peter was depicted as a teenage high-school student and an orphan raised by his Aunt May and Uncle Ben in New York City after his parents, Richard and Mary Parker, died in a plane crash. Lee, Ditko, and later creators had the character deal with the struggles of adolescence and young adulthood and gave him many List of Spider-Man su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marvel Universe
The Marvel Universe is a fictional shared universe where the stories in most American comic book titles and other media published by Marvel Comics take place. Superhero teams such as the Avengers, the X-Men, the Fantastic Four, the Guardians of the Galaxy, and many Marvel superheroes live in this universe, including characters such as Spider-Man, Wolverine, Iron Man, Captain America, and Hulk. It also contains well-known supervillains such as Doctor Doom, Magneto, Green Goblin, Loki, and Thanos. It also contains antiheroes such as Deadpool, Ghost Rider, Punisher, Elektra, and Black Cat. The Marvel Universe is further depicted as existing within a " multiverse" consisting of thousands of separate universes, all of which are the creations of Marvel Comics and all of which are, in a sense, "Marvel universes". In this context, "Marvel Universe" is taken to refer to the mainstream Marvel continuity, which is known as Earth-616 or ''Prime Earth''. History Some of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pulp Magazine
Pulp magazines (also referred to as "the pulps") were inexpensive fiction magazines that were published from 1896 until around 1955. The term "pulp" derives from the Pulp (paper), wood pulp paper on which the magazines were printed, due to their cheap nature. In contrast, magazines printed on higher-quality paper were called "glossies" or "slicks". The typical pulp magazine had 128 pages; it was wide by high, and thick, with ragged, untrimmed edges. Pulps were the successors to the penny dreadfuls, dime novels, and short-fiction magazines of the 19th century. Although many respected writers wrote for pulps, the magazines were best known for their lurid, exploitation fiction, exploitative, and sensational subject matter, even though this was but a small part of what existed in the pulps. Digest magazines and men's adventure magazines were incorrectly regarded as pulps, though they have different editorial and production standards and are instead replacements. Modern superhero Su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Film Noir
Film noir (; ) is a style of Cinema of the United States, Hollywood Crime film, crime dramas that emphasizes cynicism (contemporary), cynical attitudes and motivations. The 1940s and 1950s are generally regarded as the "classic period" of American film noir. Film noir of this era is associated with a low-key lighting, low-key, black-and-white visual style that has roots in German expressionist cinematography. Many of the prototypical stories and attitudes expressed in classic noir derive from the hardboiled school of crime fiction that emerged in the United States during the Great Depression, known as noir fiction. The term ''film noir'', French for "black film" (literal) or "dark film" (closer meaning), was first applied to Hollywood films by French critic Nino Frank in 1946, but was unrecognized by most American film industry professionals of that era. Frank is believed to have been inspired by the French literary publishing imprint Série noire, founded in 1945. Cinema hist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Metaseries
A media franchise, also known as a multimedia franchise, is a collection of related media in which several derivative works have been produced from an original creative work of fiction, such as a film, a work of literature, a television program, or a video game. Bob Iger, chief executive of the Walt Disney Company, defined the word ''franchise'' as "something that creates value across multiple businesses and across multiple territories over a long period of time." Transmedia franchise A media franchise often consists of cross-marketing across more than one medium. For the owners, the goal of increasing profit through diversity can extend the commercial profitability of the franchise and create strong feelings of identity and ownership in its consumers. Those large groups of dedicated consumers create the franchise's fandom, which is the community of fans that indulge in many of its media and are committed to interacting with and keeping up with other consumers. Large franchis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tomm Coker
Tomm Coker, also known as Thomas L. Coker (born November 3, 1972), is an American comic book artist and film director/writer. Career Coker's career started in the early nineties drawing comic books for Image Comics, Dark Horse Comics, Marvel Comics and DC Comics. Throughout the 1990s he worked on such titles as '' Gen 13 Bootleg'', '' Nightfall: The Black Chronicles'' and ''Penthouse Comix''. After a short absence, he returned to comics in 2003, illustrating the popular Vertigo mini-series '' Blood & Water''. This series also marked a stylistic change, in which his art evolved in a much more realistic direction. His short film ''A Day Between'' premiered at the 2003 Sacramento International Film and Music Festival. His first feature-length film, ''Catacombs'', starring Shannyn Sossamon and pop singer Pink, was released in 2007. In 2009, he drew MTV's "motion comic" series ''Audio Quest: A Captain Lights Adventure'', starring the singer Lights. Works Films *''A Day Between'' ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carmine Di Giandomenico
