* Taller Tales ( 2003 ): A reprint trade paperback collecting most of Bill Willingham's Sandman work including Merv Pumpkinhead, The Thessaliad, and his contribution to Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Dreams ....

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

From 2000, she has continued to edit most of the highest-profile Vertigo titles, including almost all of Mike Carey's Lucifer ( with Mariah Huehner ) and the entirety of Ed Brubaker's Deadenders, Howard Chaykin & David Tischman's American Century, Jonathan Vankin's The Witching, Si Spencer's Books of Magick: Life During Wartime, Steven T. Seagle and Kelley Jones ' The Crusades and Bill Willingham's Fables ( to date ).

* 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.

The cartoony drawing style and " fractured fairy tale " content drew comparisons to Bill Willingham's Fables comic series, as well as Terry Pratchett Discworld novels.

It is used in Piers Anthony's Xanth novels and Bill Willingham's comic book series Fables ( often shortened to " mundies " in the latter ).

He later returned to DC Comics, illustrating a brief stint on Adventure Comics featuring the Legion of Super-Heroes, and Fairest, a spin-off of Bill Willingham's book Fables.

She also edited the first Vertigo works of Bill Willingham and Ed Brubaker in Proposition Player and Scene of the Crime, and the higher-profile series Moonshadow, Girl, Seekers into the Mystery, The Minx and all issues of House of Secrets ( with Jennifer Lee from issue # 11 ).

Bill Willingham came to Vertigo after a plethora of small press work in 1999 to launch his poker miniseries Proposition Player ( 1999 – 2000 ), and contribute to the Sandman universe with a one-shot spy-spoof-Sandman Presents: Merv Pumpkinhead, Agent of D. R. E. A. M.

* Boy Blue is a character in the Vertigo comic series Fables by Bill Willingham.

During the Vertigo Voices: Fables Forum panel at the 2009 San Diego Comic Con, Fables creator and writer Bill Willingham announced that he and Buckingham will switch roles in an up-coming one-off, for Fables issue # 100.

* Fables # 6-10, 14-27, 30-33, 36-38, 40-45, 48-50, 52-56, 59-63, 65-69, 71-75, 77-81, 83, 87-91, 94-98, 100-( pencils, with writer Bill Willingham and inks by Steve Leialoha, Vertigo, 2002-ongoing )

DC's Vertigo imprint began a new ongoing series in May 2008, written by Matthew Sturges and Bill Willingham.

He is also well known in American-based animation ; as the voices of Heatblast, Ghostfreak, and Vilgax in the Ben 10 franchise, Jamie in Megas XLR, Yakky Doodle and Clamhead in Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law, Smytus in My Life as a Teenage Robot, and his voice portrayals of Starscream in Transformers: Prime and Count Vertigo in DC Showcase: Green Arrow as well as in Young Justice, The Red Skull, Beta Ray Bill and Wolverine in The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes and as Melbourne O ' Riley in What's New, Scooby Doo ?.

Also in X-Men # 200, Riptide killed Quiet Bill, and Scalphunter and Vertigo killed the Witness.

* Fables # 53: " Porky Pine Pie " ( with Bill Willingham, Vertigo, 2007 )

* Fables # 100: " Celebrity Burning Questions " ( with Bill Willingham, Vertigo, 2010 )

William " Bill " Boyd Watterson II ( born July 5, 1958 ) is an American cartoonist and the author of the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes, which was syndicated from 1985 to 1995.

* Bill Watterson, creator of beloved ' Calvin and Hobbes ' comic strip looks back with no regrets 2010 interview by John Campanelli, The Plain Dealer

Various images, originally ivory numbers fully animated against a deep red background, were designed to fit the pace of the channel, and the music soon gained notoriety, and was often satirised and parodied in popular culture, perhaps most famously by comic Bill Bailey who likened the theme music to an " apocalyptic rave ".

Bill Holbrook ( born 1958 ) is an American cartoonist and webcomic writer and artist, best known for his syndicated comic strip On the Fastrack.

