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Titan Publishing Group is an independently owned British publishing company, established in 1981. It is based at offices in London's Bankside area. The books division has two main areas of publishing: film and television tie-ins, and cinema reference books; and graphic novels and comics references and art titles. The company is a division of Titan Entertainment Group, which also owns Titan Magazines. As of 2011, Titan Books' editorial director was Katy Wild.

Film and television[link]

Titan Books is a publisher of film, video game and TV tie-in books. As of 2011, the company publishes on average 30 to 40 such titles per year, across a range of formats from "making of" books to screenplays to TV companions and novels, and has a backlist reprint programme.

Comics[link]

Titan Books also publishes trade paperbacks and graphic novels in the UK. The company has a backlist of over 1,000 graphic novels. Its titles include such licensed characters and properties as Batman, Heroes, Nemi, Superman, the Vertigo comic-book title Sandman, The Simpsons, Star Wars, Tank Girl, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Transformers, Roy of the Rovers, and World of Warcraft.

Comic, art and fiction[link]

Titan Books’ range of fiction includes novelisations of such films as Terminator Salvation, Iron Man, The Dark Knight, and X-Files: I Want to Believe.

Titan also publishes coffee table books on animation, popular culture, collectibles and comic and fantasy art.

External links[link]

Children's literature portal

• Official website
• Titan Books at the Grand Comics Database
• Titan Books at the Comic Book DB

George Godley

George Albert Godley (31 October 1857 – 20 July 1941) was a police officer of the Metropolitan Police who was involved in the hunt for Jack the Ripper in 1888.^[1]

Born at East Grinstead in Sussex in 1857, Godley initially worked as a sawyer. He then joined the Metropolitan Police on 26 February 1877, and was assigned warrant number 61230.^[2] At the time of the Jack the Ripper murders in 1888 Godley was a Sergeant in London's J Division (Bethnal Green). He transferred to H Division (Whitechapel) where he assisted Inspector Frederick Abberline in the hunt for the killer. The Times of 12 November 1888 reported:

"Since the murders in Berner Street, St. Georges, and Mitre Square, Aldgate, on September 30th, Detective Inspectors Reid, Moore and Nairn, and Sergeants Thick, Godley, M'Carthy and Pearce have been constantly engaged, under the direction of Inspector Abberline (Scotland Yard), in prosecuting inquiries, but, unfortunately, up to the present time without any practical result. As an instance of the magnitude of their labours, each officer has had, on average, during the last six weeks to make some 30 separate inquiries weekly, and these have had to be made in different portions of the metropolis and suburbs. Since the two above-mentioned murders no fewer than 1,400 letters relating to the tragedies have been received by the police, and although the greater portion of these gratuitous communications were found to be of a trivial and even ridiculous character, still each one was thoroughly investigated. On Saturday (10th November) many more letters were received, and these are now being inquired into."^[3]

When Godley arrested poisoner George Chapman in 1903 the then retired Inspector Abberline allegedly said "You have caught Jack the Ripper at last" or similar words.^[1][4]

Godley retired on 20 January 1908 by which time he was an Inspector in K Division.^[2] He died in July 1941 aged 84.

His nephew was Sidney Frank Godley who won the Victoria Cross during World War I.

In fiction[link]

In the 1988 TV miniseries Jack the Ripper starring Michael Caine Godley was played by Lewis Collins^[5] and in the 2001 film From Hell starring Johnny Depp the character 'Peter Godley' played by Robbie Coltrane was based on George Godley.^[6]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Godley on the Casebook: Jack the Ripper website

Stanley Winston^[1] (April 7, 1946 – June 15, 2008) was an American visual effects supervisor, makeup artist, and film director. He was best known for his work in the Terminator series, the Jurassic Park series, Aliens, the Predator series, Iron Man, Edward Scissorhands, Avatar and Enthiran.^[2][3][4] He won four Academy Awards for his work.

