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Nelson Alexander "Alex" Ross is a comic book painter, illustrator and plotter, acclaimed for the photorealism of his work.
From the late 1990s, Ross has done much work for the industry's two largest and most historically important publishing houses, Marvel and DC Comics, but Ross is also the co-creator of Astro City, an original series that explores superhero mythology.
Although he is a prominent figure for both DC and Marvel, he is better known as a DC artist, as much of his work (such as Kingdom Come) was created for DC. Due to the time and effort required to render his complex paintings, he is often hired to craft covers rather than interiors. Almost all of his Marvel work since 1994 has been as a plotter or cover artist.
Amy Chu writes comics - and only - comics! Following a successful run heading up the first-ever Poison Ivy mini-series for DC Comics, Chu turned her focus to crafting multiple series for Dynamite Entertainment including Red Sonja and KISS. Chu also writes and produces comics for a number of non-profits including The New York Historical Society, The Baltimore Museum of Art, Pop Culture Classroom, and The Museum of Chinese in Americas. In her spare time, Chu can be found serving as a frequent speaker/panel moderator/guest at the top industry conventions including San Diego Comic Con, New York Comic Con, Heroes Con, and the Emerald City Comic Con and Fan Expo.
Most of Ande Park's career in comics has been spent as an inker, but in recent years, though, he has also turned his attention to writing.
As an inker, Parks has worked for nearly every major comic book publisher, on such titles as Wonder Woman, Superman, Daredevil, and Spider-Man. His bold, graphic style has won him widespread acclaim, including a Harvey nomination as best inker. He is best known for his work on Green Arrow, which he inked over his frequent collaborator Phil Hester. On Green Arrow, Hester and Parks got to work with the likes of Kevin Smith, Brad Meltzer, and Judd Winick. The book has been collected into several volumes, and was named one of the best books for young adults by The American Library Association.
Parks' writing career began when he created the superhero spoof Uncle Slam & Fire Dog for his pal Mike Manley's Action Planet Comics. In 2004, Oni Press published Ande's first original graphic novel, Union Station. 2005 saw the publication of Ande's follow-up to Union Station, a return to the genre of historical fiction. Capote In Kansas was drawn by Chris Samnee, whose bold, moody work work brilliantly with Parks' sparse, intense script.
Arvid Nelson is a writer who first came on the comic book scene with Rex Mundi. He has also created spin-off stories, including "Hill of Martyrs" which started in Rex Mundi #14 and continued online. Nelson has also worked at Marvel and DC. For the former he wrote a Nightcrawler story in X-Men Unlimited. At DC he wrote a Mr. Terrific story in JSA Classified and the first one-shot of the The Joker's Asylum series. One major literary influence is Robert E. Howard and Nelson has worked on a Kull limited series at Dark Horse Comics as well as the Thulsa Doom limited series for Dynamite!
This Ash Williams is native to the Marvel Zombies universe (Earth-2149). A lowly employee of S-Mart, Ash takes up arms against the zombie superheroes. However, while distracted by seeing Ashley J. Williams, he is attacked and eaten by the zombie Howard the Duck (who said his brain tastes like chicken). Unlike regular Ash, this version apparently never got involved in the events surrounding the cabin or the Necronomicon, as he has both hands and lacks the regular's facial scars. Instead he feels that he was meant for greater things, but in the world of superheroes was never considered much in the public eye and stayed at S-Mart. Like Ashley J. Williams, this Ash used both a shotgun harnessed to his back and a chainsaw. It is uncertain just how much he managed to do before Howard killed him, though he is shown encountering a zombified and duplicated Multiple Man and dismembering Hulkling's remains with his chainsaw.
Ashley J. "Ash" Williams is the protagonist in the Evil Dead horror film franchise, played by Bruce Campbell, and created by director Sam Raimi.
