According to comics historian Coulton Waugh, a 1947 poll of newspaper readers who claimed they ignored the comics page altogether revealed that many confessed to making a single exception: Li ' l Abner.

He is also known for his columns and blogs, and for his work as a historian and biographer of the comics industry, in particular his award-winning Jack Kirby biography, Kirby: King of Comics.

Famous people who have lived here include Ernest Shackleton, the Antarctic explorer ; George Grove of musical dictionary fame ; John Logie Baird, the television inventor ; Jason Statham, an actor ; the comics and film historian Denis Gifford ; and Dame Cicely Saunders, founder of the modern hospice movement.

* Denis Gifford — comics and film historian

That obstacle was avoided when Walt found a baby on his doorstep, as described by comics historian Don Markstein:

" In America's Great Comic Strip Artists ( 1997 ), comics historian Richard Marschall analyzed the overtly misanthropic subtext of Li ' l Abner:

" Capp had always advocated a more activist agenda for the Society, and he had begun in December 1949 to make his case in the Newsletter as well as at the meetings ," wrote comics historian R. C. Harvey.

Capp turned that world upside-down by routinely injecting politics and social commentary into Li ' l Abner ," wrote comics historian Rick Marschall in America's Great Comic Strip Artists ( 1989 ).

" Within this framework, historian Jess Nevins writes that, " Timely Publications how Goodman's group companies had become known ; before this it was known as ' Red Circle ' because of the logo that Goodman had put on his pulp magazines ...." A variation was used as a publishing imprint on some Timely comics, with the Michigan State University's Comic Art Collection Reading Room Index giving Red Circle Magazines as an " American comics publisher, a Timely-Marvel imprint ", and listing issues of Comic Capers ( 1946 ), Snafu ( 1956 ) and My Own Romance ( 1960 ) as examples.

He went on to create book covers, become a comics historian who published a pioneering two-volume history of the birth and early years of comic books, and to create conceptual art and character designs for films including Raiders of the Lost Ark and Bram Stoker's Dracula.

" Before anyone knew it ," wrote comics historian Christopher Irving, " the hundreds of Fold-Ins created a timeline of American history, political satire, and entertainment.

In the end, the problematic chapter, " The Long Voyage ", retained what one comics historian called " a respectable number of African-American whalemen.

McGregor and Russell, however, remain the series ' signature creative team ; more than two decades after the original series end, comics historian Peter Sanderson wrote that,

The " goggle-eyed, moustached, gloved and top-hatted, bulbous-nosed, cigar-chomping shrimp " ( according to comics historian Bill Blackbeard ) was relentlessly henpecked by " a wife three times his size " ( as the song lyric goes ).

Singaporean cartoonist Morgan Chua believed that Lat " managed to create an impressively local style while remaining original ", and although comics historian Isao Shimizu found Lat's lines " somewhat crude ", he noted that the cartoonist's work was " highly original " and " full of life ".

Responding to pressure from the African-American community, the character Lil ' Eightball ( who appeared in a handful of Walter Lantz cartoons in the late 1930s and in those initial appearances constituted what animation and comics historian Michael Barrier described as being a " grotesquely stereotypical black boy ") was discontinued as one of the featured characters in the Lantz anthology comic book New Funnies ; the last appearance of the character was in the August 1947 issue.

That is generally considered the start date for the strip, but in 1970, comics historian Raymond Miller wrote that internal evidence in the first Sunday page suggested the strip had at least a week's worth of prior daily strips.

Wunder drew dramatic and highly detailed pictures, but comics historian Maurice Horn claimed it was difficult to tell one character from another and wrote that Wunder's stories lacked Caniff's essential humor.

Alumni include Derek McCulloch, David Elyea ( current Central Mailer ), comics historian Randy Duncan, and comics professionals John Dennis and Louis Bright-Raven.

On the other hand, numerous strips such as Bob Gustafson's Specs and Virgil Partch's The Captain's Gig are almost completely forgotten today, other than a brief display in the Stripper's Guide site run by comics historian Allan Holtz.

