The rise of comic book specialty stores in the late 1970s created / paralleled a dedicated market for " independent " or " alternative comics " in the U. S. The first such comics included the anthology series Star Reach, published by comic book writer Mike Friedrich from 1974 to 1979, and Harvey Pekar's American Splendor, which continued sporadic publication into the 21st century and which Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini adapted into a 2003 film.

This was the first American comic book that contained Disney characters since the 1970s.

Through the 1960s and 1970s, comic fanzines followed some general formats, such as the industry news and information magazine ( The Comic Reader was one example ), interview, history and review-based fanzines, and the fanzines which basically represented independent comic book-format exercises.

During the 1970s, many fanzines ( Squa Tront, as example ) also became partly distributed through certain comic book distributors.

Feminism has driven the creation of a considerable body of action-oriented science fiction with female protagonists: Wonder Woman ( actually originally created in 1941 ) and The Bionic Woman during the time of the organized women's movement in the 1970s ; Terminator 2 and the Alien tetralogy in the 1980s ; and Xena, Warrior Princess, comic book character Red Sonja and Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

The early 1970s saw a Gothic Romance comic book mini-trend with such titles as DC Comics ' The Dark Mansion Of Forbidden Love and The Sinister House of Secret Love, Charlton Comics ' Haunted Love, Curtis Magazines ' Gothic Tales of Love, and Atlas / Seaboard Comics ' one-shot magazine Gothic Romances.

* In the 1970s Richard featured as a comic caricature in many of the comics of the popular character Pif.

Launched as a comic book before it became a magazine, it was widely imitated and influential, impacting not only satirical media but the entire cultural landscape of the 20th century, with editor Al Feldstein increasing readership to more than 2, 000, 000 during its 1970s circulation peak.

In the Peanuts comic strip from the 1960s and 1970s, Charlie Brown tries to write to a pen pal using a fountain pen but after several literally " botched " attempts, Charlie switches to using a pencil and referring to his penpal as his " pencil-pal ", with his first letter to his " pencil-pal " explaining the reason for the name change.

Charteris and Lee collaborated on two Saint novels in the 1970s, The Saint in Pursuit ( based on a story by Charteris for the Saint comic strip ) and The Saint and the People Importers.

Aragonés had created the humorous barbarian comic book Groo the Wanderer with Mark Evanier in the late 1970s, but the character did not appear in print until 1982.

* Buck Rogers comic strip-originally just repulsor beams ; tractors appeared by 1970s

* Nuts, a 1970s comic strip in National Lampoon by Gahan Wilson

* the Grundys, formerly struggling tenant farmers who were brought to prominence in the late 1970s and early 1980s as comic characters, but are now seen as doggedly battling adversity,

In 2002 Scruggs won a second Grammy award for the 2001 recording of " Foggy Mountain Breakdown ", which featured artists such as Steve Martin on 2nd banjo solo ( Martin played the banjo tune on his 1970s stand-up comic acts ), Vince Gill and Albert Lee on electric guitar solos, Paul Shaffer on piano, Leon Russell on organ, and Marty Stuart on mandolin.

Like Lucien, Cain and Abel and some other Sandman characters, Destiny first appeared as host of a 1970s DC horror comic, Weird Mystery Tales.

The character originally appeared in the 1970s DC comic Tales of Ghost Castle, which lasted for only three issues ( and was apparently killed off in Secrets of Haunted House # 44 ).

One of his most recognized works is the " Keep on Truckin '" comic, which became a widely distributed fixture of pop culture in the 1970s.

Crumb's work also appeared in Nasty Tales, a 1970s British underground comic.

His distinctive clipped gravelly speech, comic language butchery, jazz-influenced songs, and large nose helped make him one of America's most familiar and popular personalities of the 1920s through the 1970s.

She was one of the most popular Japanese comic artists in the 1970s, being best known for The Rose of Versailles.

Nicola Cuti made creative improvements to Charlton's line in the early 1970s Bronze Age of comic books as assistant editor under George Wildman, who was occupied primarily with administrative duties.

Libya long claimed the Aouzou Strip, a strip of land in northern Chad rich with uranium deposits that was intensely involved in Chad's civil war in the 1970s and 1980s.

The strip is unique among syndicated multi-panel dailies for its characteristics of literary nonsense, including a near-absence of either straightforward gags or continuous narrative, and for its unusually intricate artwork, which is reminiscent of the style of Griffith's 1970s underground comics.

During the late 1970s the strip was thought to have been drawn by a few other artists due to an ailing Gould.

Sutherland has drawn the majority of the strips since then, except for a period from 1998 to 2000, when Nigel Parkinson took over the strip, drawing it in a style similar to how David Parkins was drawing Dennis the Menace by that point ( the strips have had closely connected visual styles since the early 1970s, when Sutherland started drawing them both ).

The strip has also had a number of ghost artists through its lifetime, including Gordon Bell in the early 1970s, John Sherwood later on in the 1970s, Keith Reynolds in the 1980s and Tom Paterson in the early 1990s.

The Dandy has run two similar series firstly Whacko a strip about a teacher who always taught in a suit of armour and taught very unruly kids who always attempted to beat up their teacher but ended up being caned repeatedly which ran in the 1970s.

The Broadway strip was also home to the Mabuhay Gardens, the Stone and On Broadway nightclubs, which were important venues in the punk rock scene of the late 1970s to mid-1980s.

After strip commercial interests began to move downtown, the city worked to designate several areas as historic districts in the 1970s and 80s to preserve the architectural character of the city.

