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Moscone Center
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Moscone Center /mɒsˈkoʊni/ is the largest convention and exhibition complex in San Francisco, California. It comprises three main halls, Two underground halls underneath Yerba Buena Gardens, known as Moscone North and Moscone South, as mayor, Moscone convened a special committee of proponents and opponents of a convention center. Hearings were held throughout SF seeking citizen input, a compromise was reached which was supported by Moscone. He put the matter on the ballot and it passed overwhelmingly, labor organizations supported the construction of the Center, and were granted full labor jurisdiction. All labor in the Convention Center is performed by I. A. T. S. E, Local 16 Stagehands, Sign and Display Workers Local #510, Brotherhood of Teamsters local #65, IBEW Local #6, Security I. A. T. S. E. Local #B-18, Communications Workers of America, and the Hotel & Restaurant Workers Local #2, mcCune Audio/Video/Lighting is the on site rental service. Moscone Center was featured in the 1995 movie, The Net, the Democratic Party of the United States held its 1984 convention at the Convention Center, nominating Walter Mondale for President of the United States and Geraldine Ferraro for Vice President. The expansion of Moscone North and Moscone West in 1992 and 2003, designed by Gensler, a large solar electricity system was installed on the roof of the center in March 2004. The installation of this system marked San Franciscos first major step towards obtaining all municipal energy from pollution-free sources, with the 60, 000-square-foot solar array in place, San Francisco boasts one of the largest city-owned solar installations in the country. The electricity generated by the system, combined with savings from energy efficiency measures. The Amtrak bus stop at Moscone Center also transports riders to the Emeryville Amtrak station, Moscone North and South underwent a two-year renovation project completed in 2012. The renewal project was designed by HOK, the original architect. The 2004 solar installation was done by PowerLight Corporation
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Anaheim Convention Center
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Anaheim Convention Center is a major convention center in Anaheim, California. It is located across from the Disneyland Resort on Katella Avenue, the original components, designed by Adrian Wilson & Associates, opened in July 1967—including a basketball arena followed shortly by the convention hall. It holds many events, like VidCon, BlizzCon, Anime Expo, WonderCon, NAMM Show, competitions, in addition to hosting various types of conventions, the Anaheim Convention Center was used to host the wrestling during the 1984 Summer Olympics. The center has undergone five major expansions. It is the largest exhibit facility on the West Coast, originally, the arena was home to the Anaheim Amigos of the American Basketball Association during the first ABA season, 1967–68. The Stars subsequent fan support in Utah set the foundation for the NBAs Utah Jazz, the San Diego Friars of WTT played some of their home matches in the arena between 1975 and 1977. In 1978, the Anaheim Oranges of WTT used the arena as their home venue. The arena was home to the California Surf of the NASL for one indoor season. According to frequent news reports, the largest exposition held at the Convention Center in recent years has been the Winter NAMM Show and this music-equipment convention had 1,560 exhibitors and a record-breaking 88,100 attendees during the 2008 show. The NAMM Show has been running at the Anaheim Center since 1977, the Anime Expo was hosted at the Anaheim Convention Center in 1996 and again from 2003 through 2006 and was one of the convention centers biggest public events. Blizzard Entertainment holds BlizzCon at the venue, in 2005, BlizzCon used the northern two conference halls. In 2007 and 2008, it used three conference halls, in 2009, it used four conference halls. While tickets to the 2007 event sold out in 3 days, tickets to the October 2008 event sold out within minutes, tickets to the 2010 Blizzcon reportedly sold out within 30 seconds. Another large convention held at the Center is the Medical Design and Manufacturing Show, the venue served as the site for wrestling at the 1984 Summer Olympics. The venue hosted the Big West Conferences mens and womens basketball tournaments from 2001 to 2010. It was briefly home to the Anaheim Arsenal of the NBA Development League, during the 1992 Los Angeles riots, the Los Angeles Clippers were forced to move Game 4 of their NBA playoff series versus the Utah Jazz to the Convention Center. VidCon has been held at the Anaheim Convention Center since its annual event in 2012. The new venue offered a larger capacity than the previously used Hyatt Regency Century Plaza hotel in Los Angeles
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Los Angeles Convention Center
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The Los Angeles Convention Center is a convention center in the southwest portion of downtown Los Angeles. The LACC hosts annual events such as the Los Angeles Auto Show and Anime Expo and its newest major events are the Primetime Emmy Awards Governors Ball, Microsoft WPC, Abilities Expo, and frequent TV show and movie filmings. The Convention Center, designed by architect Charles Luckman, opened in 1971 and it was originally built as a rectangle building, between Pico Boulevard and 11th Street on Figueroa Street. The northeast portion of the Center was demolished in 1997 to make way for the Staples Center, the Convention Center Annex of green glass and white steel frames, mainly on the south side of Pico, was designed by architect James Ingo Freed. The area in front of the Convention Center is known as the Gilbert Lindsay Plaza, a 10-foot -high monument honoring The Emperor of the Great 9th District was unveiled in 1995. The drive between Figueroa Street and the Convention Center building is named after Councilman Lindsay. On March 1,1983, a tornado caused damages to the roof, the building was repaired and new Convention Center lettering signs were installed at a total cost of $3 million. Since 2005, the center has hosted the MusiCares Person of the Year tribute two nights prior to the Grammy Awards. It also hosted the pre-telecast portion of the Grammy Awards until 2013, in 2013, the Los Angeles City Council voted to let Anschutz Entertainment Group manage the Convention Center. The LACC is one of the largest convention centers in the United States with over 720,000 sq ft of space,147,000 sq ft of meeting space,1,960,000 sq ft of parking. The lobby floors in the half of the building feature two large 140,000 sq ft multicolor maps of inlaid terrazzo. The project was installed by artist Alexis Smith in 1993, a map of the world centered on the Pacific Rim covers the entire floor of the main lobby, while a map of the constellations around the north celestial pole covers the floor of the upstairs lobby. The development proposal was abandoned in March 2015, a new proposal was developed in 2015, approved by city hall and a design team was chosen. A new convention hall, called LACOEX, would be built, construction and approval is set to commence by 2019. Los Angeles 2024 organizers plan to use the center for various sports. It will be apart of the Live Site Olympic Zone down Figueroa St. William M
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California
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California is the most populous state in the United States and the third most extensive by area. Located on the western coast of the U. S, California is bordered by the other U. S. states of Oregon, Nevada, and Arizona and shares an international border with the Mexican state of Baja California. Los Angeles is Californias most populous city, and the second largest after New York City. The Los Angeles Area and the San Francisco Bay Area are the nations second- and fifth-most populous urban regions, California also has the nations most populous county, Los Angeles County, and its largest county by area, San Bernardino County. The Central Valley, an agricultural area, dominates the states center. What is now California was first settled by various Native American tribes before being explored by a number of European expeditions during the 16th and 17th centuries, the Spanish Empire then claimed it as part of Alta California in their New Spain colony. The area became a part of Mexico in 1821 following its war for independence. The western portion of Alta California then was organized as the State of California, the California Gold Rush starting in 1848 led to dramatic social and demographic changes, with large-scale emigration from the east and abroad with an accompanying economic boom. If it were a country, California would be the 6th largest economy in the world, fifty-eight percent of the states economy is centered on finance, government, real estate services, technology, and professional, scientific and technical business services. Although it accounts for only 1.5 percent of the states economy, the story of Calafia is recorded in a 1510 work The Adventures of Esplandián, written as a sequel to Amadis de Gaula by Spanish adventure writer Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo. The kingdom of Queen Calafia, according to Montalvo, was said to be a land inhabited by griffins and other strange beasts. This conventional wisdom that California was an island, with maps drawn to reflect this belief, shortened forms of the states name include CA, Cal. Calif. and US-CA. Settled by successive waves of arrivals during the last 10,000 years, various estimates of the native population range from 100,000 to 300,000. The Indigenous peoples of California included more than 70 distinct groups of Native Americans, ranging from large, settled populations living on the coast to groups in the interior. California groups also were diverse in their organization with bands, tribes, villages. Trade, intermarriage and military alliances fostered many social and economic relationships among the diverse groups, the first European effort to explore the coast as far north as the Russian River was a Spanish sailing expedition, led by Portuguese captain Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo, in 1542. Some 37 years later English explorer Francis Drake also explored and claimed a portion of the California coast in 1579. Spanish traders made unintended visits with the Manila galleons on their trips from the Philippines beginning in 1565
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United States
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Forty-eight of the fifty states and the federal district are contiguous and located in North America between Canada and Mexico. The state of Alaska is in the northwest corner of North America, bordered by Canada to the east, the state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific Ocean. The U. S. territories are scattered about the Pacific Ocean, the geography, climate and wildlife of the country are extremely diverse. At 3.8 million square miles and with over 324 million people, the United States is the worlds third- or fourth-largest country by area, third-largest by land area. It is one of the worlds most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, paleo-Indians migrated from Asia to the North American mainland at least 15,000 years ago. European colonization began in the 16th century, the United States emerged from 13 British colonies along the East Coast. Numerous disputes between Great Britain and the following the Seven Years War led to the American Revolution. On July 4,1776, during the course of the American Revolutionary War, the war ended in 1783 with recognition of the independence of the United States by Great Britain, representing the first successful war of independence against a European power. The current constitution was adopted in 1788, after the Articles of Confederation, the first ten amendments, collectively named the Bill of Rights, were ratified in 1791 and designed to guarantee many fundamental civil liberties. During the second half of the 19th century, the American Civil War led to the end of slavery in the country. By the end of century, the United States extended into the Pacific Ocean. The Spanish–American War and World War I confirmed the status as a global military power. The end of the Cold War and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 left the United States as the sole superpower. The U. S. is a member of the United Nations, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, Organization of American States. The United States is a developed country, with the worlds largest economy by nominal GDP. It ranks highly in several measures of performance, including average wage, human development, per capita GDP. While the U. S. economy is considered post-industrial, characterized by the dominance of services and knowledge economy, the United States is a prominent political and cultural force internationally, and a leader in scientific research and technological innovations. In 1507, the German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller produced a map on which he named the lands of the Western Hemisphere America after the Italian explorer and cartographer Amerigo Vespucci
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San Diego Comic-Con
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San Diego Comic-Con International is a multi-genre entertainment and comic convention held annually in San Diego, California. The name, as given on its website, is Comic-Con International, San Diego and it is a four-day event held during the summer at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego. On the Wednesday evening prior to the opening of the event, there is a preview for professionals, exhibitors. Comic-Con International also produces two other conventions, WonderCon, held in Los Angeles, and the Alternative Press Expo and it is also the home of the Will Eisner Awards. In 2010, it filled the San Diego Convention Center to capacity with more than 130,000 attendees, the convention was founded in 1970 by Shel Dorf, Richard Alf, Ken Krueger, Mike Towry, Barry Alfonso, Bob Sourk, and Greg Bear. Detroit, Michigan-born, comics fan Shel Dorf, had, in the mid-1960s, mounted the Detroit Triple-Fan Fairs, one of the first commercial comics-fan conventions. When he moved to San Diego, California, in 1970, he organized a convention on March 21,1970. Dorf went on to be associated with the convention as president or manager, variously, Alf co-chaired the first convention with Krueger and became chairman in 1971. Following the initial gathering, Dorfs first three-day San Diego comics convention, other locations in the conventions early years included the El Cortez Hotel, the University of California, San Diego, and Golden Hall, before being moved to the San Diego Convention Center in 1991. I was quietly walking the floor stunned and in awe of just how much bigger it really was, the convention is organized by a panel of 13 board members,16 to 20 full-time and part-time workers, and 80 volunteers who assist via committees. Comic Con International is an organization, and proceeds of the event go to funding it, as well as the Alternative Press Expo. The convention logo was designed by Richard Bruning and Josh Beatman in 1995, in September 2010, the convention announced that it would stay in San Diego through 2015. In 2015, working with Lionsgate, a channel was created to host Comic-Con related content. According to the San Diego Convention and Visitors Bureau, the convention has a regional economic impact of $162.8 million. Along with panels, seminars, and workshops with comic book professionals, there are previews of upcoming feature films, like most comic-book conventions, Comic-Con features a large floorspace for exhibitors. These include media companies such as studios and TV networks, as well as comic-book dealers. And like most comics conventions, Comic-Con includes an area, as well as the Artists Alley where comics artists can sign autographs. Despite the name, artists alleys can include writers and even models, academics and comic industry professionals annually hold the Comics Arts Conference at Comic-Con, presenting scholarly studies on comics as a medium
