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....he became emperor in his fiftieth year by a remarkable freak of fortune. When the assassins of Gaius shut out the crowd under pretence that the emperor wished to be alone, Claudius was ousted with the rest and withdrew to an apartment called the Hermaeum; and a little later, in great terror at the news of the murder, he stole away to a balcony hard by and hid among the curtains which hung before the door. As he cowered there, a common soldier, who was prowling about at random, saw his feet, intending to ask who he was, pulled him out and recognized him; and when Claudius fell at his feet in terror, he hailed him as emperor. (Suetonius: The Life of Claudius)

24 January 41 AD. Following the murder of his nephew Gaius, Claudius is found hiding behind the curtain and proclaimed emperor by the Praetorian guard.

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hello!! im sure youve gotten this question before but im having a Harry Moment and want to get Even Weirder about it SO !! i was wondering if you have a recommendation for approaching the original comics, where to start, which runs you think are the best reads for capturing his story, stuff like that!! your blogs a joy to browse, thanks so much!!!

Hello fellow Harold enthusiast!! I have in fact gotten this question before but I'm actually quite happy to receive it again as I've long been meaning to create a Harry reading list that would (hopefully) allow people to follow his entire story up to his death

In this chronological guide I've attempted to capture Harry's journey as a character, narrowed down from my own 616 reading experience.

I tried to stay focused on Harry-centric storylines and issues, but I couldn't resist adding some casual appearances particularly during the Silver Age because 1) I think of it as foundational to just about everything that matters in Spider-Man comics and 2) Harry-centric storylines tend to show him at his most distressed. They're important and often brilliant, but reading only those issues feels like a disservice to his kind and loving qualities. It's important to experience the smaller, calmer moments with him as well to truly understand his character.

Personal favorites are bolded, if you care for my bias.

Due to the numerous Spider-Man mags that were at times running simultaneously and ping-ponging storylines between one another, titles will be abbreviated as follows;

The Amazing Spider-Man (1963) = TASM63

The Spectacular Spider-Man (1976) = TSSM76

Web of Spider-Man (1985) = WOSM85

Now let's get into it!

Harry Osborn Reading List

Flashbacks

These were published more recently, but take place before Harry's first appearance in the comics

Short about Harry's childhood and Norman's failings as a father. One of the best depictions of their relationship, in my opinion

Nice Things from Amazing Spider-Man Extra! #3

Gwen-centric miniseries set during her time in high school and giving some insight on her and Harry's longlasting friendship

Giant Size Gwen Stacy

From introduction to deathbed

Watch Harry evolve from goofy background character to Peter's most important narrative foil!

First establishing of Harry's character and his dynamics with other key personages such as Peter and Norman

TASM63 #31, #34, #39, #40

Further development of all aforementioned things. The highs and lows of Peter and Harry's life as roommates. Daddy issues. Romantic drama. Drug addiction subplot. Anything you could ask

TASM63 #46, #47, #53, #54, #57, #59, #60, #61, #62, #63, #66, #74, #82, #95, #96, #98, #105, #110, #118

The storyline that changed everything

TASM63 #119, #120, #121, #122

Harry grows increasingly suspicious and paranoid around Peter following his father's death

TASM63 #123, #124, #126, #127, #129, #134, #135

Now... here's a disclaimer for the following issues: Despite the aforementioned buildup being very well executed, the result is not exactly so and has more to do with giving the Goblin as a concept another hurrah, rather than delving into Harry's character. In fact I'd even argue they're out of character for Harry, as his behavior in them is just cartoonishly diabolical and in stark contrast to both his previously established personality and subsequent depictions of his Goblin. So yeah, these issues are technically important to the grander picture of what is happening with Harry and why, but don't expect insight lol

TASM63 #136, #137

Harry's back and his friends are more than happy to welcome him. He even moves in with Flash

TASM63 #151, #152, #153

Harry and Liz Allan enter a romance and quickly move on to engagement. He is also seen seeking psychiatric treatment

TASM63 #156, #157, #163, #166, #167

The happiness was not to last: Liz' stepbrother, Mark Raxton aka the Molten Man stirs up trouble, and she leaves the city in the aftermath. Harry seeks fault within himself and appears to be on his way to going green again – but is all as it seems?

TASM63 #172, #173, #174, #175, #179, #180

Harry and Liz have settled into the suburbs. In come more Molten Man and more insecurities!

TSSM76 #63

A mysterious foe known as the Hobgoblin has been attacking the company Harry inherited from his father and even blackmailing him with Norman's secret identity. During this troubled time, Liz and Harry are also having a baby

TASM63 #239, #244, TSSM76 #85, TASM63 #249, #250, #251, #260, #261, #263, TSSM76 #146, WOSM85 #47, TASM63 #312, TSSM76 #147

Molten Man, take three – this time with a wholesome twist

WOSM85 #61, #62

Harry briefly attempts to turn the Green Goblin into a superhero

WOSM85 #66, #67

The final Green Goblin Jr Saga – an absolute Must Read. If I could recommend just one Harry storyline, it would definitely be this one

TSSM76 #178, #179, #180, #181, #182, #183, #184, #189, #200

Post OMD Revival/"Clone Harry"

Full disclosure, I don't read much Post OMD Spider-Man. One day I might venture into it despite my gripes and add more to this section. Until then: I'd sort of be amiss not to include these two at the very least in a Harry Osborn reading list, even if recent nonsensical twists have revealed Post OMD Harry to have been a clone all along

Harry and Peter's reunion

Amazing Spider-Man Family #4

Harry cutting ties with his father. While I think this story could have been improved in numerous ways, watching Harry leave Norman behind is still pretty satisfying and I enjoy the way his relationship with Peter is portrayed in this

TASM63 #595, #596, #597, #598, #599

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House-ad for America vs. The Justice Society (1985) four-issue miniseries. Art by Rich Buckler.

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Tagged by @missmorwen !

rules: list your top ten favorite female characters who have been mega bitches at some point or another, then you guys pick your favorite!

added context: they do not have to be terrible people. it can just be top ten female characters but ✨ women ✨

I tag @vaxilfan who can probably remind me of fifty other characters I shoulda tagged. And if you see this and wanna do it, consider yourself tagged.

[cantsayidont]

February 1985. One of the conventions of time travel stories in the pre-Crisis DC Universe was that a time traveler who visited an era in which they were already present could only observe events as a phantom, unable to intervene in any way. In this unusual and poignant scene in the first issue of the SUPERMAN: THE SECRET YEARS miniseries, we see that following the deaths of his foster parents, Superboy is tormenting himself by periodically traveling back in time to watch them, silent and invisible, knowing that he can never touch them again, much less alter the circumstances of their deaths.

The deaths of the Kents — who in Earth-1 history both died of a rare tropical fever during the summer following Clark Kent's high school graduation — were a foundational aspect of Superman's character prior to the MAN OF STEEL reboot. The pre-Crisis Superman was incredibly powerful (not least in his ability to fly faster than light and travel through time at will!), but his childhood was bookended by the deaths of two sets of parents, which he was powerless to prevent or undo, just as he could not prevent or undo the destruction of Krypton. (In the Silver Age, Superman actually visited Krypton as an adult, in a truly wrenching Jerry Siegel story in SUPERMAN #141 in which he meets and befriends his own parents — who don't know who he really is — and falls in love with an actress named Lyla Lerrol, only to be saved by fate from perishing with them.)

Thus, even when his powers were at their most absurd Silver Age peak, Superman was always painfully aware that there was still nothing he could do about the tragedies that mattered most to him. (This is echoed in the death of Jonathan Kent in the 1978 SUPERMAN movie, although in the Christopher Reeve films, Martha actually survives until just prior to SUPERMAN IV).

Having both the Kents survive to Clark's adulthood therefore represents a rather dramatic shift, particularly in continuities like that of MAN OF STEEL, where Superman doesn't learn of his Kryptonian origins until he's in his late 20s. It's certainly less depressing, and contributes significantly to the modern Clark Kent being far less neurotic than in previous eras, but it also means that the modern Superman doesn't have the same intrinsic sense of his own limits, material or moral, and that his sense of his own place in the world is not defined by tragedy in the way his pre-Crisis counterpart's was.

This isn't necessarily bad — I don't think Superman needs to always be neurotic or doomstruck in the way he was in the Silver Age — and Jonathan and Martha's presence can be charming and fun. (The inclusion of those characters really added to the bright mood of the '90s LOIS AND CLARK show, for instance.) However, it does change the center of gravity of the Superman character, and not always in good ways. (In particular, I think it has contributed to the unfortunate tendency of modern stories to suggest that some tragedy might one day cause Superman to snap and abandon his ethical code, something it's difficult to envision the Earth-1 Superman ever doing.)

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Il Mostro di Firenze su Netflix, con la regia di Stefano Sollima

Stefano Sollima dirigerà una nuova serie TV dedicata al misterioso caso del Mostro di Firenze. La miniserie Netflix esplorerà i delitti che hanno terrorizzato la campagna toscana per oltre un decennio.

Dopo essere stato in concorso alla Mostra Del Cinema Di Venezia con il suo film “Adagio“, Stefano Sollima, la mano dietro le serie italiane di culto come Romanzo Criminale e Gomorra, nonché dei successi “Soldato” e “Sicario“, ritorna alle origini televisive. Questa volta, si immerge nell’oscurità del mistero italiano, dirigendo una nuova miniserie televisiva. “The Monster” (in italiano, “Il Mostro“) sarà una miniserie di quattro episodi dedicata al noto caso de “Il Mostro di Firenze“, uno dei crimini più enigmatici della storia italiana.

Il Mostro di Firenze: la storia degli omicidi irrisolti

La trama si snoda attorno ai delitti che si sono verificati tra la fine degli anni ’60 e la metà degli anni ’80. Periodo in cui coppie intrappolate nei loro veicoli nelle campagne circostanti Firenze furono vittime di una serie di efferati omicidi. Nonostante gli sforzi investigativi, i colpevoli sono rimasti sconosciuti fino ai giorni nostri. La Procura di Firenze, nel 1999, riuscì a ottenere una sentenza definitiva nei confronti de i “compagni di merende” Mario Vanni e Giancarlo Lotti, riconosciuti come gli autori materiali di quattro omicidi doppi. Tuttavia, il caso rimase intricato a causa delle numerose vicende giudiziarie che coinvolsero Pietro Pacciani, inizialmente condannato in primo grado per gli omicidi commessi tra il 1974 e il 1985, ma successivamente assolto in appello. Pacciani morì prima di affrontare un nuovo processo di appello, dopo l’annullamento nel 1996 della sentenza di assoluzione da parte della Cassazione.

Questi crimini in totale furono 8 omicidi doppi e 17 anni di terrore, tutti compiuti con la stessa arma, una Beretta calibro 22. Questa è stata una delle indagini più lunghe e complesse nella storia del crimine italiano, affrontando il primo e il più brutale serial killer, Il Mostro di Firenze.

“The Monster” è una serie basata su eventi realmente accaduti, utilizzando testimonianze dirette, documenti giudiziari e ricerche giornalistiche come fonte. Il regista, Stefano Sollima, ha condiviso il suo entusiasmo riguardo al progetto, affermando che la storia è terrificante in quanto è vera. Sostiene che raccontare la verità è l’unico modo per rendere giustizia alle vittime. In una narrazione in cui i possibili mostri sono stati molti nel corso delle indagini, la serie esplora diverse prospettive, mettendo in luce i possibili colpevoli. Alla fine, il mostro potrebbe essere chiunque.

Il Mostro di Firenze e la trasformazione dell’Italia

Stefano Sollima ha trascorso circa un anno a immergersi nelle sfumature di questo caso, considerandolo una storia incredibilmente potente, sebbene complessa e delicata, vista la tragedia nazionale e il numero di vittime coinvolte. Il caso rimane irrisolto, nonostante numerosi tentativi investigativi. Ad oggi, non esiste un colpevole unico per tutti i 16 omicidi, solo mezze verità e tante incertezze. Ma ciò che ha maggiormente interessato il regista è il potenziale per raccontare la transizione dell’Italia. In quell’epoca, infatti, si passò da una cultura prevalentemente rurale all’esplosione culturale e sessuale degli anni ’60. La sessualità divenne un mezzo di espressione. La collisione tra queste due culture, antica e moderna, è uno degli aspetti che lo ha maggiormente affascinato.

