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| Red Rocket 7 | |
|---|---|
Cover of the first issue | |
| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Dark Horse |
| Format | Limited series |
| Genre | |
| Publication date | August 1997 - June 1998 |
| No. of issues | 7 |
| Creative team | |
| Created by | Mike Allred |
| Written by | Mike Allred |
| Artist(s) | Mike Allred |
| Letterer(s) | Mike Allred |
| Colorist(s) | Laura Allred |
| Collected editions | |
| Hardcover | ISBN 1-56971-351-0 |
Red Rocket 7 is a seven-issue comic book limited series by Mike Allred, published in 1997 by Dark Horse Comics. [1]
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.
Michael Dalton Allred is an American comic book artist and writer most famous for his independent comics creation, Madman. His style is often compared to pop art, as well as commercial and comic art of the 1950s and 1960s.
