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FX (comics)
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FX is a six-issue comic book
limited series
written by creator Wayne Osborne and drawn by John Byrne. It's published by IDW Publishing
. The series was the result of a life-long comics fan living his dream by hiring a professional artist to bring his creation to life.
where the story is plotted, the art is drawn and then the script finalised because, as Byrne says, "that eliminated about 90% of the mistakes newbie writers make." A follow up series, FX: The Lost Land was released as a graphic novel in December, 2010 with art by Uko Smith.
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Comic book
A comic book or comicbook is a magazine made up of comics, narrative artwork in the form of separate panels that represent individual scenes, often accompanied by dialog as well as including...
limited series
Limited series
A limited series is a comic book series with a set number of installments. A limited series differs from an ongoing series in that the number of issues is determined before production and it differs from a one shot in that it is composed of multiple issues....
written by creator Wayne Osborne and drawn by John Byrne. It's published by IDW Publishing
IDW Publishing
IDW Publishing, also known as Idea + Design Works, LLC and IDW, is an American publisher of comic books and comic strip collections. The company was founded in 1999 and has been awarded the title "Publisher of the Year Under 5% Market Share" for the years 2004, 2005 and 2006 by Diamond Comic...
. The series was the result of a life-long comics fan living his dream by hiring a professional artist to bring his creation to life.
Publication history
FX was a fan-commissioned series, John Byrne made it known on his message board that he was open to full-comic commissions, at a cost of $20,000 an issue, and Osborne took him up on it, even though this was his first comic book. The production was done using the Marvel MethodMarvel Method
The Marvel Method is a form of comic book writer-artist collaboration in which the artist works from a story synopsis, rather than a full script, creating page-by-page plot details on his or her own...
where the story is plotted, the art is drawn and then the script finalised because, as Byrne says, "that eliminated about 90% of the mistakes newbie writers make." A follow up series, FX: The Lost Land was released as a graphic novel in December, 2010 with art by Uko Smith.
Collected editions
The series has been collected as a trade paperbackTrade paperback (comics)
In comics, a trade paperback is a collection of stories originally published in comic books, reprinted in book format, usually capturing one story arc from a single title or a series of stories with a connected story arc or common theme from one or more titles...
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- FX (152 pages November 2008, ISBN 1600102743)
External links
- FX #1 Review - Strangest Comic Out There?, Comics Should Be Good!, Comic Book ResourcesComic Book ResourcesComic Book Resources, also known as CBR is a website dedicated to the coverage of comic book-related news and discussion.-History:Comic Book Resources was founded by Jonah Weiland in 1996 as a development of the Kingdom Come Message Board, a message forum that Weiland had created to discuss DC...
- FX #1 review, Broken Frontier