Gary K. Wolf

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Gary K. Wolf (* 24. January 1941 in Earlville , Illinois ) is an American science fiction - writer , best known for Who Framed Roger Rabbit censored filmed as Who Framed Roger Rabbit .

biography

Wolf grew up in Earlville, Illinois, the son of Ed and Hattie Wolf. His father owned the town's pool hall and later ran an upholstery shop while his mother worked in the school cafeteria. As an only child, Wolf occupied himself with reading comics and science fiction stories. Wolf graduated from Earlville High School in June 1959. He later attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign , where he earned a bachelor's degree in advertising and a master's degree in communication. He served as Air Force Captain with the 5th Air Commando Squadron in the Vietnam War , where he was awarded a Bronze Star Medal and two Air Medals .

Wolf and childhood friend John J. Myers , former Catholic Archbishop of Newark , New Jersey , co-wrote a novel called Space Vulture , published by Tor in 2008. Wolf and co-writer Jehane Baptiste published a story called The UnHardy Boys in Outer Space in the annual anthology of humorous science fiction Amityville House of Pancakes Vol 3 .

Wolf owns an extensive collection of carousel horses . For this reason, Wolf was featured on the cover of the September 4, 1976 issue of Palo Alto Times Peninsula Living Magazine . Wolf currently resides in Boston , Massachusetts with his wife, Bonnie .

Roger Rabbit

Wolf is best known for the series of comedic crime novels starring the now famous Roger Rabbit, a cartoon character who lives in an alternate universe where toons and humans coexist. The series begins with the novel Who Censored Roger Rabbit? (1981), that was the basis of the film Bad Game with Roger Rabbit (1988). The series was plugged in 1991 with Who PPP-Plugged Roger Rabbit? and 2013 with Who Wacked Roger Rabbit? continued. These two books were not canonical of the original book and had more in common with the hit Disney film.

Wolf filed a lawsuit against The Walt Disney Company in 2001 . Wolf claimed he was owed royalties based on the value of "gross receipts" and merchandising sales. In 2002, the court ruled that these related only to actual cash receipts that Disney had taken and denied Wolf's claim. In its January 2004 ruling, the California appeals court disagreed, finding that Wolf's expert testimony about the common use of "gross revenue" in the entertainment business might support a broader reading of the term. The ruling overturned the court's order in favor of Disney and remitted the case for further trial. At a March 2005 hearing, Wolf estimated he was owed $ 7 million. Disney's attorneys not only denied the claim, but also said that Wolf actually owed Disney $ 500,000 to $ 1 million because an accounting error was found in the preparation of the lawsuit. Wolf won the ruling in July 2005 and received damages estimated at between $ 180,000 and $ 400,000.

bibliography

Roger Rabbit

  • Who Censored Roger Rabbit? tape 1 . St. Martin's Press, 1981, ISBN 0-312-87001-9 (American English, not published in German).
  • Who PP-Plugged Roger Rabbit? tape 2 . Villard, 1991, ISBN 0-679-40094-X (American English, not published in German).
  • Stay Tooned, Folks! , 2004 (short story)
  • Who Wacked Roger Rabbit? tape 3 , 2013, ISBN 978-1-5118-3812-2 (American English, not published in German).

More novels

  • Killer game . Bastei Lübbe, 1981, ISBN 3-404-21135-9 (American English: Killerbowl . 1975. Translated by Jens Rösner).
  • Action death by grace . Bastei Lübbe, 1982, ISBN 3-404-21152-9 (American English: A Generation Removed . 1977. Translated by Leni Effertz).
  • Between here and nowhere . Bastei Lübbe, 1981, ISBN 3-404-21139-1 (American English: The Resurrectionist . 1979. Translated by Andreas Brandhorst).
  • Amityville House of Pancakes Vol 3 . 2006, ISBN 0-7653-1852-0 (American English, not published in German).
  • Penumbra eMag Vol 1 Issue 10 . 2012 (American English, not published in German).
  • The Late Great Show! CreateSpace, 2012, ISBN 978-1-5352-2131-3 (American English, not published in German).
  • Typical day . 2017, ISBN 978-1-975941-86-4 (American English, not published in German).

literature

  • Wolf, Gary K. 1941— . In: Contemporary Authors , Volume 160. Gale Group, 1998, pp. 440-442.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Joseph P. Kahn: Intergalactic Allies: 'Roger Rabbit' creator Gary K. Wolf and Archbishop John J. Myers travel back in time and conquer the universe . In: Boston Globe , February 28, 2007. 
  2. ↑ https://www.amazon.com/Late-Great-Show-Gary-Wolf/dp/1535221313#productDescription_secondary_view_div_1513644832382
  3. ^ Gary K. Wolf: Roger Rabbit Creator and Archbishop of Newark Team up to Write Science Fiction Novel . Science Fiction Writers of America. March 13, 2007. Retrieved January 22, 2009.
  4. ↑ Amityville House of Pancakes 3 . Creative Guy Publishing. Retrieved January 22, 2009.
  5. ^ Gary K. Wolf .
  6. ^ Paul Sweeting: Disney, Roger Rabbit author in late . In: Video Business , February 5, 2004. Retrieved November 4, 2008. 
  7. ↑ Jesse Hiestand: Roger Rabbit Animated In Court . In: AllBusiness.com , March 22, 2005. Archived from the original on January 8, 2009. Retrieved November 4, 2008. 
  8. ↑ Disney To Pay Wolf 'Rabbit' Royalties . Billboard. July 5, 2005. Retrieved August 24, 2014.
  9. ↑ Roger Rabbit Returns In "Who Wacked Roger Rabbit?" . September 27, 2013.

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personal data
SURNAME Wolf, Gary K.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wolf, Gary Kenneth (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American science fiction writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 24, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Earlville, Illinois