Winston, a frequent collaborator with director James Cameron, owned several effects studios, including Stan Winston Digital. The established areas of expertise for Winston were in makeup, puppets and practical effects, but he had recently expanded his studio to encompass digital effects as well.

Career[link]

Stan Winston was born on April 7, 1946, in Arlington, Virginia, where he graduated from Washington-Lee High School in 1964. He studied painting and sculpture at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville from which he graduated in 1968. In 1969, after attending California State University, Long Beach, Winston moved to Hollywood to pursue a career as an actor. Struggling to find an acting job, he began a makeup apprenticeship at Walt Disney Studios.^[4]

1970s[link]

In 1972, Winston established his own company, Stan Winston Studio, and won an Emmy Award for his effects work on the telefilm Gargoyles. Over the next seven years, Winston continued to receive Emmy nominations for work on projects and won another for 1974's The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman. Winston also created the Wookiee costumes for the 1978 Star Wars Holiday Special.

1980s[link]

In 1982, Winston received his first Oscar nomination for Heartbeeps, by which time he had set up his own studio. However, his ground-breaking work with Rob Bottin on the science fiction horror classic The Thing that year brought him to prominence in Hollywood. Between then, he contributed some visual effects to Friday the 13th Part III, in which he made a slightly different head sculpt of Jason in an unused ending.

In 1983, Winston designed the Mr. Roboto facemask for the American rock group Styx.^[5]

In 1983 he also worked on a short-lived TV series Manimal, for which he created the panther and hawk transformation effects.

Winston reached a new level of fame in 1984 when James Cameron's The Terminator premiered. The movie was a surprise hit, and Winston's work in bringing the titular metallic killing machine to life led to many new projects and additional collaborations with Cameron. In fact, Winston won his first Oscar for Best Visual Effects in 1986 on James Cameron's next movie, Aliens.^[6]

Over the next few years, Winston and his company received more accolades for its work on many more Hollywood films, including Tim Burton's Edward Scissorhands, John McTiernan's Predator, Alien Nation, The Monster Squad, and Predator 2.

In 1988, Winston made his directorial debut with the horror movie Pumpkinhead, and won Best First Time Director at the Paris Film Festival. His next directing project was the child-friendly A Gnome Named Gnorm (1990), starring Anthony Michael Hall.

1990s[link]

James Cameron drafted Winston and his team once again in 1990, this time for the groundbreaking Terminator 2: Judgment Day. T2 premiered in the summer of 1991, and Winston's work on this box office hit won him two more Oscars for Best Makeup Effects and Best Visual Effects.

In 1992, he was nominated with yet another Tim Burton film, this time for Burton's superhero sequel, Batman Returns, where his effects on Danny DeVito as The Penguin, Michelle Pfeiffer as Catwoman, and in delivering Burton's general vision for what was an increasingly Gothic Gotham City earned him more recognition for his work ethic and loyalty to what was an intrinsic ability to bring different directors' ideas to life. It was particularly poignant because for Batman Returns, Winston had to follow on from Anton Furst's earlier work, and recreate change according to what Burton wanted to do differently the next time around.

Winston turned his attention from super villains and cyborgs to dinosaurs when Steven Spielberg enlisted his help to bring Michael Crichton's Jurassic Park to the cinema screen. In 1993, the movie became a blockbuster and Winston won another Oscar for Best Visual Effects.

In 1993, Winston, Cameron and ex-ILM General Manager Scott Ross co-founded Digital Domain, one of the foremost digital and visual effects studios in the world. In 1998, after the box office success of Titanic, Cameron and Winston severed their working relationship with the company and resigned from its board of directors.

Winston and his team continued to provide effects work for many more films and expanded their work into animatronics. Some of Winston's notable animatronics work can be found in The Ghost and the Darkness and T2 3-D: Battle Across Time, James Cameron's 3-D continuation of the Terminator series for the Universal Studios theme park. One of Winston's most ambitious animatronics projects was Steven Spielberg's AI: Artificial Intelligence, which earned Winston another Oscar nomination for Best Visual Effects.

