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read yourself RAW - Profile: David Lapham David Lapham (1970-) was born and raised in New Jersey and began work at 17 as a layout artist for the Ocean County Observer. He began his career in the comic industry at 20 working at Valiant Comics. After Defiant Comics went bust, David turned his back on the superhero genre and in 1995 co-founded with his wife, Maria, the independent publishing company, El Capitan Books, under which they began publishing David's comic series Stray Bullets. www.readyourselfraw.com /profiles/lapham/profile_lapham.htm   (447 words)

The History of Comics Because of this, an increase in demand for comics came about which spawned new companies to compete against the "big two." There was Defiant Comics, Acclaim Comics, Dark Horse Comics, and Malibu Comics. Image Comics was formed by a group of artists from DC Comics and Marvel Comics who had decided they had taken enough gruff from the editors and wanted to do stuff their way. Comics, in fact, have become such a popular thing in our culture that it is not rare to find others sources of media, such as television and movies, poking fun at them. www.sugarbombs.com /comics/cpart4.html   (449 words)

Jim Shooter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Shooter began selling stories to DC Comics for their Legion of Super-Heroes title when he was only 13. Shooter was often blamed, sometimes demonized, by the comics fan press for corporate decisions his position required him to defend, most notably in Marvel's long-running disputes with Jack Kirby over creator's rights and the return of his original artwork from 1960s comics. With the new company enjoying great success in the direct sales comics market, Shooter was ousted in a corporate dispute sparked by his venture capitalist partners' desire to sell off the company and realize their profits. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jim_Shooter   (606 words)

Terry Hooper: Keeper of the Black Tower The fl tower art logo of which, interestingly enough, Defiant Comics later used for their OWN line of comics, without your permission, after asking you for a copy of the design at a British comic book convention numerous years ago, for the stated reason that they 'liked the design. Well, I phoned Defiant's phone number in the U.S.A. and I spoke to people there, who told me I should not use my own logo, which had been in published existence long before Defiant Comics was even an idea. In the first issue of Defiant Comics’ Dark Domain, a comic book which bears the Black Tower ripped-off-from-you cover corner design, Jim Shooter, ironically wrote an inside editorial that an unrelated court case was over, the subject of which was that Marvel had sued Defiant Comics on another matter. www.silverbulletcomicbooks.com /features/113264564940117.htm   (6941 words)

Defiant Comics Defiant changed the name to Warriors of Plasm before issue #1 was published. Defiant was in the middle of a universe-wide crossover called Schism when they folded. There used to be a very comprehensive Defiant Comics archive assembled by a user named Defiant1. www.shooterswork.com /defiant.htm   (432 words)

Defiant Comics Defiant Comics was founded in the wake of Jim Shooter's departure from Valiant Comics. As soon as it heard the news, Marvel Comics sued Defiant Comics, claiming that the new title violated their copyright. Defiant Comics officially stopped publication in the summer of 1995. www.sfcrowsnest.com /scifinder/a/Defiant_Comics.php   (304 words)

defiant - Information from Reference.com Defiant was established in 1993 by the former Editor-in-Chief of Marvel Comics and Valiant Comics, Jim Shooter. Defiant was founded in the wake of Jim Shooter's departure from Valiant. Defiant officially stopped publication in the summer of 1995. www.reference.com /browse/defiant   (687 words)

comicfoundry.com - wfsection-How David Lapham Works So when Defiant went down, we were both ready to move on and take control into our own hands. You also have to realize just how much work doing a comic from soup to nuts is compared to just, say, penciling a book for a big company. I think some mainstream comics that should be all-ages, instead are just gory and violent for their own sake. www.comicfoundry.com /modules/wfsection/article.php?articleid=127   (1174 words)