Produzione e cast

La serie è stata co-scritta da Stefano Sollima insieme a Leonardo Fasoli. È prodotta per Netflix da Lorenzo Mieli per The Apartment e Sollima per AlterEgo. Le riprese della miniserie, annunciate dalla stessa piattaforma, inizieranno proprio a ottobre, ma il cast non è stato ancora rivelato. Con l’interesse crescente per i drammi criminali, “The Monster” promette di essere una produzione da tenere d’occhio, unendo il talento di Stefano Sollima con il mistero del “Mostro di Firenze“.

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Libri vintage che spopolavano negli anni 70' e 80'

Continua le mia esplorazione nelle librerie di mia cugina, che, causa trasloco, deve svuotare casa e vende alcuni libri della sua vasta collezione. Oggi vi illustro le mie ultime scoperte sulla letteratura che andava di moda negli anni 70′ e 80′.

Iniziamo con dei ROMANZI OTTOCENTESCHI di autori francesi che probabilmente mia cugina scoprì o dovette scoprire sui banchi di scuola.

Titolo: Graziella

Autore:  Alphonse de Lamartine, famoso poeta, scrittore e politico francese nato alla fine del 1700.  

Trama: Il giovane scrittore francese Alphonse de Lamartine durante un viaggio in Italia, resta colpito dalle belle terre del golfo di Napoli ed, in particolare, dell'isola di Procida. Alphonse ne ammira la particolarità, la semplicità della sua gente e s'innamora di una giovane fanciulla dagli occhi neri e dalle lunghe trecce: Graziella. Graziella, figlia di pescatori procidani, corrisponde quel tenero amore che ben presto viene interrotto dalla partenza di immprovvisa di lui per la Francia. Alphonse lascia la sua amata Graziella con una promessa:sarebbe ritornato presto da lei. Alphonse non mantiene la promessa e Graziella, nella vana attesa, si ammala. Prima di morire, la giovane spedisce ad Alfonso una lettera contenente una treccia dei suoi capelli. Alphonse conserverà per tutta la vita quella lettera, quella treccia insieme col ricordo di quell'amore che non riuscirà più a trovare in nessun'altra donna.

Da questo romanzo nel 1961 in Italia fu tratto uno sceneggiato televisivo dallo stesso titolo, con protagionista il celebre e amatissimo attore Corrado Pani. Non ho trovato un video di questo sceneggiato, ma su internet è disponibile l’audio delle 4 puntate, sul sito raiteche.

Link: http://www.teche.rai.it/1953/10/graziella-i-puntata/

Tirolo: Selvaggia

Autore:  Raoul de Navery, nome di penna di   Eugénie-Caroline Saffray, scrittrice francese molto famosa e amata che dal 1860 in poi creò molti romanzi che combinavano un’eccellente scrittura, ad un gusto romantico avventuroso in grado di catturare il lettore. I suoi romanzi riflettono la morale borghese ottocentesca e hanno al centro della trama l’importanza della fede nella vita dei personaggi.

Trama: La parte più pittoresca dell'Isola del  Rey era occupata da una vasta dimora a un solo piano, ornata da fiori  rampicanti lungo una veranda e circondata da una folta siepe viva di  cactus.Legni costosi, mobilie rare, stuoie finissime, tutte le ricchezze  che possono accumularsi in una signoria di proprietari vicini ai paesi  dell'oro, sui quali avevano dominato i Pancasi, si adunavano in copia  nella casa del conte Umberto de Flessigny. Accanto alle curiosità  archeologiche, si trovavano i saggi di un'arte perduta, della quale i  padroni del Perù adornavano quei celebri giardini d'oro, dove ogni  pianta, ogni fiore di metallo rappresentavano le forme ricopiate dalla  natura per mano di valenti artefici. Si parlava su tutta la costiera  di quella dimora come di una meraviglia, e non v'era capitano di nave  straniera che facesse scalo all'Isola del Rey, che non volesse chiedere  al gentiluomo milionario il permesso di visitare le rarità accumulate  nella sua dimora; permesso che sempre veniva concesso con amorevole  cortesia. Quando poi il capitano della nave era francese, i coniugi  de Flessigny non mancavano mai di offrirgli una ospitalità principesca." 

Proseguiamo con i ROMANZI ANNI 70′- 80′ che invece andavano di moda tra i giovani e non solo, sbancavano anche ai botteghini dei cinema o spopolavano in tv

Titolo: Menzogne (Secrets)

Autore: Danielle Steele

Trama:  Sofisticato e avvincente, con una schiera di personaggi indimenticabili,  questo romanzo esplora l'effervescente mondo della televisione,  scoprendo i drammi, le invidie e le passioni nascoste dietro la  realizzazione di una serie tv di vasto seguito intitolata ‘Manhattan’. Lo show rappresenta  per ogni persona che vi lavora un'occasione irripetibile per giungere  finalmente al successo e alla fama, ma il prezzo di tutto ciò è una  fitta rete di menzogne con le quali ciascuno cerca di celare un  inconfessabile e lacerante segreto...

Da questo libro è stato tratto un film del 1992 intitolato appunto Secrets (titolo originale del romanzo), e credo che tale film sia andato in onda col titolo Il segreto anche in Italia in tv  sempre negli anni 90′, ma non ho trovato un video della versione italiana solo di quella americana (se trovate la versione italiana fatemelo sapere).

Link:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaBfmF9_rE4

Titolo: Love story

Autore: Erich Segal

Trama:  Lui è Oliver Barrett IV e  lei Jenny Cavilleri. Lui è ricco, lei povera. Lui fa sport, lei suona  il pianoforte. Discutono, litigano... e s'innamorano follemente.  Decidono di sposarsi e di andare a vivere insieme senza contare  sull'aiuto di nessuno. Cavarsela da soli è dura, ma loro sono pieni di  entusiasmo e hanno tanti progetti per il futuro. Finché si rendono conto  di non avere molto più tempo davanti... Un bestseller internazionale  che ha commosso milioni di lettori, il romanzo che meglio di ogni altro  ha raccontato com'è l'amore a vent'anni, con parole che vanno dritte al  cuore e ancora oggi hanno la freschezza e la forza dei sentimenti veri,  quelli che non muoiono mai.

Chi non conosce o non ha mai visto il film tratto da questo bestseller? Credo nessuno. Un film e un libro che hanno fatto storia e commosso milioni di persone.

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkRdOmhiws0

Titolo: Another love. Storia di Oliver (Oliver’s story)

Autore: Erich Segal

Trama:  Seguito del libro Love Story. Si dice che nella vita  di ognuno ci sia un unico grande amore. Per Oliver Barrett, quell'amore  si chiamava Jennifer. Il tempo trascorso insieme è stato troppo breve,  prima che il destino gliela portasse via, ma così intenso e speciale da  valere una vita intera. Oliver ha poco più di vent'anni, tutti gli  dicono che deve andare avanti e ricominciare a vivere, ma lui è convinto  che non sia possibile, che non sia giusto. Non gli importa di uscire,  vedere gli amici o fare nuove conoscenze. Il suo rifugio sono il lavoro e  la corsa, per immergersi a capofitto nel presente e attutire l'eco del  passato. Fino a quando incontra una ragazza così affascinante e  misteriosa da attirarlo fuori da quel vortice di buio in cui è piombato.  Con lei sembra rinascere qualcosa che sembrava essersi incrinato per  sempre. E il futuro assume contorni inattesi. Perché solo l'amore può  guarire le ferite di un cuore spezzato.

Anche dal seguito di Love story fu tratto un film con protagonista lo stesso attore del primo film giustamente, ma non ebbe purtroppo lo stesso successo.

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_2PNOH_j6A

TItolo: Un uomo, una donna, un bambino

Autore: Erich Segal

Trama:  La migliore amica di Bob Bekwith è Sheila,sua moglie: per quattordici  anni hanno vissuto e affrontato tutto insieme, in costante adorazione  l'uno dell'altro. Completano le loro vite le figlie, Paula e Jessica.  L'anno accademico è appena finito e Bob ha presenziato all'ultima  riunione della facoltà e Cape Cod li attende per una lunga estate. Ma  una telefonata basta a sconvolgere la loro esistenza. Quando  Jean-Claude, un bambino di dieci anni, arriva per passare le vacanze con  loro, ecco che Bob e Sheila, infelici e travagliati, vivono ormai come  entità separate le loro rispettive tragedie. Persino Paula e Jessica,  felici di quel nuovo compagno di giochi non riescono a sfuggire del  tutto dalla bufera. Tutti fanno del loro meglio affinché la pace  domestica venga ristabilita. Ma solo una persona può far si che il  miracolo si compia.

Anche da questo libro di Segal fu tratto un film piuttosto famoso con Martin Sheen, che arrivò anche in Italia.

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRTXuKzkQ7A

Un amore senza fine

Autore: Scott Spencer

Trama: La quindicenne Jade e il diciassettenne David si conoscono e si  innamorano. Il loro amore però è ostacolato dalle rispettive famiglie,  soprattutto dal padre di lei, che allontana David per permettere alla  figlia di terminare gli studi con tranquillità. Ma la grande passione di  David lo porta a dar fuoco alla casa della sua amata, reato per il  quale viene condannato a cinque anni in manicomio. Uscito dopo soli due  anni per buona condotta, parte per New York  alla ricerca di Jade, andando contro le disposizioni di legge che lo  costringono a non lasciare la città. Una volta in città viene  riconosciuto da Hugh, il padre di Jade, che nell'inseguirlo perde la  vita in un incidente. Ma quando i due amanti si rincontrano e il loro  amore riaffiora, a ostacolarli, stavolta, sono i fratelli di lei, che  accusano il ragazzo della morte del padre. David finisce in carcere e a  Jade non resta che aspettare il suo amore senza fine.      

Da questo libro bestseller sono stati tratti   diversi film, tra cui uno di Zeffirelli con Brooke Shields e Martin Hewitt.

Link:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSFYZIZSEEU

Titolo: Uccelli di rovo

Autore: Colleen McCullough

Trama: La storia della famiglia Cleary, proprietaria di un grande ranch in Australia, e  del peccaminoso amore tra un alto prelato, Padre Ralph de Bricassart, e  la parrocchiana Maggie, la più giovane di casa Cleary.  

Da questo romanzo bestseller è stata tratta una miniserie televisiva di enorme successo internazionale con protagonista  Richard Chamberlain  nei panni di padre Ralph

Link:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G248w9ZNoDw

TItolo: L’altro nome dell’amore

Autore: Colleen McCullough  

Trama: Settembre 1945: la guerra è finita e in un 'ospedale militare autraliano si attende  la smobilitazione. Proprio allora arriva dal fronte il sergente Michael  Wilson, che ha aggredito un  superiore, edi è stato giudicato psichicamente instabile. L'accoglienza di  dell’infermiera Langtry è  molto amichevole nei suoi confronti; non così quella degli altri pazienti, tutti con supposti problemi mentali, e tutti o quasi invaghiti della donna.

Da questo libro pure nel 1985 fu tratto un film An Indecent Obsession con  Wendy Hughes e Gary Sweet.  Non so se uscì anche in italia.

Link:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlJWKvYayc8

Titolo: Shogun

Autore: James Clavell

Trama:  Partito alla volta dell'Oriente per il monopolio olandese del commercio  con Cina e Giappone, John Blackthorne, comandante dell'Erasmus, si  ritrova costretto da una tremenda tempesta al naufragio in un villaggio  di pescatori nel Giappone feudale del XV secolo. In un mondo sconosciuto  e lontano, Blackthorne deve trovare il modo di sopravvivere. Grazie al  suo coraggio, che lo condurrà sulla via dei samurai, con il soprannome  di Anjin (il navigatore) diventerà il fido aiutante dello Shogun e nella  sua ascesa al potere conoscerà l'amore impossibile per la bella e  ambigua Mariko.        

