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Jean Giraud
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Jean Henri Gaston Giraud was a French artist, cartoonist and writer who worked in the Franco-Belgian bandes dessinées tradition. Giraud garnered worldwide acclaim predominantly under the pseudonym Mœbius and to a lesser extent Gir, esteemed by Federico Fellini, Stan Lee and Hayao Miyazaki among others, he has been described as the most influential bandes dessinées artist after Hergé. His most famous include the series Blueberry, created with writer Jean-Michel Charlier. As Mœbius he created a range of science fiction and fantasy comics in a highly imaginative, surreal. These works include Arzach and the Airtight Garage of Jerry Cornelius and he also collaborated with avant-garde filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky for an unproduced adaptation of Dune and the comic book series The Incal. Mœbius also contributed storyboards and concept designs to numerous science fiction and fantasy films, such as Alien, Tron, The Fifth Element, in 2004, Moebius and Jodorowsky sued Luc Besson for using The Incal as inspiration for Fifth Element, a lawsuit which they lost. Blueberry was adapted for the screen in 2004 by French director Jan Kounen, when he was three years old, his parents divorced and he was raised mainly by his grandparents, who were living in the neighboring municipality of Fontenay-sous-Bois. The rupture between mother and father created a lasting trauma that he explained lay at the heart of his choice of pen names. He became close friends with comic artist, Jean-Claude Mézières, in no small part due to their shared passion for Westerns. In 1956 he left art school without graduating to visit his mother, who had married a Mexican in Mexico, after his return to France, he started to work as a full-time artist. At 18, Giraud was drawing his own comic Western strip, Frank et Jeremie, for the magazine Far West and it was for Fleurus that Giraud also illustrated his first three books. Already in this period his style was influenced by his later mentor. In 1961, returning from service in Germany, Giraud became an apprentice of Jijé. For Jijé, Giraud created several shorts and illustrations for the short-lived magazine Bonux-Boy, his first work after military service. In this period, Jijé used Giraud as his assistant on an album of his Western series Jerry Spring, The Road to Coronado, in 1962, Giraud and writer Jean-Michel Charlier started the comic strip Fort Navajo for Pilote Magazine #210. At this time the affinity between the styles of Giraud and Jijé was so close that Jijé penciled several pages for the series when Giraud went AWOL. The Lieutenant Blueberry character, whose features were based on those of the actor Jean-Paul Belmondo, was created in 1963 by Charlier. While the Fort Navajo series had had originally intended as an ensemble narrative
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DC Comics
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DC Comics, Inc. is an American comic book publisher. It is the unit of DC Entertainment, a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc. a division of Time Warner, the company has also published non-DC Universe-related material, including Watchmen, V for Vendetta and many titles under their alternative imprint Vertigo. The initials DC came from the popular series Detective Comics. Random House distributes DC Comics books to the market, while Diamond Comic Distributors supplies the comics shop specialty market. DC Comics and its major, longtime competitor Marvel Comics together shared 70% of the American comic book market in 2016, entrepreneur Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson founded National Allied Publications in autumn 1934. The company debuted with the tabloid-sized New Fun, The Big Comic Magazine #1 with a date of February 1935. That title evolved into Adventure Comics, which continued through issue #503 in 1983, in 2009 DC revived Adventure Comics with its original numbering. In 1935, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, the creators of Superman, created Doctor Occult. Wheeler-Nicholsons third and final title, Detective Comics, advertised with a cover illustration dated December 1936, the themed anthology series would become a sensation with the introduction of Batman in issue #27. By then, however, Wheeler-Nicholson had gone, Detective Comics, Inc. was formed, with Wheeler-Nicholson and Jack S. Liebowitz, Donenfelds accountant, listed as owners. Major Wheeler-Nicholson remained for a year, but cash-flow problems continued, shortly afterward, Detective Comics, Inc. purchased the remains of National Allied, also known as Nicholson Publishing, at a bankruptcy auction. Detective Comics, Inc. soon launched a fourth title, Action Comics, Action Comics #1, the first comic book to feature the new character archetype—soon known as superheroes—proved a sales hit. The company quickly introduced such popular characters as the Sandman and Batman. That year, Gaines let Liebowitz buy him out, and kept only Picture Stories from the Bible as the foundation of his own new company, at that point, Liebowitz promptly orchestrated the merger of All-American and Detective Comics into National Comics. Next he took charge of organizing National Comics, Independent News, National Periodical Publications became publicly traded on the stock market in 1961. The company began to move aggressively against what it saw as copyright-violating imitations from other companies, such as Fox Comics Wonder Man and this extended to DC suing Fawcett Comics over Captain Marvel, at the time comics top-selling character. Despite the fact that parallels between Captain Marvel and Superman seemed more tenuous, the courts ruled that substantial and deliberate copying of copyrighted material had occurred, faced with declining sales and the prospect of bankruptcy if it lost, Fawcett capitulated in 1955 and ceased comics publication
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Science fantasy
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Science fantasy is a mixed genre within the umbrella of speculative fiction which simultaneously draws upon and/or combines tropes and elements from both science fiction and fantasy. It also sometimes incorporates elements of horror fiction, distinguishing between science fiction and fantasy, Rod Serling claimed that the former was the improbable made possible while the latter was the impossible made probable. As a combination of the two, science fantasy gives a scientific veneer of realism to things that simply could not happen in the world under any circumstances. Where science fiction does not permit the existence of fantasy or supernatural elements, all were relatively rationalistic stories published in John W. Campbell, Jr. s Unknown magazine. These were an attempt to apply the techniques and attitudes of science fiction to traditional fantasy subjects. The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction published, among other things, all but the last of the Operation series, henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore published novels in Startling Stories, alone and together, which were far more romantic. These were closely related to the work that they and others were doing for outlets like Weird Tales, ace Books published a number of books as science fantasy during the 1950s and 1960s. The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction points out that as a genre, science fantasy has never clearly defined. The Star Trek franchise created by Gene Roddenberry is considered an example of science fantasy, writer James F. Broderick describes Star Trek as science fantasy because it includes semi-futuristic as well as supernatural/fantasy elements such as The Q. According to the science fiction author Arthur C, clarke, many purists argue that Star Trek is science fantasy rather than science fiction because of its scientifically improbable elements, which he partially agrees with. Jack Vances Dying Earth stories are sometimes classed as science fantasy because the cosmology used is not compatible with that accepted by science fiction. Other stories in the Dying Earth subgenre such as M. John Harrisons Viriconium novels or Gene Wolfes Book of the New Sun are usually classed as science fantasy. Terry Brooks Shannara books represent a world as the far future of Earth after supernatural events cause the downfall of civilization. The last two films in George Millers post-apocalyptic Mad Max franchise, while science fiction films, contain fantastical elements to their depiction of a devastated world. The works of Edgar Rice Burroughs and E. R. Eddison are probably the earliest examples of this genre, C. S. Lewis Out of the Silent Planet is an example of the same type of story, though in its case the preoccupations are theological. In both cases the elements are barely rationalized, and in Lewis case stand in stark contrast to the pseudo-scientific machinery that frames the story. In Andre Nortons Witch World series, the world is excused as a parallel universe. There are a few fictional elements in the earlier stories of this series
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Philippe Druillet