Since the character Ash Williams first appeared in the film The Evil Dead, he has become very popular in modern cult horror and is one of the few protagonists of said cult horror films to have such notoriety. He is most easily recognized and envisioned in later material based on his final appearance in the second film, armed with a sawed-off shotgun and a chainsaw strapped to the stump on his right arm where his hand once was. Ash has to face off against his loved ones inside an abandoned cabin as they are possessed by the evil souls of the dead.
Bad Ash/Evil Ash
'Bad-Ass-Ash' is Ash's dark side manifests itself as a separate entity first in Evil Dead II, where he hallucinates his reflection tormenting him over dismembering 'their' girlfriend with a chainsaw, and then proceeds to try and choke him (only for Ash to realize he was choking himself). This side of him later splits off his body in a drawn out painful event in Army of Darkness (unlike the original, having both hands intact), becoming 'Bad Ash' and getting first blown away at point blank range by Ash's shotgun (After this "Good"Ash says "Good/Bad, I'm the guy with the gun."), then cut to pieces, and finally buried (though even in this state he still 'lived').
When Ash blunders and accidentally awakens the Army of the Dead, Bad Ash re-emerges from the grave quickly piecing himself together as the decayed 'Evil Ash' and takes command of the undead troops, even corrupting Ash's then-love interest Sheila into a deadite-like hag. He battles the original Ash as he makes a bee-line for the Necronomicon, and gets lit ablaze by a torch, only to re-emerge as 'Skeleton Evil Ash', a much more agile and dangerous version. As Henry the Red's troops arrive to assist in the battle against the undead and break their ranks, Evil Ash, ironically, has his right hand holding the Necronomicon chopped off by Ash, and is then catapulted into the sky riding a lit sack of gunpowder to be blown to pieces.
He returns in Evil Dead: Hail to the King after Ash's possessed hand releases the evil force once more into the world by playing Knowby's tape recording, emerging from the mirror in the cabin (a la his first appearance), tossing Ash aside and taking off. Unlike before, Evil Ash is closer in appearance to a zombified version of Ash, and has the ability to launch fireballs and shapeshift. Ultimately he was destroyed once more by the original. Beyond this, Evil Ash has appeared in comic spin-offs, appearing more akin to his decayed Army of Darkness version. In the comics, as he is the evil side of Ash separated, Ash is "the purest soul on Earth". He is one of the central antagonists in the A.O.D. comic books and is obsessed with defeating the original.
Barnabas Collins is a fictional character and one of the feature characters in the ABC daytime serial Dark Shadows, which aired from 1966 to 1971. He was originally played by Canadian ...
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Bill Willingham, in the late 1970s to early 1980s he drew fantasy ink pictures for the Dungeons & Dragons Basic and Expert game rulebooks. In the late 1990s Willingham reestablished himself ...
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Brett Matthews is an American writer of comics and TV shows. He was assistant to Joss Whedon on TV shows Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel and Firefly. He scripted the Firefly episode Heart of Gold. In 2004 he wrote the screenplay for the Direct to DVD animated movie The Chronicles of Riddick: Dark Fury.
In comics, Matthews has co-written the Serenity comic book prequel mini-series Those Left Behind and Better Days with Joss Whedon. He has also written Daredevil, Spider-Man and Wolverine comicbook specials for Marvel Comics. He just wrapped up his creatively acclaimed run on The Lone Ranger for Dynamite Entertainment.
Matthews received Hugo Award nominations for his script for "Heart of Gold" and in the Graphic Story category for Serenity: Better Days.
