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.

The public opinion of voters was remarkably influenced by the political satire performed by the comic poets at the theatres.

* 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 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!

Besides Dick Tracy, Capp parodied many other comic strips in Li ' l Abner — including Steve Canyon, Superman ( at least twice ; first as " Jack Jawbreaker " in 1947, and again in 1966 as " Chickensouperman "), Mary Worth, Peanuts, Rex Morgan, M. D., Little Annie Rooney and Little Orphan Annie ( in which Punjab became " Punjbag ," an oleaginous slob ).

( 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.

Cartoonist Mell Lazarus, creator of Miss Peach and Momma, wrote a comic novel in 1963 titled The Boss Is Crazy, Too which was partly inspired by his apprenticeship days working with Capp and his brother Elliot at Toby.

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.

Later, when Watterson was creating names for the characters in his comic strip, he allegedly decided upon Calvin ( after the Protestant reformer John Calvin ) and Hobbes ( after the social philosopher Thomas Hobbes ) as a " tip of the hat " to the political science department at Kenyon.

Quite often, one comic will make a tongue-in-cheek jibe at the other ( e. g., a character meeting an elderly lady, and stating that she's " older than the jokes in The Dandy ").

A copy of this first issue sold for £ 12, 100 on 16 March 2004, which was at the time thought to be the highest price ever paid for a British comic at an auction.

The venture was unsuccessful, in part because the comic cost 9p, with the Beano at the time only costing 4p and most of its rivals priced similarly.

While majoring in illustration and visual design at Auburn University, Holbrook served as art director of the student newspaper, doing editorial cartoons and a weekly comic strip.

However, 18th century theatrical dance had at least two other styles: comic or grotesque, and semi-serious.

There were more than 200 different comic strips and daily cartoon panels in American newspapers alone each day for most of the 20th century, for a total of at least 7, 300, 000 episodes.

Numerous events in newspaper comic strips have reverberated throughout society at large, though few of these events occurred in recent years, owing mainly to the declining role of the newspaper comic strip as an entertainment form.

The world's longest comic strip is long and on display at Trafalgar Square as part of the London Comedy Festival.

Stan and Hilda Ogden were often at the centre of overtly funny storylines, with other comic characters including Eddie Yeats ( Geoffrey Hughes ), Fred Gee ( Fred Feast ) and Jack Duckworth ( William Tarmey ) all making their first appearances during the decade.

In one 1960s comic, when Kent finds himself at a loose end when staff at the Daily Planet go on strike, he seriously considers it a chance to try out a new identity in case he has " to abandon Clark Kent role permanently.

After the French Revolution it was popular in part due to its central ethic that individuals can be right while society is quite wrong and seen as disenchanting — not comic at all.

" That same year, then-U. S. President Gerald Ford acknowledged the stature of the comic strip, telling the Radio and Television Correspondents ’ Association at their annual dinner, " There are only three major vehicles to keep us informed as to what is going on in Washington: the electronic media, the print media, and Doonesbury, not necessarily in that order.

* 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.

" 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.

During this time he discovered comic strips like Pogo, Krazy Kat, and Charles Schulz ' Peanuts which subsequently inspired and influenced his desire to become a professional cartoonist.

A number of strips in the comic have run for a very long time.

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

At a time when comic books were coming under fire for supposed sexual, violent and subversive content, Kelly feared the same would happen to comic strips.

Only a few compositions that Satie took seriously remain from this period: Jack in the Box, music to a pantomime by Jules Depaquit ( called a "" by Satie ),, a short comic opera on a serious theme, text by Lord Cheminot, The Dreamy Fish, piano music to accompany a lost tale by Lord Cheminot, and a few others that were mostly incomplete, hardly any of them staged, and none of them published at the time.

At this time, on the more commercial side of production, the phenomenon of Totò, a Neapolitan actor who is acclaimed as the major Italian comic, exploded.

Feminism has driven the creation of a considerable body of action-oriented science fiction with female protagonists: Wonder Woman ( actually originally created in 1941 ) and The Bionic Woman during the time of the organized women's movement in the 1970s ; Terminator 2 and the Alien tetralogy in the 1980s ; and Xena, Warrior Princess, comic book character Red Sonja and Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

In 425 BC, which is about the time that Herodotus is thought by many scholars to have died, the Athenian comic dramatist, Aristophanes, created The Acharnians, in which he blames The Peloponnesian War on the abduction of some prostitutes-a mocking reference to Herodotus, who reported the Persians ' account of their wars with Greece, beginning with the rapes of the mythical heroines Io, Europa, Medea and Helen.

The comic strip was briefly renamed to " The Shenanigan Kids " around this time, and in 1920 another five cartoons were produced under this title.

In Shakespeare's play Macbeth a comic relief character delivers a 20 line monologue and satire that makes reference to events of that time.

* Mini, a character from the comic book NEW-GEN who traveled back in time and inspired the legend of the monster itself.

This was not the first time that Marvel's characters had interacted with one another — Namor the Sub-Mariner and the Original Human Torch had been rivals in Marvel's " Golden Age "— but it was the first time that the comic book publisher's characters seemed to share a world.

The Italians are usually represented by a ship on the horizon flying the Italian flag ; an actual Italian was seen for the first time in a comic posted in late February 2008.

At the time, his favorites were also Edgar Rice Burroughs and John Carter, as well as comic books.

The series was set on DC's Earth-Two, an alternative universe in which Golden Age comic characters proceed and age subsequent to their first appearances in real time.

Since 1988 some of his comic stories have been published in the USA by Gladstone Publishing ; it was the first time that this happened to an Italian Disney author.

* 1987: In the Marvel comic New Mutants in fleeing the villain Magus, they flee to the time and place of Robert the Bruce.

* 1964 – The Argentine comic strip Mafalda is published for the first time.

In addition to the main cast, several recurring jokes have run throughout the life of the comic strip for which certain characters come back from time to time.