| Red Prophet: The Tales of Alvin Maker | |
|---|---|
Cover to Red Prophet Volume 1 collection. Art by Renato Arlem | |
| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Dabel Brothers (1-10) Marvel Comics (3-12) |
| Schedule | Monthly |
| Format | Limited series |
| Genre | |
| Publication date | March 2006 – March 2008 |
| No. of issues | 12 |
| Creative team | |
| Written by | Orson Scott Card Roland Bernard Brown |
| Penciller(s) | Rodney Buchemi, Miguel Montenegro, Renato Arlem, Klebs Junior |
| Inker(s) | Renato Arlem, Klebs Junior, Miguel Montenegro, Klebs Moura Jr. |
| Letterer(s) | Simon Bowland, Bill Tortolini |
| Colorist(s) | David Curiel, Zona I |
| Editor(s) | Matt Hansen, Sean J. Jordan, Mark Paniccia, J. D. White |
| Collected editions | |
| Volume One | ISBN 978-0-7851-2583-9 |
| Volume Two | ISBN 9780785125846 |
Red Prophet: The Tales of Alvin Maker is a twelve-issue comic book limited series by Orson Scott Card, based on The Tales of Alvin Maker series by author Orson Scott Card. Publication started in March 2006 by Dabel Brothers Productions and was finished in 2008 by Marvel Comics.
A comic book or comicbook, also called comic magazine or simply comic, is a publication that consists of comic art in the form of sequential juxtaposed panels that represent individual scenes. Panels are often accompanied by brief descriptive prose and written narrative, usually, dialog contained in word balloons emblematic of the comics art form. Although comics has some origins in 18th century Japan, comic books were first popularized in the United States and the United Kingdom during the 1930s. The first modern comic book, Famous Funnies, was released in the U.S. in 1933 and was a reprinting of earlier newspaper humor comic strips, which had established many of the story-telling devices used in comics. The term comic book derives from American comic books once being a compilation of comic strips of a humorous tone; however, this practice was replaced by featuring stories of all genres, usually not humorous in tone.
In the field of comic books, a limited series is a comics series with a predetermined number of issues. A limited series differs from an ongoing series in that the number of issues is finite and determined before production, and it differs from a one shot in that it is composed of multiple issues. The term is often used interchangeably with miniseries (mini-series) and maxiseries (maxi-series), usually depending on the length and number of issues. In Dark Horse Comics' definition of a limited series, "This term primarily applies to a connected series of individual comic books. A limited series refers to a comic book series with a clear beginning, middle and end." Dark Horse Comics and DC Comics refer to limited series of two to eleven issues as miniseries and series of twelve issues or more as maxiseries, but other publishers alternate terms.
Orson Scott Card is an American novelist, critic, public speaker, essayist, and columnist. He writes in several genres but is known best for science fiction. His novel Ender's Game (1985) and its sequel, Speaker for the Dead (1986), both won Hugo and Nebula Awards, making Card the only author to win the two top American prizes in science fiction literature in consecutive years. A feature film adaptation of Ender's Game, which Card co-produced, was released in 2013. But Card has written many more novels and series since 1979, including the Locus Fantasy Award-winning series, The Tales of Alvin Maker.