Bruce Campbell has stated Ash is pretty much incompetent at everything except fighting the Evil Dead. Campbell also added that Ash is "a bad slow thinker and a good fast thinker". He knows some degree of hand-to-hand combat techniques, and prowess with a variety of weapons in various situations . His main strength seems to be his ingenuity: although he is repeatedly noted in the audio commentaries for The Evil Dead and Evil Dead II for his stupidity and ignorance, he has from the second film on been shown creating such things ranging from his chainsaw bracket and shotgun harness, gunpowder from mainly referencing its elemental makeup in a chemistry book, a fully functional prosthetic hand from a metal gauntlet, and the short-lived "Deathcoaster". His inventing skills are further expanded on in the games: in Evil Dead: Regeneration, he creates fully-functional weapons such as a flamethrower and a harpoon gun from spare parts that are merely laying about; and in Evil Dead: A Fistful of Boomstick, the inventiveness seems to run in Ash's family, as his blacksmith ancestor in the Colonial Dearborn level is quickly able to make a flamethrower and a gatling gun from spare parts Ash finds for him, when Ash says those things "haven't even been invented yet".
In addition, during the second time he was possessed near the climax of Evil Dead II, Ash displayed some degree of superhuman strength (see Deadite Ash below), as seen when he easily lifted Jake over his head and threw him at least ten feet into a tree.
Anthony Rogers was a fictional character that originated in two short stories by Philip Francis Nowlan, "Armageddon 2419 A.D." and "The Airlords of Han" published in Amazing Stories (August 1928, March ...
Cane Holmes, as a gentleman, often carries a stick or cane. He is described by Watson as an expert at singlestick and twice uses his cane as a weapon.
Sword In "A Study in Scarlet" Watson describes Holmes as an expert with a sword - although in none of the stories is Holmes mentioned as using a sword. It is mentioned in "Gloria Scott" that Holmes practiced fencing.
Riding crop In several stories, Holmes appears equipped with a riding crop. In "The Adventure of the Speckled Band" he uses it to lash out at a venomous snake and in "A Case of Identity", he comes close to thrashing a swindler with it. Using a "hunting crop," Holmes knocks a pistol from John Clay's hand in "The Red-Headed League."
Fist-fighting Holmes is described as a formidable fist-fighter. In The Sign of the Four, Holmes introduces himself to a prize-fighter as:
Holmes engages in hand to hand combat with his adversaries on several occasions throughout the stories, inevitably emerging as the victor. It is also, once again, mentioned in "Gloria Scott" that Holmes trained as a boxer.
Martial arts "The Adventure of the Empty House", Holmes recounts to Watson how he used martial arts to overcome Professor Moriarty and fling his adversary to his death at the Reichenbach Falls. He states that "I have some knowledge, however, of baritsu, or the Japanese system of wrestling, which has more than once been very useful to me." The name "baritsu" appears to be a reference to the real-life martial art of bartitsu.
Charlaine Harris, born and raised in the Mississippi Delta, is best known for her paranormal mysteries -- a sly, wry blend of humor, horror, which has been called "cozies with teeth." ...
Chris Roberson's writings include the novels Here, There & Everywhere, The Voyage of Night Shining White, Paragaea: A Planetary Romance, X-Men: The Return, Set the Seas on Fire, The Dragon's Nine ...
Best-selling author Chuck Dixon, considered one of the most prolific comic book scriptors in the history of the medium, is perhaps best known for his decade-long run on multiple Batman titles for DC Comics. He has also contributed to Conan the Barbarian, the Punisher and Moon Knight for Marvel Comics as well as work for dozens of other companies. He is the co-creator (along with Graham Nolan) of the Batman villain Bane!
Connor MacLeod, also known as The Highlander, is a character in the Highlander film series, as well as the television programs Highlander: The Series, and Highlander: The Animated Series. In the ...
Dan Dare appeared on the cover of the first issue of the weekly comic strip magazine, Eagle, on 14 April 1950. There were two large colour pages of his story per issue. The artwork was of a high quality, the product of artists in a studio called the Old Bakehouse in Churchtown, Southport, Lancashire. The Eagle's founder, the Rev Marcus Morris, was vicar of the Southport church of St James at the time. It had scale models of spaceships, and models in costume as reference for the artists. Occasionally, Eagle incorporated "centrefolds" of the fictional spaceships, such as Dan's ship the Anastasia, reminiscent of cutaway drawings of aircraft in aviation magazines or even Eagle itself. The storylines were long and complex, sometimes lasting more than a year. Later, artwork was produced at a studio in Hampson's house in Epsom, Surrey, where his production line techniques were continued.