Carmine Di Giandomenico (born 1973 in Teramo, Italy) is an Italian comics artist. In 1995 he drew the Limited series (comics), limited series Examen for publishers Phoenix. Then he drew an issue of ''Conan the Barbarian (comics), Conan the Barbarian'' (1997) for Marvel Comics, Marvel Italia, written by Chuck Dixon. In 1999, he headed in a new artistic direction with writer Alessandro Bilotta, and produced the limited series ''Le strabilianti vicende di Giulio Maraviglia-inventore'', which won the Fumo di China prize. Still with Bilotta's storylines, he pursued in 2002 an experimental course with ''La Dottrina''. He followed this with his first work as sole author ''Oudeis'' in 2004. In 2005, Marvel published his limited series ''Vegas'', and a ''What If (comics), What If...'' featuring Captain America. He followed that with work on the plot, script, and pencils of ''Daredevil: Battlin' Jack Murdock'', co-wrote with Zeb Wells. His most recent Marvel project is ''Spider-Man: Noir'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Stohl
Margaret Stohl (; born 1967) is an American novelist. She is the author of 14 novels, as well as 5 volumes of comics and several video games. She lives in Santa Monica, California. Early life and education Margaret Stohl was born in Pasadena, California, 1967. A graduate of Amherst College, where she won the Knox Prize for English Literature, Stohl earned a master's degree in English from Stanford University and pursued, but did not complete, a doctorate in American Studies at Yale University. Stohl was a teaching assistant in Romantic Poetry at Stanford and in Film Studies at Yale. She attended the Creative Writing program of the University of East Anglia, where she was mentored by the Scottish poet George MacBeth. Writing career Novels Stohl is best known as the co-author, along with her friend Kami Garcia, of the "Caster Chronicles" book series, starting with '' Beautiful Creatures''. The series, consisting of four books, two spin off books, and a novella collection, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scott Snyder
Scott Snyder (born January 15, 1976) is an American comic book author. He is known for his 2006 short story collection ''Voodoo Heart'', and his work for DC Comics, including series such as ''American Vampire'', ''Detective Comics'', a highly acclaimed run on ''Batman'', '' Swamp Thing,'' and ''Justice League'' as well as the company-wide crossover storylines " Dark Nights: Metal" and " Dark Nights: Death Metal." He has also written creator-owned comics published through Image Comics, including '' Wytches'', ''Undiscovered Country'', and ''Nocterra''. As part of his DC work, he co-created the characters, The Batman Who Laughs, Mr. Bloom, and the Court of Owls. Snyder has garnered acclaim from critics and fans for his work, such as his run on the New 52 version of ''Batman'' that debuted in 2011, and has won numerous industry awards, including three Eisner Awards, a Harvey Award, and a 2012 Eagle Award for Best Writer. Early life Scott Snyder was born January 15, 1976. At t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander C
Alexander () is a male name of Greek origin. The most prominent bearer of the name is Alexander the Great, the king of the Ancient Greek kingdom of Macedonia who created one of the largest empires in ancient history. Variants listed here are Aleksandar, Aleksander, Oleksandr, Oleksander, Aleksandr, and Alekzandr. Related names and diminutives include Iskandar, Alec, Alek, Alex, Alexsander, Alexandre, Aleks, Aleksa, Aleksandre, Alejandro, Alessandro, Alasdair, Sasha, Sandy, Sandro, Sikandar, Skander, Sander and Xander; feminine forms include Alexandra, Alexandria, and Sasha. Etymology The name ''Alexander'' originates from the (; 'defending men' or 'protector of men'). It is a compound of the verb (; 'to ward off, avert, defend') and the noun (, genitive: , ; meaning 'man'). The earliest attested form of the name, is the Mycenaean Greek feminine anthroponym , , (/Alexandra/), written in the Linear B syllabic script. Alaksandu, alternatively called ''Alakasa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fred Van Lente
Fred Van Lente (born February 14, 1972, in Tacoma, Washington) from Chagrin Falls, Ohio is an American writer, primarily of comic books and graphic novels. Career Van Lente is the co-founder, along with artist Ryan Dunlavey, of Evil Twin Comics, which produces his and Dunlavey’s non-fiction comic books, the first and most famous of which is '' Action Philosophers''. Recent work includes becoming the ongoing co-author of '' Incredible Hercules'' with Greg Pak, as well as writing '' Marvel Zombies 3'' and '' Marvel Zombies 4''. with Kev Walker and '' X-Men Noir'' with Dennis Calero. Upcoming work includes two one-shots as part of '' Marvel Zombies Return''. He also wrote the first issue of ''Deadpool Team-Up'' (number #899 as it was counting backwards from the #900 special). Van Lente created a new Power Man, Victor Alvarez, who first appeared in the '' Shadowland: Power Man'' mini-series, then in a new '' Power Man and Iron Fist'' series, also by Van Lente. Van Lente ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
