Jack Binder

Jack Binder is an American film and television producer and second unit director active since 1985. With older brother Mike Binder, a writer, actor and director, he is co-owner of Sunlight Productions. He formed Michigan Film Production to provide information on the Michigan Film Incentives program, which he helped to enable and created www.filmbudget.com, a site that creates a feature film budget for financing and movie production . Binder's production company is Greentrees Films.

Filmography

Jack Binder (artist)

John "Jack" Binder (August 11, 1902 – March 6, 1986) was a Golden Age comics creator and art packager. A fine artist by education, Binder had a prolific comics career that lasted primarily from 1937 to 1953, through his most concentrated work was through 1946. He was the creator of the original comic book Daredevil, for Lev Gleason Publications. One of Binder's younger brothers was comic book writer Otto Binder. Binder is credited with coining the term zero gravity as part of a 1938 article in Thrilling Wonder Stories.

Biography

Born in Austria-Hungary, Binder emigrated to America in 1910, where he settled with his parents and five siblings in Chicago.

During the 1930s, Jack Binder wrote and drew the comic Zarnak by Max Plaisted, a Jack Binder pseudonym, which appeared in Thrilling Wonder Stories magazine.

Six months after the debut of Thrilling Wonder Stories, its June 1937 issue contained a picture feature by Jack Binder entitled If---!. Binder's earlier training as a fine artist helped him create detailed renderings of space ships, lost cities, future cities, landscapes, indigenous peoples, and even ancient Atlantis. If---!'s pen and ink drawings are hand-lettered and rendered in black and white. These one-to-two page studies presented readers with possible outcomes to early 20th-century scientific quandaries. In the October 1938 issue of the pulp magazine, Binder's article "If Science Reached the Earth's Core" is the first attested use of the phrase "zero gravity".