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Philippe Druillet is a French comics artist and creator, and an innovator in visual design. Druillet was born in Toulouse, Haute-Garonne, France but spent his youth in Spain, a science fiction and comics fan, Philippe worked as a photographer after graduating from high school, drawing only for his own pleasure. His first book appeared in 1966, entitled Le Mystère des abîmes and it introduced his recurring hero Lone Sloane and played on science-fiction themes partially inspired by his favourite writers, H. P. Lovecraft and A. E. van Vogt. Later Druillet created book covers for republications of Lovecrafts work, as well as movie posters. His backdrops of gigantic structures inspired by Art Nouveau, Indian temples and this was to be a vehicle for his finest stories, and showcased a steady evolution in his graphical skills. His series Lone Sloane and Vuzz continued, and other stories of this period include La Nuit, in 1980 Druillet produced Salammbô, a comic-book trilogy based upon Flauberts proto-heroic fantasy novel Salammbô. Outside his work as a cartoonist and illustrator, Druillet has also active in architecture, rock opera, painting, sculpture. He worked as a designer on the film, Sorcerer directed by William Friedkin in 1976 and he collaborated on Rolf Liebermanns Wagner Space Opera in the Opera de Paris in the late 70s to early 80s, and founded the Space Art Création in 1984. More recently he created the artwork and designed large parts of the background of the 2005 TV miniseries remake Les Rois maudits
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Jean-Pierre Dionnet
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Jean-Pierre Dionnet is a French comics writer and TV presenter. He has also worked as an editor-in-chief, journalist, editor, producer/distributor of films and he was the co-founder of the comics magazine Métal Hurlant in 1974. His works include Exterminateur 17, with art by Enki Bilal, Jean-Pierre Dionnet was born on 25 November 1947 in Paris, and at that time there was still rationing, so he spent the first five years in the Creuse. He fell behind in school and focused solely on his goal of working in comics, while pursuing his dream of becoming a comics writer, he worked as a broker on the weekend, and he was also a bookstore clerk in the first rendition of Futuropolis. In the year of 1968, Jean-Pierre Dionnet began working for Pilote where he wrote scripts for Jean Solé, Yves Got, Philippe Druillet, Moebius, Annie Goetzinger, online biography from Editor website Comic Book DB
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Horror fiction
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Horror is a genre of fiction which is intended to, or has the capacity to frighten, scare, disgust, or startle their readers or viewers by inducing feelings of horror and terror. Literary historian J. A. Cuddon has defined the horror story as a piece of fiction in prose of variable length, which shocks or even frightens the reader, or perhaps induces a feeling of repulsion or loathing. It creates an eerie and frightening atmosphere, Horror is frequently supernatural, though it can be non-supernatural. Often the central menace of a work of fiction can be interpreted as a metaphor for the larger fears of a society. The genre of horror has ancient origins with roots in folklore and religious traditions, focusing on death, the afterlife, evil, the demonic and these were manifested in stories of beings such as witches, vampires, werewolves and ghosts. 18th century Gothic horror drew on these sources with the seminal and controversial The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole and this marked the first incorporated elements of the supernatural instead of pure realism. In fact, the first edition was published disguised as a medieval romance from Italy discovered and republished by a fictitious translator. Once revealed as contemporary, many found it anachronistic, reactionary, or simply in poor taste — but it proved to be immediately popular. That first novel of Gothic horror inspired such works as Vathek by William Beckford, A Sicilian Romance, The Mysteries of Udolpho and The Italian by Ann Radcliffe and The Monk by Matthew Lewis. A significant amount of fiction of this era was written by women and marketed at a female audience. The Gothic tradition blossomed into the modern readers call horror literature in the 19th century. Each of these novels and novellas created an icon of horror seen in modern re-imaginings on the stage. The proliferation of periodicals, as early as the turn of the century. One writer who specialized in fiction for mainstream pulps such as All-Story Magazine was Tod Robbins, whose fiction dealt with themes of madness. Later, specialist publications emerged to give horror writers an outlet, including Weird Tales, influential horror writers of the early 20th century made inroads in these mediums. Early cinema was inspired by aspects of horror literature, and early horror cinema started a strong tradition of horror films. This imagery made these comics controversial, and as a consequence they were frequently censored, many modern novels claim an early description of the living dead in a precursor to the modern zombie tale, including Dennis Wheatleys Strange Conflict, H. P. Lovecraft stories such as Cool Air, In The Vault, richard Mathesons novel I Am Legend would also influence an entire genre of apocalyptic zombie fiction emblematic of the films of George A. Romero
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Comics artist
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A comics artist is a person working within the comics medium on comic strips, comic books, or graphic novels. The term may refer to any number of artists who contribute to produce a work in the comics form, within the comic strip format, it is typical for one creator to produce the whole strip. However, it is not uncommon for the writing of the strip. In some cases, one artist might draw key figures while another does only backgrounds, many strips were the work of two people although only one signature was displayed. Shortly after Frank Willard began Moon Mullins in 1923, he hired Ferd Johnson as his assistant, for decades, Johnson received no credit. Willard and Johnson traveled about Florida, Maine, Los Angeles and Mexico, drawing the strip while living in hotels, apartments, at its peak of popularity during the 1940s and 1950s, the strip ran in 350 newspapers. According to Johnson, he had been doing the solo for at least a decade before Willards death in 1958. I had been doing it about 10 years before that because Willard had heart attacks and strokes, the minute my name went on that thing and his name went off,25 papers dropped the strip. That shows you that, although I had been doing it ten years, with regards to the comic book format, the work can be split in many different ways. The writing and the creation of the art can be split between two people, an example being From Hell, which was written by Alan Moore and drawn by Eddie Campbell. The writing of a comic book story can sometimes be shared between two people, with one writing the plot and another the script. Sometimes this combination of four artists is augmented by a fifth, however, this generally occurs only when an artist fails to meet a deadline or when a writer, sometimes referred to as a scripter, produces breakdown art. Breakdown art is where the story has been laid out roughly in pencils to indicate panel layouts and character positions within panels. Such roughs are sometimes referred to as layouts, the norm of four artists is sometimes reduced to three if the penciller also inks his own work, usually being credited within the book as a penciller/inker. John Byrne and Walt Simonson are artists who have, on occasion and it is worth noting that these roles are highly interchangeable, and many artists can fulfill different roles. Stan Sakai is a highly regarded letterer of comic books who also creates his own series, producing his autobiographical works, Eddie Campbell has created both scripts and art, plus teaming with his daughter on the coloring. On Cerebus, for the majority of the run, Dave Sim created everything except the backgrounds, glossary of comics terminology Daily comic strip Mangaka Sunday comics Sunday strip Comic Creators at DMOZ
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National Lampoon (magazine)
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National Lampoon was an American humor magazine which ran from 1970 to 1998. The magazine started out as a spinoff from the Harvard Lampoon, National Lampoon magazine reached its height of popularity and critical acclaim during the late 1970s, when it had a far-reaching effect on American humor and comedy. The magazine spawned films, radio, live theatre, various sound recordings, many members of the creative staff from the magazine subsequently went on to contribute creatively to successful media of all types. During the magazines most successful years, parody of every kind was a mainstay, almost all the issues included long text pieces, shorter written pieces, a section of actual news items, cartoons and comic strips. Most issues also included Foto Funnies or fumetti, which featured nudity. The result was a mix of intelligent, cutting-edge wit, combined with some crass. In both cases, National Lampoon humor often pushed far beyond the boundaries of what was considered appropriate. As co-founder Henry Beard described the years later, There was this big door that said. We touched it, and it fell off its hinges, the magazine declined during the late 1980s and never recovered. It was kept alive minimally, but ceased publication altogether in 1998, the magazines first issue was dated April 1970. The company that owned the magazine was called Twenty First Century Communications, after a shaky start for a few issues, the magazine rapidly grew in popularity. Like the Harvard Lampoon, individual issues had themes, including topics as The Future, Back to School, Death, Self-Indulgence. The magazine regularly reprinted material in best-of omnibus collections and its writers joyfully targeted every kind of phoniness, and had no specific political stance, even though individual staff members had strong political views. National Lampoon was a magazine for most of its publication history. Numerous special editions were published and sold simultaneously on newsstands. Some of the editions were anthologies of reprinted material, others were entirely original. Additional projects included a calendar, a songbook, a collection of designs for T-shirts. The magazine sold yellow binders with the Lampoon logo, designed to store a years worth of issues, the original art directors were cartoonist Peter Bramley and Bill Skurski, founders of New Yorks Cloud Studio, an alternative-culture outfit known at the time for its eclectic style