Portale:Fumetti - Wikipedia Esistono inoltre suoi cameo in alcuni fumetti DC Comics e Vertigo. Considerato uno dei grandi Maestri del fumetto italiano, muore 12 giugno del 1987, poco prima di completare l'ultimo episodio di Larry Yuma, Montana Pass. A quasi ottanta anni dalla nascita, gli viene intitolato nel 2005, nell'ambito della seconda edizione di Treviso Comics, un premio fumettistico. wikipedia.kataweb.it /wiki/Portale:Fumetti   (1359 words)

Murder Me Dead - PopMatters Comic Book Review American comics have become so closely associated with the super-hero, it is difficult to imagine an American comic which does not feature a muscle-bound protagonist clad in spandex and tights. In its place would rise a wave of comic books that focused not on the exploits of garishly costumed heroes in their undying battle against crime and evil, instead it concentrated on the latter. Inevitably, as the widespread success of crime comics (and its thematic progeny, horror comics) grew, the voices of indignation increased in direct proportion. www.popmatters.com /comics/murder-me-dead.shtml   (867 words)

This Is Not News :: View topic - Comics' Confusing Cosmology (May 2004)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31) One of the most simultaneously appealing and maddening aspects of comics is the concept of the “universe,” the notion that some group of a publisher’s books take place in the same fictional setting. DC Comics likes to call its superhero line “The Original Universe.” To some extent, it’s a justifiable claim. Of the early 90s efforts to set off a comics Big Bang, the hardest to peg as a success or failure would be the Image Universe. www.notnews.org /forum/viewtopic.php?t=270   (2034 words)

defiant | English | Dictionary & Translation by Babylon Defiant may refer to: In transportation:Boulton Paul Defiant, British fighter aircraft of World War IIDefiant (aircraft), twin-engine aircraft designed by aerospace engineer Burt RutanGWR 4073 Class 5080 Defiant, Great Western Railway locomotiveRutan Defiant, four-seat, twin-engine aircraft with the engines in a push-pull configuration Defiant Comics was a comic book publishing imprint of Enlightened Entertainment Partners, LP. Defiant was established in 1993 by the former Editor-in-Chief of Marvel Comics and Valiant Comics, Jim Shooter.As for the all capital naming scheme for Defiant (or "DEFIANT" as some prefer), Jim has said, "All my names are all caps, the minute I walk out of the room they forgot that..."[1] www.babylon.com /definition/defiant   (154 words)

Dark Dominion - Defiant Comics Tim had attended a seminar in comics, along with many if the UK bullpen of the time, given by Jim Shooter, in his drive to standardise his theories on successful comics creation. Tim reintroduced himself and after showing his portfolio of work to them both was hired on the spot to paint a new comic in production by the legendary Steve Ditko of Spider-Man and Dr. Strange fame. Defiant became part of the huge comics implosion during 1994 and closed its doors for the final time later in the year around September time. www.wizards-keep.com /index.asp-Q-case-study-E-dark-dominion-defiant-comics--81112307   (767 words)

NEWSARAMA - DEATHMASK V. 1 As for why I was drawn into Future Comics: Well Metallix looked interesting to me, I liked the concept of a "tag team superhero", but didn't wanna take the $3.50 risk, so I checked out Future's site and they had a promotion where you could get a free signed comic. Future Comics is for the readers who miss old school super hero comics, like me. Their art and story style are classic, and to many readers that's a great thing. I think Future comics has a great list of creators, but I still think there is a great deal of room for improvement on the content itself. www.newsarama.com /forums/showthread.php?s=1f849c8d5ae9deeff082132d20c7f88e&postid=375096   (1563 words)

ComicsPriceGuide.com - Who has the biggest Defiant collection? If you go by comics only, there is no official release of Plasm #0 as a standalone comic. DEFIANT repeatedly said they had no control over products released by the River Group. Defiant Genesis With No Card Insert - I was not originally including this as a variant. www.comicspriceguide.com /forum2/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=22688&whichpage=1   (3189 words)

