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Jim Starlin
Born James P Starlin, October 9th, 1949, in Detroit Michigan. Educated in a Parochial (Catholic)
grade school and public high school. Served in the U.S. Navy, 1968-71, as a photographers mate.
Started at Marvel Comics in 1972, and have been working on and off with comics ever since.
Works include Amazing Spiderman, Batman, 'Breed, Captain Marvel, Cosmic Odyssey, Daredevil/Black Widow:
Abatoir, Doctor Strange, Dreadstar, Gilgamesh II, Hardcore Station, Infinity Abyss, Infinity Crusade,
Infinity Gauntlet/War, Ironman, Master of Kung Fu, Silver Surfer, Thanos Quest, The End of the Marvel
Universe, Warlock and the Infinity Watch, Warlock and Wyrd: The Reluctant Warrior.
Also co-wrote four novels with Diana Graziunas: Among Madmen, Lady El, Pawns (serialized in Dreadstar)
and Thinning the Predators.
Co-founder of Electric Prism, a software design, new media company in Woodstock, NY.
For more info about Jim Starlin's career:
Jim Starlin's Wekipedia page
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| Don Simpson
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Don Simpson
Megaton Man #1 detonated on the scene in December 1984, and forty years later,
Don Simpson is still best known as the creator of that satirical superhero series
published by Kitchen Sink Press and Image Comics.
Don is also creator of the science fiction saga Border Worlds
(collected by Dover in 2017), Bizarre Heroes, a universe of characters surrounding
the cast of Megaton Man self-published under Don’s Fiasco Comics imprint.
and Marvel’s one-shot CRAZY! reboot (2019). A veteran of the 80s-90s indy movement,
Don worked for every major comic book imprint in the late twentieth century including
Mirage Studios (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles), Image Comics (Splitting Image,
The Savage Dragon vs. Megaton Man, The normalman-Megaton Man Special, 1963),
Fantagraphics (King Kong), and DC (Wasteland, Flash Annual, Secret Origins, Action Comics Weekly).
More recently, Don has been authoring his weekly prose novel, The Ms. Megaton Man Maxi-Series.
More recently, Don teamed up with William Messner Loebs, Jason Moore, and
Tom Orzechowski on Victory Folks—The Golden Age Public Domain Supergroup.
2025 will see the release of The Complete Megaton Man Universe Volume I:
The 1980s (Fantagraphics Underground), including all the Kitchen Sink Press
Megaton Man comics, and Megaton Man: Multimensions (Cosmic Lion Productions),
an anthology of indy creators’ interpretations of and IP crossovers with Don’s creations.
For more info about Don Simpson's career:
Don Simpson's blogspot page
Don Simpson's interview at Fingerlakes Con
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Howard Chaykin
Howard started his career as Gil Kane's assistant, He was doing [the early graphic novel] Blackmark.
He learned a lot from watching Gil work.
In the early 70's he worked with quite a few established professionals and even did some work for Marvel.
He also did some stories for DC, mostly sci-fi and romance comics.
Moving to Marvel Comics, he began work as co-artist with Neal Adams on the first Killraven story in 1973.
After this, Howard was given various adventure strips to draw for Marvel, including his own creation,
Dominic Fortune now in the pages of Marvel Preview.In 1978, he wrote and drew his Cody Starbuck creation
for the anthology title Star Reach, one of the first independent titles of the 1970s.
In 1976, Howard landed the job of drawing the Marvel Comics adaptation of the first Star Wars film.
This proved successful for Marvel, but Chaykin left after ten issues.
Howard penciled DC Comics' first miniseries, The World of Krypton (July–September 1979).
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Howard
had a six-issue run on Marvel's
Micronauts series and drew issues #13 (Jan. 1980) to #18 (June 1980).In 1983, Howard launched American Flagg!
for First Comics. He was both writer and artist, the series was successful for First and proved highly influential,
mixing all of Howards previous ideas and interests — jazz, pulp adventure, science fiction and sex.
After the first 26 issues of American Flagg!, Howard started work on new projects.
Howards involvement in his original run of the series was that of writer for 29 issues, interior artist
for issues #1–12 and 14–26, and cover artist for issues #1–33.
He returned to full art and writing duties for the American Flagg! Special one-shot in 1986. In 1987,
a four-issue run was released.
The first new project was a revamp of The Shadow in a four-issue miniseries for DC Comics in 1986. Rather than setting the series in
its traditional 1930s milieu, Howard updated it to a contemporary setting and included his own style of extreme violence.
Howard revamped another DC Comics character: Blackhawk was a three-issue mini-series that gave Howard another
chance to indulge in the 1930s milieu, proving itself another successful revamping of a defunct DC character..
Chaykin's cover for Star Reach #1 (April 1974).
In 1988, Howard created perhaps his most controversial title: Black Kiss,
a 12-issue series published by Vortex Comics which contained his most
explicit depictions of sex and violence yet. Telling the story of sex-obsessed vampires in Hollywood,
Black Kiss pushed the boundaries of what could
be shown in mainstream comics. Even though Black Kiss shipped sealed in an "adults only" clear plastic bag,
its content drew much criticism.
This did not stop it from selling well enough for Howard to describe it as "probably, on a per-page basis,
the most profitable book I've ever done.".
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In the 90's Howard returned to DC to write a three-issue prestige format mini-series called Twilight,
This was another radical revamp of DC characters—this time, DC’s science fiction heroes from the 1950s
and 1960s, such as Tommy Tomorrow and Space Cabby. This was followed with the Ironwolf:
Fires of the Revolution graphic novel in 1992. Howard then co-created/designed Firearm for Malibu Comics in 1993.
This was followed by the four-issue miniseries Power and Glory in 1994, a superhero-themed PR
satire for Malibu Comics' creator-owned Bravura imprint.
by the 2000's, Howard began co-writing American Century with David Tischmann for Vertigo. This story,
set in post-war America, would be a pulp-adventure strip inspired by the likes of Terry and the
Pirates as well as the EC Comics war stories created by Harvey Kurtzman.
His next work was Mighty Love, a 96-page original graphic novel published in 2004 and described as
"You’ve Got Mail with super-powers".
This was acclaimed as a return to the type of work he did on American Flagg! and contained his
first art in a title since the early 1990s.
Howard helped to revamp the Challengers of the Unknown in a six-issue mini-series for DC,
as well as writing a mini-series about gangster vampires called Bite Club for Vertigo.
Howard continues to be involved in many Comic related projects.
Howard serves on the Disbursement Committee of the comic-book industry charity The Hero Initiative.
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