Rick Norwood ( b. August 4, 1942 ) is an American publisher, mathematician, comics historian and short story author.

In the early 1900s, the first popular French comics appeared, including Bécassine and Les Pieds Nickelés.

With a number of publishers in place, including Les Editions Dargaud and Dupuis, two of the biggest influences for over 50 years, the market for domestic comics had reached maturity.

In 1975 he revived the Moebius pseudonym, and with Jean-Pierre Dionnet, Philippe Druillet, and Bernard Farkas, he became one of the founding members of the comics art group " Les Humanoides Associes ".

They had acquired several licences for popular Franco-Belgian comics, such as Tintin, Asterix and Les Tuniques Bleues.

* Several Marsupilami cameos and tributes have been produced in Franco-Belgian comics ; among the earliest in Jijé's series Blondin et Cirage, in the volume Les soucoupes volantes ( 1956 ), where the characters Blondin and Cirage find the creature Marsupilami Africanis, a slightly different species than the South American Marsupilamus Fantasii.

The continuity of the Crankshaft strip is as much as 20 years behind that of Funky Winkerbean ; strips in both comics in August and September 2011 show Cayla Williams, a high school teacher and secretary to Principal Nate Green and Les ' fiancee, with Keisha her teenage daughter, to be a college-age student in the former.

*" Les éditions Fei " publish a series of French-language comics about Bao Zheng, as of August 2010, 2 volumes are in print.

It introduced two new comics, the eponymous Spirou drawn by the young Frenchman Rob-Vel, and Les Aventures de Tif ( later to become Tif et Tondu ) drawn by Fernand Dineur, and printed American comics such as Superman, Red Ryder and Brick Bradford.

It was one of the first series to appear in the Belgian comics magazine Tintin in 1946, and was subsequently published in book form by Les Editions du Lombard.

The comics starring Totor, Les aventures de Totor, chef de patrouille des Hannetons ( The Adventures of Totor, Leader of the Cockchafer Patrol ), appeared in the magazine Le Boy-Scout Belge between 1926 and 1929.

* Raymond Poïvet, one of the creators of the famous French science fiction comics Les Pionniers de l ' Espérance

* Les 400 coups, a French-Canadian comics publisher

Shifting from illustrated text to a comics format, Wood continued the storyline in his later graphic novel, published in two editions ( one b / w, one color )— The Wizard King ( 1978 ) and The King of the World ( Les Editions du Triton, 1978 ).

Other comics that Rodrigue worked on include Edmond Rostand and Les Pieds Nickelés.

Laloux went on to direct two other features ; Les Maîtres du temps ( 1981, a collaboration with the famed French comics artist Mœbius animated in Hungary ) and Gandahar ( 1987, animated in North Korea ).

Newer autobiographical comics are regularly published on his blog under the title Les petits riens ( serialized in English paperback volumes as Little Nothings ).

In addition to the ongoing Valerian, Christin has written several other comics one-shots, including The City That Didn't Exist ( Le Ville qui n ' existe pas ), The Black Order Brigade ( Les Phalanges de l ' ordre noir ) and The Hunting Party ( Partie de chasse ) ( all illustrated by Enki Bilal ).

Les Humanoïdes Associés is a French publishing house specialising in comics and graphic novels.

By the late 2000s smartphones were proliferating, which presented Les Humanoïdes Associés with an opportunity to make new inroads into the digitization of comics.

A number of IT and web companies expressed interest in this new form of comics distribution, and Les Humanoïdes Associés gave two of them the rights to digitally distribute their works.

From the 1970s and the " adult " turn of the comics, new publishing houses rose, especially in France, like Les Humanoïdes Associés, Glénat and Delcourt.

Société Dargaud, doing business as Les Éditions Dargaud, is a publisher of Franco-Belgian comics series, headquartered in the 18th arrondissement of Paris.

* The comics series Les Terres Creuses by Belgian comics writers Luc and François Schuiten features several hollow-Earth settings.