Terry Moore (comics)
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Terry Moore is a comic book author, graphic novelist and illustrator. He created the popular series Strangers in Paradise, and was involved in the founding of Homage Comics.
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[edit] Biography
Following the examples of independent comic creators such as Dave Sim and Jeff Smith, he decided to publish Strangers in Paradise himself through his own Houston-based "Abstract Studios" imprint, and has frequently mentioned a desire to do a syndicated cartoon strip in the authors notes at the back of the Strangers in Paradise collection books. He has also mentioned his greatest career influence is Peanuts' Charles Schulz.[1] Some of Moore's strip work can additionally be found in his Paradise, Too! publications.
His work has won him recognition in the comics industry, including receiving the Eisner Award for Best Serialized Story in 1996 for Strangers in Paradise #1-8, which was collected in the trade paperback "I Dream of You".
It was announced on June 15th, 2007 that Moore would be taking over for Sean McKeever as writer of Marvel Comics's Spider-Man Loves Mary Jane series starting with a new issue #1. On July 27th, Marvel announced that Moore would also take over for Joss Whedon as writer of Marvel's Runaways.[2]
On November 19th, 2007 Terry Moore announced in his blog that his new self-published series would be named Echo and its first issue would appear on March 5th, 2008.[3]
[edit] Bibliography
- Strangers in Paradise
- Paradise, Too!
- Lady Supreme #1-2
- Birds of Prey #47-49
- Ultimate Marvel Team-Up #14
- Negative Burn
- DC First: Batgirl/Joker #1
- The Darkness/Vampirella
- Echo
- Spider-Man Loves Mary Jane
- Runaways
[edit] Notes
- ^ IGN: Dirty Dozen Starring Terry Moore
- ^ Rogers, Vaneta (2007-07-27). "SDCC '07: TERRY MOORE/HUMBERTO RAMOS NEXT RUNAWAYS TEAM". Newsarama. http://forum.newsarama.com/showthread.php?t=122838. Retrieved on 2007-07-27.
- ^ Terry Moore » Blog Archive » First look at new series!
[edit] External links
- The Strangers in Paradise Website
- Interview with The Comics Journal
- Baker's Dozen with Terry Moore
- Terry Moore's Blog
- In depth interview with Terry Moore on SiP and Echo
- Audio discussion with Terry Moore about the first Stranger's Pocket Book edition
- Audio discussion with Terry Moore about the second Stranger's Pocket Book edition
- Audio discussion with Terry Moore about the third Stranger's Pocket Book edition
| Preceded by Chuck Dixon |
Birds of Prey writer 2002 |
Succeeded by Gilbert Hernandez |
| Preceded by Joss Whedon |
Runaways writer 2008–2009 |
Succeeded by Kathryn Immonen |
