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Dc: The New Frontier is a six-issue comic book limited series written and drawn by the great Darwyn Cooke, published by DC Comics in 2004.
The story, which was set in the 1950s, featured dozens of super-hero characters and drew inspiration from the comic books and movies of the period as well as from Tom Wolfe's non-fiction account of the start of the U.S. space program The Right Stuff.
Since its release, the series won the Eisner Award for Best Limited Series, Best Coloring, and Best Publication Design.
It also won the Harvey Award for Best Artist, Best Colorist, and Best Continuing or Limited Series.
In addition, it received the Shuster Award for Outstanding Canadian Comic Book Cartoonist (Writer/Artist).
In 2007, when the series was released as an Absolute Edition, the series gained another Eisner and Harvey Award for Best Graphic Album (Reprint) from Eisner, and Best Graphic Album of Previously Published Work from Harvey.
Dc: The New Frontier is a six-issue comic book limited series written and drawn by the great Darwyn Cooke, published by DC Comics in 2004.
The story, which was set in the 1950s, featured dozens of super-hero characters and drew inspiration from the comic books and movies of the period as well as from Tom Wolfe's non-fiction account of the start of the U.S. space program The Right Stuff.
Since its release, the series won the Eisner Award for Best Limited Series, Best Coloring, and Best Publication Design.
It also won the Harvey Award for Best Artist, Best Colorist, and Best Continuing or Limited Series.
In addition, it received the Shuster Award for Outstanding Canadian Comic Book Cartoonist (Writer/Artist).
In 2007, when the series was released as an Absolute Edition, the series gained another Eisner and Harvey Award for Best Graphic Album (Reprint) from Eisner, and Best Graphic Album of Previously Published Work from Harvey.
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The Challengers plane explodes in dramatic fashion and Cooke shows you the inside of the ship as it blows.
One of the greatest DPS (if not the only one, I have to recheck) in the books that made Darwyn Cooke part of the Hall of Fame of Comic book artists.
One of the greatest DPS (if not the only one, I have to recheck) in the books that made Darwyn Cooke part of the Hall of Fame of Comic book artists.
Publications
- The brave and the bold
- Dc Comics
- 05/2004
- Page 4-5
- Absolute New Frontier
- Dc Comics
- 08/2006
- Interior page
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- Volume 1
- Dc Comics
- 12/2004
- Interior page
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See also:
DC: The New Frontier
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About Darwyn Cooke
Darwyn Cooke is a Canadian comic book artist and writer who came to prominence in 2004 with The New Frontier, a six-issue miniseries that immerses readers in the golden age of comics in the DC universe.
