" Disney's Atlantis: The Lost Empire ( 2001 ) had a disappointing box office performance but is considered to be a " cult favorite " because of its unique art and animation style inspired by comic book artist Mike Mignola.

He had attempted to improve his style by copying the drawings of his favorite comic strip artists from the newspapers where he could find them.

According to his introduction: " Scrooge being my favorite character in comic history and Barks my favourite pure cartoonist, I'll try not to get carried away too much.

Louie is a huge fan of comic books moreso than his brothers, with his favorite comic book hero being Mantis Boy.

" Anarchic, hip, subversive and comic ..." " One of my favorite reads of the year ...

Suicide took their name from the title of a Ghost Rider comic book titled Satan Suicide, a favorite of Alan Vega.

Clarkson's work in the B movie sci-fi genre inspired a cult following, making her a favorite at comic book conventions, where she made some promotional appearances signing autographs for her fans.

The boy hero is a comic book geek whose favorite superhero, Galloping Gazelle ( West's character ), is portrayed as fading and on the verge of retirement.

He says he does not have a favorite comic book character, which is why he likes to illustrate team books.

He has cited Neal Adams as his favorite comic book artist, noting that he would often purchase used comics based on Adams's cover artwork, only to be disappointed that the interior artist was different.

Dwayne liked to conjure characters from his favorite comic books, computer games, and TV shows and commercials, bringing them to life with his powers.

He read comic strips in the New York World-Telegram newspaper that his father brought home, including Our Boarding House, Alley Oop " and my favorite at the time, Wash Tubbs, with the ' soldier of fortune ' hero, Captain Easy ".

Viewers cast their votes for their favorite comic by phoning a specific number, by voting online at the network's website, or both.

Coulier says he understands that longtime fans might be skeptical of his take on the role, but he couldn't help jumping at the chance to portray one of his favorite comic characters.

Cockrum discovered comic books at a young age ; an early favorite was Fawcett's Captain Marvel, especially Mac Raboy's Captain Marvel Jr. Other artists whose work the young Cockrum admired were Wally Wood, Gil Kane, Murphy Anderson, and Joe Kubert.

From press coverage of comic book and anime conventions has arisen the widespread image of fans ' tendency to dress up as their favorite characters in elaborate costumes ( known as cosplay in anime terminology ) that are time-consuming and / or expensive to assemble.

He also enjoys reading American comics, with Hellboy being his favorite American comic book character.

Helms is a comic book fan, and one of his favorite characters is the Green Lantern.

As a fan favorite, Doink was more of a comic relief character, but continued to pull pranks on other wrestlers ( albeit more harmless and silly than outright cruel ), mostly villains such as Lawler and Bobby Heenan.

Taylor has cited Uncanny X-men, Green Arrow, Spider-Man, Green Lantern, Batman, Iron Man, and The Flash as his favorite comic books series.

Terry and the Pirates had been Culp's favorite comic strip as a boy, and it was his longtime wish to make a film based on it.

The album contains two fan favorite songs from the Fountains ' live performances: " Red Dragon Tattoo ," about a boy who gets a tattoo to impress a girl, and " Denise ," a faux-grunge power-pop confection where the songwriters show their intentionally bad and comic writing with " She works at Liberty Travel / She's got a heart made of gravel.

In a 2010 interview, Johns named Steve McNiven as an artist he hasn't yet worked with who he'd like to do so, J. Michael Straczynski's run on Thor as his then-favorite ongoing comic book, and The Flash as his favorite of all time, as he owns every issue of it.

The CTCA program of activities was profuse: William Farnum and Mary Pickford on the screen, Elsie Janis and Harry Lauder on the stage, books provided by the American Library Association, full equipment for games and sports -- except that no `` bones '' were furnished for the all-time favorite pastime played on any floor and known as `` African golf ''.

* A favorite subject of Edward Gorey, a croquet reference often appeared in the first illustration of his books.

Even so, his other works remained very popular after his death, with The Master Key appearing on St. Nicholas Magazines survey of readers ' favorite books well into the 1920s.

Mitchell's two favorite children's books were by author Edith Nesbit: Five Children and It ( 1902 ) and The Phoenix and the Carpet ( 1904 ).

( In a private correspondence, he referred to that as his " usual and favorite occupation between books.

His favorite books are ( in order ) The Golden Argosy, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Satanic Verses, McTeague, Lord of the Flies, Bleak House, Nineteen Eighty-Four, The Raj Quartet, Light in August, and Blood Meridian.

Bogdanovich, drawing from his encyclopedic knowledge of film history, authored several critically lauded books, including Peter Bogdanovich's Movie of the Week, which offered the lifelong cinephile's commentary on 52 of his favorite films, and Who The Devil Made It: Conversations with Legendary Film Directors and Who the Hell's in It: Conversations with Hollywood's Legendary Actors, both based on interviews with directors and actors.

One of his favorite books was the annual science journal Das neue Universum (" The New Universe ").

Slams are friendship books that include a theme of questions, either " Sign if you did / like the following ", " What is your favorite " or other similar questions.

The majority of the service providers that gang members use are free social networking sites that allow users to create their own profile pages, which can include lists of their favorite musicians, books and movies, photos of themselves and friends, and links to related web pages.

Unlike many of the other characters in the Pooh books, Roo does not have a known favorite food, although his mother makes him watercress sandwiches on occasion.

But The Giving Tree, which has been selling steadily since it appeared ten years ago and has been translated into French, is not his own favorite among his books.

Etymologies, often very learned and far-fetched, a favorite trope of antiquity, form the subject of just one of the encyclopedia's twenty books, but perceived linguistic similarities permeate the work.

Watt's third solo album The Secondman's Middle Stand, inspired by both his 2000 illness and one of his favorite books, Dante's The Divine Comedy, was released in 2004 ; one reviewer writes that the album is a " harrowing, funny, and genuinely moving stuff from a true American original.

During the 1960s, he completed eight more including The Galvanized Yankees, which Brown described as requiring more research than any of his other books, and The Year of the Century: 1876, which he described as his personal favorite.

John Steinbeck's novel The Grapes of Wrath mentions The Pilgrim's Progress as one of an ( anonymous ) character's favorite books.

* The Newbery Video ( Part 2 ), written by Mona Kerby and funded by the International Reading Association highlights favorite Newbery Award books and authors.

According to a popular legend, when the group of orphans finally reached the Umschlagplatz, an SS officer recognized Korczak as the author of one of his favorite children's books and offered to help him escape.

" In addition, people were allowed to vote repeatedly, once per day, making the poll a measure of how much effort people would put into promoting their favorite books.

: National Artist and Imelda Marcos ’ s favorite architect Leandro Locsin did the restoration of the house which became the home of a lot of antique furniture, pottery, and books from here and other parts of the world.

Collectors of average means may collect works by a favorite author, first editions of modern authors, or books on a given subject.

Eddison's books are written in a meticulously recreated Jacobean prose style, seeded throughout with fragments, often acknowledged but often frankly stolen, from his favorite authors and genres: Homer and Sappho, Shakespeare and Webster, Norse Saga and French medieval lyric.

Panshin is also noted for the cult favorite Anthony Villiers series which consists of three books: Star Well, The Thurb Revolution, and Masque World.