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...And Then There Were Three...

The song "Scenes from a Night's Dream" is based on the adventures of comic strip character Little Nemo, and is the first Genesis song with lyrics written entirely by Phil Collins.

A Dennis the Menace Christmas

A Dennis the Menace Christmas is a 2007 direct-to-video movie starring Maxwell Perry Cotton and Robert Wagner, based on the comic strip by Hank Ketcham.

Abraham J. Twerski

He has written over sixty books on Judaism and self-help topics, including several books with Charles M. Schulz's Peanuts comic strips used to illustrate human interaction and behavior.

Andy Capp's fries

The product was created in 1971 by Goodmark Foods, Inc., which licensed the name and likeness of the comic strip character Andy Capp from Creators Syndicate.

Angel Gang

The Angel Gang is a group of villains in the Judge Dredd comic strip, published in 2000 AD magazine in the UK.

Barkeater Lake

In October 2005 Pandolph and fellow United Media cartoonist Stephan Pastis (Pearls Before Swine) auctioned signed original Sunday strips on eBay to raise money for victims of Hurricane Katrina.

Bet on the Saint

According to the book The Saint: A Complete History in Print, Radio, Film and Television 1928-1992 by Burl Barer, Charteris and Lee collaborated on this novel, which was based upon a storyline from the earlier The Saint comic strip.

Bill Watterson

In 2005, Gene Weingarten of the The Washington Post sent Watterson the first edition of the Barnaby book, as an incentive, hoping to land an interview.

Bob Kuwahara

In 1945 Kuwahara and his family moved to Larchmont, New York where he wrote and drew a comic strip called Miki for five years before low circulation forced him to drop the strip.

Charles Pillsbury

He is also the source of the surname (and some perceived character traits) of the comic strip character Mike Doonesbury, created by Pillsbury's college roommate, Garry Trudeau.

Comet Cursor

At its height, over 350,000 websites, including those of Warner Bros., Comedy Central, the comic strip Dilbert, and the Star Trek franchise, were using the company's technology to alter the cursor image for their visitors.

David McKay Publications

McKay’s son Alexander would follow in his father’s shoes by taking over the house to go on to publish Walt Disney’s first Mickey Mouse comics, the Blondie and Dagwood comic series, and numerous other notable works.

Dogpatch

Like the Coconino County depicted in George Herriman's Krazy Kat and the Okefenokee Swamp of Walt Kelly's Pogo, Dogpatch's (and Lower Slobbovia's) distinctive cartoon landscape became as identified with the strip as any of its characters.

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.

Frank Giacoia

Giacoia also worked on the newspaper comic strip The Amazing Spider-Man (based on the same-name Marvel comic-book series) from 1978–1981, as well as on the strips Flash Gordon, The Incredible Hulk, Johnny Reb and Billy Yank, Sherlock Holmes and Thorne McBride.

HoneyComing

Another manga, this time a four-panel comic strip, drawn by Yuki Kiriga, was serialized in ASCII Media Works' Dengeki G's Magazine between February 2007 and January 2008; the manga transferred to Dengeki G's Festival! Comic in April 2008 and ran until April 2009.

Hussian School of Art

Alumni of the Hussian School of Art include 1950s Marvel Comics artist Joe Maneely, and his classmate George Ward, an artist for periodicals including the Philadelphia Bulletin and the New York Daily News, and a 1950s assistant on Walt Kelly's comic strip Pogo.

Hy Eisman

He entered the comic strip field in 1950 and worked on several strips, including Kerry Drake, Little Iodine and Bunny.

Indrajal Comics

The first 32 issues contained Lee Falk's The Phantom stories, but thereafter, the title alternated between various King Features characters, including Lee Falk's Mandrake, Alex Raymond's Flash Gordon, Rip Kirby and Phil Corrigan, Roy Crane's Buz Sawyer, Allen Saunders' Mike Nomad, Kerry Drake, and Steve Dowling's Garth.

