Showing posts with label Gary Cooper. Show all posts
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Friday, June 8, 2018

Larry Stroman - Alien Legion - Jugger Grimrod

2018.04.27 East Coast Comic Con, Secaucus, NJ

Larry Stroman first gained attention illustrating the Epic Comics series Alien Legion. He would go on to illustrate various Marvel Comics, including The Uncanny X-Men, X-Factor, Ghost rider and Punisher. Stroman would also provide work for DC Comics' Darkstars and Dark Horse Comics' The Mark.

In 1993 Stroman and Todd Johnson would create Tribe Comics as part of Image Comics. Tribe is a predominantly African-American and minority superhero group based out of Brooklyn, NY. The concept for Tribe was the group would continue to grow throughout the run, as a massive underground movement. Tribe issue numbers 2 and 3 were published by Axis Comics and the story line ended with issue 0, published by God Comics.

Alien Legion - is a science fiction comic created by Carl Potts, Alan Zelenetz and Frank Cirocco for the Marvel imprint Epics Comics in 1983. The stories feature a military unit Force Nomad, similar to the French Foreign Legion

Jugger Grimrod - a native of the planet Thorax, is an expert hand-to-hand and small weapons fighter. Joined the Legion to evade criminal prosecution

Beau Geste is an adventure novel by P.C. Wren, detailing the adventures of three brothers who enlist separately in the French Foreign Legion after the disappearance of a valuable jewel. The movie has been adapted for the screen several times. The US Movie poster stamps commemorates the 1939 Paramount Pictures version starring Gary Cooper, Ray Milland, Robert Preton and Brian Donlevy

Friday, December 27, 2013

Steve Ellis - High Moon "Macgregor"

2013.10.11 Comic Con, NYC

Steve Ellis runs Hyperactive Studios, taking on large projects for clients and is co-founder of Bottled Lightning LLC, which handles the creation of new properties and works with Skinwalker Studios as co-founder and Lead designer

Ellis is illustrator and co-creator of the Silencers with Fred Van Lente from Moonstone Books and High Moon with David Gallgher, which was developed in 2004 and debuted in 2007 as pat of Zuda, DC Comics web imprint...

High Moon is the story of bounty hunter, Matthew Macgregor, who investigates a series of strange happenings in Texas. A former Pinkerton Detective, Macgregor uncovers the town secrets while protecting his own...

The Gary Cooper FDC was selected because Cooper starred in High Noon, a 1952 Western directed by Fred Zinneman. Cooper plays a town marshal forced to face a gang of killers by himslef. The film won four Academy Awards and two Golden Globes...

Ellis' works in comics include Lobo, Iron Man, Green Lantern, Crimson Dynamo, Wildstorm's Jexebelle, Tranquility
Ellis has also worked on CD covers, computer games, trading cards, toys and various other media...