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Comic book
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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, although comics has some origins in 18th century Japan and 1830s Europe, comic books were first popularized in the United States during the 1930s. Comic books are reliant on their organization and appearance, authors largely focus on the frame of the page, size, orientation, and panel positions. These characteristic aspects of books are necessary in conveying the content. The key elements of comic books include panels, balloons, text, balloons are usually convex spatial containers of information that are related to a character using a tail element. The tail has an origin, path, tip, and pointed direction, there are many technological formulas used to create comic books, including directions, axes, data, and metrics. Following these key formatting procedures is the writing, drawing, Comics as a print medium have existed in America since the printing of The Adventures of Mr. Obadiah Oldbuck in 1842 in hardcover, making it the first known American prototype comic book. The introduction of Jerry Siegel and Joe Shusters Superman in 1938 turned comic books into a major industry, the Golden Age originated the archetype of the superhero. Historians generally divide the timeline of the American comic book into eras, the Golden Age of Comic Books began with the introduction of Superman in 1938, spurring a period of high sales. The Silver Age of comic books is considered to date from the first successful revival of the then-dormant superhero form. The demarcation between the Silver Age and the era, the Bronze Age of Comic Books, is less well-defined. The Modern Age of Comic Books runs from the mid-1980s to the present day, in response to attention from the government and from the media, the U. S. comic book industry set up the Comics Magazine Association of America. The CMAA instilled the Comics Code Authority in 1954 and drafted the self-censorship Comics Code that year and it was not until the 1970s that comic books could be published without passing through the inspection of the CMAA. In the early 1970s, a surge of creativity emerged in what known as underground comix. Published and distributed independently of the comics industry, most of such comics reflected the youth counterculture. Underground comics were almost never sold at newsstands, but rather in such youth-oriented outlets as head shops and record stores, frank Stacks The Adventures of Jesus, published under the name Foolbert Sturgeon, has been credited as the first underground comic. The rise of comic book specialty stores in the late 1970s created/paralleled a dedicated market for independent or alternative comics in the U. S, some independent comics continued in the tradition of underground comics. A few represented experimental attempts to bring closer to the status of fine art
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Science fiction
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Science fiction often explores the potential consequences of scientific and other innovations, and has been called a literature of ideas. Science fiction is difficult to define, as it includes a range of subgenres and themes. Author and editor Damon Knight summed up the difficulty, saying science fiction is what we point to when we say it, a definition echoed by author Mark C. Glassy, who argues that the definition of science fiction is like the definition of pornography, you do not know what it is, in 1970 or 1971William Atheling Jr. According to science fiction writer Robert A, rod Serlings definition is fantasy is the impossible made probable. Science fiction is the improbable made possible, Science fiction is largely based on writing rationally about alternative possible worlds or futures. Science fiction elements include, A time setting in the future, in alternative timelines, a spatial setting or scenes in outer space, on other worlds, or on subterranean earth. Characters that include aliens, mutants, androids, or humanoid robots, futuristic or plausible technology such as ray guns, teleportation machines, and humanoid computers. Scientific principles that are new or that contradict accepted physical laws, for time travel, wormholes. New and different political or social systems, e. g. utopian, dystopian, post-scarcity, paranormal abilities such as mind control, telepathy, telekinesis Other universes or dimensions and travel between them. A product of the budding Age of Reason and the development of science itself. Isaac Asimov and Carl Sagan considered Keplers work the first science fiction story and it depicts a journey to the Moon and how the Earths motion is seen from there. Later, Edgar Allan Poe wrote a story about a flight to the moon, more examples appeared throughout the 19th century. Wells The War of the Worlds describes an invasion of late Victorian England by Martians using tripod fighting machines equipped with advanced weaponry and it is a seminal depiction of an alien invasion of Earth. In the late 19th century, the scientific romance was used in Britain to describe much of this fiction. This produced additional offshoots, such as the 1884 novella Flatland, the term would continue to be used into the early 20th century for writers such as Olaf Stapledon. In the early 20th century, pulp magazines helped develop a new generation of mainly American SF writers, influenced by Hugo Gernsback, the founder of Amazing Stories magazine. In 1912 Edgar Rice Burroughs published A Princess of Mars, the first of his series of Barsoom novels, situated on Mars
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Film
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A film, also called a movie, motion picture, theatrical film or photoplay, is a series of still images which, when shown on a screen, creates the illusion of moving images due to the phi phenomenon. This optical illusion causes the audience to perceive continuous motion between separate objects viewed rapidly in succession, the process of filmmaking is both an art and an industry. The word cinema, short for cinematography, is used to refer to the industry of films. Films were originally recorded onto plastic film through a photochemical process, the adoption of CGI-based special effects led to the use of digital intermediates. Most contemporary films are now fully digital through the process of production, distribution. Films recorded in a form traditionally included an analogous optical soundtrack. It runs along a portion of the film exclusively reserved for it and is not projected, Films are cultural artifacts created by specific cultures. They reflect those cultures, and, in turn, affect them, Film is considered to be an important art form, a source of popular entertainment, and a powerful medium for educating—or indoctrinating—citizens. The visual basis of film gives it a power of communication. Some films have become popular worldwide attractions by using dubbing or subtitles to translate the dialog into the language of the viewer, some have criticized the film industrys glorification of violence and its potentially negative treatment of women. The individual images that make up a film are called frames, the perception of motion is due to a psychological effect called phi phenomenon. The name film originates from the fact that film has historically been the medium for recording and displaying motion pictures. Many other terms exist for a motion picture, including picture, picture show, moving picture, photoplay. The most common term in the United States is movie, while in Europe film is preferred. Terms for the field, in general, include the big screen, the screen, the movies, and cinema. In early years, the sheet was sometimes used instead of screen. Preceding film in origin by thousands of years, early plays and dances had elements common to film, scripts, sets, costumes, production, direction, actors, audiences, storyboards, much terminology later used in film theory and criticism apply, such as mise en scène. Owing to the lack of any technology for doing so, the moving images, the magic lantern, probably created by Christiaan Huygens in the 1650s, could be used to project animation, which was achieved by various types of mechanical slides
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Fan convention
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Fan conventions are traditionally organized by fans on a not-for-profit basis, though some events catering to fans are run by commercial interests for profit. Many conventions have award presentations relating to their genre, commercial conventions are usually quite expensive and are hosted in hotels. There is often tight security for the celebrities to protect against potentially fanatic fans, anime conventions, gaming conventions, filk-music conventions, and furry conventions may all be considered derivatives of science-fiction conventions, which began in the late 1930s. Fan conventions for various genres of entertainment extends to the first conventions held in the 1930s, the growth of computerized communication, including the Internet and Internet-dependent applications in the 1980s and 1990s
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San Francisco Bay Area
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The San Francisco Bay Area is a populous region surrounding the San Francisco and San Pablo estuaries in Northern California. The region encompasses the cities and metropolitan areas of San Jose, San Francisco. The Bay Areas nine counties are Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, and Sonoma. The combined statistical area of the region is the second-largest in California, the fifth-largest in the United States, the Bay Area has the second-most Fortune 500 Companies in the United States, and is known for its natural beauty, liberal politics, entrepreneurship, and diversity. The eastern side of the bay, consisting of Alameda and Contra Costa counties, is known locally as the East Bay, the inner East Bay is more densely populated, with generally older buildings, and a more ethnically diverse population. The word Lamorinda was coined by combining the names of the cities it includes, Lafayette, Moraga, walnut Creek is situated east of Lamorinda and north of the San Ramon Valley and, together with Concord, Martinez, and Pleasant Hill comprises Central Contra Costa County. The cities of Antioch, Pittsburg, Brentwood, Oakley and the areas surrounding them comprise East Contra Costa County. The Tri-Valley consists of the Amador, the Livermore, and the San Ramon Valleys, dublin and Pleasanton comprise the Amador Valley, Livermore lies in the Livermore Valley, and the San Ramon Valley consists of Alamo, Danville, Diablo and its namesake, San Ramon. The outer East Bay is connected to the inner East Bay by BART, Interstate 580 to the south, and State Routes State Route 4 to the north, the outer East Bays infrastructure was mostly built up after World War II. This area remains largely white demographically, although the Hispanic and Filipino populations have grown significantly over the past 2–3 decades, the region north of the Golden Gate Bridge is known locally as the North Bay. This area encompasses Marin County, Sonoma County, Napa County, the city of Fairfield, being part of Solano County, is often considered the easternmost city of the North Bay. With few exceptions, this region is affluent, Marin County is ranked as the wealthiest in the state. The North Bay is relatively rural compared to the remainder of the Bay Area, with areas of undeveloped open space, farmland. Santa Rosa in Sonoma County is the North Bays largest city, with a population of 167,815 and a Metropolitan Statistical Area population of 466,891, making it the fifth-largest city in the Bay Area. The North Bay is the section of the Bay Area that is not currently served by a commuter rail service. The area from San Francisco to the Silicon Valley, geographically part of the San Francisco Peninsula, is known locally as The Peninsula, many of these families are of foreign background and have significantly contributed to the diversity of the area. Whereas the term peninsula technically refers to the entire geographical San Franciscan Peninsula, in local terms, San Francisco is surrounded by water on three sides, the north, east, and west. The city squeezes roughly 870,000 people in under 47 square miles, on any given day, there can be as many as 1 million people in the city because of the commuting population and tourism
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Anaheim, California
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Anaheim is a city in Orange County, California, part of the Los Angeles metropolitan area. As of the 2010 United States Census, the city had a population of 336,265, making it the most populous city in Orange County, Anaheim remained largely a rural community until Disneyland opened in the city in 1955. This led to the construction of hotels and motels around the area. The city also developed into a center, producing electronics, aircraft parts. Anaheims city limits extend from Cypress in the west to the Riverside County line in the east and encompass a diverse collection of neighborhoods, Anaheim Hills is a master-planned community located in the citys eastern stretches that is home to many of the citys affluent. Downtown Anaheim has three historic districts, the largest of which is the Anaheim Colony. The Anaheim Resort, a district, includes Disneyland, Disney California Adventure. The Platinum Triangle, a redevelopment district surrounding Angel Stadium, is planned to be populated with mixed-use streets. Finally, Anaheim Canyon is a district north of California State Route 91. Anaheims name is a blend of Ana, after the nearby Santa Ana River, and heim, the city of Anaheim was founded in 1857 by 50 German-Americans who were residents of San Francisco and whose families had originated in Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Franconia in Bavaria. For $750 a share, the formed the Anaheim Vineyard Company. Their new community was named Annaheim, meaning home by the Santa Anna River in German, the name later was altered to Anaheim. To the Spanish-speaking neighbors, the settlement was known as Campo Alemán, although grape and wine-making was their primary objective, the majority of the 50 settlers were mechanics, carpenters and craftsmen with no experience in wine-making. The community set aside 40 acres for a center and a school was the first building erected there. The first home was built in 1857, the Anaheim Gazette newspaper was established in 1870, for 25 years, the area was the largest wine producer in California. However, in 1884, a disease infected the grape vines, other crops – walnuts, lemons and oranges – soon filled the void. Fruits and vegetables had become viable cash crops when the Los Angeles – Orange County region was connected to the railroad network in 1887. The famous Polish actress Helena Modjeska settled in Anaheim with her husband and various friends, among them Henryk Sienkiewicz, Julian Sypniewski, while living in Anaheim, Helena Modjeska became good friends with Clementine Langenberger, the second wife of August Langenberger