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Heavy Metal (magazine)
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Heavy Metal is an American science fiction and fantasy comics magazine, known primarily for its blend of dark fantasy/science fiction and erotica. The French title translates literally as Howling Metal, when Mogel licensed the American version, he chose to rename it, and Heavy Metal began in the U. S. in April 1977 as a glossy, full-color monthly. The magazine later ran Stefano Tamburini and Tanino Liberatores ultra-violent RanXerox, since the color pages had already been shot in France, the budget to reproduce them in the U. S. version was greatly reduced. Mogel published Heavy Metal under the name HM Communications, Inc, HM Communications published 136 issues in 16 volumes from April 1977 – March 1992. Meanwhile, the original Métal Hurlant had ceased publication in France in 1987 and it resumed in July 2002, published by Les Humanoïdes Associés. Definitely intended for an older readership, Eastman took over publication of Heavy Metal with volume 16 in May 1992, under the name Metal Mammoth, Inc. Eastman sold the magazine to digital and music veteran David Boxenbaum, Eastman continued to serve as publisher of the magazine and is a minority investor in the new Heavy Metal. Heavy Metals high-quality artwork is notable, work by international fine artists such as H. R. Giger and Esteban Maroto have been featured on the covers of various issues. Terrance Lindalls illustrated version of Miltons epic poem Paradise Lost appeared in the magazine in 1980, many stories were presented as long-running serials, such as those by Richard Corben, Pepe Moreno and Matt Howarth. Illustrator Alex Ebel contributed artwork over the course of his career, an adaptation of the film Alien, written by Archie Goodwin and drawn by Walter Simonson, was published in the magazine in 1979. The founding editors of the American edition of Heavy Metal were Sean Kelly, the founding Design Director was Peter Kleinman. Kleinman was the Design Director of National Lampoon at the time and he created the original Heavy Metal logo design at the request of Len Mogel and Matty Simmons and was responsible for the launch and art direction from the first issue. The Heavy Metal Logo was Kleinmans homage to Kabel Black, one of his favorite fonts and it was an instant hit and has been used as the basic logo ever since. Later, a section labeled Dossier, was created by associate editor Brad Balfour. Dossier featured short pieces by a variety of writers, and was edited first by Balfour and then by Stathis, Stathis continued the tradition of focusing on pop culture figures to connect the magazine to the larger hip culture context. There were also interviews with media figures as Roger Corman, Federico Fellini, John Sayles. In the Winter of 1986 original Design Director Peter Kleinman was brought back on staff, kevin Eastman had acquired the magazine the year before and became both publisher and editor after that date. Comics writer Grant Morrison became editor in chief beginning with the April 2016 issue of the magazine, in 1981, an animated feature film was adapted from several of the magazines serials
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International Standard Serial Number
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An International Standard Serial Number is an eight-digit serial number used to uniquely identify a serial publication. The ISSN is especially helpful in distinguishing between serials with the same title, ISSN are used in ordering, cataloging, interlibrary loans, and other practices in connection with serial literature. The ISSN system was first drafted as an International Organization for Standardization international standard in 1971, ISO subcommittee TC 46/SC9 is responsible for maintaining the standard. When a serial with the content is published in more than one media type. For example, many serials are published both in print and electronic media, the ISSN system refers to these types as print ISSN and electronic ISSN, respectively. The format of the ISSN is an eight digit code, divided by a hyphen into two four-digit numbers, as an integer number, it can be represented by the first seven digits. The last code digit, which may be 0-9 or an X, is a check digit. Formally, the form of the ISSN code can be expressed as follows, NNNN-NNNC where N is in the set, a digit character. The ISSN of the journal Hearing Research, for example, is 0378-5955, where the final 5 is the check digit, for calculations, an upper case X in the check digit position indicates a check digit of 10. To confirm the check digit, calculate the sum of all eight digits of the ISSN multiplied by its position in the number, the modulus 11 of the sum must be 0. There is an online ISSN checker that can validate an ISSN, ISSN codes are assigned by a network of ISSN National Centres, usually located at national libraries and coordinated by the ISSN International Centre based in Paris. The International Centre is an organization created in 1974 through an agreement between UNESCO and the French government. The International Centre maintains a database of all ISSNs assigned worldwide, at the end of 2016, the ISSN Register contained records for 1,943,572 items. ISSN and ISBN codes are similar in concept, where ISBNs are assigned to individual books, an ISBN might be assigned for particular issues of a serial, in addition to the ISSN code for the serial as a whole. An ISSN, unlike the ISBN code, is an identifier associated with a serial title. For this reason a new ISSN is assigned to a serial each time it undergoes a major title change, separate ISSNs are needed for serials in different media. Thus, the print and electronic versions of a serial need separate ISSNs. Also, a CD-ROM version and a web version of a serial require different ISSNs since two different media are involved, however, the same ISSN can be used for different file formats of the same online serial
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Arzach
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Arzach is a comic book collection of four wordless short stories by artist/author Jean Moebius Giraud, which were originally published in the French sci-fi/fantasy comics magazine Métal Hurlant. The stories follow Arzach, a silent warrior who rides a pterodactyl-like creature through a strange, the imagery and situations in Arzach are often compared to dreams or the subconscious. These stories had an impact on the French comics industry. It can be defined as a comic, fantasy comics or an experimental comic. The spelling of the title, originally Arzach, was changed in each of the short stories. Moebius later revisited the character with a story called The Legend of Arzach and this later story contains dialogue, and it ties the Arzach stories into a previously unrelated Moebius story called The Detour. Moebius 2010 book Arzak, LArpenteur was the first of a trilogy to explore the origin of the character. However, with the death of Jean Giraud in March 2012, Arzach is credited as the inspiration for the final sequence, Taarna, of the animated film Heavy Metal. Moebius Arzach is a novel by Jean-Marc and Randy Lofficier, published by iBOOKS in August,2000, the book features a cover and inside illustrations by Moebius, and a map by J. O. The first half of the book is a novelisation of several Arzach stories, the second half recursively introduces John Gerard and family into the world of Arzach. A brief essay on the history of Arzach concludes the book. Arzach was one of Panzer Dragoons major artistic influences, Jean Giraud even contributed in the creative process of Team Andromedas game with original artwork. Arzak Rhapsody, IMDB In 2006 Arzach was planned as Japanese film but only a trailer was finished Legends of Arzach Comic Vine Official Arzak Rhapsody Website Arzak_Rhapsody film, DVD Anime
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Lone Sloane
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Lone Sloane is a science fiction comics character created in 1966 by the French cartoonist Philippe Druillet. Lone Sloane first appeared in Druillets own debut, Mystère des Abîmes, other stories were published in the Franco-Belgian comics magazine Pilote from February 1970 to April 1971. The series was revamped by the author for Metal Hurlant magazine. Set 800 years after an event called the Great Fear the stories feature Lone Sloane. He is thrown into a different dimension, where he becomes a space rogue and he finds himself caught in an inter-galactic struggle between space pirates, gigantic robots, dark gods and other-dimensional entities. Very similar to Silver Surfer and Galactus, or Ulysses and the Greek Gods and it is also known for the quasi-Baroque style of Druillets artwork, which features H. P. Lovecrafts space nightmares mixed with M. C and they were first serialized in black and white in Dark Horses Cheval Noir comics anthology, then published as graphic novels by NBM Publishing. The rest of the stories have been translated into English by the magazine Heavy Metal, some of them serialized in the magazine, Loan Sloane at Bedetheque Loan Sloane at the Comic Book DB Lone Sloane on the Lofficiers site Lone Sloane at Cool French Comics
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Richard Corben
