Hardboiled (or hard-boiled ) fiction is a literary genre that shares some of its characters and settings with crime fiction (especially detective fiction and noir fiction ). The genre's typical protagonist is a detective who battles the violence of organized crime that flourished during Prohibition (1920–1933) and its aftermath, while dealing with a legal system that has become as corrupt as the organized crime itself. Rendered cynical by this cycle of violence, the detectives of hardboiled fiction are often antiheroes . Notable hardboiled detectives include Dick Tracy , Philip Marlowe , Nick Charles , Mike Hammer , Sam Spade , Lew Archer , Slam Bradley , and The Continental Op .
13-481: Titan Publishing Group is the publishing division of the British entertainment company Titan Entertainment , which was established as Titan Books in 1981. 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. Its imprints are Titan Books , Titan Comics , Titan Magazines and Titan Manga. Titan Books
26-603: A fifteen-year run for ' Batman Legends '. Titan Magazines currently publishes the following comics and magazines: In 2022, the Titan Publishing Group launched Titan Manga, an imprint focused solely on manga series, with their first release being a "director's cut" of Takashi Okazaki 's Afro Samurai . Titan Entertainment Too Many Requests If you report this error to the Wikimedia System Administrators, please include
39-404: 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 program. Titan Books' first title was a trade paperback collection of Brian Bolland 's Judge Dredd stories from 2000 AD . Titan Books followed
52-431: Is also associated with " noir fiction ". Eddie Duggan discusses the similarities and differences between the two related forms in his 1999 article on pulp writer Cornell Woolrich . In his full-length study of David Goodis, Jay Gertzman notes: "The best definition of hard boiled I know is that of critic Eddie Duggan. In noir, the primary focus is interior: psychic imbalance leading to self-hatred, aggression, sociopathy, or
65-729: Is often used as a synonym for hardboiled crime fiction or gangster fiction; some would distinguish within it the private-eye story from the crime novel itself. In the United States, the original hardboiled style has been emulated by innumerable writers, including James Ellroy , Paul Cain , Sue Grafton , Chester Himes , Paul Levine , John D. MacDonald , Ross Macdonald , Walter Mosley , Sara Paretsky , Robert B. Parker , and Mickey Spillane . Later, many hardboiled novels were published by houses specializing in paperback originals, most notably Gold Medal , and in later decades republished by houses such as Black Lizard . Hardboiled writing
78-612: The Vertigo comic-book title Sandman , The Simpsons , Star Wars , Tank Girl , The Real Ghostbusters , Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles , Transformers , The Walking Dead , Life Is Strange , Roy of the Rovers , Dan Dare , WWE Heroes , World of Warcraft and Bloodborne . In addition to licensed titles, Titan Comics also publishes creator-owned series, such as Bloodthirsty: One Nation Under Water (2015–2016) and Man Plus (2015–2016). In 2010, Titan acquired
91-481: The hardboiled detective stories . In its earliest uses in the late 1920s, "hardboiled" did not refer to a type of crime fiction; it meant the tough (cynical) attitude towards emotions triggered by violence. The hardboiled crime story became a staple of several pulp magazines in the 1930s; most famously Black Mask under the editorship of Joseph T. Shaw , but also in other pulps such as Dime Detective and Detective Fiction Weekly . Consequently, "pulp fiction"
104-899: The American hardboiled fiction imprint Hard Case Crime , and since that time has released a number of comics and graphic novels under the Hard Case Crime brand. Heroic Signatures gave Titan the license to publish new titles featuring Conan the Barbarian in 2022. As of 2021, Titan Comics' publishing directors are Ricky Claydon and John Dziewiatkowski. Titan Magazines is the magazine-publishing division of Titan Publishing Group. Launched in 1995 with Star Trek Magazine , Titan had previously published several one shot film tie-in titles. Since then it has published many film, TV and comics titles, including poster magazines for Tim Burton 's Batman . Some of Titan's magazines are published in
117-679: The Film published in 2020 and Escape from New York: The Official Story of the Film published in 2021, all written by John Walsh . As of 2016, Titan Books' editorial director is Laura Price. Titan Books also publishes trade paperbacks and graphic novels in the UK and United States under the imprint Titan Comics . The company has a backlist of over 1,000 graphic novels. Its titles include such licensed characters and properties as Batman , Doctor Who , Family Guy , Heroes , Nemi , Superman , Judge Dredd and other 2000 AD characters,
130-571: The US, although not all, some with an entirely separate magazine. In April 2016, Bleeding Cool published a blog/vlog entry pertaining to concerns over Titan's UK reprints of DC titles, specifically cancellations and a lack of updates and communication with readers, as well as addressing the frequent inconsistencies regarding the publication dates of future issues. Titan ceased publication of all their DC Comics titles in December 2018, most notably ending
143-410: The details below. Request from 172.68.168.226 via cp1108 cp1108, Varnish XID 250109715 Upstream caches: cp1108 int Error: 429, Too Many Requests at Thu, 28 Nov 2024 10:37:44 GMT Hardboiled The style was pioneered by Carroll John Daly in the mid-1920s, popularized by Dashiell Hammett over the course of the decade, and refined by James M. Cain and by Raymond Chandler beginning in
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#1732790264478156-963: The first title with numerous other 2000 AD reprints. Subsequently, the publishing company expanded operations, putting out its first original title in 1987 ( Pat Mills and Hunt Emerson 's You Are Maggie Thatcher ). Around this time, Titan also began publishing Escape magazine (although the title was canceled in 1989). Titan Books continues to publish both new and licensed graphic novels, as well as film and television tie-ins. Titan Books’ range of fiction includes limited comic books tie-ins and novelizations for such films as Alien (film) , Predator (film) and Alien vs. Predator , Terminator Salvation , Iron Man , The X-Files: I Want to Believe , Transformers , The Dark Knight Rises and Firefly . Titan also publishes coffee table books on animation, popular culture, collectibles and comic and fantasy art including Harryhausen: The Lost Movies published in 2019, Flash Gordon: The Official Story of
169-593: The late 1930s. English writer Gerald Butler was referred to as the " English James M. Cain ", and his characters were noted as hardboiled. Its heyday was in 1930s–50s America. From its earliest days, hardboiled fiction was published in and closely associated with so-called pulp magazines . Pulp historian Robert Sampson argues that Gordon Young 's "Don Everhard" stories (which appeared in Adventure magazine from 1917 onwards), about an "extremely tough, unsentimental, and lethal" gun-toting urban gambler, anticipated
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