Alien Encounters

Alien Encounters

Cover to the Alien Encounters issue 1, published by Eclipse Comics in June 1985. Art by Joe Chiodo.
Publication information
Publisher FantaCo Enterprises[1]
Eclipse Comics[2]
Format Ongoing anthology while in publication.
Genre Science fiction
Publication date FantaCo, 1981
Eclipse, June 1985 - August 1987
Number of issues 15 in total
Editor(s) Catherine Yronwode

Alien Encounters is a science fiction anthology comic book published by FantaCo Enterprises and then Eclipse Comics. The comic debuted with FantaCo in 1981, and in 1985 was revived by Eclipse, where (starting over from issue 1) it ran for fourteen issues until 1987.[3] [4] Eclipse began publishing the title soon after the cancellation of Alien Worlds, a similar science-fiction themed anthology.

Contents

Publication history

Several noteworthy creators worked on the series, including Stephen R. Bissette,[5] John Bolton, joe Chiodo, Richard Corben, Howard Cruse, Chuck Dixon, Rick Geary, Bruce Jones, David Lloyd, David Mazzucchelli, Gray Morrow, Timothy Truman, Thomas Yeates, and Mike Zeck.[2][3]

Catherine Yronwode edited Alien Encounters for Eclipse, which was noted for its racy, pulp magazine-inspired covers, and was sometimes criticized for featuring gratuitous nude scenes.[2]

Other media

The story "Nada" from Alien Encounters #6 served as partial inspiration for the 1988 John Carpenter film They Live.[6]

References

  1. ^ "The Comics journal". The Comics journal (Comics Journal, Inc.): 58. 1981. http://books.google.com/?id=PeVUAAAAMAAJ&q=Alien+Encounters%2BFantaCo&dq=Alien+Encounters%2BFantaCo. 
  2. ^ a b c "Background of Alien Encounters #01-14". peb.pl. http://peb.pl/komiksy/509763-mf-alien-encounters.html. Retrieved 2009-04-19. 
  3. ^ a b "Eclipse Comics Index; Letter A". http://www.luckymojo.com/comicswarehousea.html. Retrieved April 20, 2009. 
  4. ^ "Michigan State University Libraries Special Collections Division". lib.msu.edu. Michigan State University. http://www.lib.msu.edu/comics/rri/arri/alic.htm. Retrieved 2009-04-19. 
  5. ^ Ash, Roger A. (August 1996). "Stephen R. Bissette Interview". westfieldcomics.com. http://westfieldcomics.com/wow/low/low_int_013.html. Retrieved 2009-04-19. 
  6. ^ Swires, Steve (November 1988). "John Carpenter and the Invasion of the Yuppie Snatchers". Starlog. pp. 37–40; 43. 

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