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Richard Corben is an American illustrator and comic book artist best known for his comics featured in Heavy Metal magazine. He is the winner of the 2009 Spectrum Grand Master Award, in 2012 he was elected to The Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame. Richard Corben was born on a farm in Anderson, Missouri, after working as a professional animator, Corben started doing underground comics, including Grim Wit, Slow Death, Skull, Rowlf, Fever Dreams and his own anthology Fantagor. In 1970 he began illustrating horror and science-fiction stories for Warren Publishing and his stories appeared in Creepy, Eerie, Vampirella,1984 and Comix International. He also colored several episodes of Will Eisners Spirit, all the stories and covers he did for Creepy and Eerie have been reprinted by Dark Horse Books in a single volume, Creepy Presents Richard Corben. The three stories he drew for Vampirella have been reprinted by Dynamite Entertainment in Vampirella Archives Vol.5, in 1975, when Moebius, Druillet, and Jean-Pierre Dionnet started publishing the magazine Métal Hurlant in France, Corben submitted some of his stories to them. He continued his work for the franchise in America, where the magazine was called Heavy Metal, also in 1975, a selection of his black-and-white underground comix stories was collected in hardcover as The Richard Corben Funnybook from Kansas Citys Nickelodeon Press. In 1976 he adapted a short Robert E. Howard story in a graphic novel. There, the boy becomes an enormously endowed nude muscleman who has adventures in a world of outrageous dangers, hideous monsters. From 1986–1994 Corben operated his own publishing imprint, Fantagor Press, among the titles Fantagor published were Den, Den Saga, Horror in the Dark, Rip in Time, and Son of Mutant World. Fantagor went out of business after the 1994 contraction of the comics industry, due to the sexual nature of Corbens art, it has been accused of being pornographic, a description he himself disagrees with. One notorious example was the interview he gave Heavy Metal editor Brad Balfour in 1981, Corben was very dissatisfied with the interview. He felt it portrayed him as a petty, childish, borderline psychotic oaf and he wrote a letter in retort, which was published in the September 1981 issue. Corben did the cover of Meat Loafs Bat Out of Hell, Jim Steinmans, Bad for Good, in addition, he provided cover art for the VHS release of the low-budget horror film Spookies. In 2000, Corben collaborated with Brian Azzarello on five issues of Azzarellos run on Hellblazer which was collected in a trade called Hellblazer and he also adapted the classic horror story The House on the Borderland by William Hope Hodgson for DCs Vertigo imprint. In 2001, Azzarello and Corben teamed up to create Marvels Startling Stories, Banner, in June 2004, Corben joined with Garth Ennis to produce The Punisher, The End, a one-shot title for Marvel published under the MAX imprint as part of Marvels The End series. The story tells of The Punishers final days on an earth ravaged by nuclear holocaust, ever the independent, Corben would work with rocker Rob Zombie and Steve Niles in 2005 on a project for IDW Publishing called Bigfoot. In 2007, Corben did a two issue run on Marvel Comics surreal demon biker, Ghost Rider, at Marvels MAX imprint he has produced Haunt of Horror, a mini-series adapting classic works of horror to comics
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Alejandro Jodorowsky
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Alejandro Jodorowsky Prullansky is a Chilean-French film and theatre director, screenwriter, playwright, actor, author, poet, producer, composer, musician, comics writer, and spiritual guru. Born to Jewish-Ukrainian and Polish parents in Chile, Jodorowsky experienced an unhappy and alienated childhood, dropping out of college, he became involved in theater and in particular mime, working as a clown before founding his own theater troupe, the Teatro Mimico, in 1947. Moving to Paris in the early 1950s, Jodorowsky studied mime under Étienne Decroux before turning to cinema, from 1960 he divided his time between Paris and Mexico City, in the former becoming a founding member of the anarchistic avant-garde Panic Movement of performance artists. In 1966 he created his first comic strip, Anibal 5, while in 1967 he directed his first feature film, the surrealist Fando y Lis, the result was The Holy Mountain, a surrealist exploration of western esotericism. His son Cristóbal has followed his teachings on psychoshamanism, this work is captured in the feature documentary Quantum Men, directed by Carlos Serrano Azcona. Jodorowsky was born in 1929 in the town of Tocopilla, Chile, to parents who were Jewish immigrants from Yekaterinoslav, Elisavetgrad. His father, Jaime Jodorowsky Groismann, was a merchant, who was abusive to his wife Sara Felicidad Prullansky Arcavi. Angered, he beat and raped her, getting her pregnant. Because of this conception, Sara both hated her husband and disliked her son, telling him that I cannot love you. It was this treatment at the hands of Americans that led to his condemnation of American imperialism and neo-colonialism in Latin America in several of his films. Nonetheless he liked his local area, and was unhappy when he was forced to leave it aged nine years old. His family subsequently moved to the city of Santiago, Chile, becoming interested in the political ideology of anarchism, he began attending college, studying psychology and philosophy, but stayed for only two years. After dropping out, and having an interest in theatre and particularly mime, he took up employment as a clown in a circus and began a career as a theatre director. Meanwhile, in 1947 he founded his own troupe, the Teatro Mimico, which by 1952 had fifty members. Nonetheless, Jodorowsky felt that there was little for him left in Chile and it was while in Paris that Jodorowsky began studying mime with Étienne Decroux and joined the troupe of one of Decrouxs students, Marcel Marceau. It was with Marceaus troupe that he went on a world tour, after this, he returned to theatre directing, working on the music hall comeback of Maurice Chevalier in Paris. In 1957, Jodorowsky turned his hand to filmmaking, creating Les têtes interverties and it consisted almost entirely of mime, and told the surreal story of a head-swapping merchant who helps a young man find courtship success. The director Jean Cocteau admired the film, and wrote an introduction for it and it was considered lost until a print of the film was discovered in 2006
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Enki Bilal
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Enki Bilal is a French comic book creator, comics artist and film director. Born Enes Bilalović in Belgrade, Serbia, Yugoslavia, to a Slovak mother, at age 14, he met René Goscinny and with his encouragement applied his talent to comics. He produced work for Goscinnys Franco-Belgian comics magazine Pilote in the 1970s, publishing his first story, Le Bal Maudit, in 1975, Bilal began working with script writer Pierre Christin on a series of dark and surreal tales, resulting in the body of work titled Légendes dAujourdhui. He is best known for the Nikopol trilogy, which more than a decade to complete. Bilal wrote the script and did the artwork, the final chapter, Froid Équateur, was chosen book of the year by the magazine Lire and is acknowledged by the inventor of chess boxing, Iepe Rubingh as the inspiration for the sport. The last book in the Hatzfeld tetralogy, deals with the breakup of Yugoslavia from a future viewpoint, the first installment came in 1998 in the shape of Le Sommeil du Monstre opening with the main character, Nike, remembering the war in a series of traumatic flashbacks. The third chapter of the tetralogy is Rendez-vous à Paris, which was the fifth best selling new comic of 2006 and his cinematic career was revived with the expensive Immortel, his first attempt to adapt his books to the screen. The film divided critics, some panning the use of CGI characters but others seeing it as a faithful reinterpretation of the books, on May 13,2008 a video game based on the Nikopol trilogy was announced titled Nikopol, Secrets of the Immortals. In 2012, Bilal was featured in an exhibition at The Louvre. The exhibition, titled The Ghosts of the Louvre, ran from December 20,2012 to March 18,2013, the exhibition was organized by Fabrice Douar, and featured a series of paintings of Ghosts, done atop photographs that Bilal took of the Louvres collection. La Foire aux immortels La Femme piège Froid Équateur Le Sommeil du monstre 32 Décembre Rendez-vous à Paris Quatre, many famous Bilal comics made their English debut in this period of the magazine. Although shorter stories appeared later in the Nineties, Heavy Metal readers had to wait until 2012 for another graphic novel feature from Bilal, graphic novels Short stories Since the late seventies publishers like NBM, Catalan Communications, Humanoids publishing have released several albums by Bilal. The Call of the Stars A collection of short stories
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Caza
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Caza, the pseudonym of Philippe Cazaumayou, is a French comics artist. At 18, Cazaumayou started a career in advertising which lasted for ten years, caza began to publish work in Pilote magazine, starting with his series Quand les costumes avaient des dents in 1971, followed by other short work. The series of stories Scènes de la vie de banlieue was published in 1975, followed by the LÂge dOmbre stories, Les Habitants du crépuscule and Les Remparts de la nuit. This was later abandoned for a style of use which would become a trademark, as seen in later work such as Arkhê, Chimères. From 1985 to 1987, he worked closely with René Laloux on the animated film Gandahar, in 2002–2003, he worked with Philippe Leclerc on the animated film The Rain Children, based on a novel by Serge Brussolo
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Serge Clerc
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Serge Clerc is a French comic book artist and illustrator. Serge Clerc began his career in 1975 in the monthly magazine Métal Hurlant, after having created his own fanzine. Initially a science-fiction artist, his story Captain Futur appeared in form in 1979 by Les Humanoïdes Associés. In the early 1980s Clercs work regularly appeared in the British music magazines NME, for the magazine Rock and Folk, he created the detective Phil Perfect and his alter-ego Sam Bronx, a series that was also printed in Métal Hurlant and in books by Les Humanoïdes Associés. His retro themed work has used on music albums by Carmel and Joe Jackson as well as a number of other albums. Reporter 2000, Les Limaces Rouges éd, reporter 2006, Nightclubbing Desperados, Champaka 2008, Le Journal, Denoël Graphic Serge Clerc fansite