In 1996, Winston directed and co-produced the longest and the most expensive music video of all time, Ghosts, which was based on an original concept of Michael Jackson and Stephen King. The long-form music video presented a number of never before seen visual effects, and promoted music from two consecutive Jackson albums, HIStory and Blood on the Dance Floor: HIStory in the Mix, which went on to become the biggest selling double-album by a solo artist and remix album of all time, respectively (20 million and 11 million).

2000s[link]

In 2001, Winston, together with Colleen Camp and Samuel Z. Arkoff's son, Lou Arkoff, produced a series of made-for-cable films for Cinemax and HBO. The five films, referred to as Creature Features, were inspired by the titles of AIP monster movies from the 1950s — i.e., Earth vs. the Spider (1958), How to Make a Monster (1958), Day the World Ended (1955), The She-Creature (1956), and Teenage Caveman (1958) — but had completely different plots.^[7]

In 2003, Stan Winston was invited by the Smithsonian Institution to speak about his life and career in a public presentation sponsored by The Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation. The presentation took place on November 15, 2003, at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History.^[8]

In 2004, he expressed great disappointment when director Paul W. S. Anderson did not come to him for the creature effects for Alien vs. Predator, seeing as how he designed the Predator and the Alien Queen. "They're like my children to me," he stated.^{[citation needed]}

Winston also worked on Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines.

At the time of his death, Winston was working on the sequel Terminator Salvation.^[9] According to reports, next for Stan Winston was Jurassic Park IV.^[10][11] Winston designed the original monsters that appeared in the Midway game The Suffering^[12] and its sequel, The Suffering: Ties That Bind. He was also helping with his old friend, film director James Cameron and his upcoming film Avatar.

Stan Winston Studio also took a part in the most expensive Indian/Tamil film ever made, Enthiran, which became a huge success in India and overseas as well.

Death[link]

Stan Winston died on June 15, 2008, in Malibu, California after suffering for seven years from multiple myeloma.^[2] A spokeswoman reported that he "died peacefully at home surrounded by family."^[3] Winston was with his wife and two children, actor Matt Winston and Debbie Winston. Arnold Schwarzenegger made a public speech about his death, and Jon Favreau dedicated his Spike TV Scream Award to him upon receiving the award for Best Sci-Fi Movie for Iron Man. Terminator Salvation starts and ends the credits with a dedication to him. His special effects still lives on through his studio Stan Winston Studios, now renamed Legacy Effects, continuing to work on films after his death such as Pandorum, G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, Avatar, Enthiran and Shutter Island thus continuing his legacy.

Collaborators[link]

Winston worked with the following directors on more than one film:

• Tim Burton (Edward Scissorhands, Batman Returns, Big Fish)
• James Cameron (The Terminator, Aliens, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Avatar)
• John Carpenter (The Thing, Starman)
• Dennis Dugan (The Benchwarmers, You Don't Mess with the Zohan)
• Jon Favreau (Zathura, Iron Man)
• Stephen Hopkins (Predator 2, The Ghost and the Darkness)
• Peter Hyams (The Relic, End of Days)
• Frank Marshall (Congo, Eight Below)
• Steven Spielberg (Jurassic Park, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, A.I., War of the Worlds, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull)
• Robert Zemeckis (Amazing Stories episode "Go to the Head of the Class", What Lies Beneath)

Academy Awards[link]

• 1982: Oscar Nomination For Best Makeup: Heartbeeps
• 1987: Won Oscar For Best Visual Effects: Aliens
• 1988: Oscar Nomination For Best Visual Effects: Predator
• 1991: Oscar Nomination For Best Makeup: Edward Scissorhands
• 1992: Won 2 Oscars – Best Visual Effects & Best Makeup: Terminator 2: Judgment Day
• 1993: Oscar Nomination For Best Makeup: Batman Returns
• 1994: Won Oscar For Best Visual Effects: Jurassic Park
• 1998: Oscar Nomination For Best Visual Effects: The Lost World: Jurassic Park
• 2002: Oscar Nomination For Best Visual Effects: A.I.

