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14 February 2012 3:15 PM, PST | SneakPeek | See recent SneakPeek news »

Sneak Peek Dark Horse Comics' contribution to Valentine's Day in a series of cards, using comic book covers.

Dark Horse Comics, established in 1986 is noted as the largest independent comic book/manga publisher in the Us, started by founder Mike Richardson in Milwaukie, Oregon, to establish a creative environment for comic book writers and illustrators.

Richardson started out by opening his first comic book store, "Pegasus Books", in Bend, Oregon, in 1980.

From there he was able to use the funds from his retail operation to start his own publishing company.

Films produced adapting Dark Horse Comics include "The Mask", "Timecop", "Barb Wire", "Mystery Men", "Virus", "Alien vs. Predator", "Hellboy", "Sin City", "Son of the Mask", "Hellboy: Sword of Storms", "300", "Hellboy: Blood and Iron", "Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem", "Hellboy II: The Golden Army", "El Zombo Fantasma" and the upcoming "R.I.P.D." and "Beasts Of Burden" in 2013.

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- Michael Stevens

13 January 2012 4:49 AM, PST | Flickeringmyth | See recent Flickeringmyth news »

Trevor Hogg chats to the Academy Award-winning visual effects supervisor John Bruno...

“I met Ivan Reitman who said he could get money to do this movie Heavy Metal [1981],” recalls veteran American Visual Effects Supervisor John Bruno. “We setup a facility with Gerry Potterton in Montreal; there was a tax structure. I did Taarna. Gerry showed me how to do bottom light glows and laser beams. Richard Edlund came to Montreal to talk about Empire Strikes Back [1980] at the Canadian Film Board so we all went. I met him and I said I wanted to show him this movie. He said when you get something I’d be happy to look at it. We were finishing multiplane camera shots of Taarna flying on her bird through a giant skeleton into a power plant. I had these reels and I called Richard. I ran the footage for him and he asked if »

- flickeringmyth

2 items from 2012