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Bernie Wrightson
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Wrightson was born October 27,1948 in Dundalk, Maryland. He received training in art from watching Jon Gnagy on television, reading comics, particularly those of EC and his early artistic influences were Frank Frazetta and Graham Ingels. He published a piece of fan art, containing a headstone bearing the inscription Berni Wrightson, Dec.15,1965, in 1966, Wrightson began working for The Baltimore Sun newspaper as an illustrator. The following year, after meeting artist Frank Frazetta at a convention in New York City. In 1968, he showed copies of his art to DC Comics editor Dick Giordano and was given a freelance assignment. Wrightson began spelling his name Berni in his work to distinguish himself from an Olympic diver named Bernie Wrightson. In 1968, he drew his first professional comic story, The Man Who Murdered Himself. He continued to work on a variety of mystery and anthology titles for both DC and, a few later, its principal rival, Marvel Comics. Like many artists in the 1970s and 1980s, Wrightson moved to New York in hopes of finding work with publishers such as DC Comics or Marvel Comics. At one point Wrightson lived in the same Queens apartment building as artists Allen Milgrom, Howard Chaykin, Simonson recalls, Wed get together at 3 a. m. Theyd come up and wed have popcorn and sit around and talk about whatever a 26,27 and our art, TV, you name it. I pretty much knew at the time, These are the good ole days, with writer Len Wein, Wrightson co-created the muck creature Swamp Thing in House of Secrets No.92 in a standalone horror story set in the Victorian era. And I said, You know, I just wrote a story that kind of feels like the way you feel now. I told him about Swamp Thing, and he said, I gotta draw that, in summer 1972 he published Badtime Stories, a horror/science fiction comics anthology featuring his own scripts and artwork, each story being drawn in a different medium. He and writer Marv Wolfman co-created Destiny in Weird Mystery Tales No,1, a character which would later be used in the work of Neil Gaiman. In the fall of 1972 the Swamp Thing returned in his own series, set in the contemporary world, Wrightson drew the first ten issues of the series. Abigail Arcane, a supporting character in the Swamp Thing mythos was introduced in issue No.3. Michael Kaluta illustrated the series, but Wrightson did contribute much to the issue in both pencils and inks, as well as inking the splash page of issue four
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Milo Manara
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Maurilio Manara, known professionally as Milo Manara, is an Italian comic book writer and artist. In 1970 he illustrated for the magazine Terror, and starting in 1971 drew the erotic series Jolanda de Almaviva written by Francisco Rubino, joining the youth magazine Il Corriere dei Ragazzi, he worked with Rubino, Carlo Barbieri, Mino Milani and Silverio Pisú. Manara and Pisú later went on to publish Lo Scimmiotto along the story of the Chinese Monkey King in Alter Linus in 1976, during this period Manara began publishing work in several Franco-Belgian comics magazines including Charlie Mensuel, Pilote and LÉcho des savanes. For Manara created the first stories featuring HP and Giuseppe Bergman, Manara also completed two stories working with another of his heroes, Federico Fellini. In his own right Manara has been commended on his skills as a scenarist, the Ape was serialised in Heavy Metal in the early 1980s and Manara received some exposure through collaborations with Neil Gaiman and other artists. In connection with their joint project Quarantasei, in July 2006, Manara designed a helmet for Moto GP rider Valentino Rossi, I really like Milo. hes a person that I have admired for a long time. In 2003, Manaras work featured on the cover of Scottish rock band Biffy Clyros second studio album The Vertigo of Bliss, Manara also created the artwork for all the singles released from this album. In October 2006, Manara developed character designs for the television series City Hunters. The series, of ten 11-minute episodes, blends traditional animation techniques with modern CGI, Manara penciled an X-Men project written by Chris Claremont for Marvel Comics. X-Men, Ragazze in fuga was released in April 2009 in Italy this was reprinted by Marvel Comics in English as X-Women. In 2013 he started to do variant covers for issues of Marvel comic books
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Frank Margerin
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Frank Margerin is a French author and illustrator of comics. After secondary school, Margerin went to a school of applied art and he joined Sires band, Los Crados, as a drummer. The band later became Dennis Twist and he later drew and wrote several other stories for the magazine. His first album, Frank Margerin présente, which gathered his first works for Métal Hurlant, was published in 1978 and these first stories often have elements of science fiction, to fit with the other strips of Métal Hurlant. After Simone et Léon, he wrote and drew several works for Rigolo. He won his first prize in 1980 at the Lucca Comics & Games festival in Lucca and his most famous character, Lucien, was created in 1979. Lucien is a rocker from Malakoff with a pompadour hairstyle that forms a cone in front of his face. Lucien first appeared as a friend of Ricky, another rocker, with Rickys and later Luciens stories, Margerin comically described the life of suburban French rockers of the late 1970s and early 1980s. Bananes métalliques, one of Luciens albums, was a success in 1982 with over 100,000 books sold. His other characters included Albert and Mauricette, created in 1982, in 1989, Les Humanoïdes Associés gave him the direction of a series of collective albums with the common title Frank Margerin présente. He also created Ya plus de jeunesse for Albin Michel and worked on an television series, Manu. Manu was afterwards adapted into three comic albums, with the collaboration of Altheau. In 1992, Margerin received the Grand Prix de la ville dAngoulême at the Angoulême International Comics Festival and he therefore became president of the jury of the festival the next year, which was the twentieth edition of the festival. Votez Rocky, ISBN 2-7316-0125-61982 - Tome 2, bananes Métalliques, ISBN 2-7316-1317-31982 - Tome 3. Radio Lucien, ISBN 2-7316-1318-11985 - Tome 4, chez Lucien, ISBN 2-7316-1319-X1989 - Tome 5. Lucien se met au vert, ISBN 2-7316-0728-91987 - Tome 6, lulu s’maque, ISBN 2-7316-0438-71998 - Tome 7. Ricky chez les Ricains, ISBN 2-7316-1271-12000 - Tome 8, l’Insupportable Manu, ISBN 2-7316-0772-61991 - Tome 2. L’Abominable Manu, ISBN 2-7316-1011-51994 - Tome 3, Le Danger public, ISBN 2-7316-1040-91992 - Le Guide du surf, illustrator Frank Margerin Présente,1998 - Tome 1
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Francis Masse
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Francis Masse is a French cartoonist known for his imaginative and radical style. He made three short animated films before beginning his career in 1973. Masses works often involve complex scientific or philosophical concepts, the Two Guys on the Balcony Les Dessous de la ville Lower Parts of the City Masses Encyclopedia - A collection of previous works. Memories of Land Overseas Museum Tsunami The Pond with the Pirates A Race of Racers LArt-attentat They call me the avalanche
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Video game
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A video game is an electronic game that involves interaction with a user interface to generate visual feedback on a video device such as a TV screen or computer monitor. The word video in video game referred to a raster display device. Some theorists categorize video games as an art form, but this designation is controversial, the electronic systems used to play video games are known as platforms, examples of these are personal computers and video game consoles. These platforms range from large mainframe computers to small handheld computing devices, the input device used for games, the game controller, varies across platforms. Common controllers include gamepads, joysticks, mouse devices, keyboards, the touchscreens of mobile devices, and buttons, or even, with the Kinect sensor, a persons hands and body. Players typically view the game on a screen or television or computer monitor, or sometimes on virtual reality head-mounted display goggles. There are often game sound effects, music and, in the 2010s, some games in the 2000s include haptic, vibration-creating effects, force feedback peripherals and virtual reality headsets. In the 2010s, the game industry is of increasing commercial importance, with growth driven particularly by the emerging Asian markets and mobile games. As of 2015, video games generated sales of USD74 billion annually worldwide, early games used interactive electronic devices with various display formats. The earliest example is from 1947—a Cathode ray tube Amusement Device was filed for a patent on 25 January 1947, by Thomas T. Goldsmith Jr. and Estle Ray Mann, and issued on 14 December 1948, as U. S. Written by MIT students Martin Graetz, Steve Russell, and Wayne Wiitanens on a DEC PDP-1 computer in 1961, and the hit ping pong-style Pong, used the DEC PDP-1s vector display to have two spaceships battle each other. In 1971, Computer Space, created by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney, was the first commercially sold and it used a black-and-white television for its display, and the computer system was made of 74 series TTL chips. The game was featured in the 1973 science fiction film Soylent Green, Computer Space was followed in 1972 by the Magnavox Odyssey, the first home console. Modeled after a late 1960s prototype console developed by Ralph H. Baer called the Brown Box and these were followed by two versions of Ataris Pong, an arcade version in 1972 and a home version in 1975 that dramatically increased video game popularity. The commercial success of Pong led numerous other companies to develop Pong clones and their own systems, the game inspired arcade machines to become prevalent in mainstream locations such as shopping malls, traditional storefronts, restaurants, and convenience stores. The game also became the subject of articles and stories on television and in newspapers and magazines. Space Invaders was soon licensed for the Atari VCS, becoming the first killer app, the term platform refers to the specific combination of electronic components or computer hardware which, in conjunction with software, allows a video game to operate. The term system is commonly used
