JFH: Justice For Hire
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JFH: Justice For Hire #1 (December 2007) showing Ebony, Louisa, and Ivory after a brawl with goons.
Cover art by Chadwick Coleman and David Duong. |
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| Group publication information | |
| Publisher | Creative Impulse Publishing |
| First appearance | "Ebony & Ivory" short film (December 2001) |
| Created by |
Jan Lucanus Jan C. Childress |
| In-story information | |
| Type of organisation | Team |
| Base(s) |
Chinatown, Manhattan Freedom Tower |
| Agent(s) | Ebony, Ivory, Louisa Mendez, Original Ebony, Original Ivory, Anita Bennett, Utada Otomo, Sharique Chandra, Jacques |
| JFH: Justice For Hire | |
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(July 2011). Cover art by Tariq Raheem. |
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| Series publication information | |
| Schedule | Bi-monthly (issues 1-4), Semi-monthly (issue 0) |
| Format | Ongoing series |
| Genre | Martial Arts, Action/Adventure, Crime/Thriller |
| Publication date |
(Vol. 1) Dec. 2007 – Dec. 2009 (Vol. 2) Apr. 2012 – present |
| Number of issues |
(Vol. 1): 4 (plus special editions) |
| Creative team | |
| Writer(s) |
(Vol. 1) Jan Lucanus, Jan C. Childress |
| Artist(s) | Antonio Rojo, PUSTE, Sivakami Mohan, Chadwick Coleman, Tariq Raheem |
| Penciller(s) |
(Vol. 1) |
| Inker(s) |
(Vol. 1) |
| Colorist(s) |
(Vol. 1) Sivakami Mohan |
| Creator(s) |
Jan Lucanus Jan C. Childress |
(Vol. 1): 4 (plus special editions)
(Vol. 1)
Jan C. Childress, Jan Lucanus, Mercer Boffey, Banyan Williamson-Masuda
(Vol. 1)
Antonio Rojo
(Vol. 2)
(Vol. 1)
Rick Bonilla, Antonio Garovillo (Vol. 2)
(Vol. 1)
Veronica Rosado, Mike Toolan, Sivakami Mohan
JFH: Justice For Hire (also known as JFH, Justice For Hire, and JFH: Justice-For-Hire) is a mixed martial arts themed entertainment property that encompasses a series of comic books, films, videos, music, and animations. The JFH story follows two sons of a duo of vigilante fathers that get their family's hero-for-hire business legalized, spawning a worldwide industry of heroes, villains, and mercenaries for hire dubbed the Retribution Industry. Produced and published by Creative Impulse Entertainment, JFH remains one of the first examples of transmedia storytelling in the comic book industry.
JFH was created by real-life father/son martial arts champions and comic book writers Jan C. Childress and Jan Lucanus. Lucanus appears as a regular cast member in the live action content.
As explained in an interview with Kodak's "In Camera" magazine, what started as a series of student films Jan Lucanus was directing from his high school and college days at the New York Film Academy and New York University grew into expanded short films and an award winning "Justice-For-Hire" 47-minute Featurette that doubled as both Jan's company Creative Impulse Entertainment's second narrative production and his NYU senior thesis film. The same footage from the featurette was recut into shorter episodic content, placed on four DVDs, and bundled with issues 1-4 of the "JFH: Justice-For-Hire" comic book series, marking the first time in the history of the comic book industry in which a physical comic book and DVD combination package was sold for an entire series run.
In 2007, JFH co-creator Jan Lucanus took an independent approach to spreading the word about his new comic series, doing a pre-release print run that debuted at the New York Comic Con, and calling upon his contacts in the martial arts community and across media to get the comics to people outside of the traditional comic book audience (the print comic book industry was notorious for marketing only to comic book readers, rather than targeting audiences outside of the niche market). "JFH" comics were given away in martial arts contests and at events for Warner Bros. Records, VH1, and Adidas. Later that year, marketing guru Ken Goldstein and entrepreneur Tonny Sorenson, along with partner Bob Johnson, made Jan the first Artist-in-Residence (AiR) within their lifestyle brand, Von Dutch (the AiR program later transformed into the Planet Illogica agency). Before the official market release, "JFH" comics were distributed within the SoHo, New York and Los Angeles, California Von Dutch store fronts. On September 27, 2007, Jan co-hosted the Von Dutch-sponsored launch event for the "JFH" comic book - "Justice-For-Hire Presents Fight Night at the Von Dutch" in Los Angeles, CA. Gift bags filled with "JFH" comics and other sponsored items were given to a crowd of 1,100 spectators as they were presented with martial arts demonstrations and exhibition fights from Jan and his "JFH" fight team members, including champion fighters Hinton Wells, Ian Morgan, Maximillion Chen, Gabe Dorado, Ahmed Best, Jesse Abrescy, and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Master John Machado, along with Jan's father Jan C. Childress and creative partner Mercer Boffey. Other performances included an Oprah Winfrey-sponsored choir, and acrobatics from Cirque du Soleil troop, REALIS. Sponsors included Hollywood's Golden Apple Comics shop, Inside Kung Fu Magazine, Black Belt (magazine), Alacer Corp. (Emergen-C), 97.1 Free FM (now KAMP-FM), and martial arts promoter Tim Stell, among others. Celebrities in attendance included Seth Green, Lea Thompson, as well as a slew of martial arts masters from across California.
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