* Alphonse " Big Boy " Caprice, character in the comic strip Dick Tracy

* Alphonse and Gaston, French duo in a comic strip created by Frederick Burr Opper

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

* Alfred, a fictional penguin in the comic strip Zig et Puce

Alfred Gerald Caplin ( September 28, 1909 – November 5, 1979 ), better known as Al Capp, was an American cartoonist and humorist best known for the satirical comic strip Li ' l Abner.

Among his earliest influences were Punch cartoonist – illustrator Phil May, and American comic strip cartoonists Tad Dorgan, Cliff Sterrett, Rube Goldberg, Rudolph Dirks, Fred Opper, Billy DeBeck, George McManus and Milt Gross.

His younger brother Elliot Caplin also became a comic strip creator, best known for co-creating the soap opera strip The Heart of Juliet Jones with artist Stan Drake, and conceiving the comic strip character Broom-Hilda with cartoonist Russell Myers.

The comic strip stars Li ' l Abner Yokum — the simple-minded, loutish but good-natured and eternally innocent hayseed who lives with his parents — scrawny but superhuman Mammy Yokum, and shiftless, childlike Pappy Yokum.

Capp peopled his comic strip with an assortment of memorable characters, including Marryin ' Sam, Hairless Joe, Lonesome Polecat, Evil-Eye Fleegle, General Bullmoose, Lena the Hyena, Senator Jack S. Phogbound ( Capp's caricature of the anti-New Deal Dixiecrats ), the ( shudder!

The technique — as invigorating as it was unorthodox — was later adopted by cartoonists like Walt Kelly and Garry Trudeau ," wrote comic strip historian Rick Marschall.

Li ' l Abner was also the subject of the first book-length, scholarly assessment of an American comic strip ever published.

( Siegel and Shuster had earlier poked fun at Capp in a Superman story in Action Comics # 55, December 1942, in which a cartoonist named " Al Hatt " invents a comic strip featuring the hillbilly " Tiny Rufe.

Capp briefly resigned his membership in 1949 to protest their refusal of admission to Hilda Terry, creator of the comic strip Teena.

" In 1950, Capp introduced a cartoonist character named " Happy Vermin "— a caricature of Fisher — who hired Abner to draw his comic strip in a dimly lit closet, ( after sacking his previous " temporary " assistant of 20 years, who had been cut off from all his friends in the process ).

" The article recounted Capp's days working for an unnamed " benefactor " with a miserly, swinish personality, who Capp claimed was a never-ending source of inspiration when it came time to create a new unregenerate villain for his comic strip.

Fisher retaliated clumsily, doctoring photostats of Li ' l Abner and falsely accusing Capp of sneaking obscenities into his comic strip.

Another " feud " seemed to be looming when, in one run of Sunday strips in 1957, Capp lampooned the comic strip Mary Worth as " Mary Worm.

In the Golden Age of the American comic strip, successful cartoonists received a great deal of attention ; their professional and private lives were reported in the press, and their celebrity was often nearly sufficient to rival their creations.

Besides his use of the comic strip to voice his opinions and display his humor, Capp was a popular guest speaker at universities, and on radio and television.

Dilbert is an American comic strip written and drawn by Scott Adams.

The comic strip originally revolved around Dilbert and his " pet " dog Dogbert in their home.

The popularity of the comic strip within the corporate sector has led to the Dilbert character being used in many business magazines and publications ( he has made several appearances on the cover of Fortune ).

" Dilbert notes that the strip is " nothing but a clown with a small head who says random things " and Dogbert responds that he is " maintaining his artistic integrity by creating a comic that no one will enjoy.

In the late 1990s, an amateur cartoonist named Karl Hörnell began submitting a comic strip parodying both Dilbert and the Image Comics series The Savage Dragon to Dragon creator Erik Larsen.

The strip began as a specific parody of the comic book itself, set loosely within the office structure of Dilbert, with Hörnell doing an emulation of Adams ' cartooning style.

", commonly used in the IT industry, also originated in a Dilbert comic strip.

Dilbert was named the best syndicated strip of 1997 in the Harvey Awards and won the Max & Moritz Prize as best international comic strip for 1998.

In the Squiddy Awards, Dilbert was named the best daily strip of 1996 and 1997, and the best comic strip of 1998 and 2000.

The new Dilbert animations are animated versions of original comic strips produced by RingTales and animated by Powerhouse Animation Studios.

On February 20, 2008, the first of a series of Dilbert strips showed Wally being caught posting a comic strip which " compares managers to drunken lemurs ".

Alexander also voiced Catbert, the evil director of human resources, in the short-lived Dilbert animated series based on the popular comic strip.

Scott Raymond Adams ( born June 8, 1957 ) is the American creator of the Dilbert comic strip and the author of several nonfiction works of satire, commentary, business, and general speculation.

Periodic attempts to win publication with Dilbert and non-Dilbert comic panels alike failed, including with The New Yorker and Playboy ( not necessarily with the same comics ).

After Griffith criticized Scott Adams ' comic Dilbert, Adams responded on May 18, 1998, with a comic strip called Pippy the Ziphead, " cramming as much artwork in as possible so no one will notice there's only one joke ... it's on the reader.

" Dilbert notes that the strip is " nothing but a clown with a small head who says random things " and Dogbert responds that he is " maintaining his artistic integrity by creating a comic that no one will enjoy.

Scott Adams has made references to Jefferies Tubes in his comic strip and animated television series Dilbert.

* Five Criteria for a successful business plan in biotech uses Dilbert comic strips to remind people of what not to do when researching and writing a business plan for a biotech start-up.

His book The Dilbert Principle – A Cubicle ’ s Eye View of Bosses, Meetings, Management Fads & Other Workplace Afflictions discusses the foibles of management and their plans as depicted in the Dilbert comic strips by Scott Adams.

The Dilberito is a vegan microwave burrito produced by Scott Adams Foods, Inc. and named after the comic strip character Dilbert.

The Joy of Work ( 1998 ) by Scott Adams is a two-part book, the first offering recommendations as to how office workers can find happiness at their cubicle desks and the second sharing Adams ' formula for creating humor, based on his experience penning the Dilbert comic strip.

* Confusopoly Pricing – Companies Intentionally Trick Consumers Instead of Competing with examples of Dilbert comic strips that exemplify the meaning of the word

* Topper, a minor character in the comic strip Dilbert