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Mike Friedrich
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Mike Friedrich is an American comic book writer and publisher best known for his work at Marvel and DC Comics, and for publishing the anthology series Star*Reach, one of the first independent comics. He is also an artists representative and his notable works include runs as the regular writer of DCs Justice League of America and Marvels Iron Man. My letter-writing began around the time the new look Batman was introduced, a couple of years later it turned into a bit of correspondence as Julie began to send short replies, Friedrich recalled. Friedrich used the payment to visit New York City the following month, after his high school graduation. Almost immediately afterward, the month, Friedrich published the full-length Batman story The Man Who Radiated Fear, penciled by Stone ghosting for Bob Kane. Friedrich quickly began writing stories for a number of DC publications, including Challengers of the Unknown, Detective Comics, The Flash, with penciler Jerry Grandenetti in Showcase #80, he reintroduced the supernatural-mystery story narrator the Phantom Stranger, created by John Broome and Carmine Infantino in 1952. He wrote the 30th anniversary Batman story in Detective Comics #387 which was drawn by Bob Brown and he had previously scripted His Name Is. Kane, in House of Mystery #180, in which the short tales penciler, Gil Kane, stars as an artist drawing for DC Comics, Friedrich co-created Merlyn in Justice League of America #94 and the character was adapted into the Arrow TV series in 2012. Moving to Marvel after four years, Friedrich scripted every issue of Iron Man, in issue #55, he co-scripted the introduction of the popular characters Thanos and Drax the Destroyer, created and co-scripted by artist Jim Starlin. Star*Reach styled itself as a comic book – not an underground comix publication. For this and other efforts, Friedrich received an Inkpot Award at the 1980 San Diego Comic-Con, at its beginning, Star*Reach sold through the few comic shops around, as well as head shops, or via subscriptions and mail order. Published mostly science fiction and fantasy stories, at a time when the conventional wisdom was that those genres didnt sell, plus, they were intelligent science fiction stories. If you read Tolkien or Heinlein or Bester or Le Guin, michael T. Gilbert, John Workman, Lee Marrs, Robert Gould, Dave Sim, Ken Steacy, Dean Motter, Gene Day and Paul Kirchner got their first major exposure here. Howard Chaykins Cody Starbuck and Gideon Faust characters both demonstrated what Chaykin was really capable of, long before the mainstream allowed him the creative freedom. In the 2000s, Friedrich served as Chair of the National Legislative Committee for the Graphic Artists Guild, Friedrich, in partnership with Joe Field, owned and operated the San Francisco Bay Area comic book convention WonderCon for 15 years before selling it to Comic-Con International in 2001. 2, #2, Interview with Mike Friedrich
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San Francisco
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San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the cultural, commercial, and financial center of Northern California. It is the birthplace of the United Nations, the California Gold Rush of 1849 brought rapid growth, making it the largest city on the West Coast at the time. San Francisco became a consolidated city-county in 1856, after three-quarters of the city was destroyed by the 1906 earthquake and fire, San Francisco was quickly rebuilt, hosting the Panama-Pacific International Exposition nine years later. In World War II, San Francisco was a port of embarkation for service members shipping out to the Pacific Theater. Politically, the city votes strongly along liberal Democratic Party lines, San Francisco is also the headquarters of five major banking institutions and various other companies such as Levi Strauss & Co. Dolby, Airbnb, Weebly, Pacific Gas and Electric Company, Yelp, Pinterest, Twitter, Uber, Lyft, Mozilla, Wikimedia Foundation, as of 2016, San Francisco is ranked high on world liveability rankings. The earliest archaeological evidence of habitation of the territory of the city of San Francisco dates to 3000 BC. Upon independence from Spain in 1821, the became part of Mexico. Under Mexican rule, the system gradually ended, and its lands became privatized. In 1835, Englishman William Richardson erected the first independent homestead, together with Alcalde Francisco de Haro, he laid out a street plan for the expanded settlement, and the town, named Yerba Buena, began to attract American settlers. Commodore John D. Sloat claimed California for the United States on July 7,1846, during the Mexican–American War, montgomery arrived to claim Yerba Buena two days later. Yerba Buena was renamed San Francisco on January 30 of the next year, despite its attractive location as a port and naval base, San Francisco was still a small settlement with inhospitable geography. The California Gold Rush brought a flood of treasure seekers, with their sourdough bread in tow, prospectors accumulated in San Francisco over rival Benicia, raising the population from 1,000 in 1848 to 25,000 by December 1849. The promise of fabulous riches was so strong that crews on arriving vessels deserted and rushed off to the gold fields, leaving behind a forest of masts in San Francisco harbor. Some of these approximately 500 abandoned ships were used at times as storeships, saloons and hotels, many were left to rot, by 1851 the harbor was extended out into the bay by wharves while buildings were erected on piles among the ships. By 1870 Yerba Buena Cove had been filled to create new land, buried ships are occasionally exposed when foundations are dug for new buildings. California was quickly granted statehood in 1850 and the U. S. military built Fort Point at the Golden Gate, silver discoveries, including the Comstock Lode in Nevada in 1859, further drove rapid population growth. With hordes of fortune seekers streaming through the city, lawlessness was common, and the Barbary Coast section of town gained notoriety as a haven for criminals, prostitution, entrepreneurs sought to capitalize on the wealth generated by the Gold Rush
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Spider-Man 2
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Spider-Man 2 is a 2004 American superhero film directed by Sam Raimi and written by Alvin Sargent from a story by Alfred Gough, Miles Millar, and Michael Chabon. The sequel to the 2002 film Spider-Man, it is the film in Raimis Spider-Man film trilogy based on the fictional Marvel Comics character of the same name. Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, and James Franco reprise their roles as Peter Parker/Spider-Man, Mary Jane Watson. Spider-Man must stop him from successfully recreating the experiment, which threatens to annihilate the city, Spider-Man 2 was released in both conventional and IMAX theaters on June 30,2004. It grossed $783.8 million worldwide and won the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects and it also received five awards at the Saturn Awards ceremony including Best Fantasy Film and Best Director for Raimi. The films success led to the release of Spider-Man 3 in 2007, Peter Parker struggles to balance his crime-fighting duties as Spider-Man with the demands of his normal life. Estranged from both love interest Mary Jane Watson and best friend Harry Osborn, Peter additionally discovers his Aunt May is facing eviction. Harry, now head of Oscorps research division, is sponsoring brilliant nuclear scientist Otto Octavius fusion power project, while handling hazardous materials, Octavius wears a harness of powerful robotic tentacle arms with artificial intelligence. During a public demonstration, in which Peter and Harry attend, Octavius refuses to shut down the reactor, which goes critical, killing his wife and shattering the inhibitor chip blocking the arms from his nervous system. Spider-Man arrives and shuts down the experiment, destroying it, at a hospital, doctors prepare to surgically remove Octaviuss harness. However, without the chip to keep the arms supported to the nervous system. Upon regaining consciousness and seeing the carnage, Octavius escapes and takes refuge at a harbour, becoming increasingly influenced by the arms AI, Octavius robs a bank that Peter and May are coincidentally visiting in order to fund a second experiment. Octavius takes May hostage but is rescued by Peter as Spider-Man, the Daily Bugle subsequently dubs Octavius Doctor Octopus. Mary Jane becomes engaged to astronaut John Jameson, son of Bugle chief J. Jonah Jameson, Peter suffers an emotional breakdown and temporarily loses his powers. He abandons his Spider-Man identity, returns to his normal life, a garbageman brings Spider-Mans costume to Jameson, who takes credit for driving Spider-Man into hiding. Peter decides to tell Aunt May the truth behind Uncle Bens death, may forgives him, but the rise in New York City crime rate worries Peter. Octavius, requiring the isotope tritium to fuel his reactor, visits Harry to demand it, Harry agrees in exchange for Spider-Mans life. He tells Octavius to seek Peter, who is good friends with Spider-Man
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Batman Begins
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Comic book storylines such as The Man Who Falls, Batman, Year One, and Batman, The Long Halloween served as inspiration. The goal was to get the audience to care for both Batman and Bruce Wayne, the film, which was primarily shot in Iceland and Chicago, relied on traditional stunts and miniatures, while computer-generated imagery was used minimally. Batman Begins opened on June 15,2005, in the United States and it grossed over $48 million in its opening weekend in North America, eventually grossing over $374 million worldwide. The film received reviews and is considered by many to be one of the best superhero films of the 2000s. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Cinematography and it is followed by The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises in a continual story-arc, which has later been referred to as The Dark Knight Trilogy. The film is presented in a narrative, jumping between the present and past. This is a summary of the plot. As a child, Bruce Wayne falls down into a dry well and is attacked by a swarm of bats, while watching an opera with his parents, Thomas and Martha, Bruce becomes frightened by performers masquerading as bats and asks to leave. Outside, mugger Joe Chill murders Bruces parents in front of him, orphaned, Bruce is raised by the family butler, Alfred Pennyworth. Fourteen years later, Chill is freed in exchange for testifying against Gotham City mafia boss Carmine Falcone, Bruce intends to murder Chill, but one of Falcones assassins does so first. Bruces childhood friend, assistant district attorney Rachel Dawes, berates him for attempting to undermine the justice system, Bruce confronts Falcone, who tells him that real power comes from being feared. Bruce decides to travel the world and learn how to confront injustice, while serving a prison sentence for theft in Bhutan, he meets Henri Ducard, who trains him as a member of the League of Shadows, led by Ras al Ghul. After completing his training and purging his fears, Bruce learns that the League intends to destroy Gotham, believing it to be corrupt, Bruce rejects the Leagues cause and burns down their temple during his escape. Ras is killed by falling debris, while Bruce saves the unconscious Ducard, Bruce returns to Gotham intent on fighting crime. Inspired by his fear, he takes up the vigilante identity of the Batman. He takes an interest in his familys company, Wayne Enterprises, company archivist Lucius Fox allows Bruce access to prototype defense technologies including a protective bodysuit and a heavily armored car called the Tumbler. Bruce poses as a shallow playboy to allay suspicion, Batman intercepts a drug shipment, provides Rachel with evidence against Falcone, and enlists Sergeant James Gordon, one of the few honest cops left in Gotham, to arrest him. Crane puts on a mask and sprays Falcone with a fear-inducing hallucinogen that drives him insane
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Fantastic Four (2005 film)
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Fantastic Four is a 2005 American-German superhero film based on the Marvel Comics team of the same name. It was directed by Tim Story, and released by 20th Century Fox, the film stars Ioan Gruffudd, Jessica Alba, Chris Evans, Michael Chiklis, Julian McMahon and Kerry Washington. This was the second live-action Fantastic Four film to be filmed, a previous attempt, titled The Fantastic Four, was a B-movie produced by Roger Corman that ultimately went unreleased. Fantastic Four was released in the United States on July 8,2005, a sequel, Fantastic Four, Rise of the Silver Surfer, was released in 2007. A reboot of the name was released in 2015. Doom agrees in exchange for control over the experiment and a majority of the profits from whatever benefits it brings, Reed brings aboard his ex-girlfriend and Von Dooms chief genetics researcher Sue Storm and her ex-astronaut younger brother Johnny Storm. The quintet travels to space to observe the cosmic energy clouds, but Reed miscalculates. Reed and the Storms leave the station to rescue Ben. Ben receives full exposure in space, while the others receive a more limited dose within the station. Meanwhile, Von Doom faces a backlash from his stockholders because of the publicity from the space mission, bens fiancee Debbie cannot handle his new appearance and leaves him. Ben goes to brood on the Brooklyn Bridge and accidentally causes a traffic pileup while preventing a man committing suicide. Ben, Reed and the Storms use their various abilities to contain the damage, the media dubs them the Fantastic Four. They move into Reeds lab in the Baxter Building to study their abilities, Von Doom, himself mutating, offers his support but blames Reed for the failure of the spaceflight, which has lost him his companys hope for an IPO. Reed tells the group he will construct a machine to recreate the storm and reverse its effects on them, meanwhile, Von Dooms arm has become organic metal, giving him superhuman strength allowing him to produce bolts of electricity, and he begins plotting revenge. He drives a wedge between Ben and Reed, who has rekindled his relationship with Susan Storm, using the machine, Von Doom restores Ben to human form, while accelerating Von Dooms condition, causing much of his body to turn to metal. Von Doom knocks the human Grimm unconscious and captures Reed, Sue confronts Doom but is outmatched. Ben arrives to assist her, transformed into the Thing again by reusing the machine, Reed proposes marriage to Sue, who accepts. Rachel McAdams, Ali Larter and Keri Russell were considered for Sue Storm, as in almost all of the previous Marvel Comics-based films, Fantastic Four co-creator Stan Lee makes a cameo appearance
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Superman Returns