Da questo romanzo bestseller fu tratta nel 1980 una miniserie televisiva diretta da Jerry London ed interpretata da Richard Chamberlain e Toshirō Mifune. Chamberlain era un attore molto famoso e amato negli anni 80′ e la serie fu seguitissima. Non ho trovato online la versione doppiata in italiano (se voi la trovate fatemelo sapere), ma quella in inglese sì:    

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_U1Gupe6iY

Titolo: Abissi

Autore: Peter Benchley (già autore del romanzo da cui fu tratto il film LO Squalo)

Trama:  Una coppia si reca  in luna di miele alle Bermuda. Durante un’immersione subacquea scoprono i  resti di un tesoro e delle fiale che contengono una misteriosa  sostanza. Comincia di qui, tra minacce e violenze, apparizioni di  mostri marini e incidenti provocati da una banda di mafiosi,  un’avventura che cambia la vita innocente di entrambi.

Anche da questo libro di Benchley fu tratto un film adrenalinico che però ebbe un po’ meno successo di Lo squalo, con protagonisti  Jacqueline Bisset e Nick Nolte.

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcn9PXZC1s4

Titolo: Selvagge

Autore: Shirley Conran

Trama: romanzo del genere catastrofico, che  racconta la storia di cinque donne che assistono all’assalto e  all’uccisione dei loro mariti, trucidati da commandos polinesiani. La  loro sorte è segnata. Le donne si salvano invece con la fuga, consapevoli di non conoscere  nulla del mondo che le circonda. Dovranno diventare selvagge e  difendersi dai nemici. Silvana, la madre del gruppo è forse la più fragile, Carey la più forte  fisicamente ma la meno amata. Suzy la bambola sexy, che maturerà nel  corso del romanzo, Anne e la sua amica sono meno delineate. Intorno a  loro solo uomini che le cercano e chissà se le troveranno.

Warner Bros ne detiene i diritti cinematografici ma non ne ha mai tratto un film.

Altri libri facenti parte la collezione di mia cugina, e in vendita:

- Collana Romanzi Harmony

J. Evans, Collega… e poi?

S. Craven, L’arcano svelato

C. Moore, La strada verso l’amore

G. Green, Il corteggiatore di Laura

C. Spencer, Dolci parole sussurrate

- Signorsì, di Liala

- Un abisso chiamato amore, di Liala

- Le briglie d’oro, di Liala

- Lalla che torna, di Liala

- Settecorna, di Liala

- Per ritrovare quel bacio, di Liala

- La più cara sei tu, di Liala  

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Umm.... this's gonna be weird question , what's your top 10 les mis adaptation and why?

Thank you for the ask, friend! I’m in quarantine so here’s a very long thorough answer

(S/o to the webseries I haven’t watched, I know they would’ve made the list but I haven’t seen them yet!)

#10 Les Miserables (1998)

First, I didn’t want to put this movie on the list but it’s been a while since I’ve watched any les mis adaptation and it wouldn’t be fair to put an adaptation I don’t remember very well here (sorry les mis 1978). And Uma Thurman is great in the movie so if you only watch her scenes the movie is great. And Geoffrey Rush is always fun to watch. I don’t like anything else about it.

#9 Les Miserables - BBC Miniseries (2018-2019)

The beeb adaptation is. Flawed. But as time went by, I learned to appreciate Dominic West. He’s got the look of a desperate Valjean right down. David Oyelowo is a great Javert and if they had a better script this definitely would’ve been one of the great Valvert duos. The set design and background costumes are amazing. Props to the props department. Olivia Colman is there. Their Gavroche is super loveable. I love Lily Collins during Fantine’s fall. Erin Kellyman is perfect. Plus he’s there

#8 Les Miserables (1935)

I’ve a soft spot for Fredric March as Jean Valjean that’s why this movie is here. Tho this movie is very weird. It’s trying very hard not to seem too communist. Éponine is Marius’ secretary. The revolution only wants better working conditions for the galley’s prisoners? Marius is the leader of the amis. But this is a Jean Valjean acting show and there are beautiful images throughout. It’s a beautiful 1930s movie.

#7 Les Miserables - Glénat 

This is a french comicbook adaptation and it’s great for Bossuet being a prominent character. It’s a pretty straightforward abridged version. And Marius does this

#6 Les Miserables (2012)

#5 Les Miz - Broadway Revival (2014-2016)

I’m only adding stage productions I’ve seen live, so the Dallas Theatre Center staging isn’t here, which is a SHAME

The musical is a very successful adaptation of the novel, artistically. The use of projections is very atmospheric, the cast was almost spot-on (tho there were a couple that I was just? confused as to why they were cast for that role… But anyway Kyle Scatliffe was A FRIGGIN DREAMBOAT OF AN ENJOLRAS 10/10 recommend). It has a broadway/touring friendly staging that sometimes doesn’t fully go as far as it could go, that’s why it’s number 5. But I love it anyway.

#4 Les Miserables (1982)

This is not a very well-liked version but I like commercial films that tend to the more artsy side, and Robert Hossein really Gets Me. It goes out of it’s way to make everything unappealing and dirty without losing the colour and the drama of the images (looking at you hollywood, I see you putting filters on everything to make things fake ugly. Why do you hate dirt, hollywood?). The movie is constructed beautifully. Very French Cinema. Very unsexy on purpose. I love it.

(Look at this Caravaggio drama!)

#3 Shoujo Cosette (2007)

IT’S A JAPANESE ADAPTATION OF LES MIS FOCUSED ON COSETTE MADE FOR KIDS AND IT’S GREAT

#2 Os Miseraveis Em Cordel - Klévisson Viana

This little book is a favourite of mine not because it’s very good (because it pretty much misses the mark entirely on what Les Mis is about) but because it’s a cordel. It’s a traditional form of Brazilian storytelling and it’s all in short verses and rhymes, meant to be read and/or sung for a group of people. It’s SO. CUTE. 10/10 I love it everyone who knows portuguese should read it

#1 The West End Stage Production (1985-2019)

Yes, I’m basic. There’s a reason this show ran for 30+ years, and it’s that grand spectacular staging. No other adaptation managed to capture the drama and the epic size of the novel quite as effectively as this. I miss you, revolve! I’ll never forgive Cammack for closing you because he didn’t want to pay royalties to the Royal Shakespeare Company anymore

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It

Okay, so I have recently started to reread Stephen King’s IT, mainly because I watched both films at Halloween which made me want to read it again. I’m only about 300 pages into the book. I’ve read it numerous times but this time there was two things that stood out to me that I’ve never really noticed before.

Number 1: This stood out to me, because after the first film came out in 2017, there were a lot of people who considered Bill to be homophobic, but (in my copy of the book it’s on page 149) while bill is telling Audra that he has to leave, he says “I wonder if any of the others have got HUSBANDS and wives who are just finding out  how little they know. I suppose they must.”  

This scene is set in 1985, and going by the attitude at the time, the only one Bill should have thought would have had a husband would have been Beverley, but he definitely says husbands in plural.

Number 2: Do you guys know how many children died or went missing during the 1957-1958 time period when Pennywise was active???? The book (and the films plus miniseries) mainly focuses on the death of Georgie, and of course the films do tell you that more has gone missing, but I was actually shocked when I saw the actual number.

In my book it’s on page 191. “During 1958, a hundred and twenty-seven (127!!!!) children, ranging in age from three to nineteen, were reported missing in Derry.”

And back when the Black Spot burned in the 1930′s, when Mike’s dad was in Derry. There were better then one hundred and seventy (170!!!!) children going missing.

Like seriously, That’s a lot of children going missing and adding to that, the murder rate on average is about six (6!!!) times the murder rate of other similar sized cities, AND about forty (40) to sixty (60) children goes missing and unfound a year.

Even though I hadn’t really clocked just how many children went missing, were killed, it has actually been something I have missed in both films, and the miniseries. Both just jump from Georgie’s death to the summer holidays, which makes sense, as they don’t exactly have that much time and there’s so much to tell, but I would really love to see what it would be like, especially for a child, to go about your day, while knowing that there’s someone out there killing children. That juxtaposition between this idyllic small town and then the rotten underbelly, that everyone just try to ignore.

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J-POP Manga, gli annunci dell’Hanami Manga Festival

Fra le novità due titoli di casa Ki-oon, Bunny Girl Senpai, Josee the Tiger and the Fish e il manga vincitore dei Taisho Awards 2021!

Durante lo svolgersi dell’Hanami Manga Festival di AnimeClick, J-POP Manga ha colto l’occasione per svelare alcuni nuovi titoli che entreranno prossimamente a far parte del catalogo della casa editrice, vediamo in dettaglio quali.

BEYOND THE CLOUDS di Nicke

Il giovane Theo lavora come meccanico, mettendo a frutto il suo talento per le macchine nella città industrializzata di Yellow Town, abitata da umani e animali antropomorfi. Theo ha sempre sognato di viaggiare per il mondo alla scoperta di nuove avventure, sperando un giorno di poter lasciarsi alle spalle la vita di città. Un giorno, mentre rovista nella discarica della città alla ricerca di alcuni pezzi di ricambio, trova una ragazza con le ali, ferita e affetta da amnesia. Il nome della ragazza è Mia e, grazie al suo talento, Theo riesce a costruirgli un’ala funzionante. Desideroso di scoprire da dove arrivi la ragazza alata, Theo decide di aiutarla, dando inizio alla ricerca che li porterà oltre le nuvole e più lontano di quanto avrebbero mai immaginato.

3 volumi, in corso

TSUGUMI PROJECT di ippatu

Leon, un soldato d'élite di un'Europa militarista, viene imbarcato con la forza in una spedizione segreta. In un Giappone in rovina, abbandonato da più di 200 anni, lui e i suoi compagni di sventura devono recuperare un'arma terrificante, nome in codice: Tsugumi. Tutto quello che si sa al riguardo è che il suo potenziale distruttivo è tale che il mondo ha preferito schiacciare l'arcipelago sotto una pioggia di bombe atomiche piuttosto che vederne completato lo sviluppo... Ma l'operazione fallisce ancora prima di iniziare: l'aereo precipita e Leon si ritrova da solo nella baia di Tokyo. Affamato, allo stremo delle sue forze, con una sola tuta anti-radiazioni per proteggersi, scopre subito che la città non è deserta come previsto ...

3 volumi, in corso

BUNNY GIRL SENPAI e PETIT DEVIL KOHAI di Hajime Kamoshida e Tsugumi Nanamiya

Unite in un unico box da collezione, arrivano le 2 miniserie che hanno conquistato il pubblico giapponese e su cui è basato l’omonimo anime di grande successo! Azusagawa Sakuta si è trovato davanti una scena senza senso: ha incontrato in biblioteca una ragazza vestita da coniglietta. Lei è Sakurajima Mai, una compagna di scuola di Sakuta e una rinomata attrice che si è ritirata dalle scene. Il problema è che nessuno può vederla a parte lui! Che sia collegato all'argomento ormai virale su Internet, il fenomeno inimmaginabile noto come "la sindrome della pubertà"? Sakuta, cercando di capirci qualcosa, decide di aiutare Mai a risolvere il mistero. Ma le cose non andranno proprio come si aspetta.

2 volumi, conclusa + 2 volumi, conclusa

JOSEE, THE TIGER AND THE FISH (Manga) di Seiko Tanabe e Nao Emoto

L’emozionante storia di Tsuneo e Josee, narrata per la prima volta nel romanzo del 1985 di Seiko Tanabe, verrà pubblicata sia nella sua versione originale che nel suo adattamento manga.  

