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Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, a four-issue limited series written and drawn by Frank Miller and published by DC Comics, debuts.It reintroduces Batman to the general public as the psychologically dark character of his original 1930s conception, and helps to usher in an era of "grim and gritty" superheroes from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s.
Apr 12, 2021 · Film had 1939. For pop music, scholars often cite 1969 and 1984. And for comic books, especially superhero comics, the year that changed everything: 1986. In many ways, 1986 ranks as important a ...
1994 in comics - debut: Mallard Fillmore, Marvels; first webcomics (NetBoy, Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan) 1995 in comics - debut: Astro City, Over the Hedge. 1996 in comics - debut: Birds of Prey, Keyhole, Yu-Gi-Oh! 1997 in comics - debut: One Piece, Hellsing, Naruto; published: BoDoï #1. 1998 in comics - debut:
- Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
- Watchmen
- Maus: My Father Bleeds History
- Elektra: Assassin
- Grendel: Devil by The Deed
- Demon with A Glass Hand
- The Puma Blues
- Salome
THEN: This four-issue DC miniseries provided the blueprint for the dark, brooding Batman we’ve come to know and love, as well as the breakout work of scripter/artist Frank Miller. Its portrayal of the “Dark Knight” as an aging vigilante in a nightmarish film noir netherworld was quite an eye-opener, as was Miller’s audacious visual design, which fo...
THEN:This miniseries, about geriatric superheroes and their offspring attempting to subside in an alternate universe America, was like nothing else. Another DC triumph, WATCHMEN was a comic that actually functioned as great literature, being unerringly thoughtful and sophisticated in its approach while still delivering the down-and-dirty goods. Wri...
THEN: I’ve always found the black and white MAUS, which premiered in 1986 after being serialized in the underground anthology RAW, a bit overrated, but it was quite a trailblazer. Back then depictions of the Holocaust were largely off-limits in popular culture (SCHINDLER’S LIST, let’s not forget, was nearly a decade in the future), which explains w...
THEN: This outrageous Frank Miller scripted Epic Comics mini-series (spun off from the more mainstream-friendly DAREDEVIL) can be viewed as THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS’S wilder sibling. Packed with over-the-top mayhem and watercolor imagery by Bill Sienkiewicz that runs the gamut from exaggeratedly cartoony to overtly hallucinatory, ELEKTRA: ASSASSINis...
THEN:Like MAUS, this twisted saga, of a fencing enthusiast-turned-crime boss battling a (literal) wolf man, was initially published in piecemeal format (as a “backup story” in its creator’s earlier series MAGE) before appearing in a single volume in 1986. That volume came complete with an introduction by Alan Moore praising writer/illustrator Todd ...
THEN: This adaptation of Harlan Ellison’s OUTER LIMITS script “Demon with a Glass Hand” was the most popular of a late eighties series of DC issued graphic novels that fleshed out famous science fiction stories (others included Ray Bradbury’s FROST AND FIRE, Robert Bloch’s HELL ON EARTH and George R.R. Martin’s SANDKINGS). Its 1986 publication was ...
THEN: This superbly drafted environmental screed-cum-apocalyptic nightmare was for much of its thirty year existence the most elusive title on this list. THE PUMA BLUES, which had a downright torturous distribution history, was widely acclaimed by the lucky few who managed to track down its complete run (which began in ‘86 and lasted roughly three ...
THEN/NOW:This isn’t the only comic book treatment of Oscar Wilde’s SALOME (it was also adapted, quite ably, by P. Craig Russell around the same time), but it is the best. For that matter, I’d say British artist David Shenton’s rendering of SALOME is one of the most visually innovative graphic novels I’ve ever laid eyes on, with a dazzlingly bold co...
May 27, 2020 · Jeff Lenburg. The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. 3rd edition. New York: Facts on File, 2008. Gale Virtual Reference Library. For more than 100 years, the animated cartoon has been entertaining people, young and old, in movie theaters and on television with countless works of art and a virtual cavalcade of cartoon characters that have captured the hearts and imaginations of fans in every ...
1980–1991. Maus, [ a ] often published as Maus: A Survivor's Tale, is a graphic novel by American cartoonist Art Spiegelman, serialized from 1980 to 1991. It depicts Spiegelman interviewing his father about his experiences as a Polish Jew and Holocaust survivor. The work employs postmodern techniques, and represents Jews as mice and other ...
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Jan 2, 2024 · The development of the modern American comic book happened in stages. American historians generally divide 20th-century American comics history chronologically into ages: Golden Age: 1938 (first appearance of Superman) to 1954 (introduction of the Comics Code) Silver Age: 1956 to early 1970s. Bronze Age: 1970s to 1986.