By the early 1970s it had become a strip of honky tonk bars and abandoned buildings.

Introduction by Nat Hentoff, history of the strip with 1970s continuities.

His comic strip Maggie's Farm appeared in the London listings magazine Time Out from 1979 and later in City Limits, and Lord God Almighty appeared in The Leveller in the 1970s.

Romero's 1970s work on the Modesty Blaise strip is continually reprinted in an ongoing series of compilation volumes published by the UK company Titan Books since 2005, while Comics Revue has reprinted all of his post-1986 work on the strip.

Luther Arkwright made his first appearance in the mid 1970s in " The Papist Affair ", a short strip for Brainstorm Comix where Arkwright teamed up with a group of cigar-chewing biker nuns to recover the sacred relics of St. Adolf of Nuremberg from " a buncha male chauvinist priests ".

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the Cinerama name was used as a film distribution company, ironically reissuing single strip 70 mm and 35 mm Cinemascope reduction prints of This Is Cinerama ( 1972 ).

In the 1970s, Hustler ran a comic strip feature entitled " Honey Hooker ".

* Rob Riley ( comic strip ), a British comic strip in the 1960s and 1970s.

The runway at Port Stanley was in fact built by British engineers, replacing an earlier temporary strip constructed by LADE in the early 1970s.

Korean-American artist Il Lee has been creating large-scale, ballpoint-only abstract artwork since the late 1970s.

As poet, painter, graphic artist and designer, typographer, independent publisher, film-maker, broadcaster and arts promoter, Chopin's work is a barometer of the shifts in European media between the 1950s and the 1970s.

He began as an obscure graffiti artist in New York City in the late 1970s and evolved into an acclaimed Neo-expressionist and Primitivist painter by the 1980s.

Pittman's boss, WASEC Executive Vice President John Lack, had shepherded PopClips, a TV series created by former Monkee-turned solo artist Michael Nesmith, whose attention had turned to the music video format by the late 1970s.

The later 1960s and 1970s witnessed an increased media interest in the Chinese fighting systems, influenced by martial artist Bruce Lee.

David Em was the first fine artist to create navigable virtual worlds in the 1970s.

Actors from the 1950s and 1960s such as John Wayne, Steve McQueen and Lee Marvin passed the torch in the 1970s to actors such as martial artist Bruce Lee, Tom Laughlin, Charles Bronson, Chuck Norris, Clint Eastwood and Sonny Chiba.

The cover illustration for a 1970s UK edition of Double Star ( artist: Anthony Roberts ) was the subject of an unlikely controversy when it was used as the basis of an entry for the 2000 Turner Prize for modern art.

In the 1970s, Denver's onstage appearance included long blond hair, embroidered shirts emblazoned with images commonly associated with the American West ( created by designer & appliqué artist Anna Zapp ), and " granny " glasses.

While countries like Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay were dictatorships that censored elements of Nueva canción in in the late 1970s and early 1980s the Sandinista movement that rose to power with the Nicaraguan Revolution in 1979 welcomed Nueva canción, and several artist gave support to the movement like Mercedes Sosa and Silvio Rodríguez who played in the Abril en Nicaragua concert in 1983.

In the early 1970s, he tutored the filmmaker and special effects artist John R. Ellis.

Even though this album would gradually garner high praise, it was initially poorly received ; however, the next one, Moondance, established Morrison as a major artist, and throughout the 1970s he built on his reputation with a series of critically acclaimed albums and live performances.

A surge of popular interest in anarchism occurred during the 1970s in the United Kingdom following the birth of punk rock, in particular the Situationist-influenced graphics of Sex Pistols artist Jamie Reid, as well as that band's first single, " Anarchy in the UK ".

He spent much of the mid-to-late 1970s, working on a play about portrait artist Augustus John ( famous for a series of portraits of T. E. Lawrence ), but his work on The Bounty, and later his failing health, forced him to abandon it.

Eddie was then introduced by way of a mutual auto mechanic to Sammy Hagar, formerly of 1970s band Montrose, and at that time a solo artist coming off a very successful year.

Lonnie Donegan, the most commercially successful skiffle artist, photographed in the 1970s

Adams concurrently drew covers and stories for The Spectre # 2-5 ( Feb .- Aug. 1968 ), also writing the latter two issues, and became DC's primary cover artist well into the 1970s.

During the early 1970s, Lee re-established herself as a country music artist, and earned a string of top ten hits on the country charts.

He toured and recorded two albums with retro-rockabilly artist Robert Gordon in the late 1970s.

The band started out in Arles, a town in southern France, during the 1970s, when brothers Nicolas and Andre Reyes, the sons of renowned flamenco artist Jose Reyes, teamed up with their cousins Jacques, Maurice, and Tonino Baliardo, themselves sons of flamenco guitarist Manitas de Plata.

" She had a brief, unrealized career as a recording artist in the 1970s.

Ian Burn returned to Australia where they joined forces with Ian Milliss, a conceptual artist who had begun working with trade unions in the early 1970s, to set up Union Media Services, a design studio specialising in social marketing and community and trade union based art initiatives.

In the early 1970s, he made a set of watercolours to illustrate Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass including the use of a young artist, Celia Wanless, as a model for Alice and in 1975 was a founder of the Brotherhood of Ruralists.

Slim first appeared outside the United States in 1960, touring with Willie Dixon, with whom he returned to Europe in 1962 as a featured artist in the first of the series of American Folk Festival concerts organized by Dixon and promoter Willie Dixon that brought many notable blues artists to Europe in the 1960s and 1970s.