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Dean Mullaney (born June 18, 1954) is an American editor, publisher, and designer whose Eclipse Enterprises, founded in 1977, was one of the earliest independent comic book companies. Eclipse would publish some of the first graphic novels and was one of the first comics publishers to champion creators' rights. In the 2000s, he established the imprint The Library of American Comics at IDW Publishing, to publish hardcover collections of comic strips. Mullaney and his work have received seven Eisner Awards. ==Biography== Dean Mullaney and his brother, rock musician Jan Mullaney, are the sons of early electronica musician Dave Mullaney of the band Hot Butter.〔Gulacy, Paul (2008). Untitled, unnumbered introduction page, ''Sabre: 30th Anniversary Edition'' (Dallas, Georgia: Desperado Publishing). ISBN 978-0-9801-4791-9.〕 The brothers founded Eclipse Enterprises in Staten Island, New York City, New York, in 1977, and the following year published one of the first original graphic novels, ''Sabre: Slow Fade of an Endangered Species''. Written by Don McGregor and drawn by Paul Gulacy, ''Sabre'' was additionally the first graphic novel sold through the new "direct market" of comic-book stores. Eclipse went on to publish the anthology magazine ''Eclipse'' and the color-comic anthology ''Eclipse Monthly'', the first of an Eclipse Comics line that eventually included such titles and creators as ''The Rocketeer'' by Dave Stevens; ''Zot!'' by Scott McCloud; two volumes of ''Detectives Inc.'' by McGregor and artists Marshall Rogers and Gene Colan, respectively; ''Stewart the Rat'' by writer Steve Gerber and artists Colan and Tom Palmer; and the U.S. reprints of ''Miracleman'' by Alan Moore. Eclipse also brought out graphic novels featuring opera adaptations, such as ''The Magic Flute'' by P. Craig Russell, and children's literature such as ''The Hobbit'' by J. R. R. Tolkien. In the early 1980s, Mullaney met writer-editor Catherine Yronwode, who was working for cartoonist and entrepreneur Will Eisner. Yronwode recalled that Eisner and his wife Ann "hosted a party for me with all these comic book men I was flirting with. All these men came up; they all wanted to meet Will. One of them was Dean Mullaney, the co-owner of Eclipse Comics, a small independent publishing house. He was the most flirtatious." At some point afterward, once Yronwode finished her work organizing Eisner's archives, she and Mullaney became engaged and moved to California, where they were married. By the late 1980s, Eclipse was selling a half-million comics a month, and was the third largest comics publisher after Marvel Comics and DC Comics. In 1986, Eclipse lost most of its back-issue stock in a flood. This event, along with the repercussions of Mullaney's divorce from Yronwode, by then his partner at Eclipse, and the mid-1990s collapse of the direct market distribution system, caused the company to cease operations in 1994, and file for bankruptcy in 1995. The company's intellectual property rights were later acquired by Todd McFarlane. Mullaney also attributed the company's demise to a problematic contract with the book publisher HarperCollins. Eclipse's last publication was its Spring 1993 catalog, which was a complete bibliography of its publications. In the mid-2000s, Mullaney approached IDW Publishing with a proposal to publish hardcover reprints of American comic strips. This became the IDW imprint The Library of American Comics, which debuted with the 2007 book ''The Complete Terry and the Pirates, Vol. 1: 1934-1936'', by Milton Caniff. As Mullaney described, "''Terry'' In 2014, Mullaney added another imprint at IDW, EuroComics, in order to publish new English translations of the European comics, including Hugo Pratt’s ''Corto Maltese'', ''Paracuellos'' by Carlos Giménez, and ''Alack Sinner'' by Muñoz and Sampaya. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dean Mullaney」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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