* Cassiopeia, Queen of the bee colony living in the tree across from Lindesfarne and Fenton in Kevin and Kell comic strip by Bill Holbrook.

* Lucky Bastard ( 1999 ) A comic novel in which a likable but amoral, devious and oversexed politician ( meant to invoke Bill Clinton ) is controlled by a female eastern-bloc subversive.

Bill Hoest, Jerry Marcus and Virgil Partch began as a magazine gag cartoonists and moved on to do syndicated comic strips.

She also appeared in The Princess Bride ( 1987 ) and Scrooged ( 1988 ), with Bill Murray, in which Variety called her " unquestionably pic's comic highlight.

There he played fiddle and guitar with singer Bill Carlisle and comic Archie Campbell as well as becoming a member of the station's Dixieland Swingsters, a small swing instrumental combo.

* 1951 – Bill Mantlo, American comic book writer

He continues to write Sláine, Bill Savage, Black Siddha and ABC Warriors for 2000 AD, and also the Franco-Belgian comic Requiem Vampire Knight, with art by Olivier Ledroit and its spin-off Claudia Chevalier Vampire, with art by Franck Tacito.

Two early adventures for the game by Bill Willingham, Death Duel with the Destroyers and The Island of Dr. Apocalypse, used characters that would later appear in his Comico comic book series, Elementals.

Zippy is an American comic strip created by Bill Griffith.

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

The Stars and Stripes cartoonist, Sergeant Bill Mauldin, who habitually portrayed front line infantry as exhausted, begrimed footsloggers Willie and Joe came in for special criticism, even prompting Patton to summon Sergeant Mauldin to his headquarters, where Patton unsuccessfully attempted to convince Mauldin into drawing a cleaned-up version of the popular comic strip.

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.

* Contrary to the popular belief that Bruce Wayne ( the real name of the superhero character Batman ) was named after John Wayne, comic book writer Bill Finger named Batman's alter ego after Robert the Bruce and Anthony Wayne.

Kat Nipp reappeared in a 1931 sequence of the Mickey Mouse newspaper comic strip ( in which we also meet Kat Nipp's friend Barnacle Bill, a sailor who is an expert in untying knots ).

When the company began producing comic books in autumn 1939, Beck was assigned to draw a character created by writer Bill Parker called " Captain Thunder ".

The group swiftly conquered the US thanks to the promotion of Bill Murray the K, while Nasty's book of comic prose, Out Of Me Head, dominated the best-seller lists.

The Jordans were experts at transforming the ethnic humor of vaudeville into more rounded comic characters, no doubt due in part to the affection felt for the famous supporting cast members who voiced these roles, including Bill Thompson ( as the Old Timer and Wimple ), Harold Peary ( as Gildersleeve ), Gale Gordon ( as LaTrivia ), Arthur Q. Bryan ( as Dr. Gamble ; Bryan also voiced Elmer Fudd for the Warner Brothers Looney Tunes cartoons, which also borrowed lines from Fibber McGee and Molly from time to time ), Isabel Randolph ( as Mrs. Uppington ), Marlin Hurt ( a white male who played in dialect the McGee's maid, Beulah ), and others.

One example is that the Calvin & Hobbes comic strip ( written by Bill Waterson ) includes in its scenario a children's book Hamster Huey & The Gooey Kablooie, and Bill Waterson stated in The Calvin and Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book that he believed that Hamster Huey & The Gooey Kablooie should remain an undefined story, left to the reader's imagination ; but someone not associated with the strip published Hamster Huey & The Gooey Kablooie in the real world.

His comic strip work has influenced generations of artists, including creators such as William Joyce, André LeBlanc, Moebius, Maurice Sendak, Chris Ware and Bill Watterson.

His Prince Valiant pages were much admired by other artists, and he became a key influence on several generations of artists who were creating realistic comic strip and comic book illustrations, including Joe Kubert, Frank Frazetta, George Pratt, Mark Schultz, William Stout, Warren Tufts, the British illustrator Bill Ward, Al Williamson and Wally Wood.