Un racconto trasposto recentemente nella sua versione anime cinematografica dallo studio Bones, pluripremiata dalla critica giapponese. Tsuneo è uno studente universitario e Josee, che usa questo nome fittizio ispirandosi alla protagonista del suo libro preferito, una ragazzina che raramente esce di casa da sola a causa dell'incapacità di camminare causata da una paralisi cerebrale. I due si incontrano per caso quando Tsuneo, camminando per la città, salva Josee da un incidente mortale. Stringendo amicizia con la ragazza e la nonna, Tsuneo riuscirà piano piano a farsi strada nella vita della ragazza, riuscendo ad abbattere i muri in cui lei stessa si è rinchiusa.

2 volumi serie, completa

JOSEE, THE TIGER AND THE FISH (Novel) di Seiko Tanabe

L’emozionante storia di Tsuneo e Josee, narrata per la prima volta nel romanzo del 1985 di Seiko Tanabe, verrà pubblicata sia nella sua versione originale che nel suo adattamento manga.  

Un racconto trasposto recentemente nella sua versione anime cinematografica dallo studio Bones, pluripremiata dalla critica giapponese. Tsuneo è uno studente universitario e Josee, che usa questo nome fittizio ispirandosi alla protagonista del suo libro preferito, una ragazzina che raramente esce di casa da sola a causa dell'incapacità di camminare causata da una paralisi cerebrale. I due si incontrano per caso quando Tsuneo, camminando per la città, salva Josee da un incidente mortale. Stringendo amicizia con la ragazza e la nonna, Tsuneo riuscirà piano piano a farsi strada nella vita della ragazza, riuscendo ad abbattere i muri in cui lei stessa si è rinchiusa.

Volume unico

SOUSOU NO FRIEREN - FRIEREN DOPO LA FINE DEL VIAGGIO di Kanehito Yamada e Tsukasa Abe

L'avventura è finita ma il viaggio alla scoperta del significato della vita della maga elfica Frieren è appena iniziato. Frieren e i suoi coraggiosi compagni di avventura hanno sconfitto il Re Demone e portato la pace nel regno. Una volta salvato il mondo, i 4 avventurieri si dividono e vanno tutti per la loro strada, alla ricerca di una vita di pace e tranquillità. Ma cos’è la pace per chi ha davanti a sé una vita quasi eterna? Come farà Frieren a fare i conti con l’inevitabile scomparsa dei suoi compagni di viaggio? Dove può comprendere il significato di una vita così effimera come quella degli esseri umani che la circondano? Frieren inizierà un nuovo viaggio alla ricerca di tutte queste risposte. Il manga vincitore del rinomato Taisho Awards 2021!

4 volumi, in corso

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Autore: SilenziO)))  - Twitter @s1lenzi0

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16 November: Emperor Tiberius was born in 42 BC. Here are some of his portrayals on screen:

André Morell in The Caesars (1968) George Baker in I, Claudius (1976) Peter O'Toole in Caligula (1979) James Mason in AD (1985) Michele Bevilacqua in Imperium: Augustus (2003) Max von Sydow in The Final Inquiry (2006) Giovanni Carta in Barbarians (2020) Benjamin Isaac in Domina (2021)

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Hamilton and 10 Other Ways to Watch the American Revolution

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Hamilton will debut on Disney+ on July 3rd, the start of a long holiday weekend. The Walt Disney Company paid good money for the Broadway phenomenon, a reported $75 million for the rights to the film, which features performances by the original cast (we wrote a primer on the cast and where they are now).

If you’re healthily avoiding crowds and already had your fill of fireworks, here are 10 more movies and TV shows that explore the American Revolution from different angles. 

1776 (1972)

Making the Founding Fathers sing was truly revolutionary when Sherman Edwards’s musical debuted on Broadway in 1969. The plot traced how the Second Continental Congress decided on independence; there are lots of fun character moments but really no other story. After the show won the Tony for Best Musical, Hollywood mogul Jack Warner hired most of the cast and director Peter Hunt to make a movie. Then Warner cut a big production number (now restored) to please President Nixon. This is John Adams’s view of history, so he’s the hero and John Dickinson the antagonist—but Dickinson still comes off better than eminent jurist James Wilson. Recognizing 1776 as an inspiration, Lin-Manuel Miranda gave the song “Sit Down, John!” a shout-out in Hamilton.

More of This: For rollicking fun in the 1700s, everybody should see Tom Jones, the 1963 film by Tony Richardson that made Albert Finney a global star.

April Morning (1988) and The Crossing (1999)

Howard Fast, proud leftist author of Spartacus, published April Morning as a novel about the Battle of Lexington and Concord and The Crossing as a nonfiction account of the Battle of Trenton. Now we recognize both as historical fiction. Fast’s robust stories were adapted into television movies with stellar leads: Tommy Lee Jones played a Lexington farmer guiding his teen-aged son in 1988, and Jeff Daniels portrayed Gen. George Washington trying to get across the Delaware in 2000.

More of This: In 1984 and 1986, CBS dramatized the life of George Washington over 10 hours. Barry Bostwick played George and Patty Duke Astin played Martha, so they got the height differential right.

The Book of Negroes

At the end of the Revolutionary War in 1783, British authorities evacuated thousands of Loyalists of African descent to Canada. The names of free black refugees were recorded in a document labeled “The Book of Negroes,” and Canadian novelist Lawrence Hill borrowed that title. (In the U.S., his book was retitled Someone Knows My Name.) In 2015 Hill turned his award-winning novel into a six-episode miniseries with writer-director Clement Virgo. This globe-spanning story follows a woman kidnapped in Niger, enslaved in South Carolina, and evacuated to Nova Scotia; she then returns to Africa to help found Sierra Leone. The Book of Negroes thus explores personal and political liberty, war, and nation-building—but not confined to the U.S.

More of This: The 1990 biopic Divided Loyalties profiles Joseph Brant, leader of Britain’s Mohawk allies during the Revolutionary War. Why do we see such side-eye on the American Revolution from Canada? Oh, yeah… 

The Devil’s Disciple

It’s always fun to watch Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas work together, enjoying each other’s company and trying to steal scenes. How about adding Laurence Olivier to the mix as real-life British general and playwright John Burgoyne? All in a 1959 adaptation of George Bernard Shaw’s first successful play, set in upstate New York during the crucial 1777 campaign. You might think the battle scenes acted out by wooden dolls are the most unrealistic part of this film, but wait till Lancaster blows up a room full of redcoats and stays on his feet. Because he’s Burt Lancaster, dammit!

More of This: To be frank, John Ford’s 1939 adaptation of Drums Along the Mohawk with Claudette Colbert and Henry Fonda is a better Hollywood movie set in upstate New York during the Revolution, but a more conventional one. 

John Adams

HBO’s seven-hour miniseries from 2008 remains the gold standard for Revolutionary drama because of the terrific acting by Paul Giamatti as John Adams and Laura Linney as Abigail Adams. The screenplay throws John into the center of events even more than his own autobiography did, and historical shortcuts often shortchange the facts. But the smart, cantankerous, high-minded spirit of the Adamses shines through.

More of This: Back in 1976, PBS covered the same ground in its thirteen-episode series The Adams Chronicles, which continued into the next two generations. Compare and contrast. 

Liberty’s Kids

PBS, DIC Entertainment, and a slew of celebrity voices taught Gen. Z about America’s Revolution in this 40-episode animated cartoon. Three years before Avatar: The Last Airbender debuted, this series showed a bunch of teens navigating a world at war. The young heroes managed to go almost everywhere the action was, and also not to age much between 1773 and 1789.

More of This: For another animated take, seek out Disney’s 1953 short “Ben and Me.” To see teens caught up in the start of the Revolution, Disney also offers Johnny Tremain from 1957. Even better, read the novels by Robert Lawson and Esther Forbes. 

Mary Silliman’s War

This is undoubtedly the most historically accurate film about life during the Revolutionary War. Mary Silliman was a housewife in Fairfield, Connecticut. Her husband was a militia officer imprisoned by the British, and she pursued his release while managing their farm and evading a Royal Navy attack. Educated and pious, Silliman kept a journal, which Joy Day Buel and Richard Buel, Jr., studied to write The Way of Duty. That biography was the basis of this independent drama from 1994 directed by Stephen Surjik, whose more recent work includes episodes of Daredevil and The Umbrella Academy.

More of This: The 1997 documentary A Midwife’s Tale dramatizes crucial moments in the life of midwife Martha Ballard while focusing on how historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich recreated that life from the bare bones of Ballard’s post-Revolutionary diary. 

Revolution

After making the so-very-British Chariots of Fire, very-British Hugh Hudson turned in 1985 to the American War for Independence. And he cast not-at-all-British Al Pacino and Nastassja Kinski as British colonists caught up in the fighting, plus Canadian Donald Sutherland as a sadistic British sergeant. The result was widely derided as an epic mess, but there are some powerful visual sequences. Hudson later made a director’s cut that’s unusual in being 10 minutes shorter than the original version, as well as more coherent.

More of This: The next time Hollywood tried a Revolutionary War epic with a foreign-born director, Roland Emmerich delivered The Patriot, starring Mel Gibson. Such an invincible hero, such cartoonish villains, such whitewashing of the period’s sticky issues—it made Revolution look better.

Sweet Liberty

This 1986 comedy by Alan Alda hinged on the making of a movie about the 1781 Battle of Cowpens. Alda played a local professor and reenactor trying to stand up for historical accuracy. Michele Pfeiffer and Michael Caine were over-the-top actors come to South Carolina to star in the movie within the movie, and Saul Rubinek and Bob Hoskins played the crass filmmakers. It’s a mild satire of Hollywood clashing with genuine folk, but dedicated eighteenth-century reenactors who trained the troops in The Patriot say this film is the most accurate reflection of their experience.

More of This: For real drama behind Revolutionary reenactments, check out Nyier Abdou and Adya Beasley’s 39-minute documentary Being George on YouTube.

Turn: Washington’s Spies

From 2014 to 2017, this 40-episode AMC series told a highly fictionalized account of the Culper Spy Ring that operated on Long Island, slipping information from British-occupied New York to the American command. Later seasons covered Benedict Arnold’s betrayal and carried through to Yorktown. Though most of the main characters were inspired by real people, only Ian Kahn’s portrayal of George Washington felt deeply rooted in history. But adherence to the documentary record wasn’t the point of Turn—melodrama was, and the plot twists and romantic entanglements are many.

More of This: For more eighteenth-century melodrama, check out the 2013 filming of Moonfleet on Amazon. (But beware: The website offers cast info about Fritz Lang’s 1955 version instead.) 

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House-ad for V (1985), based on the 1983 Sci-Fi televison miniseries of the same name.

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TOP 10 ARTISTS OF 2019′S REVIEWS

Believe it or not, it is harder to “rank” artists than writers, for comic-books. Most of the time, what you see is mostly a collaboration of many artists, and not always an ugly style is a bad thing. Art is subjective and that is why I am not doing a “bottom 10″ list of artists these years. It just wouldn’t make sense.

But because this year I took all sixty-something review that scored 10, while that is still a long list of artists, I was able to see which artists were more prominent in the material I read this year. This may or many not make sense to you, and it might not even make sense at all. But here it comes.

NUMBER TEN JERRY ORDWAY (1957 - PRESENT)

Jeremiah Ordway (born November 28, 1957) is an American writer, penciller, inker and painter of comic books.

He is known for his inking work on a wide variety of DC Comics titles, including the continuity-redefining Crisis on Infinite Earths (1985–1986), his long run working on the Superman titles from 1986–1993, and for writing and painting the Captain Marvel original graphic novel The Power of Shazam! (1994), and writing the ongoing monthly series from 1995–1999. He has provided inks for artists such as Curt Swan, Jack Kirby, Gil Kane, John Buscema, Steve Ditko, John Byrne, George Perez and others.

Jerry Ordway was inspired in his childhood by Marvel Comics, and dreamed of drawing Daredevil, Spider-Man, and the Avengers. To date he has only worked on the latter.

Ordway attended Milwaukee Technical High School, where he took a three-year commercial art course, before joining a commercial art studio as a typographer in 1976. He subsequently worked his way "from the ground floor up at the art studio" between 1978 and 1981.

Ordway is married to Peggy May Ordway (b. 1959).

