Batman: The Animated Series is an American superhero animated television series based on the DC Comics superhero Batman. Developed by Bruce Timm, Paul Dini, and Mitch Brian, and produced by Warner Bros. Animation, it originally aired on Fox Kids from September 5, 1992, to September 15, 1995, with a total of 85 episodes. In 1994, the series began airing under the on-screen title The Adventures of Batman & Robin, which was also used for Fox Kids' re-runs of earlier episodes. In 1997, the series continued on Kids' WB as The New Batman Adventures, lasting 24 episodes. Despite featuring a different animation style and character redesigns, it has often been included in the same home video releases and syndicated re-run packages, thus bringing the total episode count to 109.
A road movie is a film genre in which the main characters leave home on a road trip, typically altering the perspective from their everyday lives. Road movies often depict travel in the hinterlands, with the films exploring the theme of alienation and examining the tensions and issues of the cultural identity of a nation or historical period; this is all often enmeshed in a mood of actual or potential menace, lawlessness, and violence, a "distinctly existential air" and is populated by restless, "frustrated, often desperate characters". The setting includes not just the close confines of the car as it moves on highways and roads, but also booths in diners and rooms in roadside motels, all of which helps to create intimacy and tension between the characters. Road movies tend to focus on the theme of masculinity, some type of rebellion, car culture, and self-discovery. The core theme of road movies is "rebellion against conservative social norms".
Lewis Trondheim, is a French cartoonist and one of the founders of the independent publisher L'Association. Both his silent comic La Mouche and Kaput and Zösky have been made into animated cartoons. He explained his choice of pseudonym after the Norwegian city of Trondheim as follows: "As a last name I wanted to use a city's name, but Lewis Bordeaux or Lewis Toulouse didn't sound so good. Then I thought about this city, Trondheim… Maybe someday I will publish a book under my real name, in order to remain anonymous."
Dungeon is a series of comic fantasy comic books created by Joann Sfar and Lewis Trondheim, with contributions from numerous other artists. It was originally published in France by Delcourt as a series of graphic albums; English translations of a large amount of stories have been released by NBM Publishing, first in a black-and-white periodical version and now as several color graphic novels.
Adventure fiction is a type of fiction that usually presents danger, or gives the reader a sense of excitement. Some adventure fiction also satisfies the literary definition of romance fiction.
The Spiffy Adventures of McConey is a Franco-Belgian comic series by the popular French cartoonist Lewis Trondheim. It debuted in 1992.
Slaloms is a story in the comics series The spiffy adventures of McConey, by the popular French cartoonist Lewis Trondheim. It was first released in a smaller black-and-white format in 1993, then entirely redrawn for the 1997 re-release as volume 0 in the series.
Pichenettes is a comic strip in the series The spiffy adventures of McConey, by the popular French cartoonist Lewis Trondheim. It was first released in 1996 as volume 2 in the series.
Walter is a comic strip in the series The spiffy adventures of McConey, by the popular French cartoonist Lewis Trondheim. It was released in 1996 as volume 3 in the series.
Amour & Intérim is a comic strip in the series The spiffy adventures of McConey, by the French cartoonist Lewis Trondheim. It was first released in 1998 as volume 4 in the series.
Vacances de printemps is a comic strip in the series The spiffy adventures of McConey, by the popular French cartoonist Lewis Trondheim. It was first released in 1999 as volume 5 in the series.
Pour de vrai is a comic strip in the series The spiffy adventures of McConey, by the popular French cartoonist Lewis Trondheim. It was first released in 1999 as volume 6 in the series.
La vie comme elle vient is a comic strip in the series The spiffy adventures of McConey, by the popular French cartoonist Lewis Trondheim. It was first released in 2004 as volume 8 in the series.
L'accélérateur atomique is an album in the series The spiffy adventures of McConey, by the popular French cartoonist Lewis Trondheim. It was first released in 2003 as volume 9 in the series.
The Queen of Zamba is a science fiction novel by American writer L. Sprague de Camp, the first book of his Viagens Interplanetarias series and its subseries of stories set on the fictional planet Krishna. It was written between November 1948 and January 1949 and first published in the magazine Astounding Science Fiction as a two-part serial in the issues for August and September 1949. It was first published in book form as a paperback by Ace Books in 1954 as an "Ace Double" issued back-to-back with Clifford D. Simak's novel Ring Around the Sun. This version was editorially retitled Cosmic Manhunt and introduced a number of textual changes disapproved by the author. The novel was first issued by itself in another paperback edition under the title A Planet Called Krishna, published in England by Compact Books in 1966. A new paperback edition restoring the author's preferred title and text and including the Krishna short story "Perpetual Motion" was published by Dale Books in 1977. This edition was reprinted by Ace Books in 1982 as part of the standard edition of the Krishna novels. The novel has been translated into German, French, Italian, Czech, and Polish. An E-book edition was published by Gollancz's SF Gateway imprint on September 29, 2011 as part of a general release of de Camp's works in electronic form.
Frank Le Gall, is a French author of comics. He was first published as a comic author at the age of 16 in Pistil. He then went on to work for Spirou, creating "Valry Bonpain," a comic series following a jazz musician, with Alain Clement. He is best known for his own comic series Théodore Poussin.
Bows Against the Barons is a 1934 children's novel by British author Geoffrey Trease, based on the legend of Robin Hood. It tells the story of an adolescent boy who joins an outlaw band and takes part in a great rebellion against the feudal elite. Trease's first novel, Bows Against the Barons marks the start of his prolific career as a historical novelist. It is notable for reinterpreting the Robin Hood legend and revitalizing the conventions of children's historical fiction in 20th-century Britain.
Western comics is a comics genre usually depicting the American Old West frontier and typically set during the late nineteenth century. The term is generally associated with an American comic books genre published from the late 1940s through the 1950s. Western comics of the period typically featured dramatic scripts about cowboys, gunfighters, lawmen, bounty hunters, outlaws, and Native Americans. Accompanying artwork depicted a rural America populated with such iconic images as guns, cowboy hats, vests, horses, saloons, ranches, and deserts, contemporaneous with the setting.
Blacktown is a suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
