During Urban Renewal, the iconic high school — the inspiration for Bob Montana's Archie Comics — was falsely declared " unsound " and slated for demolition.

The ten remaining confused passengers are Brian Engle, a troubled, off-duty airline pilot traveling to Boston to attend his ex-wife's funeral ; Dinah Bellman, a young blind girl with minor psychic powers ; fifth-grade teacher Laurel Stevenson, who takes to watching over Dinah ; Nick Hopewell, a junior attache & " mechanic " for the British Embassy ; Don Gaffney, a retired tool-and-die engineer on a trip to see his grandchild ; Rudy Warwick, a businessman ; Albert Kaussner, a talented teen violinist heading to a prestigious school of the arts ; Bethany Simms, a teenager being sent by her family to rehab ; Bob Jenkins, a mystery author who acts as the voice of logic ; and Craig Toomey, an irritable investment banker on the verge of a psychotic breakdown.

Produced by Bob Rock, the album generated the hit lead single " Volcano Girls ", which gained exposure as the opening theme to the teen comedy film Jawbreaker.

* As a teen, before beginning his professional film career, Bob Gale created a series of parody films of Commando Cody, featuring a character named " Commando Cus ".

As the executive producers, Bob Bain and Michael Burg came together to create an award show geared toward a teen demographic, somewhat older than that of the Nickelodeon Kids ' Choice Awards, but similar to that of MTV.

Meanwhile, the leading man, Bob Barrenger ( Alec Baldwin ), dallies with Carla ( Julia Stiles ), a crafty local teen.

Bob also checked juke box plays at popular teen gather places like “ The Goats ” and “ The Q .”

And, since Bob would rate them on how he believed they ’ d do on the charts, he became “ Gator, the Record Rater ” in the teen slang of the era.

Live bands playing teen music were few in number until later in the decade so Bob started promoting teen dances with records on weekend evenings throughout the tri-state area.

In the comic, minor characters like Earl, Billy Bob, Clark Cobb, and Mistress Cora Anthrax would get repeated appearances ; Earl was quite regular, and Anthrax was in two issues and got to answer a letter's page.

* Blitz, the alter-ego of the character George in the web comic Bob and George

" Bob was in blackface and was the comic ; he cracked jokes, sang, and did an amazing jig dance.

He both performed comic characters ( Flash Bazbo — Space Explorer, Mr. Rogers, music critic Roger de Swans, and sleazy record company rep Ron Fields ) and also wrote, arranged and performed numerous musical parodies ( of Bob Dylan, James Taylor and others ).

This 64-page story was adapted by Donald Duck comic strip writer Bob Karp from an unproduced feature, and published in October 1942 in Four Color Comics # 9.

He has been named " Phooey Duck " by Disney comic editor Bob Foster.

Also among the early 32 members were syndicated panel cartoonists Dave Breger ( Mister Breger ), George Clark ( The Neighbors ), Bob Dunn ( Just the Type ) and Jimmy Hatlo ( They'll Do It Every Time ); freelance magazine cartoonists Abner Dean and Mischa Richter, editorial cartoonists Rube Goldberg ( New York Sun ), Burris Jenkins ( New York Journal American ), C. D. Batchelor ( Daily News ) and Richard Q. Yardley ( The Baltimore Sun ); sports cartoonist Lou Hanlon ; illustrator Russell Patterson and comic book artists Joe Shuster and Joe Musial.

In 1936, high-school friend and fellow cartoonist Bob Kane, of future Batman fame, suggested that the 19-year-old Eisner try selling cartoons to the new comic book Wow, What A Magazine!

* May 1 – Batman, created by Bob Kane ( and, unofficially, Bill Finger ) makes his first appearance in a comic book.

* November 3 – Bob Kane, American comic book creator ( b. 1915 )

** Bob Kane, American comic book artist / writer, creator of Batman ( d. 1998 )

According to comic book writer and editor Bob Budiansky, The Transformers character Shockwave was inspired by Spock.

Kevin Patrick Smith ( born August 2, 1970 ) is an American screenwriter, actor, film producer, and director, as well as a popular comic book writer, author, comedian / raconteur, and internet radio personality best recognized by viewers as Silent Bob.