Attention was paid to scientific plausibility, the science fiction luminary Arthur C. Clarke acting as science and plot adviser to the first strip. The stories were set mostly on planets of the solar system presumed to have extraterrestrial life and alien inhabitants, common in science fiction before space probes of the 1960s proved the most likely worlds were lifeless. The first story begins with Dan Dare as pilot of the first successful flight to Venus.
* Daredevil #227-233 (1985-86) (art by David Mazzucchelli) (collected as Daredevil: Born Again ISBN 0-87135-297-4)
'Deadite Ash' is another story. In Evil Dead: Regeneration this version is referred to as 'Evil Ash' (and Sam calls him 'Bad Ash' in the game). Deadite Ash is Ash himself possessed by a Kandarian demon and turned into a monstrous version of himself with greatly increased strength and brutality. In Evil Dead II, sunlight and the memory of Linda seems to drive the demon out (or possibly just 'back') and reverts him to normal. In Regeneration, Deadite Ash actually is shown to be a complete berserker, attacking anything in his path (namely the deadites) and with Ash having some degree of control, later on, over his actions, though the effects are short-term. Enemies in the last area of the game speak of how Ash is "already one of them", possibly a reference to this. The shotgun and chainsaw are augmented during this period also, the gun notably firing bolts of energy.
Dean Koontz is a prolific American author best known for his novels which could be described broadly as suspense thrillers. He also frequently incorporates elements of horror, science fiction, mystery, and satire. A number of his books have appeared on the New York Times Bestseller List, with ten hardcovers and fourteen paperbacks reaching the number one slot!
Princess of the Martian city state/empire of Helium, Dejah Thoris is the love interest and later the wife of John Carter, an Earthman mystically transported to Mars, and subsequently the mother of their son Carthoris and daughter Tara. She plays the role of the conventional damsel in distress who must be rescued from various perils, but is also portrayed as a competent and capable adventuress in her own right, fully capable of defending herself and surviving on her own in the wastelands of Mars.
When an alien invasion attacks Earth in the age of the dinosaurs, our planet's only saviors are the savage prehistoric beasts which are much more intelligent than humanity has ever imagined. ...
Doug Wagner is a writer based in Atlanta Georgia, He got his start writing ULTRAFORCE for Malibu Comics and has worked for Image, DC/Wildstorm, Dark horse and 12 Gauge Comics. ...
Douglas "Doug" Moench (born 1948) is an American comic book writer, probably best known for his Batman work. Biography Doug Moench was born on February 23, 1948 in Chicago, Illinois. Married to Debra, ...
The iconic Douglas Quaid appeared in the classic Total Recall motion picture! Dynamite Entertainment published the sequel to the hit 1990 science fiction movie, Total Recall! Having killed Cohaagen and given Mars ...
Eduardo Risso (born in 1959) is an Argentine comic book artist. In the United States he is probably best known for his work with writer Brian Azzarello on the Vertigo title 100 Bullets, while in Argentina and Europe he is noted for his collaborations with Ricardo Barreiro and Carlos Trillo.
Biography
Risso was born in Leones in Córdoba Province, and he started as a cartoonist in 1981, drawing his first collaborations for the morning paper La Nacion and the magazines Erotiocon and Satiricon, all of which published by Columba editions. In 1986, he worked for Eura Editoriale of Rome, Italy, and in 1987 he drew Parque Chas, scripted by Ricardo Barreiro. The series was first published by Fierro, a milestone in Argentina's comic history, and then by Totem of Spain, the Italian Comic Art and the complete series as a comic book in France, Germany, Denmark, Belgium, Holland, Poland and the United States. In 1988, he drew Cain, again scripted by Barreiro.
