In October 1996 the independent comic book company, Caliber Comics, began publishing the first of the six issue monthly series ( including republishing the ashcan editions ), Pakkins ' Land: Paul's Adventure, as its flagship title in launching an all-ages imprint, Tapestry.

Parkin has written the ashcan issue of a new comic book series entitled Ichabod created by Danish comics creator Hans Christian Vang, based upon The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, which was published in 2011.

The style, sometimes referred to by fashion journalists as " ashcan " or " bohemian-bourgeois ", is similar to the boho-chic style popularized in Britain by Kate Moss and Sienna Miller.

( Despite his inclusion in the group by some critics, Hopper rejected their focus ; his depictions of city streets were nearly free of the usual details, " with not a single incidental ashcan in sight.

Its initial entry, developed by writer Bill Parker and artist C. C. Beck, was Thrill Comics, a single issue of which was published only as an ashcan copy.

He was well known for his jazz-influenced, proto pop art paintings of the 1940s and 1950s, bold, brash, and colorful, as well as his ashcan pictures in the early years of the 20th century.

Released only in New York City newsstands, Double Action Comics was most likely an “ ashcan ”, a limited-run publication produced simply to register the title.

The first issue was an ashcan copy, published but not distributed or sold.

Though a handful of ashcan copies of the Pharos edition were eventually distributed, Stephan Michael Sechi ( who maintained creative control of the game through all editions ) rescinded the license with Pharos and announced that the game was up for grabs.

Image Comics published an ashcan preview edition and two regular issues.

The series ran for six issues, published between January and October 1996 ( with an " ashcan " preview issue published in September 1995 ).

Competitors had already published a Flash Comics title, and created a character named " Captain Thunder ", so the Flash Comics ashcan failed to claim those trademarks for the company, but it did establish a publication date for copyright purposes.

( Hopper's inclusion in the group he forswore is ironic: his depictions of city streets are almost entirely free of the usual minutiae, with not a single incidental ashcan in sight.

The first issue, in early 1966, had only a small limited 200-issue run of an " ashcan " edition.

An ashcan copy is a term that originated in the Golden Age of Comic Books, meant to describe a publication produced solely for legal purposes ( such as trademark ), and not normally intended for distribution.

The word ashcan is an older synonym for wastebasket, trashcan, or other garbage receptacle, intended for ashes from a fire.

In modern comics, ashcan editions may refer to promotional comics in the independent / self-publishing market.

Fawcett created two black-and-white ashcan # 1 issues to solicit advertisers and to secure the copyrights to the material.

* Aliens ( comic book )

The comic book series Cerebus The Aardvark ( created, written and illustrated by Dave Sim ) features an aardvark as its protagonist.

* Atlas ( comics series ), a comic book series by Dylan Horrocks

* 1960 – Batem, French comic book artist

* Adrian Alphona, Canadian comic book artist

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.

* 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 ).

* 1953 – James Vance, American comic book writer, author and playwright

* Alfred Pennyworth, a DC comic book character who serves as Batman's butler

* Lisa Simpson is delighted at the sight of a rack with Tintin and Asterix comics in a comic book store, depicted in The Simpsons episode " Husbands and Knives ".

* In the episode " Goodnight Mr. Bean ", Mr. Bean and Teddy are reading an Asterix comic book.

In the comic book Asterix and Cleopatra, the author Goscinny inserted a pun about alexandrines: when the Druid Panoramix (" Getafix " in the English translation ) meets his Alexandrian ( Egyptian ) friend the latter exclaims Je suis, mon cher ami, || très heureux de te voir at which Panoramix observes C ' est un Alexandrin (" That's an alexandrine!

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

* 1939 – DC Comics publishes its second major superhero in Detective Comics # 27 ; he is Batman, one of the most popular comic book superheroes of all time.

is a comic book limited series written by Toshimichi Suzuki and illustrated by Tony Takezaki.

Fearless Fosdick — and Capp's other spoofs like " Little Fanny Gooney " ( 1952 ) and " Jack Jawbreaker "— were almost certainly an early inspiration for Harvey Kurtzman's Mad Magazine, which began in 1952 as a comic book that specifically parodied other comics in the same distinctive style and subversive manner.

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.

( This fable-like story was collected into an educational comic book called Mammy Yokum and the Great Dogpatch Mystery !, and distributed by the Anti-Defamation League of B ' nai B ' rith later that year.

) Two years later, Capp's studio issued Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story, a 1958 biographical comic book distributed by The Fellowship of Reconciliation.

There was also a separate line of comic book titles published by the Caplin family-owned Toby Press, including Shmoo Comics featuring Washable Jones.

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.

Highlights of the strip's final decades include " Boomchik " ( 1961 ), in which America's international prestige is saved by Mammy Yokum, " Daisy Mae Steps Out " ( 1966 ), a female-empowering tale of Daisy's brazenly audacious “ homewrecker gland ," " The Lips of Marcia Perkins " ( 1967 ), a satirical, thinly-veiled commentary on venereal disease and public health warnings, " Ignoble Savages " ( 1968 ), in which the Mob takes over Harvard, and " Corporal Crock " ( 1973 ), in which Bullmoose reveals his reactionary cartoon role model, in a tale of obsession and the fanatical world of comic book collecting.

Army of Darkness had a comic book adaptation and several comic book sequels.