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Superman Returns is a 2006 American superhero film directed and produced by Bryan Singer. The film stars Brandon Routh as Clark Kent/Superman, Kate Bosworth as Lois Lane, Kevin Spacey as Lex Luthor, with James Marsden, Frank Langella, the film tells the story of the title character returning to Earth after a five-year absence. He finds that his love interest Lois Lane has moved on with her life, and that his archenemy Lex Luthor is plotting a scheme that will destroy Superman and the world. After a series of projects to resurrect Superman on screen following the critical failure and box office disappointment of Superman IV. Warner Bros. hired Bryan Singer to direct and develop Superman Returns in July 2004, upon release, Superman Returns received generally positive critical reviews, with critics praising its visual effects, story, musical score, and style. However, it received mixed reviews in years, with criticism focused on its length, story. While a box office success, Warner Bros. was disappointed with the box office return. A sequel was planned for a summer 2009 release, but the project was later canceled, the Superman film series was completely rebooted in 2013 with the film Man of Steel, directed by Zack Snyder and starring Henry Cavill as Superman. For five years, Superman has abandoned his home of Earth while on a journey to visit the remains of Krypton. His seemingly selfish decision has ruined his image in the eyes of many, including journalist Lois Lane, upon returning to Metropolis, Superman, in his human identity of Clark Kent, is shocked to discover the consequences of his disappearance. While covering the launch of a shuttle, he narrowly saves a plane carrying Lois and other observers from crashing after a mysterious power failure. Unbeknownst to anyone, the accident was triggered by Luthor using Kryptonian technology stolen from the Fortress of Solitude, Luthor has his aide Kitty distract Superman, allowing Lex to steal a sample of kryptonite from a museum. Suspecting his involvement, Lois requests an off-the-record interview aboard his private yacht, Jason has an asthmatic attack when Luthor reveals the kryptonite, but has no subsequent reaction when Luthor holds the stone near him. When one of Luthors henchmen threatens Lois, Jason crushes him with a piano, realizing that he is Supermans son, Luthor and his thugs escape by helicopter as the new landmass emerges from the ocean. While working to contain the damage to Metropolis, Superman learns from Richard that Lois is in danger and saves her, Superman tries to apprehend Luthor, but the kryptonite-poisoned atmosphere quickly strips him of his powers. Luthors men torture Superman into submission, before Luthor stabs Superman with a Kryptonite shard, with Richards help, Lois gets him to safety and removes the shard. Fueled by the radiation, Superman defeats Luthors gang and covers the landmass with soil. While helping Luthor escape, a disillusioned Kitty allows the helicopter to crash on a remote island, complications from Kryptonite exposure cause Superman to fall into a coma, and while doctors are able to remove most of the fragments, they cannot revive him
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300 (film)
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300 is a 2006 American epic fantasy war film based on the 1998 comic series of the same name by Frank Miller and Lynn Varley. Both are fictionalized retellings of the Battle of Thermopylae within the Persian Wars, the film was directed by Zack Snyder, while Miller served as executive producer and consultant. It was filmed mostly with a chroma key technique, to help replicate the imagery of the original comic book. The plot revolves around King Leonidas, who leads 300 Spartans into battle against the Persian god-King Xerxes, as the battle rages, Queen Gorgo attempts to rally support in Sparta for her husband. The story is framed by a narrative by the Spartan soldier Dilios. Through this narrative technique, various fantastical creatures are introduced, placing 300 within the genre of historical fantasy, the events are revealed to be a story told by Delios, the only one of the 300 Spartans to survive the battle. 300 was released in conventional and IMAX theaters in the United States on March 9,2007, and on DVD, Blu-ray Disc. A sequel, entitled Rise of an Empire, which is based on Millers unpublished graphic novel prequel Xerxes, was released on March 7,2014. In 479 BC, one year after the famed Battle of Thermopylae, Dilios, the Ephors consult the Oracle, who decrees that Sparta will not go to war during the Carneia. As Leonidas angrily departs, a messenger from Xerxes appears, rewarding the Ephors for their covert support, at Thermopylae, they construct the wall made up of stones and slain Persian scouts as mortar, angering the Persian Emissary. Stelios, an elite Spartan soldier, orders him to go back to the Persian lines, meanwhile, Leonidas encounters Ephialtes, a deformed Spartan whose parents fled Sparta to spare him certain infanticide. Ephialtes asks to redeem his fathers name by joining Leonidas army, warning him of a path the Persians could use to outflank. Though sympathetic, Leonidas rejects him since his deformity physically prevents him from holding his shield high enough, potentially compromising the phalanx formation, the battle begins soon after the Spartans refusal to lay down their weapons. Using the Hot Gates to their advantage, as well as their superior fighting skills, in response, Xerxes sends in his elite guard, the Immortals, later that night. Despite some Spartans being killed, they defeat the Immortals. On the second day, Xerxes sends in new waves of armies from Asia and other Persian city-states, including war elephants, to crush the Spartans once and for all, but to no avail. Meanwhile, Ephialtes defects to Xerxes to whom he reveals the secret path in exchange for wealth, luxury, the Arcadians retreat upon learning of Ephialtes betrayal, but the Spartans stay. Leonidas orders an injured but reluctant Dilios to return to Sparta and tell them of what has happened, in Sparta, Queen Gorgo tries to persuade the Spartan Council to send reinforcements to aid the 300
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Watchmen (film)
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Watchmen is a 2009 American superhero film directed by Zack Snyder, based on the 1986–87 DC Comics limited series of the same name by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons. It stars an ensemble cast of Malin Åkerman, Billy Crudup, Matthew Goode, Carla Gugino, Jackie Earle Haley, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, and Patrick Wilson. The parent company of Watchmen publisher DC Comics, with producer Joel Silver and director Terry Gilliam, where Snyder was hired to direct, Paramount remained as its international distributor whereas Warner Bros. would distribute the film in the United States. However, Fox sued Warner Bros. for copyright violation arising from Gordons failure to pay a buy-out in 1991, Fox and Warner Bros. settled this before the films release, with Fox receiving a portion of the gross. Principal photography began in Vancouver, September 2007, as with his previous film 300, Snyder closely modelled his storyboards on the comic, but chose not to shoot all of Watchmen using green screens and opted for real sets instead. The films reception has been mixed between positive and negative reactions, although critical standing has been positive in subsequent years. A directors cut with 24 minutes of footage was released in July 2009. The Minutemen, a team of costumed crime fighters, was formed in 1939 in response to a rise in costumed gangs and criminals, growing anti-vigilante sentiment leads to masked crime-fighters being outlawed. While many of the heroes retire, Dr Manhattan and The Comedian operate as government-sanctioned agents, while investigating the murder of government agent Edward Blake, Rorschach discovers that Blake was the Comedian, and theorizes that someone may be attempting to eliminate former costumed heroes. He warns his retired comrades— Daniel Dreiberg, Dr Manhattan, Dr Manhattan ignores Rorschach, and Dreiberg is skeptical, but relays this information to vigilante-turned-billionaire Adrian Veidt, who also dismisses it. Following a backlash, Dr Manhattan exiles himself to Mars, giving the Soviet Union the confidence to invade Afghanistan, Rorschachs theory appears to be justified when Veidt narrowly avoids an assassination attempt, and Rorschach finds himself framed for the murder of a former villain named Moloch. When Rorschach is arrested, his identity is revealed to be Walter Kovacs, Jupiter goes to stay with Dreiberg after breaking up with Manhattan. The two become lovers and decide to out of retirement. After helping Rorschach break out of prison, Jupiter is confronted by Manhattan, as he probes her memories, he discovers that she is Blakes daughter, and realizes the miracle of her life, created in spite of her parents turbulent relationship. He then returns to Earth with her, investigating the conspiracy, Rorschach and Dreiberg discover that Veidt is behind everything. Rorschach records his suspicions in his journal, which he drops off at the office of the New Frontiersman. Rorschach and Dreiberg confront Veidt at his Antarctic retreat, Veidt admits to being responsible for Blakes murder, Manhattans exile, Rorschachs framing, and his own assassination attempt, which he staged to divert suspicion. He explains that his plan is to unify the United States, Jupiter and Manhattan arrive in a destroyed New York City and determine that Veidt is responsible
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Kick-Ass (film)
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Kick-Ass is a 2010 British-American superhero black comedy film based on the comic book of the same name by Mark Millar and John Romita, Jr. The film was directed by Matthew Vaughn, who produced with Brad Pitt and its general release was on 25 March 2010 in the United Kingdom and on 16 April 2010 in the United States. It is the first installment of the Kick-Ass film series and it tells the story of an ordinary teenager, Dave Lizewski, who sets out to become a real-life superhero, calling himself Kick-Ass. Despite having generated some controversy for its profanity and violence performed by a child, the film has gained a strong cult following since its release on DVD and Blu-ray. A sequel, written and directed by Jeff Wadlow and produced by Vaughn, was released in August 2013, with Johnson, Mintz-Plasse, Dave Lizewski is an ordinary teenager who lives in Staten Island, New York. Inspired by comic books, Dave plans to become a real-life superhero and he purchases and modifies a bodysuit, and arms himself with batons. During his first outing, he stabbed and then hit by a car. After recovering, he gains a capacity to endure pain and enhanced durability, in his absence from school, a rumor spreads that he is gay, as he was found naked by the paramedics after discarding his costume. As a result, his crush, Katie Deauxma, immediately attempts to become his friend. Unhappy with the misunderstanding, Dave nevertheless appreciates the opportunity to get closer to Katie, Dave returns to crime-fighting and gains notoriety after intervening in a gang attack. Calling himself Kick-Ass, he sets up a Myspace account where he can be contacted for help, responding to a request from Katie, he confronts a drug dealer, Rasul, who has been harassing her. At Rasuls place, Kick-Ass is quickly overwhelmed by Rasuls thugs, before they can kill him, two costumed vigilantes, Hit-Girl and her father, Big Daddy, intervene, easily slaughter the thugs and leave with their money. After coming home, Dave realizes he is in over his head, however, Hit-Girl and Big Daddy pay him a visit and encourage him. Big Daddys real identity is Damon Macready, formerly an honest cop, framed by Mafia boss Frank DAmico, he was jailed. His wife committed suicide, leaving behind his daughter Mindy, against the protest of his former partner Marcus Williams, Damon trains himself and Mindy as preparation for getting revenge on Frank. They have been undermining Franks operations by raiding his warehouses, robbing his money, Frank believes Kick-Ass is responsible for the attacks and targets him, impulsively killing a party entertainer who is dressed like Kick-Ass. Franks son, Chris, suggests a different approach and he poses as a new vigilante, Red Mist, and befriends Kick-Ass. He plans to lure Kick-Ass into Franks lumber warehouse and unmask him, however, they find the warehouse on fire and Franks men dead
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Silicon Valley Comic Con
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Silicon Valley Comic Con is an annual comic book, popular arts, and technology multi-genre convention, to be held in the San Francisco Bay Area, based in the regions largest city, San Jose. The convention was conceived by Apple Computer co-founder Steve Wozniak, the inaugural event was held March 18–20,2016 at San Joses McEnery Convention Center. Silicon Valley Comic Con was first announced 17 April 2015 through a video featuring Steve Wozniak. The aim was to bring together popular culture such as comics, movies, genre TV. The plan is to feature celebrities, movies, television, video games, comic books, Silicon Valley Comic Con will be the San Francisco Bay Areas first large multi-genre convention since the departure of WonderCon after that conventions 2011 show. Since WonderCons departure the largest convention left in the Bay Area had been Big Wow, comicfest, which is being added to Silicon Valley Comic Cons schedule. On December 4,2015, Steve Wozniak announced that a sister-event to Silicon Valley Comic Con, called Tokyo Comic Con, will be held in Tokyo on December 3-4,2016. On July 13,2016 the second event was confirmed to be occurring April 21-23,2017 at the San Jose Convention Center as well as expanding into several additional venues nearby. The convention aims to both popular culture and technology in what Wozniak hopes will be a uniquely Silicon Valley flavor. In that spirit the convention will have typical comic convention staples such as an artists alley, several movie and television studios will be represented at the inaugural event including Warner Bros. Additionally several technology focused guests will be involved as well including astrophysicists and technologists, Official website http, //www. woz. com - Founders Website https, //www. facebook. com/pages/Silicon-Valley-Comic-Con/425976317568824 - Conventions Official Facebook Page
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Los Angeles
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Los Angeles, officially the City of Los Angeles and often known by its initials L. A. is the cultural, financial, and commercial center of Southern California. With a census-estimated 2015 population of 3,971,883, it is the second-most populous city in the United States, Los Angeles is also the seat of Los Angeles County, the most populated county in the United States. The citys inhabitants are referred to as Angelenos, historically home to the Chumash and Tongva, Los Angeles was claimed by Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo for Spain in 1542 along with the rest of what would become Alta California. The city was founded on September 4,1781, by Spanish governor Felipe de Neve. It became a part of Mexico in 1821 following the Mexican War of Independence, in 1848, at the end of the Mexican–American War, Los Angeles and the rest of California were purchased as part of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, thereby becoming part of the United States. Los Angeles was incorporated as a municipality on April 4,1850, the discovery of oil in the 1890s brought rapid growth to the city. The completion of the Los Angeles Aqueduct in 1913, delivering water from Eastern California, nicknamed the City of Angels, Los Angeles is known for its Mediterranean climate, ethnic diversity, and sprawling metropolis. Los Angeles also has an economy in culture, media, fashion, science, sports, technology, education, medicine. A global city, it has been ranked 6th in the Global Cities Index, the city is home to renowned institutions covering a broad range of professional and cultural fields, and is one of the most substantial economic engines within the United States. The Los Angeles combined statistical area has a gross metropolitan product of $831 billion, making it the third-largest in the world, after the Greater Tokyo and New York metropolitan areas. The city has hosted the Summer Olympic Games in 1932 and 1984 and is bidding to host the 2024 Summer Olympics and thus become the second city after London to have hosted the Games three times. The Los Angeles area also hosted the 1994 FIFA mens World Cup final match as well as the 1999 FIFA womens World Cup final match, the mens event was watched on television by over 700 million people worldwide. The Los Angeles coastal area was first settled by the Tongva, a Gabrielino settlement in the area was called iyáangẚ, meaning poison oak place. Gaspar de Portolà and Franciscan missionary Juan Crespí, reached the present site of Los Angeles on August 2,1769, in 1771, Franciscan friar Junípero Serra directed the building of the Mission San Gabriel Arcángel, the first mission in the area. The Queen of the Angels is an honorific of the Virgin Mary, two-thirds of the settlers were mestizo or mulatto with a mixture of African, indigenous and European ancestry. The settlement remained a small town for decades, but by 1820. Today, the pueblo is commemorated in the district of Los Angeles Pueblo Plaza and Olvera Street. New Spain achieved its independence from the Spanish Empire in 1821, during Mexican rule, Governor Pío Pico made Los Angeles Alta Californias regional capital
