certainly the awakened alarm over the comic books and the continuous concern over prurient literature indicate some peripheral aspects of this influence.

No matter how many Americans go abroad in summer, probably a hundred times as many gas up the family car, throw suitcases, kids and comic books in the back seat, and head for home.

Asterix or The Adventures of Asterix (, ) is a series of French comic books written by René Goscinny and illustrated by Albert Uderzo ( Uderzo also took over the job of writing the series after the death of Goscinny in 1977 ).

As of 2009, 34 comic books in the series have been released.

Atlantis inspires today's literature, from science fiction to comic books to films.

Shmoo dolls, clocks, watches, jewelry, earmuffs, wallpaper, fishing lures, air fresheners, soap, ice cream, balloons, ashtrays, comic books, records, sheet music, toys, games, Halloween masks, salt and pepper shakers, decals, pinbacks, tumblers, coin banks, greeting cards, planters, neckties, suspenders, belts, curtains, fountain pens, and other shmoo paraphernalia were produced.

" Comics ,” wrote Capp in 1970, “ can be a combination of the highest quality of art and text, and many of them are .” Capp would produce many giveaway educational comic books and public services pamphlets, spanning several decades, for the Red Cross, the Department of Civil Defense, the Department of the Navy, the U. S. Army, the Anti-Defamation League, the Department of Labor, Community Chest ( a forerunner of United Way ), and the Job Corps.

* Alternative comics, a genre of comic strips and books

Segar's ' Chaplin ' comics would later be collected in 1917 into five books, precursors of the later comic book format.

Sometimes these are spin-offs from comic books, for example Superman, Batman and The Amazing Spider-Man.

At a time when comic books were coming under fire for supposed sexual, violent and subversive content, Kelly feared the same would happen to comic strips.

In comic books, continuity has also come to mean a set of contiguous events, sometimes said to be " set in the same universe " ( see fictional crossover and fictional universe ) or " separate universes " ( see intercompany crossover ).

The term " comic book " arose because the first comic books reprinted humor comic strips.

Despite their name, comic books are not necessarily humorous in tone ; modern comic books tell stories in a variety of genres.

The introduction of Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster's Superman in 1938 turned comic books into a major industry, and is the start of the Golden Age of comics.

The Silver Age of comic books is generally considered to date from the first successful revival of the dormant superhero form — the debut of Robert Kanigher and Carmine Infantino's Flash in Showcase No. 4 ( September / October 1956 ).

A notable event in the history of the American comic book came with the psychiatrist Fredric Wertham's criticisms of the medium in his book Seduction of the Innocent ( 1954 ), which prompted the American Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency to investigate comic books.

By the 1980s, several independent publishers, such as Pacific, Eclipse, First, Comico, and Fantagraphics had started releasing a wide range of styles and formats — from color superhero, detective, and science fiction comic books to black-and-white magazine-format stories of Latin American magical realism.

After all, the henpecked husband with his shrewish wife is a comic figure of long standing, in literature and on the stage, as Dr. Schillinger points out.

The comic is based on thorough research on the biographies and correspondence between Babbage and Lovelace, which is then twisted for humorous effect.

Perhaps the most unusual thing about the privately operated buses is the fact that they are all highly decorated and personalized, with decaling and home made interior designs that range from comic book scenes, to erotic themes, and even to " Hello Kitty " themes.

In the Symposium, Agathon is presented as the friend of the comic poet Aristophanes, but this alleged friendship did not prevent Aristophanes from harshly criticizing Agathon in at least two of his comic plays: the Thesmophoriazousae and the ( now lost ) Gerytades.

Scholars are unsure how much of Aristophanes ' portrayal is fact and how much mere comic invention.

* Lisa Simpson is delighted at the sight of a rack with Tintin and Asterix comics in a comic book store, depicted in The Simpsons episode " Husbands and Knives ".

* 1939 – DC Comics publishes its second major superhero in Detective Comics # 27 ; he is Batman, one of the most popular comic book superheroes of all time.

is a comic book limited series written by Toshimichi Suzuki and illustrated by Tony Takezaki.

Li ' l Abner also features a comic strip-within-the-strip: Fearless Fosdick is a parody of Chester Gould's Dick Tracy.

As is usual with collaborative efforts in comic strips, his name was the only one credited — although, sensitive to his own experience working on Joe Palooka, Capp frequently drew attention to his assistants in interviews and publicity pieces.