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Portuguese language
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Portuguese is a Romance language and the sole official language of Portugal, Brazil, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Angola, and São Tomé and Príncipe. It also has co-official language status in East Timor, Equatorial Guinea, Portuguese is part of the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several dialects of Vulgar Latin in the medieval Kingdom of Galicia, and has kept some Celtic phonology. Portuguese is also termed the language of Camões, after Luís Vaz de Camões, one of the greatest literary figures in the Portuguese language and author of the Portuguese epic poem, the museum is the first of its kind in the world. In 2015 the museum was destroyed in a fire, but there are plans to reconstruct it, when the Romans arrived in the Iberian Peninsula in 216 BCE, they brought the Latin language with them, from which all Romance languages descend. Between 409 CE and 711 CE, as the Roman Empire collapsed in Western Europe, Portuguese evolved from the medieval language, known today by linguists as Galician-Portuguese, Old Portuguese or Old Galician, of the northwestern medieval Kingdom of Galicia. It is in Latin administrative documents of the 9th century that written Galician-Portuguese words and this phase is known as Proto-Portuguese, which lasted from the 9th century until the 12th-century independence of the County of Portugal from the Kingdom of León, by then reigning over Galicia. In the first part of the Galician-Portuguese period, the language was used for documents. For some time, it was the language of preference for poetry in Christian Hispania. Portugal became an independent kingdom in 1139, under King Afonso I of Portugal, in the second period of Old Portuguese, in the 15th and 16th centuries, with the Portuguese discoveries, the language was taken to many regions of Africa, Asia and the Americas. The language continued to be popular in parts of Asia until the 19th century, some Portuguese-speaking Christian communities in India, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, and Indonesia preserved their language even after they were isolated from Portugal. The end of the Old Portuguese period was marked by the publication of the Cancioneiro Geral by Garcia de Resende, Most literate Portuguese speakers were also literate in Latin, and thus they easily adopted Latin words into their writing—and eventually speech—in Portuguese. Portuguese is the language of the majority of people in Brazil and Portugal, perhaps 75% of the population of Angola speaks Portuguese natively, and 85% are fluent. Just over 40% of the population of Mozambique are native speakers of Portuguese, Portuguese is also spoken natively by 30% of the population in Guinea-Bissau, and a Portuguese-based creole is understood by all. No data is available for Cape Verde, but almost all the population is bilingual, there are also significant Portuguese speaking immigrant communities in many countries including Andorra, Bermuda, Canada, France, Japan, Jersey, Namibia, Paraguay, Macau, Switzerland, Venezuela. In some parts of former Portuguese India, namely Goa and Daman and Diu, in 2014, an estimated 1,500 students were learning Portuguese in Goa. Equatorial Guinea made an application for full membership to the CPLP in June 2010. In 2011, Portuguese became its official language and, in July 2014. Portuguese is a subject in The school curriculum in Uruguay
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Druuna
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Druuna is an erotic science fiction and fantasy comic book character created by Italian cartoonist Paolo Eleuteri Serpieri. Most of Druunas adventures revolve around a future, and the plot is often a vehicle for varied scenes of hardcore pornography. Druuna is frequently depicted as sparsely clothed or nude, and Serpieris high quality renditions of her are often reproduced as poster prints, Druuna starred in eight volumes of the Morbus Gravis series between 1985 and 2003. These stories were featured prominently in Metal Hurlant and Heavy Metal magazines, Druuna has also been featured in Serpieris numerous and popular sketchbooks, which have sold more than a million copies in twelve languages. Serpieri himself appears in many of the stories as the character Doc, in the first volumes in the series, the action unfolds in a place called The City, a futuristic but degraded urban environment. Humans live in a cramped, hostile, and decadent society, in this society, books are banned and power is exercised by a corrupt and despotic militarized bureaucracy. Although never clearly stated, this current era, known as the Age of Man, is presumed to be the aftermath of a kind of war. As told by the priests, Evil had been visited on the populace by an incurable, infectious disease that transforms people in a progressive and rapid fashion into amorphous, tentacled mutants. As a precautionary measure, all of the Citys inhabitants are forcibly injected with a serum periodically distributed in overcrowded health facilities. Many believe that those found to be healthy will be sent to the Citys upper levels, similarly, those infected with Evil are sent to the lower levels. Druuna and her lover Shastar exist in this environment, after a series of adventures, Druuna discovers that the City is actually a giant spaceship which left Earth after an unspecified cataclysm and has drifted through space for centuries. At some point, Lewis, the captain, delegated control to the computer Delta. Delta transformed Lewis into an immortal being, using parts from the healthy people who had been admitted to the upper levels of the City. Now, Lewis, tired of immortality, wants to die and this conflict is partially responsible for the gradual degradation of life on the ship/planetoid. Druuna is recruited by Lewis to help him destroy Delta, unaware of fact that it would mean destruction of the City and all its inhabitants, Druuna finds Delta and carry out Lewiss plan. At the end Lewis reveals his plan to destroy the City. In turn, Lewis puts Druuna in a similar to hibernation for centuries. Something happens when a new ship, initially believed to be an asteroid, commanded by a character named Will, the new ship is revealed to be similar to the City, which has become, thanks to the evolution of Evil, a super-organism
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Stefano Raffaele
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Stefano Raffaele is an Italian comics book artist. Born in Milan, his first published work was in Lazarus Ledd #4 in 1994, from the following year, he worked for American comics series such as New Gods, Birds of Prey, Batman, X-Men Adventures, X-Factor and Conan the Barbarian. In 2000, he pencilled Arkhain, a science-fiction mini-series published by Marvel Italia and he also wrote and drew Fragile which appeared in Metal Hurlant magazine. In 2007, it was announced that Fragile would be made into a film to be directed by Eduardo Rodriguez, comics work includes, The Blackburne Covenant Fragile Official website
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Jeremiah (comics)
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Jeremiah is a Belgian science fiction comic book series by Hermann Huppen. Jeremiah was created in 1979 for the German magazine Zack, and has been serialized in the French-language Métal Hurlant and Spirou magazine, currently, there are 32 volumes and one Special Edition in French and Dutch. Racial wars have torn the U. S. apart, resulting in a post-apocalyptic world, Jeremiah and his friend Kurdy travel the country, taking odd jobs and getting mixed up in various affairs. Jeremiah, being the noble of the two, often sticks his neck out to help others, while Kurdy is a more wily. Despite its setting, Jeremiahs underlying motif is of hope and the survival of mankind, the storylines carry little from album to album, meaning they can be read individually. Jeremiah has been translated into several languages, and has a fan base in Europe. Tome #25, Et si un jour la Terre, was nominated for the 2005 Angoulême International Comics Festival Prize Awarded by the Audience. Various attempts to introduce the series to the American market have had middling results, the current holder of the English language copyrights is Strip Art Features. Following are the Jeremiah comic albums as named in French, with publication dates, an American television series, Jeremiah, was produced from 2002–2004. Developed by Babylon 5 creator J. Michael Straczynski and executive produced by Straczynski and Sam Egan, aside from the names of the two main characters, the general personality of the protagonist, and the post-apocalyptic setting, there are no similarities between the comics and the series. Hombre Hermann Huppen official site Dark Horse profile