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Dan Brereton
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Dan Brereton is an American writer and illustrator who has produced notable work in the comic book field. Brereton is known for his skills as a painter and his character designs. His first published work in the industry was the story Lost Causes Chapter 1 in Merchants of Death #1 published by Eclipse Comics. He stated in a 2014 interview that One of earliest memories of drawing monsters is from kindergarten and that idea never ceases to inspire me and find it’s way into my work. Image Comics published Dan Brereton, The Goddess & The Monster, Brereton wrote and drew a Batman story for DC Comics digital-first anthology series Legends of the Dark Knight in December 2015
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Erik Larsen
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Erik J. Larsen is an American comic book writer, artist and publisher. He is known for his work on Savage Dragon, as one of the founders of Image Comics, Larsen was born on December 8,1962, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The Dragon turned into a superhero using a word to trigger his powers like Captain Marvel. Larsen and two produced a fanzine called Graphic Fantasy, which featured this character. Larsens first paid work was for the anthology Megaton, co-creating and illustrating a feature called Vanguard with publisher Gary Carlson, a revised version of the Dragon debuted in issue #2 and appeared in the following two issues. The original Dragon, inspired by elements from Captain Marvel, Batman, Speed Racer and later The Incredible Hulk, Savage Dragon was first featured in two issues of Graphic Fantasy, a self-published title with a small print run, published by Larsen and two friends. In this incarnation, the Dragon was a widower and a member of a government-sponsored superhero team. Subsequently, the Dragon made another appearance in the issue of Gary Carlsons Megaton anthology in its Vanguard strip. In these appearances, the character of the Dragon remained basically the same as it had been in Graphic Fantasy, both the Graphic Fantasy and Megaton issues featuring the Dragon have since been reprinted in high-quality editions. Larsen went on to work for AC Comics on Sentinels of Justice, Larsen did work at DC on The Outsiders, Teen Titans, Adventures of Superman and Doom Patrol. His first work for Marvel Comics was a fill-in on Thor that was inked by Vince Colletta and he later did a The Amazing Spider-Man fill-in story and five issues of Punisher for Marvel. A Nova story for Marvel Comics Presents was greenlit but cancelled because it did not fit with an upcoming New Warriors series that would feature the character. Though he continues to write and illustrate The Savage Dragon, Larsen has occasionally returned to Marvel to write and illustrate, on such as Fantastic Four, The Defenders, Wolverine. He has also work for DC writing Aquaman. In 1990 Erik Larsen replaced Todd McFarlane on The Amazing Spider-Man with issue #329, with writer David Michelinie, Larsen illustrated stories such as The Cosmic Spider-Man, The Return of the Sinister Six and The Powerless Spider-Man. He left the title with #350, was succeeded by Mark Bagley with #351, Larsen again succeeded McFarlane on Spider-Man, where he wrote and drew the six-issue story arc Revenge of the Sinister Six. This time, the Dragon was a massively muscled green amnesiac, initially debuting in a three-issue miniseries, the series met with enough success to justify a monthly series, launched in 1993. Larsen has occasionally produced ancillary mini-series, and sometimes allowed other creators to produce stories featuring the Dragon or other characters from the series, in the mid-1990s, Larsen published his titles under Highbrow Entertainment, the label for his imprint of Image Comics
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Jim Lee
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Jim Lee is a Korean American comic book artist, writer, editor, and publisher. He entered the industry in 1987 as an artist for Marvel Comics, illustrating titles such as Alpha Flight and The Punisher War Journal, before gaining popularity on The Uncanny X-Men. 1, the 1991 spin-off series premiere that Lee penciled and co-wrote with Chris Claremont, remains the best-selling comic book of all time, on February 18,2010, Jim Lee was announced as the new Co-Publisher of DC Comics with Dan DiDio, both replacing Paul Levitz. He has received a Harvey Award, Inkpot Award and three Wizard Fan Awards in recognition for his work, Lee was born on August 11,1964 in Seoul, South Korea. He grew up in St. Louis, Missouri, where he lived a typical middle-class childhood, Lee attended River Bend Elementary School in Chesterfield and later St. Louis Country Day School, where he drew posters for school plays. Having had to learn English when he first came to the U. S. presented the young Lee with the sense of being an outsider, as did the preppy, upper-class atmosphere of Country Day. As a result, on the occasions that his parents bought him comics, Lees favorite characters were the X-Men. His classmates predicted in his senior yearbook that he would found his own book company. Despite this, Lee was resigned to following his fathers career in medicine, attending Princeton University to study psychology and he submitted samples to various publishers, but did not find success. When Lee befriended St. Lees work on the Punisher, War Journal was inspired by such as Frank Miller, David Ross, Kevin Nowlan. During his stint on Uncanny Lee first worked with inker Scott Williams, during his run on the title, Lee co-created the character Gambit with long-time X-Men writer Chris Claremont. Lees artwork quickly gained popularity in the eyes of enthusiastic fans, in 1991, Lee helped launch a second X-Men series simply called X-Men volume 2, as both the artist and as co-writer with Claremont. Lee designed new uniforms for the series, including those worn by Cyclops, Jean Grey, Rogue, Psylocke and Storm. Actor/comedian Taran Killam, who has ventured into writing with The Illegitimates, has cited X-Men No.1 as the book that inspired his interest in comics. Stan Lee interviewed Jim Lee in the documentary series The Comic Book Greats, the other major series of the initial years of Wildstorm, for which Lee either created characters, co-plotted or provided art for, included Stormwatch, Deathblow and Gen¹³. The miniseries would consist of four books, two each produced by the respective companies, plus a prologue and epilogue book. Wildstorm produced Deathmate Black, with Lee himself contributing to the writing and he illustrated the covers for that book, the Deathmate Tourbook and the prologue book, as well as contributing to the prologues interior inks. Lee and Rob Liefeld, another Marvel-illustrator-turned-Image-founder, returned to Marvel in 1996 to participate in a reboot of several classic characters, while Liefeld reworked Captain America and The Avengers, Lee plotted Iron Man and wrote and illustrated Fantastic Four
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Rob Liefeld
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Robert Rob Liefeld is an American comic book creator. A prominent writer/artist in the 1990s, he has since been called one of the most controversial figures in the comic industry, in the early 1990s, the self-taught artist became prominent due to his work on Marvel Comics The New Mutants and later X-Force. In 1992, he and several other popular Marvel illustrators left the company to found Image Comics, the first book published by Image Comics was Rob Liefelds Youngblood #1. Rob Liefeld was born October 3,1967, the youngest child of a Baptist minister and he and his sister, seven years his senior, grew up in Anaheim, California. Liefelds love of comics began as a child, which led early on to his decision to be a professional artist, Liefeld cites Pérez, along with John Byrne and Frank Miller, as major influences. At the convention, he showed editors his samples and offered a package, editor Dick Giordano, to whom Liefeld showed his samples at the DC booth, requested that Liefeld send him more samples. Though the published story was illustrated by another artist, Liefeld was later given character design work by the publisher. His first published story, however, was the five-issue miniseries Hawk and Dove for DC Comics and that same year, Liefeld drew a Bonus Book insert in Warlord #131, as well as Secret Origins #28. Liefelds layouts for Hawk and Dove #5, which place in a chaos dimension, were oriented sideways so that a reader would have to turn the comic book at a right angle to read them. Because this was done without editorial input, editor Mike Carlin cut and pasted the panels into the proper order, the letters column of Hawk and Dove #5 mentions that Liefeld showed something new to an editor who thought hed seen everything. Liefeld explained this was how the dimension had been portrayed the other time it had been featured in the book. Shortly thereafter, Liefeld began doing work for Marvel Comics as well, in 1989, Liefeld became the penciller for the Marvel series The New Mutants, starting with issue #86. He is generally credited for turning this lowest-selling title of the X-Men franchise into a financial success, with The New Mutants #98, Liefeld assumed full creative control over the series, penciling, inking, and plotting, with Fabian Nicieza writing dialog. The sales numbers were propelled by 1990s direct market sales strategies, Lees X-Men was published with five variant covers, and X-Force relied on multiple variant trading cards polybagged with the comic itself. Liefeld and several other young artists including Jim Lee, Todd McFarlane, Erik Larsen, Whilce Portacio, Jim Valentino. Each co-founder formed his own studio under the Image banner, such as Liefelds Extreme Studios, Liefelds superhero team series Youngblood, which is loosely based on a 1991 Teen Titans series Liefeld had proposed to DC Comics, was the first comic Image published. He appeared on an episode of The Dennis Miller Show to promote the book and his other titles included Bloodstrike #1, which was released in April 1993. In an interview in Hero Illustrated #4, Liefeld conceded disappointment with the first four issues of Youngblood, in 1996, Liefelds and Lees studios signed with Marvel to re-envision several of the companys core series, an event called Heroes Reborn
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Ron Lim
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Ronald Ron Lim is an American comic book artist living in Sacramento, California. He is best known for his work for Marvel Comics on their various cosmic titles, lims interest in comics began as a child, when he read comics and drew his favorite heroes, including Batman and the Fantastic Four. His first published work was for the independent comic book title Ex-Mutants and he was discovered by Marvel at a 1987 comic convention, and was hired on the spot. Lim penciled the Silver Surfer series for almost six years and he also penciled most of the Infinity trilogy of large scale crossover limited series which Marvel published in the early 1990s - Infinity Gauntlet, Infinity War and Infinity Crusade. He returned to these characters to pencil the Thanos series in 2004, other titles he has contributed to include Captain America, Dragon Lines, X-Men 2099, Spider-Man Unlimited, Sovereign Seven, J2, and Badger. He has done work for the Sonic the Hedgehog comic series at Archie Comics, Lim was a founding contributor to the ill-fated publisher Future Comics and, in 2002, penciled their fourth series, Metallix, for six issues. Lim has penciled Avengers Next and the Fantastic Five with Tom DeFalco for Marvel Comics and he is currently working on a new Iron Man/Dr
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Ken Macklin
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Ken Macklin is a Canadian artist best known for his large abstract sculptures made from industrial materials. Kenneth John Macklin was born in Edmonton, Alberta, from 1972 -1978, Macklin studied sculpture and ceramics at the University of Alberta. In 1979 Macklin travelled to England to study advanced sculpture at St. Martins School of Art in London, ken Macklins sculptures have been praised by a number of critics. Clement Greenberg reportedly hailed his large steel sculpture Simoon a masterpiece, according to Terry Fenton, Macklins extraordinary ability to build overall configurations from side-by-side attachments may account for both his poetry and mastery of scale. Ken Macklin lives and works in Gunn, Alberta
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Trina Robbins
