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John Newcombe
John Newcombe is an independent filmmaker based in Los Angeles. Born in Chicago, he attended the Goodman School of Drama for three years before earning a BA in Theater from De Paul University. While earning an MA from Regent University, he made the award-winning short film LOVESTRUCK, a tribute to silent comedian Harold Lloyd. Lovestruck won the Academy Award for Student Films Mid-Atlantic Region, Judges Award at Vanderbilt's Sinking Creek Film Festival and was an Official Entry in a number of festivals including the Virginia Film Festival and the Chicago Film Festival. After moving to Los Angeles he made the critically-acclaimed, award-winning film Best Man in Grass Creek, winner of Heartland's Crystal Heart Award, Best Comedy at the Flagstaff Film Festival, Best Comedy at the Santa Clarita Film Festival. The film was an Official Entry at over ten film festivals including Montreal Film Festival, Quebec Film Festival, Cape Town, South Africa Film Festival and Cairo Film Festival, Egypt. Best Man in Grass Creek is repeatedly aired on TV overseas, from Brazil to China. In recent years, John has been made a number of award-winning documentaries. He also makes promotional films, specialty documentaries and biographies. John has also been writing screenplays as well as writing and storyboarding comic strips for over 20 years.
Archie Comics
Dan DeCarlo and John Newcombe - May, 2000 Rueben Awards - Windows on the World - -World Trade Center
John teamed up with Archie comics in the 1990s, working with comic book legend Dan DeCarlo, who revolutionized the look of Archie in the 1950s and 1960s. Dan also created Sabrina the Teenage Witch and Jose and the Pussycats. John worked with Dan on the Archie comic strip for many years which was syndicated in newspapers around the world.
Zack Hill Comic
John Newcombe and John Deering Rueben Awards - Scottsdale, AZ
John Newcombe teamed up with award-Winning editorial cartoonist John Deering to create the comic strip Zack Hill which centers around a 10-year-old boy, his single mom, a house full of boarders and Zack’s independent-minded Boston Terrier, Cagney. Launched by Creators Syndicate in 2003, Zack appears everyday on a number of sites such as Comics.com - as well as dozens of newspapers. Zack Hill has appeared in such newspapers as The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the Seattle Times and the Chicago Sun-Times.
Lovestruck
This short film by John Newcombe, a tribute to silent film comedian Harold Lloyd, won an Academy Award for Student Films (Mid-Atlantic Region), the Judges Award from Vanderbilt’s Sinking Creek Film Festival, and was an Official Entry in many film festivals including the Virginia Film Festival and the Chicago Film Festival.
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