* Blitz ( comics ), a Flash-based Big Bang Comics hero

This gave R. D. Low, the head of children's publications at D. C. Thomson at the time, the idea to create another Big Five, this time of comics intended for both boys and girls and consisting mainly of ' funnies ' and more lighthearted adventure and text stories.

The character went on to appear in a host of forties comics, including All Star, Comic Cavalcade, The Big All-American Comic Book, and his own titles, Flash Comics and All-Flash.

Vic Reeves Big Night Out influenced the style of a whole new generation of comics in the 1990s until the present day.

He was a member of the " Big Three ", referring also to Jason Todd and Bucky whose notable deaths, along with Ben's, gave rise to the phrase " No one in comics stays dead except for Bucky, Jason Todd, and Uncle Ben ".

The success of Grey's The Lone Star Ranger ( a novel later turned into a 1930 film ) and King of the Royal Mounted ( popular as a series of Big Little Books and comics, later turned into a 1936 film ), inspired two radio series by George Trendle ( WXYZ, Detroit ).

By the time Maus started to be serialized, the " Big Two " comics publishers, Marvel and DC Comics, dominated the industry with mostly superhero titles.

It became one of the " Big Three " book-form comics from around 1986 – 1987, along with Watchmen and The Dark Knight Returns, that are said to have brought the term " graphic novel " and the idea of comics for adults into mainstream consciousness.

He was also a star of Cedric the Entertainer Presents, aired in the United States on the Fox network, and appeared in an NFB documentary on aspiring Canadian comics, The Next Big Thing .< ref >

Lee had drawn similar characters since childhood, inspired by characters from Mad magazine and by artist Ed " Big Daddy " Roth, as well as comics and cartoons.

He has also written books such as Something At The Window Is Scratching, The Monsters In My Tummy, The Cat With A Really Big Head: And One Other Story That Isn't As Good and has done work for The Haunted Mansion comics.

* Big Numbers ( comics ), an unfinished comics series by Alan Moore and Bill Sienkiewicz

Outside that genre, he wrote a large number of stories for the crime comics anthology Big Town, based on the radio and television shows.

After graduating high school, Liefeld took life drawing classes at a local junior college, working odd jobs for about a year, including as a pizza delivery man and construction worker, while practicing his artwork, samples of which he would send to small comics publishers, as he was too intimidated to send them to the " Big Two " companies of Marvel and DC.

However, this was based on the original script of The Transformers: The Movie which was changed later but was too late to amend in the profiles, and certainly does not apply to the UK comics, where the Quintessons were featured in the story Space Pirates ( which stated Big Broadcast had been completely made up by Wreck-Gar ).

Millar and his Wanted ( comics ) | Wanted collaborator J. G. Jones at the Big Apple Convention, October 2, 2010.

* Dr. Weird ( comics ), a character from the fanzine Star Studded Comics that was later incorporated into Big Bang Comics

* Even comics have adopted the term into their lexicon, with Nightwing describing Bruno Mannheim to Batwoman as " the Big Bad " in DC Comics ' 52: Week 30.

He since created the weekly comic strip " Obama Nation " with comics artist Batton Lash for Big Hollywood, which is now running on Big Government and the news media criticism comics strip " Useful Idiots " with comics artist Val Mayerik which runs on Big Journalism.

Indeed, Li ' l Bad is friends with the Pigs, Thumper, and other forest characters whom the comics portray as Zeke's intended prey.

( A fourth and last volume, Bad Vibes, has yet to be published, which would have the Library collecting the entirety of his pre-Black Hole comics work.

* Bad Girls ( comics ), a 2003 DC Comics series with covers by Darwyn Cooke

In between the main irritability strips Mike draws ' Bad comics ', quicker strips made in groups often with even more absurdist punch lines than normal.

* Bad Boy ( comics ) a one-shot comic book by Frank Miller and Simon Bisley

Avatar Press is most notable for their publishing of " Bad Girl " comics such as Pandora, who is considered by many to be their flagship character.

