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4 unusual facts about The Comic Strip


Barry Dennen

He wrote the screenplay for an episode of Amazing Stories titled "The Secret Cinema" (1985) and cowrote an episode of The Comic Strip Presents... titled "Demonella" (1993).

The Comic Strip

They included "The Strike", which won the Golden Rose of Montreux; "More Bad News", a sequel to "Bad News Tour" showing the band reforming after five years to play at Castle Donington; and "Mr. Jolly Lives Next Door", written by Mayall and Edmondson in the violent style of their sitcoms Filthy Rich and Catflap and Bottom, which featured Peter Cook as a psychotic contract killer (the eponymous Mr. Jolly) and Nicholas Parsons.

The Hectics

Derrick Branche (born in 1947, in Bombay, India) went on to appear in British films such as My Beautiful Laundrette and television shows such as Only When I Laugh as male nurse Gupta,The Comic Strip Presents... and Father Ted.

The Outer Limits

The Outer Limits (double act), featuring Nigel Planer and Peter Richardson, later members of The Comic Strip


Al Pillay

Alan "Al" Pillay also known as "Al Pillay" (born 22 August 1959), the star of Eat the Rich is a person of many names and two genders, starring in The Comic Strip Presents as Alan Pellay playing Himself in Gino (Episode 10) as Alana Pellay playing Herself in The Bullshitters (Episode 13) and, finally, as Lana Pellay playing Mary in the feature movie The Supergrass.

Andrew Goffman

In 1997, following a year-long stint with Grandma Sylvia's Funeral, he began concentrating primarily on stand-up comedy, appearing at such venues as Caroline's, Catch A Rising Star, The Comic Strip, Rascals and at Canada's Yuk Yuks.

Raymond Revuebar

In 1980, the Boulevard Theatre section of the venue was hired by comic actor Peter Richardson to stage his alternative comedy revue, The Comic Strip.


see also

Alfons Figueras

In his work they had a great influence the silent humorous cinema, the fantastic cinema, the genre novels and classic North Americans comics, as well as the comic strip Krazy Kat, of George Herriman.

Andy Van Hellemond

On July 1, 2011 it was reported Van Hellemond served the creators of the comic strip Adam@home with a notice of intention to sue for libel over a comic which used the word "evil" in referring to Van Hellemond as "the worst and most evil ref ever."

B.C. Open

Alternatively, it is said to be named after the comic strip B.C., created by Johnny Hart, who was born and raised in Endicott.

Bechdel

Alison Bechdel (born 1960) American cartoonist, known for the comic strip Dykes To Watch Out For

Beep the Meep

Beep first appeared in the comic strip Doctor Who and the Star Beast, written by Pat Mills and John Wagner and drawn by Dave Gibbons, which ran in issues #19-#26 of Doctor Who Weekly.

Bill Melendez

In addition to producing Peanuts specials, Bill Melendez, as well as Lee Mendelson, has also produced specials for the comic strip Garfield.

Binghamton Dusters

The team logo was designed by Johnny Hart, artist of the comic strip "B.C." and a native of nearby Endicott N.Y. The team was known for using the Jim Croce song "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" as their entrance theme.

Chip Sansom

In the mid-1980s, he started to assist his father Art Sansom on the comic strip The Born Loser.

Crawford Mystery Theatre

Internet Archive has two episodes, "The Case of the Comic-Strip Murder" (September 20, 1951) and "The Case of the Man Who Wasn't There" (January 17, 1952).

Curtis Wilkins

Curtis Wilkins is star character of the comic strip Curtis created by Ray Billingsley.

Daimler SP250

Modesty Blaise had an ivory-coloured Dart in the early book versions of her adventures, and it also appeared occasionally in the comic strip.

Duck Edwing

:Dave Manak and myself just finished up working on Spy vs. Spy, the comic strip, and in the past I did a strip with Paul Coker called Horace and Buggy, about smart-ass insects, and I did some writing and artwork for Bob Thaves' Frank and Ernest.

Ginger Meggs

Ginger Meggs is a 1982 Australian film based on the comic strip, starring Garry McDonald and Drew Forsythe.

