Context: Image Comics is an American comic book publisher. It was founded in 1992 by several high-profile illustrators as a venue where comics creators could publish their material without giving up the copyrights to the characters they created, as creator-owned properties. It was immediately successful, and remains one of the largest comic book publishers in North America. Its output was originally dominated by superhero and fantasy series from the studios of the Image partners, but now includes comics in many genres by numerous independent creators. Its best-known series include "Spawn", "Savage Dragon", "Witchblade", "The Darkness", "Invincible", "The Walking Dead", "Saga", and "Chew"., Famous Funnies is an American publication of the 1930s that represents what popular culture historians consider the first true American comic book, following seminal precursors., A comic book or comicbook, also called comic magazine or simply comic, is a publication that consists of comic art in the form of sequential juxtaposed panels that represent individual scenes. Panels are often accompanied by brief descriptive prose and written narrative, usually dialog contained in word balloons emblematic of the comics art form. Although some origins in 18th century Japan and 1830s Europe, comic books were first popularized in the United States during the 1930s. The first modern comic book, "Famous Funnies", was released in the United States in 1933 and was a reprinting of earlier newspaper humor comic strips, which had established many of the story-telling devices used in comics. The term "comic book" derives from American comic books once being a compilation of comic strips of a humorous tone; however, this practice was replaced by featuring stories of all genres, usually not humorous in tone., Savage Dragon is an ongoing American comic book series created by Erik Larsen, published by Image Comics and taking place in the Image Universe. The comic features the adventures of a superheroic police officer named the Dragon. The character first appeared as Dragon in "Graphic Fantasy" #1 (June 1982) and first appeared as the "Savage Dragon" in "Megaton" #3 (February 1986)., A comic strip is a sequence of drawings arranged in interrelated panels to display brief humor or form a narrative, often serialized, with text in balloons and captions. Traditionally, throughout the 20th century and into the 21st, these have been published in newspapers and magazines, with horizontal strips printed in black-and-white in daily newspapers, while Sunday newspapers offered longer sequences in special color comics sections. With the development of the internet, they began to appear online as web comics.
There were more than 200 different comic strips and daily cartoon panels in American newspapers alone each day for most of the 20th century, for a total of at least 7,300,000 episodes., Jason Henderson (born 1971) is an American writer of computer games, novels and several comic book series., Witchblade was a comic book series published by Top Cow Productions, an imprint of Image Comics, which ran from November 1995 to October 2015. The series was created by Top Cow founder and owner Marc Silvestri, editor David Wohl, writer Brian Haberlin, and artist Michael Turner., An American comic book is a thin (typically 32-page) periodical containing primarily comics content., A graphic novel is a book made up of comics content. Although the word "novel" normally refers to long fictional works, the term "graphic novel" is applied broadly and includes fiction, non-fiction, and anthologized work. It is distinguished from the term "comic book", which is used for comics periodicals., IDW Publishing is an American publisher of comic books, graphic novels, art books and comic strip collections. The company was founded as the publishing division of Idea and Design Works, LLC (IDW) and is regularly recognized as the fourth-largest comic book publisher in the United States. The company is perhaps best known for its licensed comic book adaptations of movies and cartoons., Digital Webbing is an American comic book publishing company founded by Ed Dukeshire., Sword of Dracula is a horror comic book published by several American companies , including Image Comics , IDW Publishing , and Digital Webbing . The series focuses on a group of UN connected commandos called the Polidorium . The series is created by writer Jason Henderson and includes a round - robin group of artists , including Greg Scott , Terry Pallot , and James Fry ( as William Belk ) . Matt Webb colored one issue of the second volume . Covers were provided by Tony Harris and Greg Scott . In the series , vampires are allegories for terrorists , with Dracula presented as `` the Osama Bin Laden of vampires '' and a war criminal . The comic also gives Dracula more enhanced powers , including the ability to control human blood with his mind , and even make buildings and weapons out of `` bloodwood , '' or mind - controlled blood . In August 2004 , the comic featured Senator John Kerry in a flash - back to Vietnam , in which Kerry led a PT boat hunt for Dracula . In October and December 2004 , Sword of Dracula 's Ronnie Van Helsing appeared in a two - part Vampirella story drawn by Greg Scott . On March 7 , 2007 , a front page Wall Street Journal article cited `` Sword of Dracula '' comics . The Polidorium is apparently named after British writer John Polidori , whose short story `` The Vampyre '' is credited with launching the genre of vampire literature ., Subject: sword of dracula, Relation: instance_of, Options: (A) art (B) book (C) book series (D) century (E) character (F) color (G) comic (H) company (I) computer (J) division (K) dragon (L) editor (M) episodes (N) february (O) imprint (P) june (Q) newspaper (R) october (S) officer (T) page (U) police (V) publication (W) publishing (X) saga (Y) sequence (Z) series ([) superhero (\) term (]) text (^) word (_) work
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