Later that same year, Risso did Fulù, scripted by Carlos Trillo, published in Italy, France, Germany, Portugal, the Netherlands, and in Argentina in the Puertitas magazine. The Trillo-Risso duo have also created Simon: An American Tale , published in Italy and France, Borderline, published in Italy and Chicanos, published in Italy and France.
Risso has won four Eisner Awards for his work on 100 Bullets: In 2001, for the Best Serialized Story (with Brian Azzarello); twice, in 2002 and 2004, for the Best Continuing Series (with Azzarello); and in 2002 for Best Artist.
Emanuel Santana, Scout, is a comic book series starting in 1987 by American writer, artist and musician Timothy Truman. It was initially published by Eclipse Comics and collected by Dynamite Entertainment into a trade paperback series.
The story stars a Native American Apache named Emanuel Santana. The setting of the series was a chaotic, post-apocalyptic United States.
Erica Schultz is an American comic book writer, letterer and editor best known for her writing on Charmed and tie-ins for the Swords of Sorrow crossover series (Dynamite Entertainment). In 2012, ...
Flash Gordon, a handsome polo player and Yale graduate, and his companions Dale Arden and Dr. Hans Zarkov. The story begins with Earth bombarded by fiery meteors. Dr. Zarkov invents a ...
Dan Dare is a British science fiction comic hero, created by illustrator Frank Hampson. Hampson not only invented Dan Dare and his entire world, he also put together the original team of artists and wrote the first two stories. Dan Dare appeared in the Eagle comic story Dan Dare, Pilot of the Future in 1950, dramatised 7 times a week on Radio Luxembourg.
The stories were set in the late 1990s but the dialogue and manner of the characters is reminiscent of British war films of the 1950s. Dan Dare has been described as "Biggles in Space" and as the British equivalent of Buck Rogers. Dan Dare was distinguished by its long, complex story lines, snappy dialogue and meticulously illustrated comic-strip artwork by Hampson and other artists, including Harold Johns, Don Harley, Bruce Cornwell, Greta Tomlinson, Frank Bellamy and Keith Watson.
Presently, one new Dan Dare publication is available. A recently completed mini-series of Dan Dare has been launched by Virgin Comics. It is written by Garth Ennis and illustrated by Gary Erskine and is a completely new and somewhat darker intrepretation of Dan Dare.
Frank J. Barbiere has published a number of titles independently via his Atlas Incognita brand and currently writes the critically acclaimed comic book Five Ghosts, published monthly by Image Comics. Other ...
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Frank Miller (born January 27, 1957) is an American writer, artist and film director best known for his dark, film noir-style comic book stories and graphic novels for Dark Horse Comics, DC Comics, and Marvel Comics. He recently directed the film version of The Spirit, shared directing duties with Robert Rodriguez on Sin City and produced the film 300.
Frank Thorne is an American comic book artist-writer, best known for popularizing the Marvel Comics character Red Sonja. As Red Sonja started to a starring role in other comics, and it ...
George R. R. Martin sold his first story in 1971 and hasn't stopped. As a writer-producer, he worked on The Twilight Zone, Beauty and the Beast, and various feature films and ...
The Green Lama's first comic book appearance was in Crestwood Publications' issue #7 of Prize Comics (December 1940), where he continued to appear for 27 issues (through 1943). ...
Greg Pak is an award-winning comic book writer and filmmaker whose run on Marvel�s �Incredible Hulk� was named the Best Ongoing Series of 2007 by Wizard Magazine. Pak created the character of Amadeus Cho, who won a 2005 Marvel.com fan favorite poll and co-starred for four years in �Incredible Hercules.� Pak�s �Magneto Testament� was named the Best Miniseries of 2008 by IGN.