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Kraken (comics)
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Kraken is a Spanish comics series, written by Antonio Segura and drawn by Jordi Bernet, first published in the magazine Metropol in 1983. The stories are centered on protagonist Lieutenant Dante, a policeman in a dystopic society patrolling the violent sewers of the fictional city Metropol, as the magazines run proved short-lived and was forced to shut down, the series continued its run in Zona 84. Initially published in black and white, later issues were released in colour. The stories are presented in short episodes, and feature concentrated violence, claustrophobic settings. There are also appearances of characters who bear resemblance to real-life actors. Lieutenant Dante leads a patrol unit, in its efforts to hunt down the Kraken. The GAS patrol, the Subterranean Action Group, who make up Dantes soldiers, a police unit with an extremely high mortality rate. The Kraken, the antagonist monster, is almost a character, by horrific reputation
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Dan O'Bannon
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Daniel Thomas Dan OBannon was an American film screenwriter, director, visual effects supervisor, and occasional actor, usually in the science fiction and horror genres. OBannon is best known for having written the screenplay for Alien, OBannon was born in St. Louis, Missouri, the son of Bertha and Thomas Sidney OBannon, a carpenter. While there he roomed with future movie producer Michael Shamberg and he then attended the University of Southern California film school, where he met John Carpenter and collaborated with him on the science fiction student film Dark Star. Carpenter expanded the Dark Star short into a feature which was released in 1974 with a budget of only US$60,000. OBannon served in a number of capacities, including scripting, editing and acting in one of the leading roles, in 1975, Dark Star won the Golden Scroll award for Best Special Effects. OBannon, growing up a science-fiction and horror enthusiast, abandoned technical work for screenwriting, OBannon attended USC Film School and lived near the Los Angeles Campus in an old two-story house affectionately called the Menlo Manor which he shared with other USC students. Part of his student film Dark Star was filmed there, with OBannon co-starring as Sgt and he spent many late nights in old Hollywood editing his and other student films. His wish was to become a director, Dark Star was edited by OBannon using a 1940s Moviola. OBannons role is prominently featured in the 2013 documentary Jodorowskys Dune, the collapse of Dune left OBannon broke, homeless, and dependent on friends for his survival. While living with his friend Ronald Shusett, they came up with the story for OBannons career-making film Alien, for which he wrote the screenplay, in 1981, OBannon helped create the animated feature Heavy Metal, writing two of its segments. OBannon voiced his displeasure with his next outing, John Badhams Blue Thunder. Originally written with Don Jakoby, Blue Thunder also underwent extensive rewriting, losing some of its political content. He and Jakoby also scripted Lifeforce, a based on Colin Wilsons novel The Space Vampires and directed by Tobe Hooper that veers from alien visitation to vampirism. It was not well received at the time, and was considered a box office flop, OBannon would again collaborate with Jakoby and Hooper for the 1986 remake Invaders from Mars. Purists considered it inferior to the 1950s original and it performed poorly at the box office. OBannon also worked as a consultant for C. H. U. D, helping to create the design concept for the title creatures. In 1985, OBannon moved into the chair with Return of the Living Dead. Like Alien, the met with success, spawned numerous sequels
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Rutger Hauer
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Rutger Oelsen Hauer is a Dutch actor, writer, and environmentalist. He has acted in both Dutch and English-language TV series and films and his career began in 1969 with the title role in the Dutch television series Floris. Hauer founded the Rutger Hauer Starfish Association, an AIDS awareness organization, Hauer was born on 23 January 1944 in Breukelen in the Netherlands. He is the son of drama teachers Teunke and Arend Hauer and he has three sisters, one older and two younger. Since his parents were occupied with their careers, he. He went to a Waldorf school, at the age of 15, Hauer ran off to sea and spent a year scrubbing decks aboard a freighter. Returning home, he worked as an electrician and a joiner for three years while attending acting classes at night school, Hauer served in the Royal Netherlands Navy. Hauer joined a troupe, with which he remained for five years before Paul Verhoeven cast him in the lead role of the 1969 television series Floris. The role made him famous in his country, and Hauer reprised his role for the 1975 German remake Floris von Rosemund. Hauers career changed course when Verhoeven cast him in Turkish Delight, the film found box office favour abroad and at home, and Hauer looked to appear in more international films. Within two years, Hauer made his English-language debut in the British film The Wilby Conspiracy, set in South Africa, the film was an action-drama with a focus on apartheid. Hauers supporting role, however, was noticed in Hollywood. During this period, he made Katie Tippel and worked again with Verhoeven on Soldier of Orange and these two films paired Hauer with fellow Dutch actor Jeroen Krabbé. Hauer made his American debut in the Sylvester Stallone film Nighthawks as a psychopathic and he continued to make an impression on audiences in The Hitcher, in which he played a mysterious hitchhiker tormenting a lone motorist and murdering anyone in his way. At the height of Hauers fame, he was set to be cast as RoboCop though the role went to Peter Weller. That same year, Hauer starred as Nick Randall in Wanted, in The Legend of the Holy Drinker, Hauer showed a more soulful side. Phillip Noyce also attempted to capitalize, with far less success, Hauer returned to science fiction with The Blood of Heroes, in which he played a former champion in a post-apocalyptic world. He also appeared in the Kylie Minogue music video On a Night Like This, in 1999, Hauer was awarded the Dutch Best Actor of the Century Rembrandt Award
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Scott Adkins
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Adkins has also appeared in Dangerfield, Hollyoaks, The Tournament TV series and many others, as well as starred in many direct-to-video films. Scott Adkins was born in Sutton Coldfield, England, on 17 June 1976 and he became interested in martial arts at the age of ten when he, his father, and older brother, Craig, visited the local Judo club. His interest towards martial arts even more at age 14 because he was mugged around the age of 13 on a bus. That same year, he started practicing Taekwondo, since age 16, Adkins has also trained in Kickboxing under Anthony Jones. He is now a fully trained Kickboxing Instructor for the P. K. A and his first break came when he was offered a role in a Hong Kong martial arts film called Dei Seung Chui Keung. Spotted by Head of The Hong Kong Stuntmen Association and director Wei Tung and English-born Hong Kong movie expert Bey Logan, Adkins found himself in the East for the first time. Scott got the chance to work some of Hong Kong cinemas leading action directors including Woo-ping Yuen, Corey Yuen, Sammo Hung Kam-Bo. Acting roles started to come in and he was offered a guest role in BBCs Doctors filmed at Birminghams Pebble Mill, starring roles in feature films soon followed with his portrayal of Talbot in Special Forces and Yuri Boyka in Undisputed II, Last Man Standing. It was this film that broke him into the mainstream with his villainous portrayal of a Russian MMA underground fighter Boyka, Adkins appears in the role of King Amphitryon in The Legend of Hercules. In 2012, he was cast to star in Métal Hurlant Chronicles, guillaume Lubrano creator and director of the show decided to cross the universe of two originals stories. Official website Scott Adkins at the Internet Movie Database
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Michael Jai White
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Michael Jai White is an American actor, writer, director, producer, stunt coordinator and martial artist who has appeared in numerous films and television series. He is the first African American to portray a comic book superhero in a major motion picture, having starred as Al Simmons. White appeared as Marcus Williams in the Tyler Perry films Why Did I Get Married, and Why Did I Get Married Too. and currently stars as the character on the TBS/OWN comedy-drama television series Tyler Perrys For Better or Worse. White portrayed Jax Briggs in Mortal Kombat, Legacy, White also portrayed boxer Mike Tyson in the 1995 HBO television movie Tyson. White was born in Brooklyn, New York and moved as a teen to Bridgeport, Connecticut, where he graduated from Central High School in 1985. He is a martial artist, holding black belts in eight different styles, Shotokan, Taekwondo, Kobudo, Goju Ryu, Tang Soo Do, Wushu and Kyokushin. White started training in the arts at the age of seven in Jujutsu. Whites first major starring role and breakout performance was in the 1995 HBO film Tyson and he portrayed the eponymous character in the 1997 movie Spawn, making him the first African American to portray a major comic book superhero in a major motion picture. His work in Spawn earned him a nomination for the Blockbuster Entertainment Award for Best Male Newcomer, White starred opposite Jean-Claude Van Damme in Universal Soldier, The Return. In 2001, he starred opposite fellow martial artist Steven Seagal in Exit Wounds. In 2003, he starred in Busta Rhymes and Mariah Careys music video I Know What You Want, since 2003, in addition to his on screen roles, White has been doing voice work, including Static Shock and the Justice League. White showcases his martial skills in the direct-to-DVD film Undisputed II. He also appears in Michelle Yeohs Silver Hawk in 2004 and he appeared in Kill Bill, Volume 2, although his role was cut from the theatrical release. His film Why Did I Get Married, opened at number one at the box office on October 12,2007. White played the role of the mob boss Gambol in the 2008 film The Dark Knight and he also starred in the film Blood and Bone and the blaxploitation homage Black Dynamite, both released in 2009. White wrote the scripts for both Black Dynamite and his upcoming 3 Bullets in which he stars with Bokeem Woodbine, on March 30,2010, White appeared on The MoNique Show to promote his film Why Did I Get Married Too. The two joked about the acclaim that comes with winning an Oscar. In May of that year he appeared in the video for Toni Braxtons new song Hands Tied from her album Pulse, as well as the Nicki Minaj music video for Your Love as Nickis sensei
