" In his essay " The Decline of the Comics ," ( Canadian Forum, January 1954 ) literary critic Hugh MacLean classified American comic strips into four types: daily gag, adventure, soap opera, and " an almost lost comic ideal: the disinterested comment on life's pattern and meaning.

Comics critic R. C. Harvey argued that Spiegelman's animal metaphor threatened " to erode moral underpinnings ", and played " directly into Nazis ' racist vision ".

He worked as a music critic before getting his start in comic books at DC Comics in the late 1970s.

Comics critic Tom Heintjes described Bizarros themes, cryptic aspects and expansion into performance art:

Bomp featured cover art by Jay Kinney and Bill Rotsler, both veterans of SF and Comics fandom.

Timely's first publication, Marvel Comics # 1 ( cover dated Oct. 1939 ), included the first appearance of Carl Burgos ' android superhero the Human Torch, and the first generally available appearance of Bill Everett's anti-hero Namor the Sub-Mariner, among other features.

This archetype has been widely exemplified, notably by such characters as Countess Zaleska in the 1936 film Dracula's Daughter, Barnabas Collins in the TV soap opera Dark Shadows, Mick St. John in the TV show Moonlight, Louis de Pointe du Lac in Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire, Kain in the Legacy Of Kain video games, Marvel Comics character Morbius, the Living Vampire, Nick Knight in the TV series Forever Knight, Angel from the Buffy the Vampire Slayer universe, and Bill Compton in Charlaine Harris ' The Southern Vampire Mysteries.

" by Bill Griffith, transcript of Griffith's talk at the 2003 University of Florida Conference on Comics and Graphic Novels

Bill Yoshida learned comic book lettering from Ben Oda and was hired in 1965 by Archie Comics, where he averaged 75 pages a week for 40 years for an approximate total of 156, 000 pages.

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.

About a year after Batman's debut, Batman creators Bob Kane and Bill Finger introduced Robin the Boy Wonder in Detective Comics # 38 ( 1940 ).

* Fables: Kay and the Snow Queen appear in Bill Willingham's comic book series from DC Comics Vertigo Imprint.

Shazam is a comic book character created by Bill Parker and C. C. Beck for Fawcett Comics.

William Maxwell Gaines ( March 1, 1922 – June 3, 1992 ), better known as Bill Gaines, was an American publisher and co-editor of EC Comics.

Instead of becoming a chemistry teacher, Bill Gaines took over the family business, EC Comics.

* Bill Pearson – Comics artist.

( After the mid-1980s demise of Charlton, Captain Atom would go on to become a stalwart of the DC stable, as would Blue Beetle, the old Fox Comics superhero revived by Gill and artists Bill Fraccio and Tony Tallarico as a campy, comedic character in Blue Beetle # 1 1964.

After Max Gaines ' death, Educational Comics was taken over by his son Bill Gaines, who transformed the company ( now known as EC Comics ) into a pioneer of horror, science fiction and satirical comics.

* Bill Willingham's Eisner Award-winning comic book series Fables, published by Vertigo Comics, features the Jungle Book's Mowgli, Bagheera and Shere Khan ; though their characterisation remains true to Kipling's stories, Willingham and artist Mark Buckingham also make oblique references to the 1967 Disney animation in dialogue and artwork.

In addition to the Wolverine series and appearances in the various X-Men series, two other storylines expand upon the character's past: " Weapon X ", by writer-artist Barry Windsor-Smith, serialized in Marvel Comics Presents # 72-84 ( 1991 ); and Origin, a six-issue limited series by co-writers Joe Quesada, Paul Jenkins, and Bill Jemas and artist Andy Kubert ( November 2001 – July 2002 ).

The character first appeared in World's Finest Comics # 3 ( Fall 1941 ) and was created by Bob Kane and Bill Finger.

Created by writer Bill Finger and artist Dick Sprang, the character first appeared in Detective Comics # 140 ( 1948 ).

* Elektra: Assassin # 1-8 ( Marvel Comics, 1986, with Bill Sienkewicz )

In September 2004, the company dismissed its CEO, Bill Bracy, and replaced him with Jerry Calabrese, a former Marvel Comics and NASCAR executive.

In September 2001, Bill Rosemann, the Marketing Communications Manager of Marvel Comics, announced that " The death of Thunderbird!

Karen Page is a fictional character in Marvel Comics ' Daredevil series created by writer Stan Lee and artist Bill Everett.

Lone Wolf and Cub was initially released in North America by First Comics in 1987, as a series of monthly, comic-book-sized, square-bound prestige-format black-and-white comics containing between 64 and 128 pages, with covers by Frank Miller, and later by Bill Sienkiewicz, Matt Wagner, Mike Ploog, and Ray Lago.

* The Smithsonian Collection of Newspaper Comics ( 1977 ) Smithsonian Institution Press / Harry Abrams ( Bill Blackbeard, ed.

* Blackbeard, Bill and Martin Williams, The Smithsonian Collection of Newspaper Comics, Smithsonian Institution Press and Harry N. Abrams, 1977.

* Lance ( DC Comics ), whose alter-ego is named David Reid

She was cast in the lead role of Betty in an unsold television series pilot based on the Archie Comics. Holdridge left acting abruptly in 1964 to marry Lance Reventlow, her first husband.

Lance Murdoch is a parody of famous daredevils such as Evel Knievel and Matt Murdock, the alter ego of the Marvel Comics superhero Daredevil.

Lance O ' Casey is a fictional character who had his own strip in Fawcett Comics ' Whiz Comics.

* Whiz Comics # 2 ( February 1940 ): " Lance O ' Casey ".

* Whiz Comics # 3 ( March 1940 ): " Lance O ' Casey Battles Death Dawson "

* Whiz Comics # 3a ( April 1940 ): " Lance O ' Casey and the Island of Knife Scarr "

* Whiz Comics # 4 ( May 1940 ): " Lance O ' Casey and The Coming of Daniel Doom "

* Whiz Comics # 5 ( June 1940 ): " Sea Dogs: Lance O ' Casey's Sea Lore "

* Whiz Comics # 6 ( July 1940 ): " Lance O ' Casey and the Launch of the Brian Boru II "

* Whiz Comics # 53 ( April 1944 ): " Lance O ' Casey and the Boy Beggar "

* Whiz Comics # 136 ( August 1951 ): Lance O ' Casey in " The Sargasso Trap "

* Famous First Edition # F-4 ( Originally published in Whiz Comics # 2 ) DC Comics ( November 1974 ): " Lance O ' Casey "

* Millennium Edition: Whiz Comics 2 # 1 ( Originally published in Whiz Comics # 2 ) ( March 2000 ): " Lance O ' Casey ".

The American Comics Archive reprinted Lance in their Big Fun comics magazine.

Comics Revue had Lance as a cover feature on several issues.