Inspector Shimura

Shimura is a comic strip in the British science fiction anthology the Judge Dredd Megazine, detailing the exploits of its eponymous hero in Hondo-City, a futuristic version of Tokyo.

J. M. Kerrigan

In 1946 Kerrigan tried breaking into Broadway shows, playing the discombobulated leprechaun Jackeen J. O'Malley in the show "Barnaby and Mr. O'Malley", based on the Crockett Johnson comic strip.

Jack Rice

Jack Rice (May 14, 1893 – December 14, 1968) was an American actor best known for appearing as the scrounging, freeloading brother-in-law in Edgar Kennedy'sseries of short domestic comedy films at the RKO studios, and also as "Ollie" in around a dozen of Columbia film studio's series of the Blondie comic strip, which starred Penny Singleton.

Jeff Donnell

As a child, she adopted the nickname "Jeff" after the character in her favorite comic strip, Mutt and Jeff.

Jerry B. Jenkins

From 1996 to 2004, Jenkins was writer of the sports-oriented comic strip Gil Thorp.

Joe Jitsu

One Joe Jitsu was the title character in a comic strip in the UK comic The Beano, and was voted into the comic by Beano readers in early 2004, along with Colin the Vet.

John Churchill Chase

He worked as assistant cartoonist to Frank King at the Chicago Tribune on the popular comic strip "Gasoline Alley" and other cartoons, before returning to New Orleans in 1927 to become editorial cartoonist for the New Orleans Item.

Johnny Bean from Happy Bunny Green

The strip's artist is Laura Howell, who also pens and has subsequently taken over outright Hunt Emerson's "Ratz", and has also drawn one Minnie the Minx and one Les Pretend strip.

Mr. O'Malley

O'Malley was a character in the ground-breaking, intellectual comic strip Barnaby, by cartoonist Crockett Johnson.

National Publications

The corporation was originally two companies: National Allied Publications (founded by Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson in 1934 to publish the first American comic book with all-original material rather than comic strip reprints) and Detective Comics.

Oojah

Oojah was an Elephant comic strip character as featured in the Daily Sketch Newspaper and various children's books.

Palmer Cox

Richard F. Outcault referenced Cox and The Brownies in a February 9, 1895 cartoon of Hogan's Alley.

Pirates of the Caribeano

Pirates of the Caribeano was a comic strip drawn by Barry Appleby which appeared in the British children's comic, The Beano between September 2006 and January 2009.

Racing stripe

Sometimes referred to as "go-faster stripes" on road cars, the term "go-faster stripes" was coined by comic strip, The Perishers in the British newspaper The Daily Mirror, on the premise that striping was popular with boy racers.

Raoul Barré

Another man who had stood up to Hearst was Bud Fisher, who had the courts uphold his copyright ownership to his Mutt and Jeff comic strip, which had been printed by Hearst newspapers for nine years.

Sarjakuvalehti

Recurring series in the 1950s included Superman, Brick Bradford, Toot and Casper, Little Annie Rooney, Smokey Stover, Texas Slim and Dirty Dalton, Tim Tyler's Luck, Johnny Hazard, Terry and the Pirates, Lone Ranger, Flash Gordon, Mandrake, The Phantom and King of the Royal Mounted.

Sizinkiler

Sizinkiler (Limon & Family) (literally, "Your People", but can be roughly translated as "The Common Folk"), is the daily comic strip designed and developed by the internationally recognized Turkish cartoonist Salih Memecan in 1991.

Snake Tales

Snake Tales (also known as simply Snake, after the main character) is a comic strip written by Australian cartoonist Allan Salisbury (aka Sols).

Stan Drake

In 1984, Drake replaced Mike Gersher as the artist on Blondie (written by Dean Young), and he continued drawing the strip until his death.

Stanley Albert Drake (November 9, 1921 - March 10, 1997) was an American cartoonist best known as the founding artist of the comic strip The Heart of Juliet Jones.

Stan Woch

His early career includes work as an assistant to Gray Morrow on the Barbara Cartland Romances and Buck Rogers comic strips.

The Better Half

The Better Half is the title of an American comic strip created by Bob Barnes.

