* 1992: Angoulême International Comics Festival, Prize for Best Foreign Comic Book, for En avant tête de thon!

DC Comics: Sixty Years of the World's Favorite Comic Book Heroes.

Men of Tomorrow: Geeks, Gangsters, and the Birth of the Comic Book.

* Wright, Bradford W. Comic Book Nation: The Transformation of Youth Culture in America.

In 1987, Barks was one of the three inaugural inductees of the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame.

This argument, made in Jules Feiffer's series of articles published in The Great Comic Book Heroes, is famously cited in a climactic scene of Kill Bill Vol.

Les Daniels comments in his book DC Comics A Celebration of the World's Favourite Comic Book Heroes ".

Rabbi Simcha Weinstein's book Up, Up and Oy Vey: How Jewish History, Culture and Values Shaped the Comic Book Superhero says that Superman is both a pillar of society and one whose cape conceals a " nebbish ," saying, " He's a bumbling, nebbish Jewish stereotype.

The Comic Book in America: An Illustrated History ( Taylor Publishing: Dallas, Texas, 1989 ), pp. 178 – 181, reprinted at website Religious Affiliation of Comics Book Characters: " The Significant Seven: History's Most Influential Super-heroes " < nowiki >< nowiki ></ nowiki ></ ref >

* DC Comics at the Big Comic Book DataBase

Comic Book Nation: The Transformation of Youth Culture in America.

He was inducted into the Comic Book Hall of Fame in 2003.

In his later years, Kirby, who has been called " the William Blake of comics ", began receiving great recognition in the mainstream press for his career accomplishments, and in 1987, he, along with Carl Barks and Will Eisner, was one of the three inaugural inductees of the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame.

IGN's list of the Top 100 Comic Book Villains of All Time ranked Luthor as # 4.

* Men of Tomorrow: Geeks, Gangsters, and the Birth of the Comic Book by Gerard Jones ( Basic Books, 2004 ) trade paperback ISBN 0-465-03657-0

The series received the Eisner Award for Best Serialized Story in 1996 for " I Dream of You " as well as the National Cartoonists Society Reuben Award for Best Comic Book in 1997.

It also won the GLAAD Award for Best Comic Book in 2001.

In 2009, the Sentinels were ranked by IGN as the 38th Greatest Comic Book Villain of All Time.

He received the National Cartoonist Society Comic Book Award for 1986, their Humor Comic Book Award for 1973, 1974, and 1976, their Magazine and Book Illustration Award for 1989, their Special Features Award for 1977, their Gag Cartoon Award for 1983, and their Reuben Award in 1996 for his work on Mad and Groo the Wanderer.

It is also revealed in The Ned-Liest Catch that she has " dated " in addition to Skinner, Moe Szyslak, Lenny, Carl, Comic Book Guy, Joey Kramer, Krusty the Clown, Cletus Spuckler and several others.

Later, Quimby briefly flees the city thinking his corruption has been exposed and is deemed to have " abandoned office " and is replaced by a short-lived " council of learned citizens " headed by Lisa Simpson, Professor Frink, Comic Book Guy, Lindsey Naegle, Dr. Hibbert, and Principal Skinner.

Comic Book Guy is based on " every comic-bookstore guy in America " and represents a stereotypical middle-aged comic-book collector.

Comic Book Guy ( claiming Jeffery Albertson to be his real name in the episode " Homer and Ned's Hail Mary Pass ".

" Despite his solitary life, in The Simpsons Movie, minutes before his likely death, Comic Book Guy says that his obsessive comic book collecting has been a " life well spent ".

Comic Book Guy not only has a heart attack in Season 12, but encounters death three times ; once in a French missile strike on Springfield, in the Simpsons Comics mini series " Comic Book Guy: The Comic Book ", where he is killed in the explosion of Superguy's rocket, and also in " Treehouse of Horror XVI ", where Comic Book Guy is killed by Mr. Burns for refusing to run for five whole minutes.

Comic Book Guy was once married in an online role-playing game.

Comic Book Guy was not particularly surprised by this, saying, " There are a million valid reasons, but which one did you pick?

Comic Book Guy is the owner of The Android's Dungeon & Baseball Card Shop, a local comic book store.

In the Simpsons and Futurama cross-over comic, Fry points out the cardboard cutout in the front of the store looks like his friend, Bender ( to which Comic Book Guy says that he and Bart are pulling an obvious Back to the Future cliche while riding on flying skateboards ).

Though having been gone for a few episodes ( and thought to have been " retired "), Comic Book Guy made an appearance in an episode that aired later in the season, " Any Given Sundance ".

The store is also seen in the couch gag of " Lisa the Drama Queen ", where The Comic Book Guy puts a price tag on ( then berates ) a Simpsons couch gag toy.

Comic Book Guy was partly inspired by a clerk at the Los Angeles Amok book shop who often "" on the high stool, kind of lording over the store with that supercilious attitude and eating behind the counter a big Styrofoam container full of fried clams with a lot of tartar sauce.

* Michael Uslan ( born 1951 ), originator and Executive Producer of the Batman movies and the first professor to teach " Comic Book Folklore " at an accredited university.

Craig Patrick, the artist who contributed to the design of the font Comic Sans was born in Rutherglen and Stan Laurel also lived in Rutherglen, attending Rutherglen Academy.

Robert Smigel ( born February 7, 1960 ) is an American actor, humorist, comedian and writer known for his Saturday Night Live " TV Funhouse " cartoon shorts and as the puppeteer and voice behind Triumph, the Insult Comic Dog.

He then suggested how Noah Webster might have used his talent in a comic form and it was here that the idea of a Comic Dictionary was born.

John Rivas ( born August 9, 1964 ) is an award winning and well known Graphic Designer & Publicist, and also the creator of BONZZO The Comic Strip.

Jay London ( born September 12, 1966 ) is an American stand-up comic, whose one-liner jokes made him a favorite on NBC's Last Comic Standing.

Alonzo Bodden (; born June 13, 1962 ) is an American comedian and actor known for winning the grand prize in the third season of the reality-television series Last Comic Standing.

Cummings was born in 1927, the son of the accomplished trainer Jim Cummings, who trained the great stayer Comic Court to a win in the 1950 Melbourne Cup.

Carmine Infantino ( born May 24, 1925, in Brooklyn, New York ) is an American comic book artist and editor who was a major force in the Silver Age of Comic Books.

* Comic historian Alan J. Porter is born.

Barshai was born in Moscow, Russia, a son of a famed musician, Rudolf Barshai and Anna Martinson, daughter of a famed Russian Comic Sergey Martinson, but emigrated to the West in 1972.