Highlights of the strip's final decades include " Boomchik " ( 1961 ), in which America's international prestige is saved by Mammy Yokum, " Daisy Mae Steps Out " ( 1966 ), a female-empowering tale of Daisy's brazenly audacious “ homewrecker gland ," " The Lips of Marcia Perkins " ( 1967 ), a satirical, thinly-veiled commentary on venereal disease and public health warnings, " Ignoble Savages " ( 1968 ), in which the Mob takes over Harvard, and " Corporal Crock " ( 1973 ), in which Bullmoose reveals his reactionary cartoon role model, in a tale of obsession and the fanatical world of comic book collecting.

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.

Watterson is known for his views on licensing and comic syndication, as well as for his reclusive nature.

The idea of the remake caused wrath among fans of the TV series, since Whedon is not involved and the project does not have any connection with the show and will not conform to the continuity maintained with the Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight and Season Nine comic book titles.

This is notable because, according to the comic, the Gaulish village where Asterix lives is in the Armoric peninsula, which is now Brittany.

The Beano is a British children's comic, published by D. C. Thomson & Co and is arguably their most successful.

The Beano is now the longest-running weekly comic, since The Dandy became a fortnightly comic in 2007.

Plug was a comic based on the eponymous character from The Bash Street Kids that began with issue dated 24 September 1977, and is notable for being the first comic to make use of rotogravure printing.

** Comedy of errors – a work that is light and often humorous or satirical in tone, in which the action usually features a series of comic instances of mistaken identity, and which typically culminates in a happy resolution of the thematic conflict.

It is typically portrayed within Marvel comic books as used to create weaponry such as bullets used by various covert agencies, a triangular shield used by the vigilante known as Battlestar, and the outer skin of some of the robotic bodies of the android Ultron.

It is typically assigned to comic roles.

The comic primarily chronicles the ins-and-outs of the gaming world ( typically exaggerating stereotypes of gamers for comic effect ).

An important subset of book sales is comic books ( typically Franco-Belgian comics like Tintin and Astérix ) which are published in a large hardback format ; comic books represented 4 % of total book sales in 1997.

Graphic novels are typically bound in longer and more durable formats than familiar comic magazines, using the same materials and methods as printed books, and they are generally sold in bookstores and specialty comic book shops rather than at newsstands.

The city of Metropolis in the Superman saga is typically depicted as a large American city, such as Chicago or New York City ( although the author of the original comic book series based Metropolis on Toronto ).

Kyaraben is typically decorated to look like popular Japanese cartoon ( anime ) characters, characters from comic books ( manga ), or video game characters.

The major comic book publishers ( such as Marvel or DC ) utilize teams of cartoonists to produce the art ( typically separating pencil work, inking and lettering while the color is added digitally by colorists ).

Clichés are often employed for comic effect, typically in fiction.

In the late 1940s, newspaper syndicates typically owned the copyrights, trademarks and licensing rights to comic strips.

Adrian is persuaded to feature in a television cookery programme called Offally Good !, supposedly to be a celebrity chef ; although he is told the programme is a comedy, he typically fails to realise he is being set up as the stooge, the comic straight man.

It is normally highly intellectual and typically embodies an idea, an ideology or a mind-set in the figure of a grotesque, even disgusting, comic character.

Likewise, the superhero genre typically emulates the comic book universes such as the DC and Marvel Universes as a form of science fantasy set in contemporary setting where all fantastic elements from futuristic technology to mythic beings co-exist.

McCloud's attire, typically consisting of a sheepskin coat or Western jacket, bolo tie and cowboy hat, allowed for implied comic relief in many encounters with New Yorkers.

These dyes are typically sold in punk-themed stores ( such as comic book and music stores ), with brand names like " Beyond The Zone ", " Splat ", ' Fudge Paintbox ' ' Crazy Colors ' " Clairol Jazzing ", " Manic Panic ", " Special Effects ", " Punky Colour ", " Stargazer ", " La Riche Directions ".

The plots of individual episodes range from dark and epic to light-hearted and comic, but typically follow " Jack ", a time-displaced samurai warrior, in his singular quest to find a method of traveling back in time.

The Sonic the Hedgehog comic typically runs original storylines based around characters from various Sonic media, but it has also made a number of adaptations.

His mask is typically portrayed as orange outside of the Mirage / Image / IDW comic series and his weapons are dual nunchaku, though he has also been portrayed using other weapons, such as a grappling hook, tonfa, and a three section staff ( in some action figures ).

The last page of that final issue also revealed how every story in the comic ended, typically in a humorous reversal of the obvious, or expected, manner.

A comedy of errors is a narrative work ( often a play ) that is light and often humorous or satirical in tone, in which the action usually features a series of comic instances of mistaken identity, and which typically culminates in a happy resolution of the thematic conflict.

England traces its light opera tradition to the ballad opera, typically a comic play that incorporated songs set to popular tunes.