Titane Laurent

Titane Laurent (born 17 September 1964) is a New Zealand painter and cartoonist, notable for her comic strip God's Stuff.

VF-114

At this point, VF-114 also changed its name and insignia to an Aardvark, apparently inspired by the resemblance between the F-4 and the cartoon character Aardvark in the "B.C." comic strip.

Walter Hoban

Walter C. Hoban (1890 - November 22, 1939) was an American cartoonist best known for his comic strip Jerry on the Job.

Winnipeg Sun

Some of the initial comics published in the Sun were Ziggy, Frank and Ernest, Dallas, Ben Swift, John Darling, Graves, Inc., Barbara Cartland's Romances, Heathcliff, The Neighborhood, and Winthrop.

Wulffmorgenthaler

Wumo, formerly Wulffmorgenthaler, is a webcomic and newspaper comic strip created by Danish writer/artist duo Mikael Wulff and Anders Morgenthaler.


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Ambrós

Miguel Ambrosio Zaragoza (31 August 1913 – 30 September 1992), better known as Ambrós, was a distinguished comic strip cartoonist, most famous for the comic book series Capitán Trueno (Captain Thunder).

Antonis Fotsis

He goes by the nickname of "Batman" since his adolescent years, when his co-players at junior national teams named him after the well-known comic-strip figure, because of his tendency/ability to be an overwhelmingly gliding presence above the basketball rim.

Bart Dickon

This surrealist collage comic strip was entitled 'A Severed Head' (named after an Iris Murdoch novel).

Be-Bop-A-Lula

Davis claimed that he wrote the song with Gene Vincent after listening to the song "Don't Bring Lulu", and Vincent himself sometimes claimed that he wrote the words inspired by a comic strip, "Little Lulu".

Bechdel

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

Biffen

Biffen och Bananen (the Beef and the Banana), a comic strip by Rit-Ola, originally published in Folket i Bild, 1936–1978

Bobby London

In 1978, London won the Jury Yellow Kid Award for Best Artist-Writer, contributed illustrations to The New York Times Op-Ed page from 1976 to 1981, and wrote and drew the Popeye syndicated daily comic strip for King Features from 1986 to 1992, at which point he was fired for doing an allegory about abortion.

Carambar

There are Titeuf ones which have pictures of the Swiss comic strip star Titeuf and his friends.

Chris Monroe

Christine Monroe (born April 17, 1962) is an American cartoonist, illustrator, and author best known for her weekly comic strip “Violet Days,” which appears in the Minneapolis Star Tribune and Duluth News Tribune.

Colonel Blink

This character became so popular that he was given his own comic strip in The Beezer and The Dandy

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).

Dan Heilman

Dan Heilman was the first artist of the Judge Parker comic strip.

Eskimo Curlew

In the 1950s the Eskimo Curlew was a subject of the Mark Trail comic strip by Ed Dodd.

Finlayson

Baby Face Finlayson, a fictional character in the UK comic strip The Beano

Fraser of Africa

Fraser of Africa is a comic strip that ran one page a week in full colour in the British comic Eagle in 1960-61, written by George Beardmore and illustrated by Frank Bellamy.

Geerts

Paul Geerts (born 1937), Belgian comic strip author, main artist of the Spike and Suzy series from 1972-2002

Glypha III

In 1996, cartoonist Bill Amend created Slug-Man: The Video Game, a modded version based on his comic strip FoxTrot (and credited to FoxTrot character Jason).

Harold L. Humes

It was there that he won his lifelong nickname, when his classmates dubbed him Doc after "Doc Huer", a brilliant scientist/nutty professor in Buck Rogers, a popular comic strip.

Hart Amos

After leaving K.G. Murray, Amos was persuaded to take on the illustration work for John Dixon's comic strip, Air Hawk and the Flying Doctors.

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.

Hoyts

Their only well known release was the film version of New Zealand comic strip Footrot Flats, entitled Footrot Flats: The Dog's Tale.

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.