While Ordway’s work this year that made him into the list is “Crisis on Infinite Earths”, I think that I am doing a special mention for him. He was inker for that series (And this year, I will be separating pencillers from the rest), but Ordway’s pencils have so much personality, that you sometimes forget he is just inking.

NUMBER NINE GARY FRANK (1969 - PRESENT)

Gary Frank (born 1969) is a British comics artist, notable for pencilling on Midnight Nation and Supreme Power, both written by J. Michael Straczynski. He has also worked with author Peter David on The Incredible Hulk and Supergirl. He had a creator-owned series, Kin, which he wrote himself, published by Top Cow Productions in 2000.

Writer Geoff Johns, who has collaborated with Frank, has opined that Frank's rendition of Superman is the best of his generation and that the only other artist in the same league with Frank in this regard is Curt Swan.

Gary Frank began his professional career in 1991, illustrating covers and interior short stories for publications such as Doctor Who Magazine and Toxic!. This led to a stint at Marvel UK in 1992 as regular series' artist on Motormouth & Killpower. It was on that series that he began a long-running collaboration with inker Cam Smith, who would continue to ink Frank's work for many years. In 1992, Frank was recruited by Marvel Comics to illustrate covers for The Incredible Hulk, beginning with issue No. 400. Shortly thereafter, he was hired as the series' ongoing artist beginning with issue No. 403 (March 1993) and ending with No. 425 (Jan. 1995).

During his initial time at Marvel, Frank contributed covers, interiors and pin-up illustrations for various series, such as X-Men Unlimited, the Sabretooth Special, X-Men Classic, X-Men Prime, and Doctor Strange, Sorcerer Supreme, among others. He drew covers for Acclaim Comics' Ninjak and Harris Comics' Vampirella.

In 1996, Frank and Smith were hired as the art team on DC Comics' new Supergirl ongoing series, which re-teamed Frank with writer Peter David. Frank's run as penciller ended with issue No. 9 (May 1997), although he continued to provide covers for the series until issue No. 21. Other assignments for DC included a Birds of Prey one-shot and the DC/Marvel Amalgam Comics one-shot, Bullets and Bracelets.

In 1997, Frank and Smith moved to Image Comics, where they, along with writer John Arcudi, were hired as the new creative team on the Wildstorm title Gen¹³, beginning with the epilogue story in issue No. 25. Their run on the series was praised for its dark, realistic style in both writing and art; however, the drastic change in tone and style alienated many longtime fans who had grown accustomed to the more fantastical and cartoonish approach of the Brandon Choi/J. Scott Campbell run. The Arcudi/Frank/Smith tenure on the series lasted two years, until issue No. 41 (July 1999). It was during this run, in 1998, that Wildstorm head Jim Lee moved his studio and all its properties to DC Comics. Therefore, issues No. 25–36 were published by Image and issues No. 37–41 were published by DC/Wildstorm.

Gary made it into the list because of his work with Geoff Johns on Justice League (including Shazam’s origin). But he could have been included for his work on Doomsday Clock as well.

NUMBER EIGHT DAVE GIBBONS (1949 - PRESENT)

David Chester Gibbons (born 14 April 1949) is an English comics artist, writer and sometimes letterer. He is best known for his collaborations with writer Alan Moore, which include the miniseries Watchmen and the Superman story "For the Man Who Has Everything". He was an artist for 2000 AD, for which he contributed a large body of work from its first issue in 1977.

Gibbons was born at Forest Gate Hospital in London, to Chester, a town planner, and Gladys, a secretary. He began reading comic books at the age of seven. A self-taught artist, he illustrated his own comic strips. Gibbons became a building surveyor but eventually entered the UK comics industry as a letterer for IPC Media. He left his surveyor job to focus on his comics career.

Gibbons was one of the British comic talents identified by Len Wein in 1982 for American publisher DC Comics: he was hired primarily to draw "Green Lantern Corps" backup stories within the pages of Green Lantern. Gibbons' first DC work was on the Green Lantern Corps story in Green Lantern No. 161 (February 1983), with writer Todd Klein, as well as the concurrently released "Creeper" two-part backup story in The Flash #318–319. Gibbons drew the lead story in The Brave and the Bold No. 200 (July 1983) which featured a team-up of the Batmen of Earth-One and Earth-Two. With Green Lantern No. 172 (Jan. 1984), Gibbons joined writer Wein on the main feature while continuing to illustrate the backup features. In issue No. 182, Wein and Gibbons made architect John Stewart, who had been introduced previously in issue No. 87, the title's primary character. Ceding the "Tales of the Green Lantern Corps" backup features to various other individuals from No. 181, Gibbons last issue with Wein was issue No. 186 (March 1985). Gibbons returned to pencil the backup story "Mogo Doesn't Socialize" with Alan Moore in issue No. 188.

While Marvel Comics reprinted some of Gibbons' Marvel UK Doctor Who work, Eclipse Comics reprinted some of his Warrior work and Eagle reprinted various Judge Dredd tales, Gibbons continued to produce new work almost exclusively for DC throughout the 1980s. For the 1985 Superman Annual No. 11, Gibbons drew the main story "For the Man Who Has Everything", again written by Alan Moore.

During 1985 and 1986, Gibbons' artwork graced the pages of several issues of both DC's Who's Who: The Definitive Directory of the DC Universe and Marvel's The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe Deluxe Edition. He was one of the contributors to the DC Challenge limited series and in December 1986, he contributed to Harrier Comics' Brickman No. 1 alongside Kevin O'Neill, Lew Stringer and others. Between May and August 1988, he contributed covers to The Phantom miniseries, inked Kevin Maguire's pencilled contribution to Action Comics No. 600, and produced the cover to Action Comics Weekly No. 601.

He is best known in the US for collaborating with Alan Moore on the 12-issue limited series Watchmen, now one of the best-selling graphic novels of all time, and the only one to feature on Time's "Top 100 Novels" list. Gibbons' artwork in Watchmen is notable both for its stark utilisation of the formulaic comicbook nine-panel grid layout, as well as for its intense narrative and symbolic density with some symbolic background elements suggested by Moore, others by Gibbons.

Gibbons lettered Watchmen and it was his lettering style that later served as one of two reference sources used by Vincent Connare when creating the controversial font Comic Sans in 1994. Gibbons has commented that "It's just a shame they couldn't have used just the original font, because it's a real mess. I think it's a particularly ugly letter form."

Comics historian Les Daniels noted that Watchmen "called into question the basic assumptions on which the super hero genre is formulated". DC Comics writer and executive Paul Levitz observed in 2010 that "As with The Dark Knight Returns, Watchmen set off a chain reaction of rethinking the nature of super heroes and heroism itself, and pushed the genre darker for more than a decade. The series won acclaim...and would continue to be regarded as one of the most important literary works the field ever produced."

Gibbons returned to Watchmen in 2008, producing the behind-the-scenes book Watching the Watchmen to tie into the release of the 2009 film. Watching the Watchmen is his take on the creation of the seminal work, and features a number of rarely seen pieces of artwork including sketches and character designs, as well as "stuff," he says "that I just don't know why I kept but I'm really pleased I did." Gibbons stated that "I'm basically thrilled with the movie, you know; it's been in the making for years. There have been proposals to make it – some I was excited about, some I was less excited about. But I think the way that it finally has been made is just great. I honestly can't imagine it being made much better."

Gibbons was present in many reviews this year, but he made it into the list because of his work on “Superman” and “Watchmen”.

NUMBER SEVEN BRIAN BOLLAND (1951 - PRESENT)

Brian Bolland (born 26 March 1951) is a British comics artist. Best known in the United Kingdom as one of the definitive Judge Dredd artists for British comics anthology 2000 AD, he spearheaded the 'British Invasion' of the American comics industry, and in 1982 produced the artwork on Camelot 3000 (with author Mike W. Barr), which was DC Comics' first 12-issue comicbook maxiseries created for the direct market.

His rare forays into interior art also include Batman: The Killing Joke, with UK-based writer Alan Moore, and a self-penned Batman: Black and White story. Bolland remains in high demand as a cover artist, producing the vast majority of his work for DC Comics.

Brian Bolland was born in Butterwick, Lincolnshire, to parents Albert "A.J." John, a fenland farmer, and Lillie Bolland. He spent his "first 18 years" living "in a small village near Boston in the fens of Lincolnshire, England," but has "no memory of comics" much before the age of ten. When American comics began to be imported into England, c.1959, Bolland says that it "took a little while for me to discover them," but by 1960 he was intrigued by Dell Comics' Dinosaurus!, which fed into a childhood interest in dinosaurs of all shapes and sizes. Comics including Turok, Son of Stone and DC Comics' Tomahawk soon followed, and it was this burgeoning comics collection that would help inspire the young Bolland to draw his own comics around the age of ten with ideas such as "Insect League." He recalls that "[s]uperheroes crept into my life by stealth," as he actively sought out covers featuring "any big creature that looked vaguely dinosaur-like, trampling puny humans." These adolescent criteria led from Dinosaurus! and Turok via House of Mystery to "Batman and Robin [who] were [often] being harassed by big weird things, as were Superman, Aquaman, Wonder Woman [etc]." Soon, family outings to Skegness became an excuse for the future artist to "trawl... round some of the more remote backstreet newsagents" for comics to store on an overflowing "bookcase I'd made in school woodwork especially."

As early as 1962, aged 11, Bolland remembers thinking that "Carmine Infantino's work on the Flash and Gil Kane's on Green Lantern and the Atom had a sophistication about it that I hadn't [previously] seen. The young Bolland did not rate Marvel Comics as highly as DC, feeling the covers cluttered and the paper quality crude. His appreciation of the artwork of Jack Kirby, he says, only materialised much later "through the eyes of a seasoned professional." Despite such a variety of inspirations, Bolland credits his eventual pursuance of art as a hobby and then vocation to a primary school art teacher, who "evidently said all the right things to me."

Growing up as "and only child in a house without culture," (Bolland says that his "mother and father had no use for art, literature or music"), he embraced the late 1960s pop culture explosion of "pirate radio stations, music (particularly Frank Zappa...), drug taking, psychedelia, "peace and love," "dropping out," the underground scene, Oz Magazine," and other aspects of hippy culture epitomised by underground comix such as Robert Crumb's Zap Comix. Having taken both O-Level and A-Level examinations in art, Bolland spent five years at art school (starting in 1969) learning graphic design and Art history. Learning to draw comics, however, was "more a self-taught thing," with Bolland eventually writing a 15,000-word dissertation in 1973 on Neal Adams – an "artist [his teachers] had never heard of." He would later recall:

It was during this time that I discovered the sheer range of comics and their history. All the British stuff I'd missed was there to be discovered. I found the American greats, Foster, Herriman, Alex Raymond and Winsor McCay... Noel Sickles, Milt Caniff, Roy Crane, had all, I discovered, put down the basic building blocks of our "Art form". And there were the Europeans... Moebius, Manara, Breccia. Later the Filipinos—Alex Niño, Nestor Redondo, Alfredo Alcala, all were inspirational. None of this stuff was to be found in the art schools. During my five years in three art schools I never learnt a single thing about comics from any of my tutors.

Bolland was among the first British comics creators 'discovered' by the American comics industry, spearheading the so-called "British Invasion" in 1979/80. Bolland recalls that his big break came when Joe Staton attended the Summer 1979 Comicon, and, needing somewhere to work (on Green Lantern) while in the UK, arranged to stay with the Bollands. Staton called his editor Jack Harris and told him that Bolland, a big Green Lantern fan, would like to draw a Green Lantern cover; Harris agreed. He drew several covers for DC Comics, starting with Green Lantern No. 127 (April 1980), as well as some fill-in stories. These stories included, in 1980-1981, "Certified Safe" in Mystery in Space and "Falling Down to Heaven" in Madame Xanadu, DC's first attempt at marketing comics specifically to the "direct market" of fans and collectors. For editor Julius Schwartz, Bolland drew covers around which writers would craft stories, which included two Starro covers for Justice League of America No. 189 and 190 and Superman No. 422 (Aug. 1986).

