Ectokid #1 (Sept. 1993). Cover art by Steve Skroce. Steve Skroce is a Canadian Comic book and movie Storyboard Artist.

Ectokid is a fantasy comic book series published by Marvel Comics' Razorline imprint, created by filmmaker and horror/fantasy novelist Clive Barker. Fantasy is a Genre that uses magic and other Supernatural forms as a primary element of plot, theme, and/or setting A comic book (often shortened to simply comic and sometimes called a comic paper or comic magazine) is a Magazine or Book of narrative Marvel Comics is an American comic book company owned by Marvel Publishing Inc Razorline was an Imprint of American Comic book company Marvel Comics that ran from 1993-1995 In the Publishing Industry, an imprint can refer to two different things It can mean a Brand name under which a work is published Horror fiction is broadly Fiction in any medium intended to scare unsettle or horrify the audience Fantasy is a Genre that uses magic and other Supernatural forms as a primary element of plot, theme, and/or setting Clive Barker (born 5 October 1952) is an English author film director and visual artist

Publication history

Ectokid ran nine issues (Sept. 1993 - May 1994) before being discontinued with the rest of the Razorline titles. The art for all nine issues was by penciller Steve Skroce and inker Bob Dvorak. A penciller (or penciler) is one of a number of types of Artists working within the Comic book industry Steve Skroce is a Canadian Comic book and movie Storyboard Artist. The inker is one of the two line artists in a traditional Comic book, or Graphic novel. The writing was split between James Robinson (issues #1-3) and Larry Wachowski (issues #3-9), future co-creator of The Matrix film trilogy. Biography Andy and Larry Wachowski were born to a Polish-American family in Chicago. The Matrix is a 1999 science fiction - martial arts - Action film written and directed by Larry and Andy Wachowski and Although uncredited, Wachowski's brother and filmmaking partner Andy Wachowski co-wrote with him. Biography Andy and Larry Wachowski were born to a Polish-American family in Chicago. ^[1]

Though carrying the Comics Code seal, Ectokid and the other Razorline titles were often racked with horror and unrated comics, a factor that entered into the imprint's demise. The Comics Code Authority ( CCA) is part of the Comics Magazine Association of America (CMAA and was created to regulate the content of comic books in the United A subsequent one-shot, Ektokid Unleashed (Oct. 1994), was written by Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning, with artwork by penciler Hector Gomez and inker John Strangeland. Dan Abnett (born October 12, 1965) is a British Comic book writer and Novelist. Andy Lanning is a British Comic book Writer and Inker, known for his work for Marvel Comics and DC Comics, and for his It included a prose short story starring another Razorline character, Saint Sinner, written by Elaine Lee. Saint Sinner is a horror / Fantasy Comic book published by Marvel Comics as a part of the Razorline Imprint. (A different actor named Elaine Lee appears in a cameo in Serenity; there is also a South African born Australian based actor named

Fictional character biography

Ectokid is centered around 14-year-old Dextor Mungo, whose father was a ghost. Dex, as he's called, sees the world as it normally is through his right eye, but through his left he can see into the Ectosphere, a dimension similar to Earth but with a number of crucial differences. All the regular-Earth buildings are in the same places, but have a crusted and coral-covered appearance, and this world is populated by creatures and races out of myths, legends and nightmares.

As Barker described, "Ectokid, which is perhaps the second weirdest of the bunch, is a kind of dream story for the 15-year-old that's still alive to me — the tale of an adolescent who lives in two worlds and has access to a whole other sphere of reality". ^[2]

Footnotes

References

• Independent Heroes from the USA: Clive Barker's Razorline
• CliveBarker.com (fan site): Ectokid
• Lambiek Comiclopedia: Steve Skroce
• The Grand Comic Book Database
• The Unofficial Handbok of Marvel Comics Creators