Filmography[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Stan Winston Studio
• Stan Winston at the Internet Movie Database

Luke Chueh (born March 7, 1973) is an artist, and is generally considered to be a member of the lowbrow, or pop surrealism, art movement, though he has disdain for the term.^[1] He is a painter and graphic designer active in the artist community in Los Angeles. Originally from Philadelphia, he grew up in the Central California agricultural community of Fresno, California.^[2][3] He was formally trained in Graphic Design at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo.^[2][4] During that period, he also worked for guitar manufacturing company Ernie Ball, as an illustrator and designer.^[2] His works during that time garnered him several awards, from such notable publications as Communication Arts and Print Magazine.^[2] During this time, he was also a publisher of a 'zine focused on intelligent dance music.^[2]

His images have been remarked upon for their juxtaposition of cuteness with the macabre.^[2] His paintings and illustrations are noted for bringing together influences as diverse as Mark Rothko and Sanrio.^[5][6] His work stems from the intolerance he suffered as a child growing up as a Chinese-American.^[4]

In an interview with Art Prostitute Magazine he stated that he is influenced by his contemporaries utilizing strong illustrative elements.^[7] He mentioned Chiho Aoshima, Marcel Dzama, Jeremy Fish, Camille Rose Garcia, Barry McGee, Takashi Murakami, Yoshitomo Nara, Mark Ryden, and Ralph Steadman.^[7]

In his recent work, he has designed the album artwork for Fall Out Boy's album Folie à Deux (2008).^[8] In 2004, he designed a limited edition wallet for Poketo.

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official Site

Rick Riordan
Riordan signing copies of The Battle of the Labyrinth on November 3, 2008
Born	(1964-06-05) June 5, 1964 (age 48) San Antonio, Texas
Occupation	Author
Nationality	United States
Genres	Fantasy, Detective fiction, Mythology
Notable work(s)	Percy Jackson and the Olympians series, The Kane Chronicles, Heroes of Olympus, The Maze of Bones
Influences Greek mythology, Roman Mythology, and Egyptian mythology
www.rickriordan.com

Richard Russell "Rick" Riordan (/ˈraɪərˌdɛn/), Jr. (born June 5, 1964)^[1] is an American author best known for writing the Percy Jackson & the Olympians series. He also wrote the Tres Navarre mystery series for adults^[2] and helped to edit Demigods and Monsters, a collection of essays on the topic of his Percy Jackson series. He helped develop the ten books in The 39 Clues series, published by Scholastic Corporation, and wrote the first book in the series, The Maze of Bones.^[3] He recently completed a trilogy that focuses on Egyptian mythology, The Kane Chronicles, and is working on The Heroes of Olympus, which is the sequel to the Percy Jackson series and focuses on Greek and Roman mythology.

Biography[link]

Rick was raised in Texas.^[1] He graduated from Alamo Heights High School in 1982 and the University of Texas at Austin in 1986, where he double-majored in English and Social Studies.^[4] Riordan taught English and Social Studies in Presidio Hill School in San Francisco for eight years.^[5] He was awarded St. Mary's Hall's first Master Teacher Award in 2002.^[6]