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Trina Robbins is an American cartoonist. She was an early and influential participant in the underground comix movement, both as a cartoonist and historian, Robbins has long been involved in creating outlets for and promoting female comics artists. Robbins was an member of science fiction fandom in the 1950s. Her illustrations appeared in science fiction fanzines like the Hugo-nominated Habakkuk, Robbins first comics were printed in the East Village Other, she also contributed to the spin-off underground comic Gothic Blimp Works. In 1969, Robbins designed the costume for the Warren Publishing character Vampirella and she left New York for San Francisco in 1970, where she worked at the feminist underground newspaper It Aint Me, Babe. That same year she established the first all-woman comic book, the one-shot It Aint Me, wimmens Comix #1 featured Robbins Sandy Comes Out, the first-ever comic strip featuring an out lesbian. Robbins became increasingly outspoken in her beliefs, criticizing underground comix artist Robert Crumb for the misogyny of many of his comics. She said, Its weird to me how willing people are to overlook the hideous darkness in Crumbs work, what the hell is funny about rape and murder. In the early 1980s Robbins created adaptations of Sax Rohmers Dope, in the mid-1980s she wrote and drew Misty for the Marvel Comics childrens imprint Star Comics. The short-lived series was a reinterpretation of the long-standing character Millie the Model, now an adult running her own modeling agency, Robbins official involvement with Wonder Woman, a character she had long admired, began in 1986. At the conclusion of the first volume of the series, DC Comics published a limited series titled The Legend of Wonder Woman, written by Kurt Busiek. Robbins was the first woman to draw Wonder Woman comics, the series paid homage to the characters Golden Age roots. She also appeared as herself in Wonder Woman Annual 2, in the mid-1990s, Robbins criticized artist Mike Deodatos bad girl art portrayal of Wonder Woman, calling Deodatos version of the character a barely clothed hypersexual pinup. In the late 1990s, Robbins collaborated with Colleen Doran on the DC Comics graphic novel Wonder Woman, The Once and Future Story, Robbins has been writing the comic book adventures of Honey West, notable as being one of popular fictions first female private detectives. In addition to her comics work, Robbins is an author of books on the history of women in cartooning. Her first book, co-written with Catherine Yronwode, was Women and the Comics, as one of the first books ever published on this subject, it was covered in the mainstream press, in addition to the fan press. Her most recent work, Pretty In Ink, published by Fantagraphics, Robbins was a co-founder of Friends of Lulu, a nonprofit formed in 1994 to promote readership of comic books by women and the participation of women in the comic book industry. Robbins is featured in the 2014 feminist history film Shes Beautiful When Shes Angry and she was intimately involved in the 1960s rock scene, where she was close friends with Jim Morrison and The Byrds
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Jim Valentino
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Jim Valentino is an American writer, penciler, editor and publisher of comic books. Valentino began his career in the late 1970s creating small press, the early-mid-1980s saw normalman which first appeared as a back-up story in Aardvark-Vanaheims Cerebus. Renegade also published three issues of Valentinos self-titled series, in the mid-late 1980s, in the late 80s Valentino began working for Marvel Comics on their superhero titles. His most notable work for the company was as writer/ artist on the future-set super-hero series Guardians of the Galaxy, plus fill-ins on most of Marvels major titles. He left Marvel in 1992 to co-found Image Comics with Whilce Portacio, Erik Larsen, Jim Lee, Rob Liefeld, Todd McFarlane, Valentino originated several projects at Image, which he published through his own Shadowline imprint. Unlike at Marvel, where Valentino worked on characters owned by that company, of these titles, the most notable was the super-hero series ShadowHawk, on which he was both writer and artist. In 1997 he began another series in black and white called A Touch of Silver, also during this time he repackaged most of his earliest autobiographical work into a trade paperback called Vignettes, with an introduction by Dave Sim. In 1999 he became the publisher of Image Comics, under his directorship the company diversified its line considerably. On one hand, Valentinos efforts led to the discovery of a number of talented creators, on the other hand Image Comics saw a drop in overall sales. Still, he was able to turn the companys first profit in nearly a decade by opening new revenue streams such as sales to traditional book stores and libraries, the company managed to maintain its standing as number three in overall market share. In 2003, Valentino was replaced as publisher of Image Comics by Erik Larsen and he also serves on the board of directors of the comic industry charity The Hero Initiative and on its Disbursement Committee. In 2008 Valentino created Silverline Books an all-ages imprint for original graphic novels, vol.2 #3,5,7, #11–12,25,30,41 Silver Surfer vol.3 #32–33 Jim Valentino at the Grand Comics Database Jim Valentino at the Comic Book DB
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Tim Vigil
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Vigil is an American comic book artist, mostly working in the horror/adult genre. His main graphic novel Faust was adapted by Brian Yuzna as the 2001 movie Faust, the followup Faust, Book of M, was nominated for the 1999 Bram Stoker Award for Best Illustrated Narrative. He received his first popular exposure for his work on the comic title Grips, vigil was a key member of the Rebel Studios crew
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Marv Wolfman
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Marvin Arthur Marv Wolfman is an American comic book writer. Marv Wolfman was born in Brooklyn, New York City, the son of police officer Abe and he has a sister, Harriet,12 years older. When Wolfman was 13, his family moved to Flushing, Queens, in New York City and he went on to New Yorks High School of Art and Design, in Manhattan, hoping to become a cartoonist. Marvin Wolfman was active in fandom before he began his comics career at DC Comics in 1968. Wolfman was one of the first to publish Stephen King, with In A Half-World of Terror in Wolfmans horror fanzine Stories of Suspense #2. This was revised version of Kings first published story, I Was a Teenage Grave Robber, Wolfmans first published work for DC Comics appeared in Blackhawk No.242. He and longtime friend Len Wein created the character Jonny Double in Showcase No.78 scripted by Wolfman, the two co-wrote Eye of the Beholder in Teen Titans No. 18, which would be Weins first professional comics credit, neal Adams was called upon to rewrite and redraw a Teen Titans story which had been written by Wein and Wolfman. The story, titled Titans Fit the Battle of Jericho, would have introduced DCs first African American superhero, but was rejected by publisher Carmine Infantino. The revised story appeared in Teen Titans No.20, Wolfman and Gil Kane created an origin for Wonder Girl in Teen Titans No.22 which introduced the characters new costume. He and artist Bernie Wrightson co-created Destiny in Weird Mystery Tales No,1, a character which would later be used in the work of Neil Gaiman. In 1972, Wolfman moved to Marvel Comics as a protégé of then-editor Roy Thomas, when Thomas stepped down, Wolfman eventually took over as editor, initially in charge of the publishers black-and-white magazines, then finally the color line of comics. Wolfman said in 1981 that, Marvel never gave full commitment to the black-and-white line, No one wanted to commit themselves to the staff. He added, We used to farm the books out to Harry Chester Studios and whatever they pasted up, I formed the first production staff, hired the first layout people, paste-up people. Wolfman stepped down as editor-in-chief in order to more time writing. He and artist Gene Colan crafted The Tomb of Dracula, a comic that became one of the most critically-acclaimed horror-themed comic books ever. During their run on this series, they created Blade, a character who would later be portrayed by actor Wesley Snipes in a film trilogy, Wolfman co-created Bullseye in Daredevil No.131. He and artist John Buscema created Nova in that characters eponymous first issue, Wolfman and Gil Kane adapted Edgar Rice Burroughs Barsoom concepts into comics in Marvels John Carter, Warlord of Mars series
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Peter S. Beagle
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Peter Soyer Beagle is an American novelist and screenwriter, especially fantasy fiction. His best-known work is The Last Unicorn, a novel he wrote in his twenties. During the last twenty-five years he has won literary awards including a World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement in 2011. Beagle was born in Manhattan on April 20,1939, the son of Rebecca Soyer, three of his uncles were noted painters, Moses, Raphael, and Isaac Soyer. Beagle was raised in Bronx, New York, and graduated from the Bronx High School of Science in 1955 and he garnered early recognition from The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, winning a scholarship to University of Pittsburgh for a poem he submitted as a high school senior. He went on to graduate from the university with a degree in creative writing, following a year overseas, Beagle held the graduate Stegner Fellowship in creative writing at Stanford University, where he overlapped with Ken Kesey, Gurney Norman, and Larry McMurtry. Beagle wrote his first novel, A Fine and Private Place, today he is best known as the author of The Last Unicorn and A Fine and Private Place, as well as his later fantasies following The Folk of the Air. The Wind in the Willows, a classic of literature by Kenneth Grahame, had originally attracted him to the genre of fantasy. In the 1970s, Beagle turned to screenwriting, after writing an introduction for an American print edition of The Lord of the Rings, he wrote the screenplay for the 1978 Ralph Bakshi-animated version of The Lord of the Rings. Two decades later he wrote the teleplay for Sarek, episode 71 of the television series Star Trek, Beagles work as a screenwriter interrupted his early career direction as a novelist, magazine nonfiction author, and short-story writer. But in the mid-90s he returned to fiction of all lengths. With David Carlson as composer he adapted his story Come, Lady Death into the libretto for an opera, The Midnight Angel, in 2005 Beagle published a coda to The Last Unicorn, a novelette entitled Two Hearts, and began work on a full-novel sequel. Two Hearts won the most prestigious awards, the Hugo Award for Best Novelette in 2006. It was also nominated as a fiction finalist for the World Fantasy Award. IDW Publishing released a comic book adaptation of The Last Unicorn beginning in April 2010. The collected hardcover edition was released in January 2011, premiering at #2 on the New York Times Hardcover Graphic Novel bestseller list and it will be followed by an adaptation of A Fine and Private Place. Beagles 2009 collection of fiction, We Never Talk About My Brother, was nominated for a World Fantasy Award. In 2013, he collaborated with Phildel on a new track Dark Water Down, mixing poetry and they then appeared together at a gig at Cafe Du Nord in San Francisco, USA
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Geoff Johns
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Geoff Johns is an American comic book and television writer, film producer, and television producer. He is the president and Chief Creative Officer at DC Comics and his most notable work in different media has used the DC Comics characters Green Lantern, Aquaman, Flash, and Superman. He is well known for his work on The WB/The CWs Smallville, Arrow and he is also a comic book retailer who co-owns Earth-2 Comics in Northridge, California with Carr DAngelo and Jud Meyers. Johns was born in Detroit, Michigan, the son of Barbara and Fred Johns, and grew up in the suburbs of Grosse Pointe and Clarkston and he is of half Lebanese ancestry. As Johns continued collecting comics, he gravitated toward DC Comics and later Vertigo, after graduating from Clarkston High School in 1991, he studied media arts, screenwriting, film production and film theory at Michigan State University. He graduated from Michigan State in 1995, and then moved to Los Angeles, Johns started off copying scripts, and after about two months, was hired as a production assistant for Donner, whom Johns regards as his mentor. While working on production of Donners 1997 film Conspiracy Theory, Johns visited New York City, where he met DC Comics personnel such as Eddie Berganza, reigniting his childhood interest in comics. Berganza invited Johns to tour the DC Comics offices, and offered Johns the opportunity to suggest ideas, a series based on the second Star-Spangled Kid and her stepfather, to editor Chuck Kim a year later. Johns expected to write comics on the side, until he met David Goyer and James Robinson, after looking at Stars and S. T. R. I. P. E. Robinson offered Johns co-writing duties on JSA in 2000, and Johns credits both him and Mike Carlin with shepherding him into the comics industry and that same year, Johns became the regular writer on The Flash ongoing series with issue 164. I make a lot of my characters from Detroit, I think self-made, blue-collar heroes represent Detroit. Wally Wests Flash was like that, I took the inspiration of the city and the people there and used it in the books. Johns Flash run concluded with #225 and he co-wrote a Beast Boy limited series with Ben Raab in 2000 and crafted the Return to Krypton story arc in the Superman titles with Pasqual Ferry in 2002. After writing The Avengers vol.3 #57-76 and Avengers Icons, The Vision #1-4 for Marvel Comics, Johns oversaw the re-launch of Hawkman and Teen Titans. Johns was responsible for the return of Hal Jordan in 2005 as the writer of the Green Lantern, Rebirth mini-series, Johns was the writer of the Infinite Crisis crossover limited series, a sequel to 1985s Crisis on Infinite Earths. Following this, Johns was one of four writers, with Mark Waid, Grant Morrison, in 2006, Johns and Kurt Busiek co-wrote the Up, Up and Away. Story arc in Superman and Action Comics and he then reunited with Richard Donner on the Last Son storyline in Action Comics with Donner co-plotting the series with his former assistant. The Justice Society of America series by Johns and artist Dale Eaglesham began in February 2007 and six months later, he and that same year, Johns helmed the critically acclaimed Sinestro Corps War storyline in the Green Lantern titles
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Adam Kubert
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Kubert was rated by Wizard magazine as one of the Hot 10 Writers and Artists in the industry in 2008. He is the son of Joe Kubert and brother of Andy Kubert, born in Dover, New Jersey he is an instructor at the Joe Kubert School located there, which Joe Kubert founded, and at which he and Andy studied. Adam Kubert is the son of Muriel and Joe Kubert and his siblings include a sister, Lisa, and brothers David, Daniel, and Andrew. Comics editor Katie Kubert is his niece and he and his siblings grew up in Dover, New Jersey. He began his comics career at age 12 as a letterer. He attended the Rochester Institute of Technology and graduated with a degree in medical illustration and he subsequently attended his fathers The Kubert School in Dover, New Jersey. Adam Kubert began his comics career as a letterer for DC Comics and his first credited artwork for the company is the story Gremlins published in Sgt. In 1988, Adam Kubert drew the Jezebel Jade limited series and he collaborated with his brother on Adam Strange and the Batman versus Predator intercompany crossover. Adam Kubert is known for his work at Marvel Comics, from 1993 to 1996 he illustrated 17 issues of writer Larry Hamas run on Wolverine between issues #75 to 102. His first issue on the featured the after affects of Magneto removing the adamantium from Wolverines body. Kubert drew the Weapon X limited series as part of the Age of Apocalypse storyline in 1995, the following year, he drew the Onslaught, X-Men and Onslaught, Marvel Universe one-shots which lead into the Heroes Reborn crossover. From 1997 to 1998 he illustrated 12 issues of Peter Davids run on the The Incredible Hulk from #454 to 467, as well as the -1 issue. In 2001, Kubert drew the new Ultimate X-Men title, penciling the first four issues, in 2004, he began a run on Ultimate Fantastic Four, once again with writers Mark Millar and Brian Michael Bendis, illustrating that series first six issues, and then issues 13-18. Both Adam and his brother Andy signed exclusive contracts with DC Comics in June 2005, Kuberts first project for DC was illustrating Last Son, a Superman story arc co-written by Geoff Johns and Richard Donner, which ran in Action Comics #844–847,851 and Action Comics Annual #11. Further delay forced DC Comics to bring in creative teams and delay the fourth part of the Last Son storyline and 3D Issue to #851. The final part of the storyline was in Action Comics Annual #11, following his work on Superman he penciled the Final Crisis tie-in, DC Universe, Last Will and Testament, written by Brad Meltzer. His last work for his latest tenure at DC was the Batman and The Outsiders Special and this issue, written by Peter Tomasi, highlighted Alfred Pennyworths efforts to recruit a new team of Outsiders in the wake of Batmans apparent death. After the release of the book, Kubert said he was pleased with his work at DC and had done, what set out to do