Pak directed the award-winning feature film �Robot Stories,� wrote the epic �Planet Hulk� and �World War Hulk� comic book storylines, and co-wrote (with Fred Van Lente) the fan favorite �Incredible Hercules� series for Marvel Comics. Other projects include the acclaimed sci-fi graphic novel and iPad app �Vision Machine,� the acclaimed �Magneto Testament� and �Red Skull Incarnate� series for Marvel, and �Dead Man�s Run� for Valhalla and Aspen. Pak was named one of 25 Filmmakers to Watch by Filmmaker Magazine, described as �a talent with a future� by the New York Times, and named �Breakout Talent� of the year by Wizard Magazine.
He currently writes the �Code Monkey Save World� graphic novel based on the songs of Jonathan Coulton, �Batman/Superman� and �Action Comics� for DC Comics, �Eternal Warrior� for Valiant Comics and �Turok: The Dinosaur Hunter� for Dynamite Entertainment!
Howard Victor Chaykin (born October 7, 1950 in Newark, New Jersey) is an American comic book writer and artist famous for his innovative storytelling and sometimes controversial material. Chaykin's main influences ...
J. Scott Campbell is an American comic book artist. Though he has since done work for Marvel Comics (most notably as a cover artist on The Amazing Spider-Man), and the video ...
J.T. Krul first job in Hollywood was landing the job of production assistant on the TV show Seinfeld. He was promoted to the position of the show's production coordinator in its ...
Jack Kirby (August 28, 1917 - February 6, 1994), was an American comic book artist, writer and editor. Growing up poor in New York City, he entered the nascent comics industry ...
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Jeff Parker's earliest work in comics was Solitaire, published by Malibu Comics. He later illustrated comic books published by DC Comics, Dark Horse Comics, and Image Comics, and worked as a ...
Jesse Snider is a comic book writer, voice over actor, TV/radio host, semi-pro football player, and rock musician. He is the eldest son of Twisted Sister front man and vocalist Dee ...
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- Vice President, Associate Publisher
Jim Krueger is a comic book writer, novelist and filmmaker. Early life He graduated Marquette University with a degree in Journalism. Career He won two Addy Awards during his first year as a copywriter. A ...
Krueger is also president and publisher of his own comic book entertainment company, 26 Soldiers, and was named as one of the top ten writers in comics and an innovator in the field by Wizard magazine.
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- Vice President of Product Development
James P. "Jim" Starlin (born October 9, 1949, in Detroit, Michigan) is an American comic book writer and artist, who has worked for Marvel Comics, DC Comics and others since the ...
John Cassaday (born 1971) is an American comic book artist and writer, born in Fort Worth, Texas and currently residing in New York City. He is known for having a high level of precision and realism in his work.
A self-taught illustrator, Cassaday studied filmmaking and directed TV news before leaving Texas to pursue a career in comics. His influences include NC Wyeth, classic pulp magazine-culture iconography, and popular music.
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- President of the National Newspaper Service
- President of the National Newspaper Syndicate of America
Anthony Rogers was a fictional character that originated in two short stories by Philip Francis Nowlan, "Armageddon 2419 A.D." and "The Airlords of Han" published in Amazing Stories (August 1928, March 1929).
The character was renamed Buck Rogers and reinvented by John Flint Dille as a comic strip, making its first newspaper appearance January 7, 1929. Buck was the name of the Dille Family's dog. Rogers also appeared in a movie serial, a television series (where his first name was changed from Anthony to William) as well and other formats.
The idea for the comic strip originated with Dille, president of the National Newspaper Syndicate of America, who convinced a somewhat reluctant Nowlan to undertake the strip. As an inducement to Nowlan, who doubted his ability with the comic strip medium, Dille suggested that Nowlan take the first episode from "Armageddon 2419, A.D." and change the hero's name from Anthony Rogers to Buck Rogers. Dille then enlisted editorial cartoonist Dick Calkins to co-author and illustrate. Buck Rogers and other works are now owned exclusively by the Dille Family Trust, as successor to National Newspaper Syndicate of America.