The episode " Brother from Another Series " ( season eight, 1997 ) reveals that Bob only received the job after his younger brother Cecil failed an audition, because Krusty considered Bob to be a perfect comic foil.

In the 1988 DuckTales comic book story " The Smart Nephew " by Bob Gregory, Cosme Quartieri and Jorge Sanchez, another nephew of Glomgold appears: the smart and brave Junior.

He has been named Phooey by Disney comic editor Bob Foster.

He also wrote a script and provided "' technical advice ' about comic books " for Bob, Bob Newhart's unsuccessful third sitcom for CBS.

Not reprints are seven Dell four-color Prince Valiant comic books (# 567, 650, 699, 719, 788, 848, 900 ) drawn by Bob Fuji, writer unknown.

Chasing Amy, released in 1997, reveals that in the years since the events of Clerks, Jay and Silent Bob have found out that comic book artists Holden McNeil ( Ben Affleck ) and Banky Edwards ( Jason Lee ) created a popular independent comic book series entitled Bluntman and Chronic which stars the duo.

* In a 2005 issue of Total Film, a comic strip illustrating Kevin Smith's version of the Passion of the Christ was published, featuring Jay and Silent Bob in the final panel.

In addition to creating Li ' l Abner, Capp also co-created two other newspaper strips: Abbie an ' Slats with magazine illustrator Raeburn van Buren in 1937, and Long Sam with cartoonist Bob Lubbers in 1954, as well as the Sunday " topper " strips Washable Jones, Small Fry ( aka Small Change ), and Advice fo ' Chillun.

Bob Thaves's Frank & Ernest began in 1972 and paved the way for some of these strips, as its human characters were manifest in diverse forms — as animals, vegetables, and minerals.

In 1966 Woody Gelman discovered many of the original Little Nemo strips at a cartoon studio where Bob McCay, Winsor's son, had worked.

Among the artists working on the Disney comic strips were Floyd Gottfredson ( Mickey Mouse, Treasury of Classic Tales, holiday ), Roman Arambula ( Mickey Mouse ), Rick Hoover ( Mickey Mouse, Gummy Bears ), Manuel Gonzales ( Mickey Mouse ), Bill Wright ( Mickey Mouse, Uncle Remus ), Ted Thwaites ( Mickey Mouse ), Riley Thomson ( Uncle Remus ), Chuck Fuson ( Uncle Remus ), John Ushler ( Treasury of Classic Tales, Scamp, Uncle Remus, holiday ), Carson Van Osten ( Mickey Mouse ), Al Taliaferro ( Donald Duck ), Frank Grundeen ( Donald Duck ), Al Hubbard ( Donald Duck ), Kay Wright ( Donald Duck ), Ellis Eringer ( Donald Duck ), Dick Moores ( Uncle Remus ), Paul Murry ( Jose Carioca, Uncle Remus ), Daan Jippes ( Donald Duck, Mickey Mouse ), Tony Strobl ( Donald Duck, holiday ), Jim Engel ( Mickey Mouse ), Ken Hultgren ( Mickey Mouse and His Friends ), Julius Svendsen ( Mickey Mouse and His Friends, Treasury of Classic Tales ), George Wheeler ( True Life Adventures ), Jesse Marsh ( Treasury of Classic Tales ), Richard Moore ( Winnie the Pooh ) and Bob Grant ( Merry Menagerie ).

According to Bob Taylor, Knott preferred strong-backed gloves with full webbing and plenty of padding in the palms, wearing two pairs of Chamois inners with strips of plasticine across the palms.

Most Bob and George strips are still images.

The strips continued, with writer Duck Edwing and artist Bob Clarke creating the majority.

) Some Miscellaneous strips have been parodies of other webcomics, including Dinosaur Comics, A Softer World, Bob the Angry Flower and Megatokyo.

Owned and financed by Tom Astor ( grandson of Nancy Astor ) and latterly edited by Frank Wynne ( a former staff member of Crisis and subsequently translator of Michel Houellebecq ), it published original material but Frank also introduced later introduced reprints of American alternative comics such as Love and Rockets Bob Burden and his Flaming Carrot and Evan Dorkin strips such as Milk and Cheese.