Isaac Asimov short stories bibliography

Asimov also wrote a one-page comic strip called "Star Empire" in the May 1990 issue of Argosy (art by Charles Schneeman).

Jim Keefe

Keefe currently provides the artwork for the syndicated comic strip Sally Forth, as well as performs freelance assignments and also provides graphic art for a number of different companies.

Jim Roper

Roper heard about the first race at a three-quarter mile dirt track in Charlotte, NC by reading a note about it in Zack Mosley's The Adventures of Smilin' Jack comic strip in his local newspaper.

Lino Landolfi

In 1969 he started a collaboration with the children magazine Il Giornalino, for which Landolfi, in addition to having made several comic adaptations from literary such as Gulliver's Travels and Father Brown, co-created with writer Claudio Nizzi the popular "Piccolo Dente", leading character of a long lasting eponym comic strip.

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.

Merho

Contrary to the other major Flemish newspapers like De Standaard/Het Nieuwsblad (with Spike and Suzy) and Het Volk (with Nero), Het Laatste Nieuws had no local, Flemish comic strip but only published Dutch comics by Marten Toonder or Hans G. Kresse, which left an opportunity for Merho.

Moon Mullen

He received the nickname "Moon" after the popular comic strip character "Moon Mullins".

Mullets

Mullets was a short-lived comic strip by Rick Stromoski and Steve McGarry.

Nancy Morgan

She starred opposite Ron Howard in Howard's directorial debut, Grand Theft Auto, as well as starring opposite Italian film star Terence Hill in a feature film and European television series based on comic-strip hero Lucky Luke.

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.

Nodwick

They've also encountered characters who appear to be from other sources as well (a pageful of cameos including Xena and Harry Potter in one issue, Death from The Sandman appearing in another, Spider-Man being chased by an amorous Lolth in a comic strip in Dragon Magazine, etc.

Ogu and Mampato in Rapa Nui

Mampato is, with Condorito, the most popular and acclaimed comic strip from Chile.

Padraig Marrinan

He named William Orpen and John Lavery as influences and also claimed American comic strip artist, Bud Fisher as an important influence in his youth.

Plop

Kabouter Plop, the eponymous hero of the Belgian children's TV and comic strip series

Pyton

Some of Pytons most prominent artists were Tommy Sydsæter, Bjørn Ousland, Arild Midthun (pen name: Arnold Milten), Kristian B. Walters and Frode Øverli who a few years later created the successful and popular comic strip Pondus.

Queen snake

Linus van Pelt, from the Peanuts comic strip, has a phobia of queen snakes, believing them to be venomous, and finds them ugly.

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).

Romeo Brown

Romeo Brown was a British comic strip written by Peter O'Donnell and drawn by Alfred Mazure (1954–1957) and Jim Holdaway (1957–1963).

Sir Baboon McGoon

Its nose art and name were based on the male character Baboon McGoon from Al Capp's comic strip, Li'l Abner.

There Is a Happy Land

It is also a favorite song of Krazy Kat, the main character from George Herriman's eponymous newspaper comic strip (1913-1944), where the song's opening verse is often willingly misspelled as "There is a heppy lend fur fur away... sic".

Tim Fish

Fish was born in 1970 and attended the University of New Hampshire, where he had a twice-weekly comic strip running in the college newspaper, The New Hampshire, and started a 100-issue superhero comic called "Arche-Lady."

V. T. Hamlin

By 1923, he was on staff as a photographer, a cartoonist and a writer at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, where he created his first comic strip, The Hired Hand, and a sports feature, The Panther Kitten.

What's New

What's New with Phil & Dixie, a comic strip that appeared in Dragon magazine, now republished as a webcomic

When Worlds Collide

The themes of an approaching planet threatening the Earth, and an athletic hero and his girlfriend traveling to the new planet by rocket, were used by writer Alex Raymond in his 1934 comic strip Flash Gordon.

Yoann

In January 2009, it was announced that Yoann and the comics writer Fabien Vehlmann would take over the responsibility for the Spirou et Fantasio comic strip.