The adventures of Buck Rogers in comic strips, movies, radio and television became an important part of American pop culture. This pop phenomenon paralleled the development of space technology in the 20th Century and introduced Americans to outer space as a familiar environment for swashbuckling adventure.
John McCrea is a comic book artist best known for his collaborations with writer Garth Ennis. His earliest work was influenced by John Byrne and Alan Davis. He broke into ...
Kevin Smith is an American screenwriter, actor, film producer, and director, as well as a popular comic book writer, author, comedian/raconteur, and internet radio personality best recognized by viewers as Silent Bob. Although primarily known for the View Askew film series, Smith also wrote, directed and produced films such as Clerks, as well Mallrats. His first several films were mostly set in his home state of New Jersey, and while not strictly sequential, they frequently feature crossover plot elements, character references, and a shared canon in what is known by fans as the "View Askewniverse", named after his production company View Askew Productions.
In comics, Kevin Smith is mostly well-known for his stints on Marvel's Daredevil and DC's Green Arrow! In1999, Smith wrote "Guardian Devil", an eight-issue story arc of Daredevil for Marvel Comics, which was illustrated by Joe Quesada. Kevin Smith followed this by producing a 15-issue tenure on Green Arrow for DC Comics that saw the return of Oliver Queen from the dead and the introduction of Mia Dearden, a teenage girl who would become Speedy after Smith's run had ended.
Kulan Gath is a villainous magician who has appeared in the Marvel Universe and in Dynamite Entertainment's Red Sonja series. The character's first appearance was in Conan the Barbarian #14 and ...
Born in Boston in 1960, Kurt Busiek is a comic book writer most famous for his Marvels series with Alex Ross in 1993. Marvels was a 4-issue mini-series which looked ...
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- Director of Research & Development
Mark Guggenheim is the screenwriter on the "Green Lantern" blockbuster film and producer on 'No Ordinary Family,' and 'Flash Forward. ...
Mark Waid has written a wider variety of well-known characters than any other American comics author, from Superman to the Justice League to Spider-Man to Archie and hundreds of others. His ...
Matt Wagner is an American comic book writer and artist, best known as the creator of the series Mage and Grendel. In addition to his creator-owned series' Mage and Grendel, he has also worked on comics featuring The Demon and Batman as well as such titles as Sandman Mystery Theatre and Trinity, a DC Comics limited series featuring Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman. Recent projects include Madame Xanadu for Vertigo, with artist Amy Reeder Hadley. He has also produced numerous comic book covers, including painted ones for Green Arrow.
From the Ani-Max one-shot, 12-year old Max Duncan becomes the most powerful boy in the world when he gains the power to absorb the abilities and physical characteristics of any animal ...
Mercedes "Mercy" Thompson is a fictional character and the protagonist of The Mercedes Thompson Series, written by Patricia Briggs. The series, which currently consists of the novels Moon Called, Blood Bound, ...
LEAH MOORE and JOHN REPPION are British comic book writers.�They have co-writing credits on Wild Girl, a six part limited series for WildStorm. In 2006 they signed an initial twelve issue ...
As a professional writer, Nancy A. Collins cut her teeth on vampire fiction, tracing the exploits of hot-blooded heroines like Sonja Blue ("Sunglasses After Dark") and the mean girls of the prestigious Bathory Academy ("VAMPS"). In the comics realm, she's walked with the Swamp Thing and revved the motor of Leatherface's chainsaw. Now, she turns to the medium's most iconic and enduring bloodletter, Vampirella.
Peter Cannon: Thunderbolt is a superhero originally published by Charlton Comics, notable for containing some of the earliest respectful invocations of Eastern mysticism in American pop culture. The character debuted in ...
Reuben Flagg, born in 2000 at Hammarskjold Center, Mars, to Axel and Rebecca Flagg, was a stand-up comic and popular television star of the show Mark Thrust, Sexus Ranger. After he was made superfluous by CGI technology, he joined the Plexus Rangers and emigrated to Earth, being stationed in the Chicago Plexmall. Flagg is Jewish, and his parents' "undesirably bohemian" attitudes have given him an idealistic view of the United States that runs contrary to the Plex. He has a desire to set things right again, and through inheriting Q-USA, begins to set on that path.