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.

A number of poets belong to both academia and slam: as noted above Jeffrey McDaniel slammed on several poetry slam teams, and has since published several books and currently teaches at Sarah Lawrence College ; Patricia Smith, a four-time national slam champion, went on to win several prestigious literary awards, including being nominated for the 2008 National Book Award, and being inducted into the International Literary Hall of Fame for Writers of African Descent in 2006 ; Bob Holman founded the Nuyorican Poetry Slam has taught for years at the New School, Bard, Columbia and NYU ; Craig Arnold won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition and has competed at slams ; Kip Fulbeck, a professor of Art at the University of California, Santa Barbara competed in slam in the early-1990s and initiated the first spoken word course to be taught as part of a college art program's core curriculum ; and poet / academics such as Michael Salinger, Felice Belle, Javon Johnson, Susan B. Anthony Somers-Willett, Robbie Q. Telfer, Phil West, Ragan Fox, and Karyna McGlynn have devoted much attention to the merging of the poetry slam community and the academic community in their respective works.

He has written books on subsequent Prime Ministers, Bob Hawke ( The Hawke Ascendency, 1984 ), Paul Keating ( The End of Certainty, 1992 ) and John Howard ( Howard's Decade, 2006 ).

One of the few independent bookshops left in London, My Back Pages ( named after the song on Bob Dylan's 1964 album Another Side of Bob Dylan ), is a shop which stocks second-hand, antiquarian and new books.

Robin is the name of several fictional characters appearing in comic books published by DC Comics, originally created by Bob Kane, Bill Finger and Jerry Robinson, as a junior counterpart to DC Comics superhero Batman.

Another is in one of local historian Bob Powers earlier books on Kern Valley.

Bob Newhart plays Dick Loudon, an author of do-it-yourself books.

The Norris Museum holds a great deal of local history, including a number of books written by its curator, Bob Burn-Murdoch.

Bob Graham signing books at the Miami Book Fair International 2011

She left her family's Ohio estate and farmlands, Moorehead Manor, to Bob Jones University in Greenville, South Carolina, as well as some biblical studies books from her personal library.

Journalist Bob Woodward, in his books All the President's Men and The Secret Man, wrote that many of his sources, including the famous Deep Throat, displayed a genuine fear of Haldeman.

Marc Simont, another Caldecott Medal winner, said of McCloskey in a Horn Book Magazine article: " Bob McCloskey ’ s talent for devising mechanical contraptions is topped only by his ability to turn out books that carry off the Caldecott Medal.

* In The Dresden Files RPG, both books have notes made by Harry Dresden, Bob the Skull, and Billy Borden.

" He is the author or co-author of six books: All The President's Men, Final Days and The Secret Man, with Bob Woodward ; His Holiness: John Paul II and the History of Our Time, with Marco Politi ; Loyalties ; and A Woman In Charge: The Life of Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Broughty Ferry is the setting for the Bob Servant books and BBC radio series written by Neil Forsyth.

McClure has since published eight books of plays and four collections of essays, including essays on Bob Dylan and the environment.

Nuttall and MacSweeney both served as chairperson of the society during this period and Bob Cobbing used the photocopying facilities in the basement of the society's building to produce Writers Forum books.

In his review of the book for The New York Times, Joe Nocera noted that the book had “ an omniscient quality ” of fly-on-the-wall scenes from inside the White House, much like the books of Bob Woodward, but “ doesn ’ t really go for phony omniscience ” where the sources who are most cooperative are rendered most favorably.

His most recent books are Bob Dylan by Greil Marcus: Writings 1968 – 2010 ( Public Affairs, 2010 ) and The Doors: A Lifetime of Listening to Five Mean Years ( Public Affairs, 2011 ).

Contemporary and post-conceptual artists also made artist's books an important aspect of their practice, notably William Wegman, Bob Cobbing, Martin Kippenberger, Raymond Pettibon, and Suze Rotolo.

Ross later founded his own successful line of art supplies and how-to books, and also offered painting classes taught by instructors trained in the " Bob Ross method ", building a $ 15 million business.