Among his earliest interior work for DC was a chapter in Justice League of America No. 200 (March 1982) alongside artistic heroes Joe Kubert, Carmine Infantino and Gil Kane, as well as Jim Aparo, George Pérez and Dick Giordano. This gave the artist his "first stab at drawing Batman." Bolland felt that "after my cover [GL #127] worked out the people at DC turned their gaze on London... and particularly on the group of artists at 2000AD who had been weaned on the DC characters." He recalled that, "after I was settled in at DC, scouts from that company came to our "Society of Strip Illustration" meetings to win over a few more of us," making a "formal invitation" at an SSI meeting, which saw "Dave Gibbons, Kevin O'Neill... [t]hen Alan Davis and Mark Farmer," following the artists "Alan Grant "went across" and, at some point, a certain tall hairy writer from the Midlands."

In 1982, DC editor Len Wein chose Bolland to be the artist on DC's Camelot 3000 12-issue maxi-series, with writer Mike W. Barr. The story, dealing with the return of King Arthur to save England from an alien invasion in the year 3000, not only "represents the single biggest body of work" by Bolland – and his only attempt to draw a monthly title – but was also the "first example of a DC (or otherwise) maxi-series." Bolland was not familiar with the Arthurian legends, and initially conceived Merlin as a comical character. The series was graced with considerable media hype, and Bolland found himself "whisked off to San Diego and places and made a fuss of." Bolland was allowed to pick between two inkers, but opted to ink his covers himself. Bolland was uncomfortable with having a third party ink his pencils, and later admitted that he put a high level of detail into his art for the series to leave as little room as possible for the inker to creatively reinterpret his work. However, "by the end I was quite pleased with the results." Reacting indignantly to being presented with Ross Andru layouts for the first two Camelot 3000 covers, he chose to ignore [the Andru design] completely and come up with my own unapproved design. Len Wein rejected it and told me to do the Ross Andru one. Grudgingly I drew the number one cover that made it onto the issue – but as a protest I reversed the letter N in my signature as a code to remind myself that my "artistic integrity" had been despoiled. I liked the backwards N enough to keep it from that day on.

Camelot 3000 had lengthy delays between its final issues. Bolland recalled that he and DC "talked quite a bit about how long it would take me to do the series," and because the series was inked by other artists, he started off "churning the pages out with great enthusiasm." As the series continued, however, Bolland became increasingly meticulous, "trying to make the pages look better and better". The added details he introduced into his artwork caused significant delays in the final issues of the limited series, causing issues #8–11 to be released on a quarterly rather than monthly status, and the final issue to be cover dated nine months later than the penultimate issue.

Bolland married his girlfriend, illustrator and sometime-collaborator Rachel Birkett in 1981. She later gave up illustration "to become a cook in a vegetarian restaurant, although she has since assisted her husband with his work, acting as colourist, inker, co-artist and ghost. The two have a son, Harry.

The Camelot 3000 limited series, which he created with Mike W. Barr, was nominated for the 1985 Kirby Award for Best Finite Series, narrowly losing to Marv Wolfman and George Pérez's Crisis on Infinite Earths. In 2002, he placed second behind Jack Kirby for the title of "Best Artist Ever" in the short-lived National Comics Awards.

Brian Bolland made it to the list because of... you probably guessed it... “Camelot 3000″ and “Batman: The Killing Joke”.

NUMBER SIX FRANK MILLER (1957 - PRESENT)

Frank Miller (born January 27, 1957) is an American comic book writer, penciller and inker, novelist, screenwriter, film director, and producer best known for his comic book stories and graphic novels such as Ronin, Daredevil: Born Again, The Dark Knight Returns, Batman: Year One, Sin City, and 300.

He is in both, Writer and Artist list, and, surpise, surprise, for pretty much the same stuff (”The Dark Knight Returns”, “Ronin” and also “Wolverine”).

NUMBER FIVE MIKE DRINGENBERG (1965 - PRESENT)

Mike Dringenberg (born c. 1965) is an American comics artist best known for his work on DC Comics/Vertigo's Sandman series with writer Neil Gaiman. Mike Dringenberg was born in Laon, France.

Dringenberg first work in the comics industry was the story "A Tale Of... Lenny's Casino & Grill" in Kelvin Mace #1 (Dec. 1985) published by Vortex Comics. His other early work in the 1980s for publishers such as Eclipse Comics included Alien Worlds, Enchanter, and Total Eclipse. He worked on Adolescent Radioactive Blackbelt Hamsters, a parody of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, which itself was a parody of many then-current comic books, and Shock the Monkey. His mainstream work includes DC's Doom Patrol with writer Grant Morrison, where he co-created Flex Mentallo; the fantasy card game Magic: The Gathering; and White Wolf Publishing's card game Vampire: The Eternal Struggle.

Mike is in this list because of his work on “The Sandman”.

NUMBER FOUR RICK VEITCH (1951 - PRESENT)

Richard Veitch (born May 7, 1951) is an American comics artist and writer who has worked in mainstream, underground, and alternative comics. Rick Veitch is from a large Catholic family of six children. He was raised in Bellows Falls, Vermont.

Veitch made his publishing debut in 1972, illustrating the underground comix horror parody Two-Fisted Zombies published by Last Gasp and written by his brother Tom Veitch. This one-shot was excerpted in Mark Estren's History of Underground Comix. It also, according to Veitch, proved to be his ticket to admission to Joe Kubert School.

Veitch then studied cartooning at The Kubert School, and was in the first class to graduate from the school in 1978, along with his future long-time collaborators Stephen R. Bissette and John Totleben.

Veitch's next major project was an adaptation of the film 1941 with Bissette.

During the 1980s, Veitch became known as a distinctive fantasy artist and writer for Marvel Comics' Epic Comics line, for which he created three graphic novels, Abraxas and the Earthman serialized in Epic Illustrated; Heartburst published as a standalone graphic novel; and The One originally published as a six-issue comic book limited series. Heartburst was straightforward science fiction, while The One was an ambitious and bizarre fantasy-adventure involving monstrous superheroes, the Cold War, and spiritual evolution. During this period Veitch also contributed numerous self-contained comics short stories to Epic Illustrated.

Veitch's highest-profile title was DC Comics' Swamp Thing. His friends Totleben and Bissette had both illustrated the series since Alan Moore took over as writer. Veitch joined the team for issue #37 (cover dated June 1985), in which Moore's popular character John Constantine was introduced, and appeared regularly after issue #50. He also worked with Moore on Miracleman, illustrating the story that graphically depicted the birth of Miracleman's child published by Eclipse Comics in Miracleman #9 (July 1986).

When Moore left the Swamp Thing series after issue #64, Veitch took over as writer, dividing art duties between himself and Alfredo Alcala. His Swamp Thing stories took a similar approach to Moore's, combining horror-fantasy, ecological concerns, and an encyclopedic knowledge of DC Comics fantasy characters; he gradually turned his attention from the DC Universe to history and mythology, using time travel to introduce his hero to a variety of legendary figures. This was to conclude in issue #91. Difficulties arose after Veitch's plan for issue #88, a story in which Swamp Thing met Jesus Christ, was scrapped by DC President Jenette Kahn. Although DC had approved Veitch's initial script for the Jesus story, the topic was later deemed too inflammatory and was cancelled at the last minute. The publisher and writer were unable to reach a compromise; Veitch quit, and vowed never to work for DC until the story saw print. Though the story arc has still never been printed, Veitch eventually did return to DC.

After leaving DC, Veitch turned to the alternative comics field, where the success of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles had provided the impetus for a black-and-white independent comics boom. After doing a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles storyline for Mirage Studios, "The River", he began creating his own titles again, published by the Mirage spin-off Tundra Publishing.

Rick is one of the “revelations” of this year, to me. He was included in this list because of his work in both, “Swamp Thing” and “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles”. His TMNT story is one of my favorite TMNT stories of all time (even though it may or may not be canon).

NUMBER THREE JOHN TOTLEBEN (1958 - PRESENT)

John Thomas Totleben (born February 16, 1958 in Erie, Pennsylvania) is an American illustrator working mostly in comic books.

After studying art at Tech Memorial in Erie, Totleben attended The Kubert School for one year. He then spent several years working for comics editor Harry "A" Chesler, producing illustrations for the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam; which never saw print. His first published work appeared in Heavy Metal in January 1979.

His first success in American comics, and still his best-known work, was as the inker of pencilled art by Stephen R. Bissette for the DC Comics title Swamp Thing, when the series was being written and reinvented by Alan Moore. Totleben and Bissette joined the series in 1983 shortly before Moore. Totleben's style was unusual for the time, and is still distinctive among U.S. comics artists, for its fluid layouts and heavily detailed rendering using a combination of stippling and hatching. He also painted covers for the series in oils and acrylic. Totleben inked the story in Swamp Thing #37 (June 1985) which introduced the John Constantine character.

As with most cases in this list, these artists can ink, color and pencil their own art. Totleben is another artists that made it into this list thanks to his work on “Swamp Thing”.

NUMBER TWO STEPHEN R. BISSETTE (1955 - PRESENT)

Stephen R. "Steve" Bissette (born March 14, 1955) is an American comics artist, editor, and publisher with a focus on the horror genre. He is known for working with writer Alan Moore and inker John Totleben on the DC Comics series Swamp Thing in the 1980s.

Bissette was born and raised in Vermont, where he still lives, and was raised Catholic.

Shortly after the publication of his first work, Abyss (1976), Bissette enrolled in the first class of The Kubert School. Before his first year was completed, his work was being published professionally in the pages of Sojourn, Sgt. Rock, and Heavy Metal. In 1978, Bissette was among the Kubert School's first graduating class, along with classmates Rick Veitch, Tom Yeates, and others.

While still enrolled at The Kubert School, Bissette executed the logo for early New Jersey synth-pop band WKGB and drew the cover for the band's 1979 single "Non-Stop/Ultramarine" on Fetish Records.

His early work appeared in the pages of Heavy Metal, Epic Illustrated, Bizarre Adventures, Scholastic Corporation's Weird Worlds and Bananas illustrating stories written by Goosebumps founder and author R. L. Stine, and he worked with Rick Veitch on the graphic novelization of Steven Spielberg's motion picture.

Bissette is best known for his multiple award-winning collaboration with writer Alan Moore and inker John Totleben on DC Comics' Saga of the Swamp Thing (1983–1987).

Under the company name of Spiderbaby Grafix, he later published the horror anthology Taboo, the original home of Moore and Eddie Campbell's From Hell and Tim Lucas' Throat Sprockets illustrated by Mike Hoffman and David Lloyd. He created Tyrant, a comic book biography of a Tyrannosaurus rex, which lasted four issues. During this period, he edited the horror anthology Gore Shriek, published by FantaCo Enterprises.

Since 1991, Bissette has presented a lecture series on horror comics called "Journeys into Fear". Having since grown in scope into a five-part series, "Journeys into Fear" identifies 12th century Japanese ghost scrolls and the 16th Century Mixtec codices as early ancestors, and traces the genre from its roots in Winsor McCay's work such as Dream of the Rarebit Fiend. In 1996–1997, Bissette contributed five covers for a comic book series about another swamp monster, Hall of Heroes' Bog Swamp Demon.

Bissette subsequently worked with Moore, Totleben, and Rick Veitch on the Image Comics' limited series 1963, their final creative collaborative effort. From 1963, Bissette owns the characters Hypernaut, N-Man, and the Fury.

Scott McCloud's 24-hour comic project began as a dare to Bissette in 1990. Each created a 24-page comic in 24 hours. The 24-hour comics project evolved into a challenge taken up by numerous hopeful contributors, with several published collections, and inspired other time-limited creative projects. Bissette published the story A Life in black and white in his own comic book anthology SpiderBaby Comix #2 (SpiderBaby Graphix, 1997).

In 1993, Bissette and Stanley Wiater co-edited Comic Book Rebels: Conversations with the Creators of the New Comics, which featured interviews with such notable comics creators as Scott McCloud, Harvey Pekar, Dave Sim, Howard Cruse, Will Eisner, Peter Laird, Kevin Eastman, and Robert Crumb.