Notable Bad Girl comics ( often written by William A. Christensen and Mark Seifert ) are:

However his friend, Tom DeSanto, a big fan of the comics and partner in his production company Bad Hat Harry Productions, eventually persuaded Singer to reconsider and, after reading the comics and becoming familiar with the characters, Singer signed on to direct.

She chronicled the battle in Very Bad Publishers, a widely referenced series of blog posts which earned praise from an array of comics industry notables like Tom Spurgeon at The Comics Reporter and Frank Miller.

In the early decades of the 20th century, all Sunday comics received a full page, and daily strips were generally the width of the page.

Some independent comics continued in the tradition of underground comics, though their content was generally less explicit, and others resembled the output of mainstream publishers in format and genre but were published by smaller artist-owned companies or by single artists.

Superheroes in comics and films are generally depicted wearing unitards.

Bishōnen manga are generally shōjo manga ( girls ' comics ) or yaoi ( girls ' comics focused on homosexual relationships between beautiful boys ), however shōnen manga ( boy's comics ) may use casts of bishōnen characters for crossover appeal to female readers.

These sprites, created completely from scratch, but generally imitating sprites from a commercial game, are called " Custom " sprites, and are often seen as avatars, buddy icons, small animations, and elements of web comics.

Dip pens were generally used prior to the development of fountain pens, and are now mainly used in illustration, calligraphy, and comics.

The Silent Service is generally regarded as one of the rare Japanese comics that covered the unparalleled scale of realistic international geopolitics with a commercial success.

) with other media ( generally comics and original novels ).

In 2001 he briefly returned to UK comics to write the epic Helter Skelter for Judge Dredd-this series cannot be considered a success, with Ennis himself saying that there is " not a hope " to return to writing Dredd as he was generally not happy with his run.

These comics were generally photocopied, although some that were produced in larger quantities used offset printing.

The comics generally consist of soft, child-friendly jokes, as well as small advertisements for kitschy merchandise one could purchase with enough comics and a few dollars.

Animated comics are generally used for the annual week-long anniversary parties ( usually culminating in a brief animated comic that recaps the events of the past year in a matter of seconds ), for especially climactic scenes, and for a series of videos depicting an in-comic event known as " the Cataclysm ".

Possibly because of graphic novel considerations, Pibgorn is characterized by involved story arcs which may seem better suited to a graphic novel than a daily comic, and it is also notable for its creative use of color and large format, together with strong themes of violence ( explicit ) and sexuality ( generally implicit ), attributes not usually associated with daily print comics.

The Buffyverse novels, Buffy video games and the vast majority of Buffyverse comics, are licensed by 20th Century Fox, but are generally considered ' less real ' within the Buffyverse ( apocryphal ).

The mutants of Strontium Dog differ from the usual depiction of mutants in American comics, such as those published by Marvel, in that they are generally afflicted with severe physical deformities and only rarely granted with superhuman powers.

As the artist's style evolved, Nodwick grew shorter and his nose grew larger ; this was actually commented upon in the comics themselves, with Artax trying to understand how it happened and Nodwick suggesting his nose grew to create balance for the oft-ridiculous weights he is forced to carry ( generally orders of magnitude greater than his own weight ).

The term manga in English is generally taken to refer to Japanese comics ; it is also sometimes used to refer to comics from elsewhere which have been drawn in that style.

In 1997 and 1998, the contents of the ten issues were reprinted in the five-volume The XXXenophile Collection series ; each volume contained a number of stories from the original comics ( not in their original publication order ) plus a new story ( generally a second look at characters from an earlier story such as the superhero Orgasm Lass and her four-armed male sidekick Foreplay ).

The one-episode stories generally featured obscure or little-seen characters from the Marvel universe, and often featured work by creators previously unpublished in the comics field, including Scott Lobdell ( later X-Men Writer ) who started work under the editorship of Tom DeFalco.