Like Euripides, both Aeschylus and Sophocles created comic effects contrasting the heroic with the mundane but they employed minor supporting characters for that purpose whereas the younger poet was more insistent, using major characters too.

* Exceptionally Versatile Evolvanoid ( EVE ), a minor character from Archie's Sonic the Hedgehog comic books

: The mock epic ( A. J. Liebling, Calvin Trillin, the French writer Robert Courtine, and any good restaurant critic ) is essentially comic and treats the small ambitions of the greedy eater as though they were big and noble, spoofing the idea of the heroic while raising the minor subject to at least temporary greatness.

As with all of Shakespeare's serious plays, there are also a number of minor comic characters whose activities contrast with and sometimes comment on the main plot.

Sullivan continued to compose comic operas with other librettists and a number of other major and minor works throughout the decade.

Introduced as a minor character in a non-fantasy historical story by Robert E. Howard, " The Shadow of the Vulture ", Red Sonya of Rogatino would later inspire a fantasy heroine named Red Sonja, who first appeared in the comic book series Conan the Barbarian written by Roy Thomas and illustrated by Barry Windsor-Smith.

Superman / Batman: Apocalypse, a direct-to-video animated film released in September 2010, largely parallels the origin-story arc launched in the Superman / Batman comic series in 2004, with some minor plot differences.

Co-author Paul R. Urquhart told the website TheForce. Net said the name was taken from Gial Gahan, a Mon Calamari Senator character who played a minor role in the Star Wars: Legacy comic book series.

* Topper, a minor character in the comic strip Dilbert

The webcomic Questionable Content mentions Smith College ( usually referred to as " Smif " in the comic ) as the place where one of the main characters, Marten, is employed as library staff, and several of the minor characters attend.

The HMGA and HMPA are examples of the exaggerated level of organization of the RPG hobby in the comic ; another is the fictional Gamer Temps company that provides, for a fee, drop-in temporary players for campaigns when a regular player is absent ( minor character Ty Ferfel was introduced as a Gamer Temps employee ).

In his later years Gozzi began to produce tragedies in which the comic element was largely introduced ; as this innovation proved unacceptable to the critics he turned to the Spanish drama, from which he obtained models for various pieces ; these had minor success.

He and his friends have featured in the comic every now and again since the strip was retired, usually in minor cameos.

In the 75th volume of the French comic book series Lucky Luke ( L ' Homme de Washington ), published in 2008, both James West and Artemus Gordon have a minor guest appearance, albeit the names have been changed to " James East " and " Artémius Gin ".

* Eudora, a minor Peanuts comic strip character

He was also used to add minor comic relief to the rivalry between Zhuge Liang and Zhou Yu, particularly in the events leading to the Battle of Red Cliffs.

Introduced in Magnet # 1-1908, as a minor character, but was developed into the principal character of the stories as his comic potential was realised.

The scenario of two comic yet philosophizing minor characters meandering in and out of the lives of the main characters is reminiscent of Tom Stoppard's play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead.

Like Shakespeare, Walpole aims to create a " mixture of comedy and tragedy " and one of the ways he does so is by using the minor, servant characters ( such as Bianca ) as comic relief.

Rerun started as a minor character in the Peanuts universe, only becoming a main character in the last decade of the comic strip.

The game featured an assortment of Marvel Comics supervillains through the course of the game, many of whom are relatively minor characters in the comic books: Eduardo Lobo, Grey Gargoyle, Machete, Boomerang, Oddball, Electro, Hobgoblin, Rhino, Batroc the Leaper, Rattan ( who was created specifically for the game ), and finally Doctor Doom himself.

* Charlie: A minor character in the comic series.

* Campion Bond, a minor character in the comic versions of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

He made his name on the BBC television teatime programme Nationwide, followed by Esther Rantzen's That's Life !, a light-hearted consumer affairs programme for which he wrote comic songs satirising various minor domestic misfortunes, often to the tune of Oh!

Capp peopled his comic strip with an assortment of memorable characters, including Marryin ' Sam, Hairless Joe, Lonesome Polecat, Evil-Eye Fleegle, General Bullmoose, Lena the Hyena, Senator Jack S. Phogbound ( Capp's caricature of the anti-New Deal Dixiecrats ), the ( shudder!

Later, when Watterson was creating names for the characters in his comic strip, he allegedly decided upon Calvin ( after the Protestant reformer John Calvin ) and Hobbes ( after the social philosopher Thomas Hobbes ) as a " tip of the hat " to the political science department at Kenyon.

( comic strip ), a comic strip by Johnny Hart, and one of its characters

The sister comic features many of the same characters, however the stories in BeanoMAX are written in a longer format meant for 10-13 year olds.

Consequently, Bixby starred in the pilot movie called The Incredible Hulk, based loosely on the Stan Lee and Jack Kirby Marvel comic book characters.

Chaplin also diverged from conventional slapstick by slowing down his pace and exhausting each scene of its comic potential, and focusing more on developing the viewer's relationship to the characters.

The Little Bears ( 1893 – 96 ) was the first American comic with recurring characters, while the first color comic supplement was published by the Chicago Inter-Ocean sometime in the latter half of 1892, followed by the New York Journals first color Sunday comic pages in 1897.

Most comic strip characters do not age throughout the strip's life, but in some strips, like Lynn Johnston's award-winning For Better or For Worse, the characters age as the years pass.

Wiley Miller not only mixes human, animal and fantasy characters, but also does several different comic strip continuities under one umbrella title, Non Sequitur.

Stan and Hilda Ogden were often at the centre of overtly funny storylines, with other comic characters including Eddie Yeats ( Geoffrey Hughes ), Fred Gee ( Fred Feast ) and Jack Duckworth ( William Tarmey ) all making their first appearances during the decade.

The amount of slapstick and physical humour in storylines increased during the 1990s, with comic characters such as Reg Holdsworth and his water bed.

He both performed comic characters ( Flash Bazbo — Space Explorer, Mr. Rogers, music critic Roger de Swans, and sleazy record company rep Ron Fields ) and also wrote, arranged and performed numerous musical parodies ( of Bob Dylan, James Taylor and others ).

Jones co-directed 1969's The Pogo Special Birthday Special, based on the Walt Kelly comic strip, and voiced the characters of Porky Pine and Bun Rab.

Dennis the Menace may refer to separate UK and U. S. comic strip characters that both appeared in March 1951 in their respective readership areas, and are still published as of 2012.

Doonesbury is a comic strip by American cartoonist Garry Trudeau, that chronicles the adventures and lives of an array of characters of various ages, professions, and backgrounds, from the President of the United States to the title character, Michael Doonesbury, who has progressed from a college student to a youthful senior citizen in the 40 + years of the strip's daily existence.

Prior to the hiatus, the strip ’ s characters had aged at the tectonically slow rate standard for comic strips.

Keno Don Hugo Rosa, known simply as Don Rosa, ( born June 29, 1951 ) is an American comic book writer and illustrator known for his stories about Scrooge McDuck, Donald Duck and other Disney characters.

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