He appeared in American Flagg! a comic book series created by Howard Chaykin which was published by First Comics from 1983 to 1989, and was set around the United States government in the early 2030s. Writers included Alan Moore, Steven Grant and J.M. DeMatteis.
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Drawing comics professionally since the age of fifteen, the Eisner-Award-winning Sean Phillips has worked for all the major publishers. Since drawing the likes of Hellblazer, Batman, X-Men, WildC.A.T.s, Marvel Zombies, and ...
Sherlock Holmes is a character of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries who first appeared in publication in 1887. He is the creation of Scottish author and physician Arthur Conan Doyle. A brilliant London-based "consulting detective", Holmes is famous for his intellectual prowess, and is renowned for his skillful use of astute observation, deductive reasoning and inference to solve difficult cases.
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- Controller of the Space Fleet
Dan Dare was surrounded by a varying cast, initially:
* Dan Dare (full name Colonel Daniel McGregor Dare) was chief pilot of the Interplanet Space Fleet. He was born in Manchester, England, in 1967 and educated at Rossall School. Although not a super-hero, he sometimes pulled off exceptional piloting and often proved extraordinarily lucky. He excelled at jiu jitsu, but he most often found non-violent solutions to predicaments. He was bound by a sense of honour, never lied, and would rather die than break his word.
His lean-faced character was recognizable by the outer tips of his eyebrows, which were wavy. His uniform looked like a typical British Army type (Frank Hampson used his own World War II army uniform as a model), though a lighter green. In place of British rank insignia it had coloured stripes and circles on the shoulderboards. His cap badge was a vertical, antique rocketship in a circle with one five-pointed star on either side. Initially, Dare was to be portrayed as a chaplain.
* Digby (Albert Fitzwilliam Digby) was Dan's Wigan-born batman. Rotund and sometimes bumbling, he provided comic relief. He was fiercely loyal and the only character apart from Dan to appear in every story. His favourite recreation was sleeping and he was fond of traditional English food.His nearest relative was his Aunt Anastasia, after whom Dan named his spaceship.
* Sir Hubert Guest, Controller of the Space Fleet, sent Dan on missions, and occasionally joined him. He was a veteran pilot, having been on the first mission to the Moon and led the first mission to Mars.
After a chance encounter with Geoff Johns, Sterling Gates became a Writer's Assistant on the TV show Blade. Following the cancellation of that series, Johns' invited him to be his personal ...
Steve Niles is an American comic book writer and novelist, known for works such as 30 Days of Night, Criminal Macabre, Simon Dark, Mystery Society and Batman: Gotham County Line. He ...
Stuart Manning is a London based graphic designer, writer and audio producer. Manning has written several Dark Shadows Big Finish Audio Dramas as well as producing the series since 2006. ...
Tim Bradstreet is an artist and illustrator, best known for his work on comic books (covers and interiors), book covers, movie posters, roleplaying games and trading cards. Tim is very well known for his Punisher covers with writer Garth Ennis.
Tom Sniegoski is a novelist, comic book writer and pop culture journalist. A number of Sniegoski's works have been related to the Buffyverse, the fictional universe established by TV series, ...
Troy Brownfield began working in comics on the journalism side, founding ShotgunReviews.com and notably contributing to Newsarama (for 7 years), Wired, The Pulse, Newtype USA magazine and more. He was Associate ...
Victor Gischler is an American author of humorous crime fiction. Gischler's debut novel Gun Monkeys was nominated for the Edgar Award, and his novel Shotgun Opera was an Anthony Award finalist. His ...
Featured in the comic, Bring the Thunder, Wayne Russell is an elite pararescue jumper in the Air Force serving in Afghanistan. He leads the most rigorously trained troops on the most ...