Hasegawa Machiko Art Museum

From 1946 until 1974, Hasegawa Machiko drew the comic strip Sazae-san, about an ordinary Japanese family led by a good-natured mother and wife, Sazae.

Hawkshaw Hawkins

He gained his nickname as a boy after helping a neighbor track down two missing fishing rods: the neighbor called him "Hawkshaw" after the title character in the comic strip, Hawkshaw the Detective.

Hickory, Oklahoma

Hickory was the birthplace and childhood home of Zack Mosley, the creator of the comic strip The Adventures of Smilin' Jack, an adventurous aviator, inspired by Mosley witnessing an early plane crash in Hickory.

Internet Oracle

(The particular word *ZOT* may be a reference to the comic strip B.C. Alternatively, it may be an allusion to Walter Karig's 1947 novel entitled Zotz!, in which a person could point at anyone or anything, say "Zotz!" and make that thing or person instantly disintegrate.

Jeż Jerzy

The comic strip first appeared as part of a children's magazine called Świerszczyk.

Jimmy Fagg

As well as the films produced as part of the Comic Strip Presents... series, he also appeared in a number of feature films; Walter (1982), Eat the Rich (1987) and The Imitators (1996).

Jimmy Thudpucker

Jimmy Thudpucker is a fictional character in the comic strip Doonesbury, created by Garry Trudeau.

John Reiner

In 1984, he was an assistant on the comic strip Benchley, which Jerry Dumas and Drucker created to satirize the Washington political scene.

Kalamazoo Kings

The Kalamazoo Kings were referenced in the comic strip Gil Thorp.

Little Jimmy

Little Jimmy Camp in the Angeles National Forest, near Los Angeles, California, is named after the comic strip in honor of Swinnerton, who once stayed there.

Luke 'Ming' Flanagan

He was not portrayed by the media as a serious candidate, shaving his hair and styling his beard in the way of Ming the Merciless from the comic strip Flash Gordon.

Muffler Men

Muffler Men have also made appearances as characters in the comic strip "Zippy the Pinhead" by Bill Griffith, often in conversation with Zippy.

Nathan Bassett

Some of Bassett's nicknames include The Hound, Bassy, Bruce and Fred Basset – after the comic strip which appears in many Australian newspapers.

Older versions of cartoon characters

The comic strip Funky Winkerbean initially presented its lead characters as teenagers.

Place kick

In the comic strip Peanuts, Lucy frequently holds the football to allow Charlie Brown to place kick but invariably pulls it away at the last second.

Rico Dredd

Alternative versions of Rico from parallel universes also appeared in the novel "Dread Dominion" (1994) by Stephen Marley, in which he played a major role, and in the comic strip story "Helter Skelter" (2001) by Garth Ennis (in which he appeared as part of an ensemble cast of villains).

Ripsaw

The comic strip “Violet Days,” by Chris Monroe, which is now featured in the Minneapolis Star Tribune and Duluth News Tribune, first appeared in the Ripsaw reincarnation.

Scott Dikkers

He is also the creator and artist of the comic strip Jim's Journal, which was syndicated to college newspapers from 1987–1997.

Supersnipe

Supersnipe was the imagined alter ego of Koppy McFad, "the boy with the most comic books in the world." He was created by writer-artist George Marcoux, who had previously assisted Percy Crosby on the comic strip Skippy.

Tanbridge House School

Jamie Hewlett - artist/cartoonist and developer of the comic strip Tank Girl, and co-owner of the band Gorillaz

Toons For Our Times

Toons For Our Times is the second collection of the comic strip series Bloom County by Berkeley Breathed.

U.S. Acres

Mort, Gort, & Wart (voiced by Frank Welker, Thom Huge, and Howard Morris, respectively): Orson's three larger, meaner brothers who played a much bigger role in the cartoon than they ever did in the comic strip, where they were unnamed.

Ventresca

Carla Ventresca is co-creator with her husband Henry Beckett of the comic strip On A Claire Day.

VMFA-121

During the Korean War the Squadron insignia depicted Al Capp's "WolfGirl" from the comic strip Li'l Abner.

You Can't Cheat an Honest Man

Fields' character in this film would inspire the authors of the comic strip The Wizard of Id to create a shady lawyer character, a Fields caricature named "Larsen E. Pettifogger".