Encyclopedia of Comic Books and Graphic Novels

GIBBONS, DAVE 257 photo of the graffi ti in her album, and, at the beginning of one chapter, Enid utters the phrase “Ghost World ...

258 GIBBONS, DAVE he drew for diff erent pieces for the two major British periodi- cal publishers, DC Th omson and IPC. In 1977, ...

GIRAUD, JEAN (GIR, MOEBIUS) 259 and hover-scooters in a dark but not completely dystopian future. Gibbons would also be a source ...

260 GLOECKNER, PHOEBE ( Cauchemar Blanc and Blueberry ) were adapted into fi lms. Giraud/Moebius has been working in recent year ...

GOTHAM BY GASLIGHT 261 Gloeckner attended the University of Texas in Dallas, where she studied medical illustration, which has b ...

262 GOTHAM BY GASLIGHT of the Future , and a 2008 spin-off , Countdown Presents the Search for Ray Palmer: Gotham by Gaslight , ...

GRAPHIC CLASSICS 263 killer who married and later poisoned several rich older ladies for their money. His failed suicide attempt ...

264 GRAPHIC CLASSICS and 1950s. Editor, publisher and creator of Graphic Classics , Tom Pomplun began toying with the idea of pu ...

GREEN ARROW 265 corresponds well with the protagonist’s larger-than-life persona within the actual story. Th us, Atkinson simult ...

266 GREEN ARROW a back-up feature. Mort Weisinger wrote the majority of these stories; however, Jack Kirby (who contributed the ...

GREEN LANTERN 267 mantle with his son. Later writers, including most recently Judd Winick, have contin- ued providing Green Arro ...

268 GREEN LANTERN issue #16 of All-American Comics in an eight-page original story. Afterwards, he received his own starring rol ...

GRENDEL 269 experiment in adult content in a mainstream comic book title ended with issue #90 in April–May of 1972. After the tu ...

270 GRENDEL a Kabuki vampire who has stolen her son. Brian Le Sung, stage manager for the kabuki troupe, who believed himself po ...

GROO THE WANDERER 271 Hunter Rose Grendel and Batman. Th e sole reason Rose undertakes his crime wave in Gotham is simply to see ...

272 GROO THE WANDERER Epic Comics. Aragonés transferred the series to Epic, where it became perhaps the fi rst creator-owned tit ...

GRUENWALD, MARK 273 such compositions while still meeting deadlines because of his legendary speed. Evanier calls him the world’ ...

274 GRUENWALD, MARK the future of the comics industry. Gruenwald was perhaps best-known for his focus on continuity (the existin ...

H HARVEY AWARDS. Named for pioneering artist-writer Harvey Kurtzman and administered by the publisher Fantagraphics , the Harvey ...

276 HEAVY METAL mainstream comics were obsessed with superhero stories, French-language comics featured fantasy, science-fi ctio ...