Erasable Inc., founded in 1986, has strong ties with which comic hotspot based in Chicago?
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Erasable Inc. Founded in 1986 with the help of Yale's Purple Crayon, Erasable Inc. has toured the U.S. and Europe, developing strong ties with internationally renowned comic hotspots such as The Second City and the Annoyance Theatre in Chicago. Erasable Inc. has worked with notable comedic figures such as Kevin McDonald, Paul Provenza, and the late improv guru Del Close.
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The Second City The Second City is an improvisational comedy enterprise, best known as the first ever on-going improvisational theater troupe based in Chicago. It also has programs that run out of Toronto and Los Angeles. The Second City Theatre opened on December 16, 1959, and has since become one of the most influential and prolific comedy theatres in the world.
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ComicBase ComicBase is a computer program for tracking comic book collections. It was created in 1992 by Peter Bickford as an Apple Macintosh program. A Windows version was introduced in 1996. As of February 2015, it is on its nineteenth version (dubbed ComicBase 2017) and is available for computers running Microsoft Windows Windows 7, and later. Its database includes pricing and notes on over 800,000 individual comic book issues, and allows users to sell their comics online at a website marketplace called Atomic Avenue.
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Netherworld (DC Comics) The Netherworld is a fictional autonomous neighborhood of the city of Chicago in the DC Comics universe. It first appears in "Hawkworld" #30 (January, 1993), it was created by John Ostrander and Tim Truman.
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The Beguiling The Beguiling is a comic shop in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It specializes in underground and alternative comics, classic comic strip reprints, and foreign comics. It has built an international reputation for focusing on and promoting non-superhero comics in the superhero-dominated North American comic book market.
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The Comic Reader The Comic Reader (TCR) was a comics news-fanzine published from 1961 to 1984. Debuting in the pre-direct market era (before the proliferation of comics retailers), "TCR" was the first regularly published comics industry news fanzine, and was able to secure many contacts from within the ranks of the larger publishers. As "TCR" increased in popularity and influence, it was able to attract professional artist to illustrate the covers. "TCR" also proved to be a launching pad for aspiring comic book creators, many of whom published work in the fanzine as amateurs. Contributors from the world of fandom included founding editor Jerry Bails, key editor Paul Levitz, Paul Kupperberg, Tony Isabella, Byron Preiss, Neal Pozner, Don Rosa, Carl Gafford, and Doug Hazlewood.
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Silicon Valley Comic Con 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 region's largest city, San Jose.
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American Flagg! American Flagg! is an American comic book series created by writer-artist Howard Chaykin, published by First Comics from 1983 to 1989. A science fiction series and political satire, it was set in the U.S., particularly Chicago, Illinois, in the early 2030s. Writers besides Chaykin included Steven Grant, J.M. DeMatteis, and Alan Moore.
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Continuity Comics Continuity Publishing, also known as Continuity Comics, was an American independent comic book company formed by Neal Adams in 1984, publishing comics until 1994.
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ChicagoNow ChicagoNow is a blogging site managed by tronc, Inc., owner of the print "Chicago Tribune" newspaper. It features a network of blogs of mainly local interest on a variety of topics ranging from crime to public schools to local politics.
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West Lawn, Chicago West Lawn, one of Chicago's 77 official community areas, is located on the southwest side of the city. It is considered to be a "melting pot" of sorts, due to its constant change of races moving in and out of the area, as well as the diversity that exists there. It has a small town atmosphere in the big city. West Lawn is home to many Polish-Americans, Irish-Americans, Mexican-Americans, and other people of Latin American and Eastern European origin. The current Alderman of the West Lawn community is Alderman Marty Quinn.
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John Byrne (comics) John Lindley Byrne ( ; born July 6, 1950) is an American comics artist and writer. Since the mid-1970s, Byrne has worked on many major superheroes. Byrne's better-known work has been on Marvel Comics' "X-Men" and "Fantastic Four" and the 1986 relaunch of DC Comics' "Superman" franchise, the first issue of which featured comics' first variant cover. Coming into the comics profession as penciller, inker, letterer and writer on his earliest work, Byrne began co-plotting the "X-Men" comics during his tenure on them, and launched his writing career in earnest with "Fantastic Four" (where he also served as penciler and inker). During the 1990s he produced a number of creator-owned works, including "Next Men" and "Danger Unlimited". He scripted the first issues of Mike Mignola's "Hellboy" series and produced a number of "Star Trek" comics for IDW Publishing. In 2015, Byrne and his X-Men collaborator Chris Claremont were entered into the Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame.
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Chicago Pride Parade The Chicago Pride Parade, also colloquially (and formerly) called the Chicago Gay Pride Parade or PRIDE Chicago, is the annual pride parade held on the last Sunday of June in Chicago, Illinois in the United States. It is considered the culmination of the larger Gay and Lesbian Pride Month, as promulgated by the Chicago City Council and Mayor of Chicago. Chicago's Pride Parade is one of the largest, by attendance, in the world.
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22nd Century Media 22nd Century Media is a media company based in the suburbs of Chicago. The company was founded in 2005 and publishes 14 weekly community newspapers. The publications have roughly 160,000 subscribers.
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Windy City Times Windy City Times is the oldest LGBT newspaper in Chicago.
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Avatar Press Avatar Press is an independent American publisher of comic books, founded in 1996 by William A. Christensen, and based in Rantoul, Illinois. Avatar Press is most notable for publishing "Bad Girl" comics such as "Pandora", "Hellina", "Lookers", "The Ravening", and Brian Pulido's "Lady Death".
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Inkpot Award The Inkpot Award is an honor bestowed annually since 1974 by Comic-Con International. It is given to professionals in the fields of comic books, comic strips, animation, science fiction, and related areas of popular culture, at CCI's annual convention, commonly known as "San Diego Comic-Con". Also eligible are members of Comic-Con's Board of Directors and convention committee.
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Nemo (magazine) Nemo, the Classic Comics Library was a magazine devoted to the history and creators of vintage comic strips. Created by comics historian Rick Marschall, it was published between 1983 and 1990 by Fantagraphics.
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Pittsburgh Comicon The Pittsburgh Comicon is a comic book convention held in Monroeville, Pennsylvania, United States. It was founded in 1994 by Michael and Renee George. It is traditionally a three-day event (Friday through Sunday) and features a fan-friendly experience that allows the fans to interact with comic professionals at all levels.
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Future Comics Future Comics is a semi-active comic book publishing company founded by industry all-rounder Bob Layton, and his creative partners — Layton's mentor, artist/editor Dick Giordano and his frequent writing-partner David Michelinie, CFO Allen Berrebbi — and publisher Skip Farrell.
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Neighborhood Newspaper Group Neighborhood Newspaper Group is the community newspaper publisher based on the Southwest Side of Chicago. The group currently publishes the "Journal News", which covers Archer Heights, Brighton Park and McKinley Park, and "City Newshound" which covers Clearing and Garfield Ridge. Both papers are released weekly every Wednesday. The "Journal News" was known as "Back of the Yards Journal" until February 2008, when the publisher moved its headquarters west and shifted focus to the Southwest Side.
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Jenny Frison Jenny Frison is a comic cover artist. Her interest in comics began with a Wonder Woman storybook she enjoyed as a young girl, and she later attended The Kubert School of art. During school, she decided she wanted to focus on cover art. She met writer Tim Seeley, who asked her to draw a cover for "Hack/Slash" after he looked at her website. The two became friends, and they now share a work space at Four Star Studios in Chicago, Illinois.