* 1960 – Batem, French comic book artist

* Adrian Alphona, Canadian comic book artist

Jonathan Rosenberg, author / artist of the humorous science fiction webcomic Scenes from a Multiverse, references an ansible powered by a quantum-entangled ferret in the 2012-Jun-25 edition of the comic.

* 1971 – Michael Turner, American comic book artist ( d. 2008 )

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.

He remains the only cartoonist to be embraced by TV ; no other comic artist to date has come close to Capp's televised exposure.

From 1994 to 1996, Marvel Comics published a monthly Beavis and Butt-Head comic under the Marvel Absurd imprint by a variety of writers, but with each issue drawn by artist Rick Parker.

Bill Holbrook ( born 1958 ) is an American cartoonist and webcomic writer and artist, best known for his syndicated comic strip On the Fastrack.

" The actress Minnie Maddern Fiske wrote in Harper's Weekly that " a constantly increasing body of cultured, artistic people are beginning to regard the young English buffoon, Charles Chaplin, as an extraordinary artist, as well as a comic genius.

" Disney's Atlantis: The Lost Empire ( 2001 ) had a disappointing box office performance but is considered to be a " cult favorite " because of its unique art and animation style inspired by comic book artist Mike Mignola.

The Swiss teacher, author and caricature artist Rodolphe Töpffer ( Geneva, 1799 – 1846 ) is considered the father of the modern comic strips.

While the Switcheroonie was a one-time publicity stunt, for one artist to take over a feature from its originator is an old tradition in newspaper cartooning ( as it is in the comic book industry ).

Elwes appeared in Steven Spielberg's adaptation of Belgian artist Hergé's popular comic strip The Adventures of Tintin.

Shortly before quitting, he moonlighted as a comic book artist, contributing half the artwork for a one-shot comic book ( the other half of the art being done by story partner Jack Hannah ) titled Donald Duck Finds Pirate Gold.

Barks transitioned his skills as an animator artist and storyman into those of a comic artist and writer, notably in his longer adventure tales.

* Borgia, by Milo Manara ( artist ) & Alejandro Jodorowsky ( writer ), a comic in the form of serialized graphic novel, depicting the story of the Borgia family.

He is a talented artist, and has worked on the Captain America comic book published in the Marvel universe.

Adams was named best international comic strip artist of 1995 in the Adamson Awards given by the Swedish Academy of Comic Art.

* 1918 – John Celardo, American comic strip artist ( d. 2012 )

* 1978 – Tony Moore, American comic book artist

DirkJan is a comic, the creation of Dutch author and artist Mark Retera.

* 2012 – Sheldon Moldoff, Golden Age and Silver Age comic book artist ( b. 1920 )

Apart from misplaced modifiers and headlinese, journalism contributes a wide variety of comic ambiguities in both editorial and advertising matter.

), a movie based on a character from the Mexican comic Los Supermachos of Mexican cartoonist Rius, who co-wrote the screenplay.

Perhaps the most unusual thing about the privately operated buses is the fact that they are all highly decorated and personalized, with decaling and home made interior designs that range from comic book scenes, to erotic themes, and even to " Hello Kitty " themes.

In the Symposium, Agathon is presented as the friend of the comic poet Aristophanes, but this alleged friendship did not prevent Aristophanes from harshly criticizing Agathon in at least two of his comic plays: the Thesmophoriazousae and the ( now lost ) Gerytades.

Atlantis inspires today's literature, from science fiction to comic books to films.

Gluck feared that the Parisian critics would denounce the opera by a young composer known mostly for comic pieces and so the opera was originally billed in the press as being a new work by Gluck with some assistance from Antonio Salieri, then shortly before the premiere of the opera the Parisian press reported that the work was to be partly by Gluck and partly by Salieri, and finally after popular and critical success were won on stage the opera was acknowledged in a letter to the public by Gluck as being wholly by the young Antonio.

In 1946 Capp created a special full-color comic book, Al Capp by Li ' l Abner, to be distributed by the Red Cross to encourage the thousands of amputee veterans returning from the war.

" 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 ).

However, Frazetta returned briefly a few years later to draw a public service comic book called Li ' l Abner and the Creatures from Drop-Outer Space, distributed by the Job Corps in 1965.

The resulting publicity led to hundreds of papers dropping his comic strip, and Capp, already in failing health, withdrew from public speaking.

William " Bill " Boyd Watterson II ( born July 5, 1958 ) is an American cartoonist and the author of the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes, which was syndicated from 1985 to 1995.

Watterson battled against pressure from publishers to merchandise his work, something he felt would cheapen his comic.

The Beano comic takes its name from the English word beano which can be loosely interpreted as a good time.

Released monthly, these titles are a feature length ( usually about 64 page ) adventure, featuring a character from the comic itself.

The comic also ran A4-sized Beano Specials in 1987 with full coloured pages, which later were replaced by Beano Superstars which ran for 121 issues from 1992-2002.

Plug was a comic based on the eponymous character from The Bash Street Kids that began with issue dated 24 September 1977, and is notable for being the first comic to make use of rotogravure printing.

Another occurred in issue 2674, dated 16 October 1993, when the whole comic was now printed in full colour, along with some new strips such as The Numskulls, which had been moved from The Beezer.

Two new comic strips were introduced, these being The Riot Squad and Fred's Bed, reprints from Hoot and The Beezer and Topper respectively.

At the start of 2011, the Beano VIP pages were dropped from the comic, but the online features remain.

According to David Robinson, unlike in more conventional slapstick comedies, the comic moments in Chaplin's films centred on the Tramp's attitude to the things happening to him: the humour did not come from the Tramp bumping into a tree but from his lifting of his hat to the tree in apology.

Chaplin also diverged from conventional slapstick by slowing down his pace and exhausting each scene of its comic potential, and focusing more on developing the viewer's relationship to the characters.