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Jimmy Palmiotti
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James Jimmy Palmiotti is an American writer and inker of comic books, who also does writing for games, television and film. Palmiotti attended the High School of Art and Design in New York City and he also worked for Dark Horse Comics, as the inker during the Doug Mahnke run on X. He inked Paul Gulacy on Shang-Chi, Master of Kung Fu, Punisher and he inked Steve Dillon on Punisher, as well as Brad Walkers pencils on the DC Comics miniseries Secret Six - Six Degrees of Separation. In 1998, Event Comics was contracted to do several books for Marvel Comics, Palmiotti also co-scripted, with Garth Ennis, a Ghost Rider video game that ties in with the movie. He has also penned Supergirl #12, the two Uncle Sam and the Freedom Fighters miniseries and an arc for Superman Confidential, Palmiotti and Gray were also part of the writing team for DCs Countdown. Currently, along with Gray, Palmiotti is writing the monthly Jonah Hex, combat for DC Comics, as well as the miniseries Time Bomb for Radical Publishing. Palmiotti has also worked on Beautiful Killer, Gatecrasher, Tempest, Civil Warrior and has currently being shopped Death Troupe, Palmiotti recently co-wrote with Justin Gray The Hills Have Eyes, The Beginning for Fox Atomic Comics. He worked on the Painkiller Jane series for the Sci-Fi Channel starring Kristanna Loken and this was a one-hour,22 episode show. There was also a two-hour Painkiller Jane movie done for Sci-Fi as well, in the past he has written and storyboarded films for Hooptown for Nike. They featured LeBron James and Vince Carter and he is also known as an editor for many projects and books with companies ranging from Marvel comics, Fox Atomic, Blackbull Comics and Kickstart Comics. He is also a partner in two comicbook companies, Blackbull Press, Event Comics and a partner of Paperfilms inc. In July 2010 he started recording Listen to Jimmy, a podcast with Monster Mike Campbell of the Canadian comic book, Listen to Jimmy follows an open format where Campbell and Palmiotti discuss any topics that they deem relevant that week. Campbell also asks Palmiotti questions that are sent in by listeners through email, Twitter, the podcast is available for download at the Where Monsters Dwell site and through iTunes. In June 2013, Palmiotti was the speaker for the 2013 Inkwell Awards Awards Ceremony at HeroesCon in Charlotte. Palmiotti is married to frequent collaborator Amanda Conner, batwing with co-author Justin Gray, an ongoing series. Creator, writer and script consultant on 22 one-hour episodes, dead Space, Downfall, script writer with Justin Gray for EA and Starz. Speed Racer, The Next Generation, The Beginning, writer with Justin Gray for Lions Gate Entertainment and the Animation Collective. Repo Men, script for two original webisodes, NIKE Hooptown, short webisodes featuring Vince Carter and LeBron James
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Tim Powers
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Timothy Thomas Tim Powers is an American science fiction and fantasy author. Powers has won the World Fantasy Award twice for his acclaimed novels Last Call. His 1988 novel On Stranger Tides served as inspiration for the Monkey Island franchise of games and was optioned for adaptation into the fourth Pirates of the Caribbean film. Most of Powers novels are secret histories, typically, Powers strictly adheres to established historical facts. Powers was born in Buffalo, New York but has lived in California since 1959 and he studied English Literature at Cal State Fullerton, and earned his B. A. in 1976. Powers and Blaylock invented the poet William Ashbless while they were at Cal State Fullerton, another friend Powers first met during this period was noted science fiction writer Philip K. Dick, the character named David in Dicks novel VALIS is based on Powers. When Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. was retitled Blade Runner to tie-in with the based on the novel, Dick dedicated it to Tim. Powers also teaches part-time in his role as Writer in Residence for the Orange County High School of the Arts in the Creative Writing Conservatory, and Chapman University, Powers and his wife, Serena Batsford Powers, currently live in Muscoy, California. He has frequently served as an author as part of the Clarion science fiction/fantasy writers workshop. He also taught part-time at the University of Redlands, the Skies Discrowned Also published as Forsake The Sky, a science fiction adventure novel. An Epitaph in Rust Also published as Epitaph in Rust, the publishers cover blurb describes a tale that follows young Thomas from his escape from a rural monastery into the wilds of a future Los Angeles. There he joins a company where the play is definitely not the thing – revolution is –. The mayor has been blown up and his guards are determined to end insurrection. But the theater company has other ideas, the dark is a beer that has been brewing for centuries, which the Fisher King will eventually drink. In 2001 the group Cradle of Filth released a song entitled Dinner at Deviants Palace that was simply the Lords Prayer backmasked, the Stress of Her Regard Locus Fantasy and World Fantasy Awards nominee,1990 and winner of the 1990 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award. Concerning the dealings of the Romantic poets – Byron and Shelley are major characters – with vampire-like beings from Greek mythology, reprinted in 2008 with Tachyon Publications. Powers of Two Re-release of Skies Discrowned and Epitaph in Rust, medusas Web A standalone novel where Scott and Madeline Madden uncover the secrets of the Hollywood mansion Caveat, a conduit for the supernatural. Night Moves and Other Stories On Pirates, by James P, the William Ashbless Memorial Cookbook, A cookbook by Blaylock and Powers as Ashbless
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Kevin Smith
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Kevin Patrick Smith is an American filmmaker, actor, comedian, public speaker, comic book writer, author, and podcaster. He came to prominence with the comedy film Clerks, which he wrote, directed, co-produced. Jay and Silent Bob have appeared in Smiths follow-up films Mallrats, Chasing Amy, Dogma, and Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back which were set primarily in his home state of New Jersey. Smith also directed and produced such as the buddy cop action comedy Cop Out, the horror film Red State, and the horror comedy Tusk. Smith is the owner of Jay and Silent Bobs Secret Stash and he also hosts the movie-review television show Spoilers. As a podcaster, Smith co-hosts several shows on his own SModcast Podcast Network, including SModcast, Fatman on Batman, Smith is well known for participating in long, humorous Q&A sessions that are often filmed for DVD release, beginning with An Evening with Kevin Smith. Kevin Smith was born on August 2,1970 in Red Bank, New Jersey, the son of Grace, a homemaker, and Donald E. Smith and he has an older sister, Virginia, and an older brother, Donald Smith, Jr. He was raised in a Catholic household, in the nearby clamming town of Highlands, as a child, Smiths days were scheduled around Donalds late shifts at the post office. Donald grew to despise his job, which greatly influenced Smith, Smith vowed never to work at something that he did not enjoy. Smith later attended Henry Hudson Regional High School, where as a B and C student, he would videotape school basketball games, an overweight teen, he developed into a comedic observer of life in order to successfully socialize with friends and girls. After high school, Smith attended the New School in New York, but did not graduate On his 21st birthday, Smith went to see Richard Linklaters comedy Slacker. Smith relates, It was the movie that got me off my ass, it was the movie that lit a fire under me, and I had never seen a movie like that before ever in my life. To finance the film, Smith maxed out more than a credit cards and sold his much-treasured comic book collection. He cast friends and acquaintances in the major parts. Clerks was screened at the Sundance Film Festival in 1994, where it won the Filmmakers Trophy, at a restaurant following the screening, Miramax executive Harvey Weinstein invited Smith to join him at his table, where he offered to buy the movie. In May 1994, it went to the Cannes International Film Festival, released in October 1994 in two cities, the film went on to play in 50 markets, never playing on more than fifty screens at any given time. Despite the limited release, it was a critical and financial success, initially, the film received an NC-17 rating from the MPAA, solely for the sexually graphic language. Smiths second film, Mallrats, which marked Jason Lees debut as a leading man and it received a critical drubbing and earned merely $2.2 million at the box office, despite playing on more than 500 screens
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Judd Winick
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Judd Winick is an American comic book, comic strip and television writer/artist and former reality television personality. He created the animated TV series The Life and Times of Juniper Lee, Winick was born February 12,1970, and grew up in Dix Hills, New York. In his youth Winick initially read superhero comics, but this changed when he read Kyle Bakers graphic novel Why I Hate Saturn, which Winick said in a 2015 interview he still reads once a year. Winick graduated from school in 1988 and entered the University of Michigan, Ann Arbors School of Art, intending to emulate his cartoonist heroes, including Breathed. His comic strip, Nuts and Bolts, began running in the newspaper, the Michigan Daily, in his freshman year. The University published a small print-run of a collection of his strips called Watching the Spin-Cycle, in his senior year, Universal Press Syndicate, which syndicates strips such as Doonesbury and Calvin & Hobbes, offered Winick a development contract. After graduation, Winick lived in an apartment in Beacon Hill, Boston, Massachusetts, with fellow writer Brad Meltzer, struggling to develop Nuts and Bolts for UPS, while working at a bookstore. On January 1,1993, UPS decided not to renew Winick’s strip for syndication, Winick was unable to secure syndication with another company, and was forced to move back in with his parents by the middle of 1993, doing unfulfilling T-shirt work for beer companies. Winick applied to be on MTV network’s reality TV show, The Real World, San Francisco, hoping for fame, during the casting process, the producers of the show conducted an in-person, videotaped interview with Winick. When asked how he would feel about living with someone who was HIV-positive, Winick gave what he thought was an enthusiastic, politically correct answer, Winick was accepted as a cast member on the show in January 1994. The producers informed the housemates that they would be living with someone who was HIV-positive, Winick and his six castmates moved into the house at 949 Lombard Street on Russian Hill on February 12, Winicks 23rd birthday. Winick became roommates with Pedro Zamora, Winicks Nuts and Bolts strip began running in the San Francisco Examiner in March of that year. Winick, who is Jewish, was offended at Raineys decision to wear T-shirt depicting four guns arranged in the shape of a swastika, after filming of the season ended, Winick and Ling moved to Los Angeles to continue their relationship. By August 1994, Zamoras health began to decline, after being hospitalized, he asked Winick to substitute for him at a national AIDS education lecture. When Zamora died on November 11,1994, Winick and Ling were at his bedside, Winick would continue Zamoras educational work for some time after that. Winick designed illustrations for The Complete Idiots Guide to, series of books, and did over 300 of them, including that series’ computer-oriented line. A collection of the computer-related titles cartoons was published in 1997 as Terminal Madness, road Trip went on to become an Eisner Award nominee for Best Sequential Story. Barry Ween was optioned by Platinum Studios to be adapted into an animated series, Winick’s graphic novel, Pedro and Me, Friendship, Loss, and What I Learned, was published in September 2000
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Robert Kirkman
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Robert Kirkman is an American comic book writer best known for creating The Walking Dead and Invincible for Image Comics, in addition to writing Ultimate X-Men and Marvel Zombies for Marvel Comics. He has also collaborated with Image Comics co-founder Todd McFarlane on the series Haunt and he is one of the five partners of Image Comics, and the only one of the five who was not one of its co-founders. Robert Kirkman was born in Lexington, Kentucky, and was raised in Cynthiana, robert Kirkmans first comic book work was the 2000 superhero parody Battle Pope, which he co-created with artist Tony Moore, and self-published under the Funk-O-Tron label. Later, while pitching a new series, Science Dog, Kirkman, while working on that book, Kirkman and E. J. Su created the 2002 Image series Tech Jacket, which ran six issues, and the one-shot title, Cloudfall. In 2003, Kirkman and Walker created Invincible for Images new superhero line, the story surrounded the adolescent son of the worlds most powerful superhero, who develops powers and starts his own superhero career. Walker later failed to meet the monthly titles deadlines and was replaced by Ryan Ottley, in 2005, Paramount Pictures announced it had bought the rights to produce an Invincible feature film, and hired Kirkman to write the screenplay. Shortly after the launch of Invincible, Kirkman began The Walking Dead, artist Charlie Adlard replaced Tony Moore with issue #7. Moore continued to draw covers until issue 24 as well as the first four volumes of the trade paperbacks for the series and he soon became a mainstay at Marvel, writing the Avengers Disassembled issues of Captain America vol. 4, 2004s Marvel Knights 2099 one-shots event, Jubilee #1–6 and Fantastic Four, Foes #1–6, a run on Ultimate X-Men and the entire Marvel Team-Up vol.3. At Image, Kirkman and artist Jason Howard created the ongoing series The Astounding Wolf-Man, launching it on May 5,2007, Kirkman edited the monthly series Brit, based on the character he created for the series of one-shots, illustrated by Moore and Cliff Rathburn. Kirkman announced in 2007 that he and artist Rob Liefeld would team on a revival of Killraven for Marvel Comics, Kirkman that year also said he and Todd McFarlane would collaborate on Haunt for Image Comics. In late July 2008, Kirkman was made a partner at Image Comics, nonetheless, later in 2009, he and Walker produced the five-issue miniseries The Destroyer vol.4 for Marvels MAX imprint. In 2009, Kirkman and Marc Silvestri took over the 2009–2010 Pilot Season for Top Cow Comics, the 2009/2010 Pilot Season contains a series of five one-shot pilot comics that readers will be able to vote on which becomes an ongoing series. Each series is co-created by Silvestri who also provides cover art, in 2010, he also began producing the television adaption of his comic book series The Walking Dead, the pilot of which was directed by Frank Darabont. Kirkman has written or co-written six episodes of the series, Kirkman also created and serves as an executive producer on the shows spinoff series, Fear the Walking Dead. In July 2010, Kirkman announced he would launch and run a new Image Comics imprint called Skybound Entertainment, on September 24,2012, the two released a joint statement saying they had reached a settlement to everyones mutual satisfaction. Kirkman made an appearance in a 2012 episode of Adult Swims Robot Chicken as himself where he tries to tell The Nerd and Daniel a hint, in November 2013, Cinemax purchased a TV pilot based on Kirkman and artist Paul Azacetas then-upcoming six-issue exorcism comics miniseries, Outcast. The first issue of the comic was released in June 2014 to positive reviews, Kirkman was a producer of the science fiction thriller Air, which starred The Walking Deads Norman Reedus, and Djimon Hounsou