Bissette retired from the comics industry in 1999, alluding to what he termed a "generational shift." He teaches courses in Comic Art History, Drawing, and Film at the Center for Cartoon Studies in White River Junction, Vermont

Since 2005, Bissette has also edited and published Green Mountain Cinema, a trade paperback journal devoted to the independent cinema scene in his home state of Vermont, as well as five volumes of Blur, collecting his film reviews and criticism.

The Stephen R. Bissette Collection at Henderson State University in Arkadelphia, Arkansas, houses Bissette's works and memorabilia.

Bissette is in this list because of his work on “Swamp Thing”.

NUMBER ONE GEORGE PÉREZ (1954 - PRESENT)

George Pérez (born June 9, 1954) is a retired American comic book artist and writer, whose titles include The Avengers, Teen Titans, and Wonder Woman. Writer Peter David has named Pérez his favorite artistic collaborator.

George Pérez was born in the South Bronx, New York City, on June 9, 1954, to Jorge Guzman Pérez and Luz Maria Izquierdo, who were both from Caguas, Puerto Rico, but who did not meet until approximately 1949 or 1950, after both had settled in New Jersey while searching for job opportunities. They married in October 26, 1954 and subsequently moved to New York, where Jorge worked in the meat packing industry while Luz was a homemaker. George's younger brother David was born May 28, 1955. Both brothers aspired at a young age to be artists. with George Pérez beginning to draw at the age of five.

Pérez's first involvement with the professional comics industry was as artist Rich Buckler's assistant in 1973, and he made his professional debut in Marvel Comics' Astonishing Tales No. 25 (Aug. 1974) as penciler of an untitled two-page satire of Buckler's character Deathlok, star of that comic's main feature. Soon Pérez became a Marvel regular, penciling a run of "Sons of the Tiger", a serialized action-adventure strip published in Marvel's long-running Deadly Hands of Kung Fu magazine and authored by Bill Mantlo. He and Mantlo co-created the White Tiger (comics' first Puerto Rican superhero), a character that soon appeared in Marvel's color comics, most notably the Spider-Man titles.

Pérez came to prominence with Marvel's superhero-team comic The Avengers, starting with issue No. 141. In the 1970s, Pérez illustrated several other Marvel titles, including Creatures on the Loose, featuring the Man-Wolf; The Inhumans; and Fantastic Four. Writer Roy Thomas and Pérez crafted a metafictional story for Fantastic Four No. 176 (Nov. 1976) in which the Impossible Man visited the offices of Marvel Comics and met numerous comics creators. Whilst most of Pérez' Fantastic Four issues were written by Roy Thomas or Len Wein, it would be a Fantastic Four Annual where he would have his first major collaboration with writer Marv Wolfman. Pérez drew the first part of writer Jim Shooter's "The Korvac Saga", which featured nearly every Avenger who joined the team up to that point. Shooter and Pérez introduced the character of Henry Peter Gyrich, the Avengers' liaison to the United States National Security Council in the second chapter of that same storyline. Writer David Michelinie and Pérez created the Taskmaster in The Avengers No. 195 (May 1980).

In 1980, while still drawing The Avengers for Marvel, Pérez began working for their rival DC Comics. Offered the art chores for the launch of The New Teen Titans, written by Wolfman, Pérez' real incentive was the opportunity to draw Justice League of America (an ambition of Pérez's which "seemed like a natural progress from the Avengers"). Long-time Justice League artist Dick Dillin died right around that time, providing an opportunity for Pérez to step in as regular artist. While Pérez's stint on the JLA was popular with fans, his career took off with the New Teen Titans. The New Teen Titans was launched in a special preview in DC Comics Presents No. 26 (October 1980). This incarnation of the Titans was intended to be DC's answer to Marvel's increasingly popular X-Men comic, and Wolfman and Pérez indeed struck gold. A New Teen Titans drug awareness comic book sponsored by the Keebler Company, and drawn by Pérez was published in cooperation with The President's Drug Awareness Campaign in 1983. In August 1984, a second series of The New Teen Titans was launched by Wolfman and Pérez. Moreover, Pérez's facility with layouts, details, and faces improved enormously during his four years on the book, making him one of the most popular artists in comics as evidenced by the numerous industry awards he would receive during this time.

Pérez took a leave of absence from The New Teen Titans in 1984 to focus on his next project with Marv Wolfman, DC's 1985 50th-anniversary event, Crisis on Infinite Earths. Crisis purportedly featured every single character DC owned, in a story which radically restructured the DC universe's continuity. Pérez was inked on the series by Dick Giordano, Mike DeCarlo, and Jerry Ordway. After Crisis, Pérez inked the final issue of Superman (issue #423) in September 1986, over Curt Swan's pencils for part one of the two-part story "Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?" by writer Alan Moore. The following month, Pérez was one of the artists on Batman No. 400 (October 1986) Wolfman and Pérez teamed again to produce the History of the DC Universe limited series to summarize the company's new history. Pérez drew the cover for the DC Heroes roleplaying game (1985) from Mayfair Games:167 as well as the cover for the fourth edition of the Champions roleplaying game (1989) from Hero Games.

Pérez is married to Carol Flynn. He has no children. He has a brother, David, and a niece and nephew. He is diabetic, and has undergone surgery for diabetic retinopathy. In May 2017, Pérez was admitted to a hospital with chest pains and was diagnosed as having had a heart attack while travelling to New Jersey for a convention. He was subsequently released from the hospital after having a coronary stent fitted.

George was already in last year’s TOP 10 and he made it again this year, thanks to his work on “New Teen Titans”, “Crisis on Infinite Earths”, “Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?” and “Tales of the Teen Titans”, including “The Judas Contract”.

As I said before, most of these artists are pencillers, but most of them can do anything. Now, I have another list of artists coming up, that have a bit more “rigid” in what they do, but they also excel at it.

The artists in this list are only a small group, among all the other artists that could have made it into this list, some of them being: A. C. Farley, Bruce Timm, Bryan Hitch, Chris Allan, Jim Lawson, Chris Sprouse, Curt Swan, Dave McKean, Denys Cowan, Frank Quitely, Gene Colan, Jesus Merino, Emanuela Lupacchino, Jim Aparo, Jim Lee, Joe Quinones, Keith Pollard, Marcos Martin, Matt Hollingsworth, Paul Gulacy, Richard Pace, Leonard Kirk, Dan Jurgens, Sam Keith, Shawn McManus, Stephen Byrne, The Dodsons, Tony Harris, Stan Sakai and Bob Burden. Thank you all, and thank you to the artists of this list for making 2019 a better year for me.

