* 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.

The Chicken provided comic relief and former Los Angeles Dodgers manager Tommy Lasorda appeared as " The Dugout Wizard.

The Wizard of Id is a daily newspaper comic strip created by American cartoonists Brant Parker and Johnny Hart.

* The Wonderful Wizard of Oz ( comics ), the first of a series of comic book adaptations published by Marvel Comics

The Wizard of Oz catalog: L. Frank Baum's novel, its sequels and their adaptations for stage, television, movies, radio, music videos, comic books, commercials and more.

According to the Wizard comic his surname was Brown.

The same characters also appeared in one-page stories ( not comic strips ) in The Wizard in 1955, entitled " Bash St. School " and featured in the full-page cover cartoon on 23 / 7 / 1955.

The sight of these led to him being dubbed Wilson of the Wizard ( an comic book character ).

The second guest was Don Herbert, TV's " Mr. Wizard ", and the show ended with a young comic named Steve Fessler reciting aloud the script of an obscure Bela Lugosi movie Bowery at Midnight.

The comic artist Brad Neely's reinterpretation of Harry Potter, Wizard People, took Warner Brother's first Harry Potter film, The Sorcerer's Stone, and substituted the original soundtrack with a narration that casts the hero as a Nietzschean superman.

* The Wizard of Id, an American comic strip, and its fictional kingdom

Later in the 1990s, Wildstorm Productions released a new Speed Racer comic series in 1999 to widespread acclaim, becoming the # 1 pick of industry publication Wizard magazine.

This version of Doctor Octopus is ranked as 179th greatest comic book character of Wizard.

Nightcrawler was ranked as the 133rd greatest comic book character of all time by Wizard magazine.

Wizard magazine ranked him as the 135th greatest comic book character of all time while IGN ranked Groo as the 100th greatest comic book hero of all time stating that "... while he may not be the brightest bulb on the battlefield, Groo is an earnest and kind-hearted adventurer whose travels are never short on laughs and adventure.

Hart also co-created and wrote the comic strip The Wizard of Id, drawn by Brant Parker, which has been distributed since November 9, 1964.

Hawkman was ranked as the 118th greatest comic book character of all time by Wizard magazine.

* Hammaglystwythkbrngxxaxolotl, also known as " Ham the Weather Wizard " in the Badger comic book

* Caliber Comics ' Oz comic book series, followed by Arrow Comics ' Dark Oz and The Land of Oz featured the Wizard, affectionately known as " Oscar ," particularly to Ozma, as a tall, bald, mustachioed man, brooding, powerful, and not at all bumbling.

* The 2006 comic book The Oz / Wonderland Chronicles features a Wizard who is closer to the benevolent figure in Baum's works.

* Tabu the Jungle Wizard, a superpowered jungle hero comic book character created by Fletcher Hanks

Starting in 1971, Under the direction of David Abram's son Martin, Mego began purchasing license rights to a variety of successful motion pictures, television programs, and comic books, and started producing lines for Planet of the Apes, Star Trek, and the Wizard of Oz.

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer hired Haley for The Wizard of Oz after another song-and-dance comic, Buddy Ebsen, who was originally set to play the Tin Man, had a near-fatal reaction from inhaling the aluminum dust makeup.

Thorne was known during the 1970s for attending comic book conventions in his persona as The Wizard judging Red Sonja Lookalike Contests — the most famed winner was artist / writer Wendy Pini He was born in Rahway, New Jersey and lives in Scotch Plains, New Jersey.