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Joe Flanigan
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Joe Flanigan is an American writer and actor best known for his portrayal of the character Major/Lt. Colonel John Sheppard in Stargate Atlantis, Flanigan was born Joseph Dunnigan III in Los Angeles. He has said that his father left his mother, Nancy, soon after he was born, when he was six years old, his family moved to a small ranch near Reno, Nevada. From the age of 14, Flanigan attended a school in Ojai, California. He later earned a degree at the University of Colorado where he appeared in the play Coriolanus. On the advice of a friend, he took acting to overcome his shyness, as part of the Junior Year Abroad program, Flanigan spent a year studying at the Sorbonne in Paris, where he learned French. After graduation, he pursued a writing career and he worked on Capitol Hill and then briefly for several New York City publications, including Town & Country and Interview magazine. On the advice of some of his friends, he studied at the Neighborhood Playhouse, was coached by Gerald Gordon, and then moved back to Los Angeles in 1994 to pursue an acting career. Flanigan had guest roles in television series including Profiler, First Monday. He lived in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, where the series was filmed during the week and he additionally wrote for the series and created the stories for the Stargate Atlantis second season episode Epiphany and the fourth season episode Outcast. In September 2007, scifi. coms SciFi Wire service reported that and this is the first time Im hearing about this. UTA filed a lawsuit against actor Wesley Snipes who was equally surprised. This suit was settled in December 2008, Flanigan appears in Brooks Institute photographer John A. Russos upcoming book About Face. Part of the proceeds are to be donated to Smile Train, Flanigan features in the contemporary public artwork, Metascifi by artist Martin Firrell. Metascifi presents social comment, and philosophical truths about living well, the project features performers and characters from Stargate, Star Trek, Farscape, Firefly and Warehouse 13. As the ‘meta’ element of the title suggests, the artwork invites Flanigan to comment on the wider social, Flanigan married Katherine Kousi, an actress and painter, in 1996. In early 2014, it was announced they had separated, Flanigan took two prizes in the Waterkeepers Alliance downhill skiing competition at Lake Louise in January 2006, an event fellow Stargate lead Richard Dean Anderson has attended as well. He currently resides in Malibu, California, Joe Flanigan at the Internet Movie Database Joe Flanigan on Twitter
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David Belle
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David Belle is a French actor, film choreographer and stunt coordinator. He is deemed the founder and leading pioneer of the physical discipline Parkour, coining it based on his training and the teachings from his father Raymond Belle. Belle came to fame via his parkour videos and film appearances, such as District 13, District 13, Ultimatum, which were written and produced by Luc Besson, Belle has also consulted on the making of Babylon A. D. Prince of Persia, Colombiana and The Family, Belle was born and raised in Fécamp, France, the son of Monique and Raymond Belle, in a modest family in the suburbs of Paris. His grandfather Gilbert Kitten, father Raymond, and brother Jean-François Belle have been highly skilled rescuers in the Military Paris Fire Brigade, in 1984, at the age of 11, Belle moved to Lisses, France. He made close friends with a group of teenagers with similar physical passions who began training with him, some of the friends that trained with David would later become known as the Yamakasi. Later in life, Belle spent time in the military and fire brigade with aspirations of following in his fathers and grandfathers footsteps and he left soon after for personal reasons in order to dedicate himself to parkour. He has however said that his taste and love for adventure, upon completing his national service, he worked in various professions including a warehouse worker, security guard and furniture salesman. He also spent 3 months in India studying kung fu, after his return he continued his training in parkour and filmed footage of his capabilities which he later turned into the famous Speed Air Man video. In 1997 the Stade 2 team were shown a video of Belle, in filming this news feature, the term Yamakasi was used for the first time in connection with the team. Belle did not approve of the name and felt like it did not give credit to his father, later Belle would go on to train other students who gave themselves the name tracer. The spelling was adapted to traceur, and has since been used to define a practitioner of parkour. However more recently, Belle claimed that A traceur is not a practitioner of parkour, Belle was first introduced to his acting career in a meeting with Hubert Koundé, in order to discuss the success of parkour in cinema. He then began developing his ability with the play Pygmalion. Belle has been featured in videos for Tina Turner. He has starred in Les gens du voyages and Un monde meilleur, followed by LEngrenages and Femme Fatale, as well as Les rivières pourpres 2, Belle co-starred with Paul Walker in Brick Mansions, a remake of District 13. Belle largely stays out of the public spotlight and his last major appearance was when he appeared as a guest at the New Yorker Festival in 2007. Belle was interviewed for the parkour article No Obstacles written by Alec Wilkinson which was published in April 2007, Belle formerly endorsed the clothing company Take Flight, deciding to sever his ties to the brand because he disapproved of their business activities and motives
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James Marsters
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James Wesley Marsters is an American actor and musician. Marsters appeared in a role in the 2007 movie P. S. He appeared as a character in the first season of the revival of Hawaii Five-0. Marsters was born in Greenville, California, the son of a United Methodist minister and he grew up with his brother, Paul, and sister, Susan, in Modesto, California. Dreaming about becoming an actor since he played Eeyore in Winnie the Pooh in fourth grade, Marsters joined the group at Grace M. Davis High School and acted in many plays. After graduation in 1980, Marsters studied at the Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts in Santa Maria, California, in 1982 he moved to New York City to attend the Juilliard School, but left the program after two years. Marsters moved to Chicago, where his first professional acting role was Ferdinand in The Tempest at the Goodman Theatre in 1987, in this production, he was rolled onto the stage strapped naked to a wheel. He also appeared with well-known Chicago companies such as the Northlight and the Bailiwick and with his own group, in 1990, Marsters moved to Seattle and, with Liane Davidson and Greg Musick, formed the New Mercury Theatre. In this and other companies, Marsters was involved in a range of plays, including Teechers, Anouilhs Antigone, an original work based on the Dr. Seuss books. In 1992, Marsters got his first acting job on TV—on Northern Exposure and he has made guest appearances on television series such as Andromeda, as well as the independent films Chance, Winding Roads, and the 2005 USA Network movie Cool Money. In 1999, he had a role in the remake of House on Haunted Hill as a TV cameraman. It was his appearance as villain Spike on the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer that attracted the attention of the general public, for the role, he put on a London accent and he received informal coaching from English co-star Anthony Stewart Head. Spike had been intended as a role by creator Joss Whedon. He made it clear he did not want the show to be taken over by another romantic vampire, Marsters told 411Mania, adding to Joss, vampires were supposed to be ugly, evil. When I was cast Joss did not imagine me to be popular, Spike was supposed to be dirty and evil, punk rock, the massive fan response prevented his character from being killed off, however, allowing him a presence throughout the second season. He thought he would not last as, being a vampire, he was restricted to night-time scenes, instead, Spike would last until the very end of the show and become a romantic partner for Buffy. After the conclusion of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Marsters carried Spike over to the Buffy spin-off show, Angel, also in a regular role. Marsters was asked to keep quiet about this, as his return was intended to be a surprise, in April 2004, following the end of Angel, Marsters had Spikes trademark bleached hair shaved off for charity live on television in On Air with Ryan Seacrest