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In una zona collinare ricca di vigneti, situato su un’altura che domina la vallata sottostante in cui scorre il torrente Parma, si erge una delle migliori architetture fortificate d’Italia: il Castello di Torrechiara. Affiancato dal borgo omonimo, frazione di Langhirano in provincia di Parma. Voluto dal conte di San Secondo, nonché condottiero al servizio dei Visconti e degli Sforza, Pier Maria Rossi, come strumento di difesa e controllo ma anche come dimora per sé e la sua amata Bianca Pellegrini da Arluno. Dal 1911 il Castello è monumento nazionale italiano. Breve descrizione del castello Venne costruito sulle rovine di un più antico fortilizio, tra il 1448 e il 1460. Il maniero è sito ad una quota di circa 280 m s.l.m. e dispone di un doppio fossato e originariamente due ponti levatoi. Altri elementi di difesa sono le quattro torri angolari e le tre cerchia di mura. La natura residenziale del maniero si evince invece dagli ambienti interni, curati da artisti come nel caso del ciclo di affreschi attribuito a Benedetto Bembo nella Camera d’Oro. La stanza prende il suo nome dalle foglie d’oro zecchino che un tempo ricoprivano le formelle alle pareti che presentano gli stemmi dei due amati. Le scene sono l’unico esempio di dipinti medievali incentrati sull’amore cortese tra due personaggi realmente esistiti. Le altre sale del castello sono altrettanto riccamente affrescate, alcune delle quali sono opera di Cesare Baglione, come ad esempio la sala del Giove, quella della Vittoria, del Velario e del Pergolato. Al primo piano anche il salone degli Acrobati ascritto anche a Giovan Antonio Paganino. I temi sono quelli naturalistici, fantastici e a grottesche. Ci sono poi il cortile loggiato, un porticato e l’oratorio di San Nicomede. Il castello di Torrechiara e il cinema IL maniero è stato utilizzato come set cinematografico di diverse produzioni tra cui “Ladyhawke”, film del 1985 diretto da Richard Donner con Rutger Hauer, Michelle Pfeiffer e Matthew Broderick. Nel film il castello è la casa del cattivissimo vescovo nonché lo sfondo di bellissime riprese in cui i protagonisti attraversano i prati verdi e le colline nei dintorni. Una curiosità rispetto al film riguarda appunto l’ambientazione. Francesizzato il nome de L’Aquila che nella pellicola diventa Aguillon, in realtà la maggior parte è stato girato in Italia. Oltre a Torrechiara, c’è Castell’Arquato sempre in Emilia-Romagna, Campo Imperatore e Rocca Calascio in Abbruzzo, Soncino in Lombardia, Misurina in Veneto. Inoltre l’interno di San Pietro a Tuscania (Viterbo) è stata ricostruita a Cinecittà. Ladyhawke narra la storia di un sortilegio e di un amore. Il un borgo del Medioevo francese, un malvagio vescovo si invaghisce di Isabeau, la fidanzata del capitano Navarre e colpisce la coppia con una maledizione. Di giorno lei si trasforma in un falco mentre lui di notte, diventa un lupo. Un ladro evaso dalle segrete, insieme ad un vecchio frate aiuteranno la coppia a rompere l’incantesimo. L’atmosfera magica del castello di Torrechiara compare però anche in altre pellicole, come ad esempio quella di Bertolucci del 1981, La tragedia di un uomo ridicolo o nella più recente serie televisiva del 2014, i Borgia di Tom Fontana. E poi, la miniserie televisiva La certosa di Parma di Cinzia Th Torrini e in televisione in una puntata del programma Ulisse – il piacere della scoperta nella puntata dedicata ai Castelli nel tempo. Castello di Torrechiara: la leggenda Come ogni costruzione storica e misteriosa che si rispetti, anche questo maniero ha la sua leggenda. Ovviamente legata ad una storia d’amore, sembra infatti che il fantasma del conte Pier Maria Rossi si aggiri per il castello, ritornando spesso sul Rio delle favole, la strada che conduce alla fortezza, pronunciando una frase, un motto, dedicato all’amata Bianca: “nunc et semper”, ora e sempre. Le stesse parole riportate anche nella Camera d’Oro. Il borgo di Torrechiara Il delizioso borgo di Torrechiara offre altri siti da visitare oltre il castello. Ci sono infatti la Badia di Santa Maria della Neve, luogo sacro, restaurato negli anni’70 che conserva un dipinto quattrocentesco attribuito al pittore Francesco Tacconi, parliamo della “Madonna col trono col Bambino”. Affreschi di varie epoche sulle pareti e un laboratorio apistico utilizzato dai monaci per la produzione di creme, unguenti e tisane. C’è poi la Chiesa di San Lorenzo, in origine in stile romanico, resa barocca nel XVIII secolo. Oltre alla visita a luoghi di interesse artistico, escursioni sulle colline, nelle cittadine intorno e itinerari lungo gli splendidi vigneti, dove regalarsi altri panorami incredibili ma anche una coccola culinaria: il prosciutto, il parmigiano reggiano e molto altro. Per organizzare bene un’eventuale gita in questi luoghi o un weekend insolito, vi segnaliamo l’orario. Castello Torrechiara orari Aprile, maggio, giugno, settembre, ottobre: feriali 8.10-13.50, domenica e festivi 10.00-19.00. Luglio e agosto: feriali 8.10-13.50, domenica e festivi 10.00-16.00. Dal 1 novembre, il castello osserverà i seguenti orari: feriale dalle 8.10 alle 13.50, domenica e festivi dalle 10.00 alle 16.00. La cassa chiude 30 minuti prima. La prima domenica del mese è gratuita come per gli altri siti grazie all’iniziativa ministeriale #iovadoalmuseo. Una fortificazione con finalità difensiva ma ricca anche dell’eleganza residenziale. Proprio Pier Maria Rossi scelse le parole “altiera et felice” per l’iscrizione del Castello di Torrechiara. https://ift.tt/37mNQZU Alla scoperta del Castello di Torrechiara in Emilia Romagna In una zona collinare ricca di vigneti, situato su un’altura che domina la vallata sottostante in cui scorre il torrente Parma, si erge una delle migliori architetture fortificate d’Italia: il Castello di Torrechiara. Affiancato dal borgo omonimo, frazione di Langhirano in provincia di Parma. Voluto dal conte di San Secondo, nonché condottiero al servizio dei Visconti e degli Sforza, Pier Maria Rossi, come strumento di difesa e controllo ma anche come dimora per sé e la sua amata Bianca Pellegrini da Arluno. Dal 1911 il Castello è monumento nazionale italiano. Breve descrizione del castello Venne costruito sulle rovine di un più antico fortilizio, tra il 1448 e il 1460. Il maniero è sito ad una quota di circa 280 m s.l.m. e dispone di un doppio fossato e originariamente due ponti levatoi. Altri elementi di difesa sono le quattro torri angolari e le tre cerchia di mura. La natura residenziale del maniero si evince invece dagli ambienti interni, curati da artisti come nel caso del ciclo di affreschi attribuito a Benedetto Bembo nella Camera d’Oro. La stanza prende il suo nome dalle foglie d’oro zecchino che un tempo ricoprivano le formelle alle pareti che presentano gli stemmi dei due amati. Le scene sono l’unico esempio di dipinti medievali incentrati sull’amore cortese tra due personaggi realmente esistiti. Le altre sale del castello sono altrettanto riccamente affrescate, alcune delle quali sono opera di Cesare Baglione, come ad esempio la sala del Giove, quella della Vittoria, del Velario e del Pergolato. Al primo piano anche il salone degli Acrobati ascritto anche a Giovan Antonio Paganino. I temi sono quelli naturalistici, fantastici e a grottesche. Ci sono poi il cortile loggiato, un porticato e l’oratorio di San Nicomede. Il castello di Torrechiara e il cinema IL maniero è stato utilizzato come set cinematografico di diverse produzioni tra cui “Ladyhawke”, film del 1985 diretto da Richard Donner con Rutger Hauer, Michelle Pfeiffer e Matthew Broderick. Nel film il castello è la casa del cattivissimo vescovo nonché lo sfondo di bellissime riprese in cui i protagonisti attraversano i prati verdi e le colline nei dintorni. Una curiosità rispetto al film riguarda appunto l’ambientazione. Francesizzato il nome de L’Aquila che nella pellicola diventa Aguillon, in realtà la maggior parte è stato girato in Italia. Oltre a Torrechiara, c’è Castell’Arquato sempre in Emilia-Romagna, Campo Imperatore e Rocca Calascio in Abbruzzo, Soncino in Lombardia, Misurina in Veneto. Inoltre l’interno di San Pietro a Tuscania (Viterbo) è stata ricostruita a Cinecittà. Ladyhawke narra la storia di un sortilegio e di un amore. Il un borgo del Medioevo francese, un malvagio vescovo si invaghisce di Isabeau, la fidanzata del capitano Navarre e colpisce la coppia con una maledizione. Di giorno lei si trasforma in un falco mentre lui di notte, diventa un lupo. Un ladro evaso dalle segrete, insieme ad un vecchio frate aiuteranno la coppia a rompere l’incantesimo. L’atmosfera magica del castello di Torrechiara compare però anche in altre pellicole, come ad esempio quella di Bertolucci del 1981, La tragedia di un uomo ridicolo o nella più recente serie televisiva del 2014, i Borgia di Tom Fontana. E poi, la miniserie televisiva La certosa di Parma di Cinzia Th Torrini e in televisione in una puntata del programma Ulisse – il piacere della scoperta nella puntata dedicata ai Castelli nel tempo. Castello di Torrechiara: la leggenda Come ogni costruzione storica e misteriosa che si rispetti, anche questo maniero ha la sua leggenda. Ovviamente legata ad una storia d’amore, sembra infatti che il fantasma del conte Pier Maria Rossi si aggiri per il castello, ritornando spesso sul Rio delle favole, la strada che conduce alla fortezza, pronunciando una frase, un motto, dedicato all’amata Bianca: “nunc et semper”, ora e sempre. Le stesse parole riportate anche nella Camera d’Oro. Il borgo di Torrechiara Il delizioso borgo di Torrechiara offre altri siti da visitare oltre il castello. Ci sono infatti la Badia di Santa Maria della Neve, luogo sacro, restaurato negli anni’70 che conserva un dipinto quattrocentesco attribuito al pittore Francesco Tacconi, parliamo della “Madonna col trono col Bambino”. Affreschi di varie epoche sulle pareti e un laboratorio apistico utilizzato dai monaci per la produzione di creme, unguenti e tisane. C’è poi la Chiesa di San Lorenzo, in origine in stile romanico, resa barocca nel XVIII secolo. Oltre alla visita a luoghi di interesse artistico, escursioni sulle colline, nelle cittadine intorno e itinerari lungo gli splendidi vigneti, dove regalarsi altri panorami incredibili ma anche una coccola culinaria: il prosciutto, il parmigiano reggiano e molto altro. Per organizzare bene un’eventuale gita in questi luoghi o un weekend insolito, vi segnaliamo l’orario. Castello Torrechiara orari Aprile, maggio, giugno, settembre, ottobre: feriali 8.10-13.50, domenica e festivi 10.00-19.00. Luglio e agosto: feriali 8.10-13.50, domenica e festivi 10.00-16.00. Dal 1 novembre, il castello osserverà i seguenti orari: feriale dalle 8.10 alle 13.50, domenica e festivi dalle 10.00 alle 16.00. La cassa chiude 30 minuti prima. La prima domenica del mese è gratuita come per gli altri siti grazie all’iniziativa ministeriale #iovadoalmuseo. Una fortificazione con finalità difensiva ma ricca anche dell’eleganza residenziale. Proprio Pier Maria Rossi scelse le parole “altiera et felice” per l’iscrizione del Castello di Torrechiara. Il Castello di Torrechiara è il posto ideale per trascorrere un weekend insolito e scoprire la magica leggenda che ispirò il celebre film LadyHawke.

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Born in this Day ...

(In Loving Memory to..) (in 🇮🇹 & 🇬🇧)

Laura Antonelli (as Laura Antonaz)

(28 November 1941 – 22 June 2015) was an film actress, who appeared in 45 films between 1965 and 1991)

🇮🇹 Laura Antonelli, pseudonimo di Laura Antonaz (Pola, 28 novembre 1941 – Ladispoli, 22 giugno 2015)

... Raggiunse l'apice del successo negli anni 1970 e 1980 percorrendo diversi generi cinematografici, dalla commedia leggera erotica al dramma, al cinema d'evasione e al film d'autore. Ottenne notorietà e successo come protagonista sensuale nel film cult Malizia di Salvatore Samperi.

Dopo aver girato alcuni Caroselli per la Coca Cola e posato per numerosi fotoromanzi diffusi anche all'estero, la Antonelli esordì nel cinema con piccoli ruoli in vari film, a cominciare da Il magnifico cornuto di Antonio Pietrangeli del 1964 e Le sedicenni di Luigi Petrini del 1965.

La prima parte recitativa importante le venne offerta nel 1969 dal regista Massimo Dallamano che la selezionò come protagonista di Venere in pelliccia, film ispirato al romanzo di Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, ma l'occasione sfumò per via dell'applicazione di una severa censura che bloccò l'uscita del film, che verrà riproposto sei anni più tardi con il titolo Le malizie di Venere.

La vera notorietà e il successo vennero nel 1971 quando la Antonelli recitò la parte della moglie del violoncellista ne Il merlo maschio, il primo di molti film erotici in cui l'attrice lavorò, interpretato al fianco di Lando Buzzanca e diretto da Pasquale Festa Campanile.

Nel 1973 interpretò il ruolo di una sensuale cameriera in Malizia di Salvatore Samperi, accanto a Turi Ferro ed al giovane Alessandro Momo. Il film, che incassò la cifra di 6 miliardi di lire, divenne un vero cult movie, entrando nell'immaginario erotico degli spettatori e innalzando l'attrice a "icona sexy" italiana: con la sua partecipazione al film la Antonelli ottenne il Nastro d'argento alla migliore attrice protagonista, conferitole dal Sindacato nazionale giornalisti cinematografici italiani e il Globo d'oro alla miglior attrice rivelazione, premio della stampa estera.

Per Laura Antonelli si spalancarono quindi le porte della notorietà e della ricchezza con un cachet che passò da 4 a 100 milioni di lire per film[4].

In seguito la Antonelli alternò interpretazioni in film d'autore come Trappola per un lupo di Claude Chabrol, sul cui set conobbe Jean-Paul Belmondo con il quale ebbe una travagliata relazione, Sessomatto di Dino Risi e Mio Dio, come sono caduta in basso! di Luigi Comencini (per il quale vinse un secondo Globo d'oro), a film interamente scritti per la sua figura di attrice come Peccato veniale, sempre di Salvatore Samperi, o Divina creatura di Giuseppe Patroni Griffi nel quale la Antonelli interpretò una scena di nudo integrale della durata di ben sette minuti, un vero record per l'epoca.

Dal 1976 lavorò con registi che disvelarono il lato personale dell'attrice fino ad allora nascosto dalla sua prorompente fisicità: si ricordino L'innocente di Luchino Visconti, nel 1977, Gran bollito di Mauro Bolognini e Passione d'amore di Ettore Scola del 1981, per il quale ricevette una candidatura al David di Donatello per la migliore attrice non protagonista.

In seguito la Antonelli lavorò principalmente in commedie come Il Malato immaginario e L'Avaro, entrambi di Tonino Cervi con Alberto Sordi protagonista alternando altre interpretazioni nel filone erotico, sempre diretta da Samperi, in Casta e pura (1981), al fianco di Massimo Ranieri.

Per tutti gli anni 1980 lavorò in pellicole comiche o erotiche: fu insieme ad altri attori famosi nel cast di Grandi magazzini di Castellano e Pipolo e al fianco di Diego Abatantuono in Viuuulentemente mia di Carlo Vanzina. Nel 1985 interpretò La Venexiana, pellicola ispirata all'omonima commedia del '500, accanto a Monica Guerritore e al figlio dell'attore scozzese Sean Connery, Jason. Sul finire del decennio approdò sul piccolo schermo con due miniserie televisive che riscossero un discreto gradimento del pubblico: Gli indifferenti (1988) e Disperatamente Giulia (1989), dirette rispettivamente da Mauro Bolognini ed Enrico Maria Salerno.

🇬🇧 Antonelli's earliest engagements included Italian advertisements for Coca-Cola. In 1965, she made her first feature-film appearance in Le sedicenni, although her performance went uncredited.

Her American debut came in 1966 in Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs. Other roles followed; her breakthrough came in 1973's Malizia. She appeared in a number of sex farces such as Till Marriage Do Us Part/Mio Dio come sono caduta in basso!.

She worked in more serious films, as well, including Luchino Visconti's last film, The Innocent (1976). In Wifemistress, a romance film of 1977, she played a repressed wife experiencing a sexual awakening. Later, she appeared in Passione d'Amore (1981). Antonelli's most recent role was in the sequel Malizia 2000 (1991). She won the Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists Award, Nastro d'Argento, in 1974 for Malizia.

From 1972 to 1980, Antonelli was the companion of actor Jean-Paul Belmondo. Before her relationship with Belmondo, Enrico Piacentini, a publisher, and she were divorced.