Defiant After leaving Valiant Comics, in 1993 former Marvel comics editor-in-chief Jim Shooter launched Defiant Comics (the comics imprint of Enlightened Entertainment Partners). The venture would be short lived: when Defiant announced their first title would be called Plasm, Marvel Comics stepped in, citing copyright (or trademark?) infringement, as they had a recently launched comic with a similar name, Plasmer. Though the only similarities were the titles, and though Shooter promptly changed his comic's title to Warriors of Plasm, Marvel still took Defiant to court. www.internationalhero.co.uk /d/defiant.htm   (372 words)

ComicsPriceGuide.com - Defiant Comics Color art It worked fine at valiant, but most of the Defiant creators complain that the process blurred the images and they were not happy with it. The medium used for the colour work I did at the Defiant Bullpen was dependent on whether I was "ghosting" or not. Firstly the early colour work I did here in the UK was in watercolour dyes and inks like Janet used on the Defiant books, but I always found they dulled up due to the pigments involved when they went off to print. comicspriceguide.com /forum2/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=36210   (1720 words)

Phobos Entertainment - Features - Creative Superman   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31) I left comics around 1970 and started getting work advertising, but everything, all the jobs I would get, would be comic format jobs. I mean comics were originally about [the characters]; Spider-Man was originally about Spider-Man. You showed up to see what happened to Spider-Man. You couldn't wait to read what happened to Spider Man, or the X-Men, or whoever. That's not limited to Shakespeare; there were moments in Stan Lee comics I remember to this day that are important to me, that meant something to me at the time and that helped me to understand something about myself or about other people. www.phobosweb.com /features/articles/shooter.html   (2324 words)

Comic Book Resources Forums - what happend to the other companies? They had a big hit with Turok, and the sequel, but the third or fourth game didn't do nearly as well as they projected and the company had a lot riding on it, besides some other games not doing as well as they hoped. Defiant - Shooter started this with an investor after he was fired from Valiant. They might be keeping the company profitable enough to keep the regular comics line going as a source for future digest material. forums.comicbookresources.com /showthread.php?t=55035   (1029 words)

Peter David - Writer of Stuff - Bibliography Footnotes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31) The SpyBoy: Motorola Special comics are a series of five 10-page promotional comics published by Dark Horse in conjunction with Motorola Inc. They were given away at the Motorola-sponsored ISF (International Snowboard Federation) Tournament in early 2000. Considering that the large majority of the print run of these comics were handed out to attendees of the snowboarding tournament (attendees that for the most part probably--horrors--glanced at and discarded them), very few copies got into the hands of comics fans. Shooter's recent announcement of his newly-formed Defiant Comics, which gets points for the most in-your-face name for a company ever, is something that all industry watchers will be looking forward to. members.cox.net /padbiblio/info.html   (1182 words)

Shooter, Jim Shooter began selling stories to DC Comics for their Legion of Super-Heroes title when he was only 13. Shooter was often blamed, sometimes demonized, by the comics fan press for corporate decisions his position required him to defend, most notably in Marvel's long-running disputes with Jack Kirby over creator's rights and the return of his original artwork from 1960s comics. With the new company enjoying great success in the direct sales comics market, Shooter was ousted in a corporate dispute sparked by his venture capitalist partners' desire to sell off the company and realize their profits. www.sfcrowsnest.com /scifinder/a/Jim_Shooter.php   (673 words)

Comic World News | Headlines Although comic book heroes almost always prevail in the end, comic book writers and artists have not always fared as well as their four-color creations. Comic book creators, whether they are industry superstars or promising newcomers, can no longer afford to ignore the legal side of the comic book profession. Defiant first changed the name of its title to “Warriors of Plasm.” Then, Defiant’s attorneys, having clearly done their homework, introduced evidence demonstrating the realities of the comic book market and the minimal likelihood for confusion in the direct market where both titles were to be sold. cwn.comicraft.com /cgi-bin/index.cgi?column=headlines&page=626   (1827 words)

