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Timothy Truman (born February 9, 1956 in Gauley Bridge, West Virginia is an American writer, artist and musician best known for his stories and Western Movie-style comic book art. February 9 is the 40th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ...
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After graduating from Gauley Bridge High School in 1974, Timothy Truman attended the Columbus College of Art and Design while also attending West Virginia University. From 1979 to 1981 he attended the Joe Kubert School of Cartoon and Graphic Art in New Jersey and graduated on the Dean's List. WVU Mountaineer Mascot statue in front of the Mountainlair Student Union. ...
The Joe Kubert School of Cartoon and Graphic Art, or Joe Kubert School, located in Dover, New Jersey, is a three-year technical school that teaches the principles of sequential art and the particular craft of the comics industry as well as commercial illustration, and also offers a major in...
After graduation, he moved to New York City and worked in the Fantasy Role-Playing Game industry for a few years providing illustrations for various companies including working for TSR, Inc. as a staff illustrator. A role-playing game (RPG) is a type of game where players assume the roles of fictional characters via role-playing. ...
TSR was a company formed as Tactical Studies Rules in 1972 by Gary Gygax and Don Kaye (and others later) to publish the rule set for the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game. ...
Comic Book Background
Truman's first major series was the title Grimjack for independent comics company First Comics with writer John Ostrander. Grimjack first appeared in Starslayer #10 in November 1983 before moving to his own series after issue #18 in 1984 that lasted for 81 issues. Along with being a fan favorite and often imitated character, Grimjack almost single-handedly defined the "grim and gritty" action comic character archetype. First Comics was an American publisher of comic books. ...
John Ostrander is an American writer of comics. ...
Rock and Roll A longtime fan and musician, Truman has also been able to integrate his love of music into his love of comics and illustration. While working for Eclipse comics, Truman included a Flexidisc recording inside Scout #19 that provided a soundtrack to one of the scenes in the comic. He also released an album through Eclipse Records with his band The Dixie Pistols entitled Marauder. The album included a short comic book featuring the wedding of Emanuel Santanna that took place between the first series Scout and the second series Scout: War Shaman. Scout can refer to: Scouting An American rocket, Scout (rocket) A Helicopter, Scout (helicopter A professional sports talent scout A reconnoiter This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...
Generally speaking, the term soundtrack refers to the recorded sound in a motion picture. ...
Scout is a comic book series published starting in 1987 by American writer, artist and musician, Timothy Truman starring the Native American Apache, Emanuel Santanna. ...
While writing the biography of one of his favorite guitarists Carlos Santana for Rock-It Comics, Truman found out that the Carlos was a longtime fan of his comic, Scout whose main character, Emanuel Santana, is the namesake of the famous guitarist. Naming the characters after favorite musicians is a common convention that Truman has used throughout the Scout series. Santana in concert, Barcelona 2003 Carlos Santana (born July 20, 1947) is a Mexican rock and roll and jazz-rock guitarist, originally from Autlan de Navarro, Jalisco. ...
Truman has also had a long relationship with the band the Grateful Dead creating artwork for CD covers, tour posters, limited-edition T-Shirts and a color comics page in each issue of the Grateful Dead Almanac. Jerry Garcia later in life Grateful Dead was an American rock band, which was formed in 1965 in San Francisco from the remnants of another band, Mother McCrees Uptown Jug Champions. ...
Truman built a recording studio in his home and while producing recording sessions for Cherokee singer/songwriter Terry Strongheart, they decided to form a new band with some of Truman's friends and Strongheart's daughter called the Terry Strongheart Band. Two CD's have been recorded, the first entitled Tears and the follow-up Indian School.
Awards and Nominations Hawkworld - DC Comics - Spanish Haxtur Award ("Premios Haxtur") for "Best Long Story" 1991 Hawkworld was a comic book from DC Comics that explored the origins of Hawkman and Hawkwoman. ...
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