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Francis Manapul
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Francis Manapul is a Filipino-Canadian comic book artist and writer. Manapul is known for his work on Witchblade and The Necromancer for Top Cow and he has provided covers for various titles, most notably for some G. I. Joe comics from Devils Due Publishing, in 2007, he signed an exclusive contract to work with DC Comics. Manapul served as a guest judge in the fourth round of the third season of Comic Book Idol. In 2008 Francis became the artist for DCs Legion of Superheroes with Jim Shooter as the writer, Francis co-created the character Gazelle with Shooter before leaving the title. In 2009, he was named to be the artist in DCs new Flash series written by Geoff Johns which stars Barry Allen in the lead role. He was also one of the TV presenters on Beast Legends from Yap films and its premiere in the US was on September 9, Thursday at 10pm EST on SyFy. In 2011 Manapul was awarded the Joe Shuster Award for Outstanding Artist, in April 2014, Manapul and Buccellato moved from The Flash to Detective Comics. In 2016, Manapul became the writer and artist for the DC Rebirth comic book series Trinity, love in Tights #1 Monster Fighters, Inc. I. Joe Dreadnoks, Declassified #1-3 Soulfire, Chaos Reign #2 G. I. H. U. N. D. E. R
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Joe Quesada
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Joseph Joe Quesada is an American comic book editor, writer and artist. He became known in the 1990s for his work on various Valiant Comics books, such as Ninjak and Solar, in 1998 he became an editor of Marvel Comics Marvel Knights line, before becoming editor-in-chief of the company in 2000. He was named Chief Creative Officer of Marvel Entertainment in 2010 and left his role in January 2011. He was, at his retirement, the longest-serving Marvel editor-in-chief other than Stan Lee, as the character resonated with him, Spider-Man remains a character he particularly enjoys drawing. Quesada majored in illustration at the School of Visual Arts, from which he graduated with a BFA in 1984, Quesada started out as a freelance artist for Valiant Comics in the early 1990s. His first widely distributed works were for Valiant Comics, specifically penciled interiors and covers for Ninjak, Solar, Man of the Atom and his art was heavily influenced by Alex Toth, Mike Mignola and Alphonse Mucha. At DC Comics, he and writer Jack C. Harris co-created an updated version of the Golden Age character the Ray, Quesada co-created the character Azrael with writer Dennis ONeil in the Batman, Sword of Azrael miniseries in 1992. Later, Quesada and his inking partner Jimmy Palmiotti, formed a company, Event Comics, and co-created Ash. Quesada cites his experience with Event, and the creators he formed relationships with during that period as that which best prepared him for the later role of Marvels editor in chief. Mack, Mike Oeming, Brian Michael Bendis, Garth Ennis, Quesada also illustrated a Daredevil story written by film director Kevin Smith. Two and a years after starting Marvel Knights, Joe Quesada became editor-in-chief of Marvel Comics in 2000. At the same time, Bill Jemas succeeded to the presidency of the company, the relationship culminated in the establishment of the Ultimate line of Marvel titles, which were aimed at teenagers and took place outside of the restrictive continuity of the Marvel Universe. In the mid-2000s, Quesada imposed a moratorium on the practice of bringing back characters thought to be dead. Joe Quesadas predecessor as Marvel editor in chief, Bob Harras, in June 2009 Quesada began writing a weekly column for Comic Book Resources called Cup O Joe, in which he answers questions every Friday from readers or provides information on Marvel projects. Also at issue was the slogans on some of the held by the protestors. Quesada stated that future reprints of that story would have the offending material omitted, on June 2,2010 Marvel announced that it promoted Joe Quesada to Chief Creative Officer of Marvel Entertainment. In this position Quesada will help ensure that all portrayals of Marvels characters and he will also oversee the creative aspects of media adaptations of Marvel properties, which include participating in story and script development. On January 4,2011, Quesada stepped down as editor-in-chief, during this time, Tom and Axel have been handling the more detailed functions of the stories within our comics
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Frank Quitely
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Vincent Deighan, better known by the pen name Frank Quitely, is a Scottish comic book artist. Vincent Deighan studied at the Glasgow School of Art, Deighan worked up the Scottish underground comics title Electric Soup in 1990, writing and drawing The Greens, a parody of The Broons strip published by D. C. It was in working on this book that he adopted the pseudonym of Frank Quitely, as he did not want his family to know it was his work, worried that they may have found it upsetting. Initially Electric Soup was only distributed locally in Glasgow, then it was picked up by John Brown Publishing for widespread national UK distribution and this brought Quitelys work to the attention of Judge Dredd Megazine editor David Bishop. He was given work on Shimura, written by Robbie Morrison and he drew various stories in Paradox Press series of The Big Book Of graphic novels, as well as work in Dark Horse Presents for Dark Horse Comics. His first major work in American comics was Flex Mentallo in 1996, initially he worked on strips for anthology titles such as Weird War Tales, and drew three issues of Jamie Delanos 2020 Visions, as well as various covers for DC. He later drew his first full graphic novel, Batman, The Scottish Connection. Quitely and Grant worked on a one-shot titled Lobo, The Hand-to-Hand Job later retitled as Its a Mans World, although Quitely did all the pencils, the story was not released. 2000 saw Quitely and Morrison collaborate again, on JLA, Earth 2, the graphic novel was met with positive critical response, and later that year Quitely took over from Bryan Hitch as artist on The Authority, with Mark Millar as writer. Quitely left The Authority to draw New X-Men, Quitely illustrated a Destiny story for Neil Gaimans The Sandman, Endless Nights hardcover graphic novel in 2003. After leaving New X-Men, Quitely drew the mini-series We3 in 2004 and he shared the 2005 Best Penciller/Inker or Penciller/Inker Team Eisner Award in a tie with artist John Cassaday for his work on the book. That same year, he and Morrison were nominated for Best Limited Series for that book, in December 2004, Quitely signed to a two-year exclusive contract with DC Comics, where he illustrated All-Star Superman. The twelve issue series, yet another collaboration with Morrison, began publication in November 2005, Quitely and Morrisons work on the series won them the Eisner Award for Best New Series in 2006, with Quitely collecting another nomination for Best Penciller/Inker. The series won Best Continuing Series in 2007 and 2009, in 2008 Quitely illustrated the cover for the debut issue of Scottish underground comic Wasted. This was released as a limited run collectors pressing by Glasgows Chemikal Underground Records and that same year, Quitely again teamed with Morrison, illustrated the first three issues of Batman and Robin title, which debuted in June 2009 after the Battle for the Cowl storyline. He provided covers through issue No.16, Quitely was one of the artists of Batman No.700. On 9 April 2011, Quitely was one of 62 comics creators who appeared at the IGN stage at the Kapow, convention in London to set two Guinness World Records, the Fastest Production of a Comic Book and Most Contributors to a Comic Book. The book was completed in 11 hours,19 minutes, and 38 seconds, in 2012, Quitely was one of several artists to illustrate a variant cover for Robert Kirkmans The Walking Dead No
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Amy Reeder
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Amy Reeder, formerly known as Amy Reeder Hadley, is an American comic book artist, known for her work on titles such as Fools Gold, Madame Xanadu, and Batwoman. Amy Reeder was born August 25,1980 and she is originally from Denver, Colorado and obtained a Bachelor of Science in Social Science Teaching. Amy Reeder was first discovered through the fourth of Tokyopops Rising Stars of Manga competitions, Reeder became the lead artist on the Madame Xanadu series from DC Comics Vertigo imprint, with writer Matt Wagner. In a 2007 interview, she credited editor Brandon Montclare with helping her break into the comics industry. In 2010, DC announced that she would take over art duties for the Batwoman series with J. H. Williams III, in addition to providing variant covers to that title. She then left the Batwoman book due to differences in the middle of the next story arc. Reeder moved to Image Comics and created Rocket Girl with writer Brandon Montclare, in addition to pencils and an electric eraser, Reeder employs a drawing tablet for her work. For her hand-colored work, she uses Copic Multiliners, Copic Markers, computer programs that she uses for her artwork include Adobe Photoshop, Corel Painter, and ComicWorks. Reeder enjoys writing music, singing and sewing
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Bill Sienkiewicz
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Sienkiewicz often utilizes oil painting, collage, mimeograph, and other forms generally uncommon in comic books. Sienkiewicz was born May 3,1958, in Blakely, Pennsylvania, when he was five years old, he moved with his family to Hainesville, New Jersey, where he attended elementary and secondary school. Sienkiewicz began drawing when was about four or five, and continued doing and learning about art throughout his childhood and his early comic-book influences include artist Curt Swan Superman comics, and artist Jack Kirbys Fantastic Four. Sienkiewicz received his art education at the Newark School of Fine and Industrial Arts in Newark. After art school, he showed a portfolio of his work to DC Comics art director Vince Colletta, the artist recalled in 1985, They didnt have any work for me, but that didnt bother me. I just figured that if comics didnt work out Id have done advertising or illustration, vinnie called Neal Adams, who put me in touch with Jim Shooter. Soon after that I was drawing Moon Knight, in The Hulk magazine and his art style was heavily influenced by Neal Adams. Sienkiewicz continued as artist of the Moon Knight color comics series, Four years later, after a stint as artist on the Fantastic Four, he became the artist on Marvels X-Men spin-off New Mutants, beginning with issue No. 18, producing paintings and character designs. From this period on, Sienkiewiczs art evolved into a more expressionistic style, and he began experimenting with paint, collage. He illustrated New Mutants from 1984–1985, Sienkiewicz produced covers for a range of Marvel titles, including Rom, Dazzler, The Mighty Thor, Return of the Jedi and The Transformers, and drew the comic adaptation of Dune. Sienkiewiczs own first writing credit was for the painted story Slow Dancer in Epic Illustrated in 1986, Sienkiewicz both wrote and illustrated the 1988 miniseries Stray Toasters, an idiosyncratic work published by Epic Comics about a criminal psychologist investigating a series of murders. His first major work for DC Comics was contributing to Batman #400. He illustrated the 1986–1987 eight-issue Elektra, Assassin limited series and the Daredevil, Love, after this, he collaborated with writer Andrew Helfer on the first six issues of DC Comics The Shadow series. In 1988, he contributed to the Brought to Light graphic novel with writer Alan Moore, in 1990, Sienkiewicz and Moore published the first two issues of the uncompleted series Big Numbers. Sienkiewicz painted the Classics Illustrated adaptation of the novel Moby-Dick, Sienkiewicz was the subject of a 2008 full-length documentary/interview produced by Woodcrest Productions, The Creator Chronicles, Bill Sienkiewicz. In 2007, Sienkiewicz penciled 30 Days of Night, Beyond Barrow, in 2008, Sienkiewicz illustrated a story for The Nightmare Factory - Volume 2 graphic novel. That same year, he inked the Reign in Hell limited series for DC, in 2010-2012, he inked several issues of Neal Adams Batman, Odyssey project for DC Comics
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Tony Daniel
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Daniel worked on various titles with Image Comics including his own creation The Tenth. He also worked on titles for Marvel Comics and he gained status at DC Comics with his run on Teen Titans with writer Geoff Johns. He finished out the short lived Flash, The Fastest Man Alive series with Marc Guggenheim from issues #11-13, from there, Daniel began his work for the main Batman title with writer Grant Morrison, beginning his run with issue #670. This issue began the Resurrection of Ras al Ghul crossover and he and Morrison collaborated on the major Batman R. I. P. during that time. Daniel wrote and illustrated Battle for the Cowl, the main mini-series dealing with the storys aftermath, after Judd Winick and Mark Bagleys four-issue run on Batman, Tony Daniel took over for a six-issue arc handling both writing and art duties. Daniel worked with Grant Morrison again on issue #701-702 and he returned as writer and artist starting with issue #704 in November 2010 with his arc on Batman coming to an end at issue #712. Shortly after, Daniel was announced as the writer and artist of the relaunched Detective Comics, in addition, he was announced as the writer of DCs The Savage Hawkman series, which he would stay on until the eighth issue. Daniel stayed on Detective Comics until the issue, by which time he released an annual for the series as well. Following this, Daniel was announced as the artist for a two issue stint on the volume of Justice League. He was subsequently announced as the primary artist accompanying Andy Diggle on Action Comics and this project was then announced to be Superman/Wonder Woman, with Daniel on as the artist. After working with Charles Soule on Superman/Wonder Woman, Daniel again returned to writing duties, penciling and scripting the relaunch of the Deathstroke title, much like most of Daniels work, it easily sold out and headed off to a second printing. The series continued to be a success, with the first three issues going on to get third printings as well