Alphabetti Fumetti: L is for Lee It's a great shame that both Valiant and Defiant didn't survive the boom and bust of the 90s, but it's some consolation to know that their most enduring legacy was not high speculator prices or the creation of 'new universes'. In the early 60s the comics industry was on the verge of collapse, panicked by a backlash against EC horror comics, and forced to adopt a regulatory comics code that was witheringly decent and boring. The Comics Code Authority strictly forbade the depiction of drugs, but Lee felt so strongly about the subject that he insisted it be published without CCA approval. www.ninthart.com /display.php?article=1146   (1292 words)

Comic book history - the POST-SILVER AGE at The Comic Page - the history of comics By 1970 the top selling title was non-superhero, Archie Comics was averaging more than 500,000 per issue and it was obvious superheros were declining again. Jack Kirby returned to DC Comics, who was willing to give him greater control over his characters. Loosening of the Comics Code, because of the success of issues like the anti-drug Amazing Spiderman, gave publishers enough freedom to try some horror titles again. www.dereksantos.com /comicpage/postsilver.html   (1298 words)

Comics as Society's Mirror: (8) Bubble to Now It was far more profitable to produce 25,000 issues of a quality item which retailed for $2.50 and a 90% sales rate than to produce 100,000 copies of a one dollar item with a 50% sales rate, once distribution costs were subtracted. Newest stuff is cheap e-ditions, that is, downladable copies of rare comics at a tiny fraction of what even reprints would cost. Remember, original comics were reprints of the previous form, newspapers. www.rumormillnews.com /cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=73827   (2352 words)

Comics Should Be Good! » Comic Book Urban Legends Revealed #96 Well, last week’s installment of Comic Book Urban Legends Revealed saw Mike Carlin discuss how ready DC was for the reaction to Superman’s death. COMIC URBAN LEGEND: Defiant Comics lost a court case forcing them to change the name of their comic from Plasm to Warriors of Plasm. That is why, going all the way back to one of the very FIRST Comic Book Urban Legends Revealed, folks still think Fawcett lost the rights to Captain Marvel to DC Comics due to DC Comics suing them. goodcomics.comicbookresources.com /2007/03/29/comic-book-urban-legends-revealed-96   (4586 words)

FanboyPlanet - Planet Buzz After the laughter died down, Shooter got booted from Marvel, going on to launch the Valiant line of comics, which was actually pretty good and launched the N64 Turok, Dinosaur Hunter franchise. He moved on to start Defiant Comics, then Broadway Comics, two good lines undone by lack of funding. Copyrights and trademarks for existing entertainment (film, TV, comics, wrestling) properties are held by their respective owners and are used with permission or for promotional purposes of said properties. www.fanboyplanet.com /derek/mc-news-12-11.htm   (868 words)

CinemaGraphix - Producers of feature films with a graphic edge.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31) Polgardy co-created and wrote the internationally acclaimed hit comic book series "From The Darkness" and "From The Darkness: Blood Vows", as well as the graphic novel adaptation of Quentin Tarantino’s "From Dusk ‘Til Dawn". He was also the Senior Editor at Jim Shooter’s Defiant Comics, where he developed and edited several hit titles, including "The Good Guys" and "Dark Dominion", which was penciled by Spider-Man co-creator Steve Ditko. Polgardy was Editor-in-Chief at comics publisher BIG Entertainment where he developed stories with celebrity concept creators including John Jakes, Mickey Spillaine, Tom Clancy, and Neil Gaiman. www.cinemagraphix.com /bios_ed.html   (182 words)

Comic Vault - Mike's Pick of the Week - Stray Bullets   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31) He began this quest with Daredevil in the 80s and completed he vision with Sin City in the 90s. Miller opted for fl and white in his crime comics to simulate crime noir films of the 40s and 50s. After Shooter was booted he followed him to Defiant comics before going out on his own when Defiant folded. www.ryaninteractive.com /comicvault/36_straybullets.htm   (599 words)

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