Daniel Merlin Goodbrey
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Daniel Merlin Goodbrey is an English writer and online pioneer known for his work in webcomics and the British small press
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He is the inventor of the Tarquin engine, a flash script for creating online webcomics. Understanding Comics
creator Scott McCloud
has used the Tarquin engine for the creation of some of his comics. He is considered a webcomics pioneer.
His recent works include Iron Man 2020
for Marvel Comics
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Goodbrey currently lives in St Albans
where he lectures at the local university.
British small press comics
British small press comics, once known as stripzines, are comic books self-published by amateur cartoonists and comic book creators, usually in short print runs, in the UK. A "small press comic" is essentially a zine composed predominantly of comic strips. The term emerged in the early 1980s to...
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Biography
Goodbrey became well known as a contributor to Women in RefrigeratorsWomen in Refrigerators
Women in Refrigerators is a website that was created in 1999 by a group of comic book fans. The website features a list of female comic book characters that had been injured, killed, or depowered as a plot device within various superhero comic books...
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He is the inventor of the Tarquin engine, a flash script for creating online webcomics. Understanding Comics
Understanding Comics
Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art is a 215-page non-fiction comic book, written and drawn by Scott McCloud and originally published in 1993. It explores the definition of comics, the historical development of the medium, its fundamental vocabulary, and various ways in which these elements...
creator Scott McCloud
Scott McCloud
Scott McCloud is an American cartoonist and theorist on comics as a distinct literary and artistic medium...
has used the Tarquin engine for the creation of some of his comics. He is considered a webcomics pioneer.
His recent works include Iron Man 2020
Iron Man 2020
Iron Man 2020 is a fictional supervillain. He is the counterpart of the superhero Iron Man in the future year of 2020 in the Marvel Comics multiverse...
for Marvel Comics
Marvel Comics
Marvel Worldwide, Inc., commonly referred to as Marvel Comics and formerly Marvel Publishing, Inc. and Marvel Comics Group, is an American company that publishes comic books and related media...
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Goodbrey currently lives in St Albans
St Albans
St Albans is a city in southern Hertfordshire, England, around north of central London, which forms the main urban area of the City and District of St Albans. It is a historic market town, and is now a sought-after dormitory town within the London commuter belt...
where he lectures at the local university.
Awards
- Isotope Award for Excellence in mini-comics in 2004
- Isotope Award for Excellence in 2005 for 'The Last Sane Cowboy'
External links
- Daniel Merlin Goodbrey at Comic Vine