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unusual facts about The Tick



Brian Ferrara

In the same interview, Ferrara says he was inspired to get into the comic book industry by such titles as Heavy Metal, Mad, Wolverine and Punisher from Marvel, Lobo and Batman from DC, Evil Ernie, The Crow, The Tick, and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

Christopher McCulloch

When McCulloch promoted it at a comic book convention in New York, he caught the eye of Ben Edlund, creator of The Tick, who offered McCulloch the chance to write for a Tick spin-off comic while Edlund wrote for the animated series.

Danny Leiner

He has also directed a wide range of television including Arrested Development, Everwood, Gilmore Girls, Freaks and Geeks, Sports Night, Felicity, Action, The Tick, MTV's Austin Stories and HBO's Mind of the Married Man, The Sopranos and How to Make It in America.

David Sacks

His writing and producing credits include seasons five and six on The Simpsons, for which he won an Emmy award, 3rd Rock from the Sun, for which he received a Golden Globe award, Malcolm in the Middle, The Tick, Regular Show on Cartoon Network, Murphy Brown, and created and Executive Produced "Lewis Black's The Root of All Evil" for Comedy Central.

Leanza Cornett

She has also served as a host for several television shows, including Entertainment Tonight (1994–1995), New Attitudes (1998), and Who Wants to Marry a Multi-Millionaire? (2000), and made television guest appearances in television series such as Melrose Place, The Tick, and Fear Factor.

Sewer Urchin

He is the sworn defender of The City's sewers and has a Rain Man-like personality, frequently utilizing interjections such as "Yeah," "Definitely," and "Very (something)."


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American Maid

She has also been revealed to be an operative (at least part-time) for the US government and had the former alias of Jeanine Smith during a mission with the Tick and Arthur to rescue Yank, a monkey made temporarily smart by cosmic rays, and subsequently kidnapped by the evil ruler Pineapple Pokopo.

Ben Edlund

The Hammers would later work with Edlund again during the creation of The Venture Bros. which draws inspiration from The Tick.

Christopher McCulloch

Working on The Tick (and listening to J.G. Thirlwell's first Steroid Maximus album) helped McCulloch translate the story into cartoon form.

Haematoxenus

veliferus infects cattle and the African buffalo and is spread by the tick Amblyomma variegatum.

Karl Farkas

There he worked as a 'Blitzdichter' (nickname: the Tick), and performed together with Fritz Grünbaum in a 'Doppelconférence', a specialised art-form which was created in Budapest.

Lunada

Thalía was also to release Sangre Caliente and Aventurero as singles, but they were canceled due to the tick-borne Lyme disease that prevented her from working during treatment.

Phillip E. Hardy

In a May 9, 1994 Music Connection magazine review, Hardy’s vocal style was compared to Harry Chapin and in a July 4, 1994 article said his drumming was described as “As precise as the tick-tock of Big Ben and rocks like a run away renegade.

Pin compatibility

The tick-mark here represents the omitted subfamily designator – most commonly HC (high-speed CMOS), but can also be blank (original TTL), C (CMOS), LS (low-power Schottky), and many others.

Squeak!

The show follows three young mice Tizzy (voiced by Rick Jones & Alan D Marriott), Toot (voiced by Annie Bovaird) Tog (voiced by Holly G. Frankel), and the narrator (voiced by Ian Whitnall), and they all live in the "Tick Tock Clock", except for the un-seen narrator.