Related Research Articles
Sam Kieth is an American comics artist and writer, best known as the creator of The Maxx and Zero Girl.
David Chester Gibbons 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.
David Emmett Cockrum was an American comics artist known for his co-creation of the new X-Men characters Nightcrawler, Storm, Colossus, and Mystique, as well as the antiheroine Black Cat. Cockrum was a prolific and inventive costume designer who updated the uniforms of the Legion of Super-Heroes. He did the same for the new X-Men and many of their antagonists in the 1970s and early 1980s.
Terry Kevin Austin is an American comic book creator working primarily as an inker.
Frank Brunner is an American comics artist and illustrator best known for his work at Marvel Comics in the 1970s.
Alien Legion is an American science fiction comic-book series, with several associated titles, created by Carl Potts, Alan Zelenetz, and Frank Cirocco for Marvel Comics' Epic Comics imprint in 1983. It features a military unit, Force Nomad, similar to the French Foreign Legion.
William "Whilce" Portacio is a Filipino American comic book writer and artist noted for his work on such titles as The Punisher, X-Factor, Uncanny X-Men, Iron Man, Wetworks and Spawn. Portacio was also one of the seven co-founders of Image Comics, though he did not become a full-partner in the company, and is therefore not a member of its board of directors.
Charles Dixon is an American comic book writer, best known for his work on the Marvel Comics character the Punisher and on the DC Comics characters Batman, Nightwing, and Robin in the 1990s and early 2000s.
Carl Potts is an American comics artist, writer, teacher, and editor best known for creating the series Alien Legion for the Marvel Comics imprint Epic Comics.
Kevin Nowlan is an American comics artist who works as a penciler, inker, colorist, and letterer. He has been called "one of the few artists who can be called 'artists's artist'", a master of the various disciplines of comic production, from "design to draftsmanship to dramatics".
Notable events of 1984 in comics.
Defenders of Dynatron City is a video game released for the Nintendo Entertainment System by JVC Musical Industries and Lucasfilm Games in August 1992. The designer of the game was Gary Winnick. This was Winnick's first project as sole designer. He was previously the co-designer of Maniac Mansion, alongside Ron Gilbert. It was supported by a short-lived media franchise consisting of an animated TV pilot and a six-issues comic book series.
Alan Zelenetz is an American film producer and comic-book writer best known for co-creating the series Alien Legion for the Marvel Comics imprint Epic Comics and a founder of Ovie Entertainment. Zelenetz also wrote several issues of Marvel's Moon Knight series, several issues of Thor and a run of Conan the King.
Mark Billings Badger, known as Mark Badger, is an American illustrator who has worked as a penciler, inker, cover artist, painter, and occasional colorist in the American comic book industry. In addition to his career as a comic book artist, Badger is a political activist and organizer, often mixing the comic book medium with activism. As an early adapter of digital tools to create comic art, Badger has taken to create web-based comics for the purposes of education and activism. Under these auspices, he is in collaboration with the Bayard Rustin Center for Social Justice to establish an online platform to produce a series of web comix with other authors and artists to preserve the life and legacy of heretofore unrecognized queer civil rights pioneer Bayard Rustin. Badger also teaches "Programming, comic books, and web development" at San Francisco’s Academy of Art University. Badger, a native of Cleveland, was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis at age thirty. He lives in Oakland, California.
Liam Roger Sharp is a British comic book artist, writer, publisher, and co-founder/CCO of Madefire Inc.
Chris Warner is an American comic book writer, artist, and editor for Dark Horse Comics. He worked extensively on their mid-1990s line of Comics' Greatest World and Dark Horse Heroes. Warner has also worked sporadically for other companies, such as DC Comics and Marvel Comics.
Crusty Bunker, or the Crusty Bunkers, was the collective pseudonym of a group of comic book inkers clustered around Neal Adams' and Dick Giordano's New York City-based art and design agency Continuity Studios from 1972 to 1977. The group was also occasionally credited as Ilya Hunch, Chuck Bunker, or The Goon Squad. Many Crusty Bunkers team members went on to successful individual careers in the comics industry.
Epic Comics was an imprint of American publishing company Marvel Comics, active from 1982 to 1996. A spin-off of the publisher's Epic Illustrated magazine, it published creator-owned work unconnected to Marvel's superhero universe, and without the restrictions of the Comics Code. The name was revived by Marvel in the mid-2000s for a short-lived program inviting new writers to pitch series proposals to the publisher.
Gary Winnick is an American computer game designer, writer, artist, and animator who was the first artist hired by Lucasfilm Games. He co-designed Maniac Mansion, alongside Ron Gilbert, and created the comic book Bad Dreams.
References
- ↑ Miller, John Jackson (June 10, 2005). "Comics Industry Birthdays". Comics Buyer's Guide . Iola, Wisconsin. Archived from the original on February 18, 2011.
- ↑ Bails, Jerry (2006). "Cirocco, Frank". Who's Who of American Comic Books 1928-1999. Archived from the original on April 20, 2021. Retrieved June 3, 2019.
- ↑ Cirocco, Frank (May 2016). "Continuity Memories". Back Issue! (88). Raleigh, North Carolina: TwoMorrows Publishing: 56–57.
- ↑ Bails, Jerry. "Crusty Bunkers". Who's Who of American Comic Books 1928–1999. Archived from the original on May 11, 2007. Retrieved June 16, 2012.
- ↑ Ellis, Jonathan (May 2000). "Interview: Carl Potts". PopImage.com. Archived from the original on May 25, 2011.
- 1 2 Frank Cirocco at the Grand Comics Database
- ↑ "LucasArts' Secret History: Maniac Mansion: Gary Winnick Interview". The International House of Mojo.
- ↑ Fleskes, John (April 15, 2010). "Skyland Gallery Grand Opening Saturday, April 17 2010!". Flesk Publications and Spectrum Fantastic Art.
- ↑ "4th Annual South City Comic Con". South City Comic Con. 2019. Archived from the original on June 10, 2019. Retrieved July 15, 2019.
[Lela Dowling] lurks in the Santa Cruz Mountains with her husband, artist Frank Cirocco