Riordan has created many successful book series. The multi-award-winning^[7] Tres Navarre mystery series for adults follows the fast-paced adventures of an erudite Texan private eye. Riordan also helped create the children's book series The 39 Clues; he authored several of its books, including The Maze of Bones, which topped the New York Times Best Seller list on September 28, 2008.^[8] His Percy Jackson and the Olympians series features a twelve-year-old who discovers he is the modern-day son of an ancient Greek god. Twentieth Century Fox purchased the film rights and released a feature film February 12, 2010. Following the success of Percy Jackson, Rick Riordan created The Kane Chronicles, which features a modern-day Egyptian pantheon and two new sibling protagonists. Its first book, The Red Pyramid, was released May 4, 2010; the sequel, The Throne Of Fire, was released May 3, 2011.^[9] The third book in the Kane Chronicles, The Serpent's Shadow, was released May 1, 2012. Riordan also created a sequel series to the Percy Jackson books, The Heroes of Olympus. Its first book, The Lost Hero, was released in the U.S. October 12, 2010; the sequel, The Son of Neptune, was released October 4, 2011. Riordan expanded both series simultaneously. He has completed The Kane Chronicles, a trilogy, and continues to write The Heroes of Olympus, which will have five books.

The San Diego Comic-Con International 2010 featured Riordan as a guest.^[10] Rick Riordan lives in San Antonio with his wife and their two sons Patrick and Haley, who inspired his Percy Jackson series.

Published books[link]

Olympian Demigod Series[link]

Series One: Percy Jackson and the Olympians[link]

• The Lightning Thief (2005)
• The Sea of Monsters (2006)
• The Titan's Curse (2007)
• The Battle of the Labyrinth (2008)
• The Demigod Files (2009)^[11]
• The Last Olympian (2009)
• The Ultimate Guide (2010)
• The Lightning Thief: The Graphic Novel (2010)
• The Sea of Monsters: The Graphic Novel (2013)

Series Two: The Heroes of Olympus[link]

• The Lost Hero (2010)
• The Son of Neptune (2011)
• The Demigod Diaries – August 14, 2012^[12]
• The Mark of Athena – October 2, 2012
• Book 4 – Spring 2013
• Book 5 – Winter 2014

The 39 Clues Series[link]

• The Maze of Bones (2008)^[13]
• Introduction to The Black Book of Buried Secrets (2010)
• Vespers Rising (2011)

Tres Navarre Series[link]

• Big Red Tequila (1997)
• Widower's Two-Step (1998)
• The Last King of Texas (2000)
• The Devil Went Down to Austin (2001)
• Southtown (2004)
• Mission Road (2005)
• Rebel Island (2007)

The Kane Chronicles[link]

• The Red Pyramid (2010)^[14]
• The Throne of Fire (2011)^[15]
• The Serpent's Shadow (May 1, 2012)^[16]
• The Kane Chronicles Survival Guide – March 20, 2012^[17]
• The Red Pyramid: The Graphic Novel – October 2, 2012

Stand alone novels[link]

• Cold Springs (2004)^[18]

Awards[link]

• 1998 Shamus Award and Anthony Award for Big Red Tequila^[7]
• 1999 Edgar Award for Best Paperback Original for The Widower's Two-Step^[19]
• 2008 Mark Twain Award for The Lightning Thief^[20]
• 2009 Mark Twain Award for The Sea of Monsters^[20]
• 2009 Rebecca Caudill Award for The Lightning Thief^[21]
• 2010 School Library Journal's Best Book for The Red Pyramid ^[22]
• 2011 Children's Choice Book Awards: Author of the Year^[23]
• 2011 Children's Choice Book Awards: Fifth Grade to Sixth Grade Book of the Year for The Red Pyramid^[23]
• 2011 Wyoming Soaring Eagle Book Award for The Last Olympian^[24]

Further reading[link]

• Art at Our Doorstep: San Antonio Writers and Artists featuring Rick Riordan. Edited by Nan Cuba and Riley Robinson (Trinity University Press, 2008).

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official Rick Riordan Site
• Official Percy Jackson UK Site
• Miss Erin interview
• Starred Review of The Last Olympian
• Teen Libris interview
• Works by or about Rick Riordan in libraries (WorldCat catalog)

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