* In a 2005 issue of Total Film, a comic strip illustrating Kevin Smith's version of the Passion of the Christ was published, featuring Jay and Silent Bob in the final panel.

When Shadow rights holder Condé Nast increased its licensing fee, DC concluded the series after 31 issues and one annual ; it became the longest running Shadow comic series since Street and Smith's original 1940s series.

In designing the strip, Gray was influenced by his midwestern farm boyhood, Victorian poetry and novels such as Charles Dickens's Great Expectations, Sidney Smith's wildly popular comic strip The Gumps, and the histrionics of the silent films and melodramas of the period.

In late 1925, radio performers Gosden and Correll had been approached about doing a show based on Sidney Smith's popular comic strip The Gumps.

Figurines of comic book or sci-fi / fantasy characters without movable parts have been referred to by the terms inaction figures ( originally used to describe Kevin Smith's View Askew figurines ) and staction figures ( a portmanteau of statue and action figures coined by Four Horsemen artists to describe Masters of the Universe figures ).

In Kevin Smith's 1995 film Mallrats Quesada is credited as an artist for the opening sequence featuring fictional comic books covers.

There have also been a couple of attempts to revive the Avenger as a comic book character, beginning in the 1940s in Street & Smith's own Shadow Comics, but none ( to date ) have proved particularly successful.

* Kevin Smith's 2001 film Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, parodies film companies ' seemingly compulsive purchase of comic book film rights with " Bluntman and Chronic ".

It has been claimed that Smith's appointment was the inspiration for the character of Sir Joseph Porter, KCB, in Gilbert and Sullivan's 1878 comic opera, H. M. S. Pinafore ).

Feeling that such visitors deserved a less mediocre store to travel to, Smith moved the store two years later to a larger location at 35 Broad Street, and had his production designer on Chasing Amy and Dogma to help design the store's appearance, and filled it with every prop and artwork possible from Smith's films, such as the Bluntman and Chronic pages from Chasing Amy that had been drawn by comic artist Mike Allred and the Buddy Christ statue from Dogma.

This was followed by two games based on Jeff Smith's Bone comic book series.

Many of Smith's early films, including The Miller and the Sweep and Old Man Drinking a Glass of Beer ( both 1897 ) were comedies thanks to the influence of his wife, Laura Bayley, who had previously acted in pantomime and comic revue.

In August 1920 Stan Cross published the first episode of a comic strip known as You & Me in Smith's Weekly.

Smith then contacted Takachiho Haruka, the creator of the Dirty Pair, who was much more impressed with Warren's art and Smith's ideas and agreed to license the characters for an American comic.

In the Pearl of Great Price's section containing part of Joseph Smith's translation of the Bible's book of Moses, it refers to " a Book of Remembrance ", written in the language of Adam.

However, with the exceptions of Smith's translation of portions of the book of Book of Genesis ( renamed Selections from the Book of Moses ) and the translation of Matthew ( called Joseph Smith – Matthew ), no portions of the Joseph Smith Translation have been officially canonized by the LDS Church.

Complete copies have laid in the three page essay " The Price of Poetry ", on Smith's verse, by David Warren Ryder, which was printed to accompany the book.

Smith's book asserts that the American Revolution had two primary leaders: George Washington in the military sphere, and John Hanson in politics.

Smith's 1838 written account of this vision is considered by some Mormon denominations to be scripture and is contained in a book called " The Pearl of Great Price.

Tolkien's concept of hobbits, in turn, seems to have been inspired by Edward Wyke Smith's 1927 children's book The Marvellous Land of Snergs, and by Sinclair Lewis's 1922 novel Babbitt.

The title is a reference to the song " About a Girl " by Nirvana, a band that is featured in the book, and Patti Smith's tribute to Kurt Cobain, " About a Boy ".

Charlotte is also an illustrator ; as is Hannah, known for her book jacket illustrations for Alexander McCall Smith's The No. 1 Ladies ' Detective Agency series ; Josie, who runs hand-painted china shops in London and Canterbury ; Katy, who works for a farmers ' cooperative in Faversham, Lucy, a pattern-cutter for fashion houses in Italy and Emily, the youngest, who appeared in the opening sequence of Bagpuss, and is a papier mache artist and printmaker living in Whitstable.

* Bill Bryson details Kingsford Smith's life in his book " Down Under "

When Smith's book was published in paperback in 2002, the title was changed to Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance: The Glorious Impostor ( rather than " Impersonator ".

Sir Thomas Smith's book * De Republica Anglorum ; the Manner of Government or Policie of the Realme of England, written between 1562 and 1565, was first published in 1583.

Large parts of this book are retaken from Smith's lectures before his visit to France.

In Wilbur Smith's novel The Burning Shores ( an installment in the Courtneys of Africa book series ), the San people are portrayed through two major characters, O ' wa and H ' ani ; Smith describes the Bushmen's struggles, history, and beliefs in great detail.

How to Do Nothing With Nobody All Alone By Yourself ( 1958 ) is a how-to book, illustrated by Robert Paul Smith's wife Elinor Goulding Smith.

His interpretation, juxtaposed with Smith's interpretation, was published in T. B. H. Stenhouse's book The Rocky Mountain Saints: A Full and Complete History of the Mormons in 1873.

This high priesthood had been foreshadowed in the Book of Mormon, which referred to men holding the unique position of high priest in the church organization described in that book, holding the " high priesthood of the holy order of God " (, ); however, the office of high priest was not implemented in early Mormonism until some days after Joseph Smith, Jr. was joined in his ministry by Sidney Rigdon, a newly-converted Church of Christ minister from Ohio, who merged his congregation with Smith's Church of Christ.

In their picaresque and unrelenting strangeness, Shea's tales evoke Jack Vance and Lord Dunsany, Clark Ashton Smith's Zothique tales, as well as The Worm Ouroboros ; but what his work most reminds me of is David Lindsay's A Voyage to Arcturus, a book which had always struck me as being sui generis.

* Title of Dennis Smith's book about firefighters: Report from Engine Co. 82.

More recently, Shields had provided musical accompaniment to Patti Smith's reading of her book The Coral Sea.

This is because of the Tanner's interpretation of Joseph Smith's claim the Book of Mormon was " the most correct book on the face of the earth ... and a man would get nearer to God by abiding by its precepts, than by any other book.

H. Allen Smith's first humor book, Low Man on a Totem Pole ( 1941 ) and his two following books were so popular during World War II that they kept Smith on the New York Herald Tribunes Best Seller List for 100 weeks and prompted a collection of all three in 3 Smiths in the Wind ( 1946 ).

The 2005 book Nature Noir: A Park Ranger's Patrol in the Sierra recounted author Jordan Fisher Smith's experiences as a park ranger at Auburn SRA.

After the war he moved to London, and married Smith's mother, whose parents owned a greengrocer's store in Chiswick, West London.

The store was Smith's first and the chain has now grown to 107 stores in Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee.

Around 1810, Smith's father, who owned a general store, allegedly was caught using counterfeit currency.

Clerks, which was shot for $ 27, 575 in the convenience store where director Kevin Smith worked in real life, grossed over $ 3 million in theaters, launching Smith's career.

They also made promotional versions for Smith's Crisps ( potato chips ) and Harrods department store.

The store was repainted, filled with some film props, and its facade outfitted with a logo designed by Smith's friend Scott Mosier.

The store was rechristened Jay and Silent Bob's Secret Stash, after the two characters played by Smith and Jason Mewes in Smith's films.

The Columbia Falls store retained the Fred Meyer decor ( with Smith's logos over the old Fred Meyer logos ) but only contained a grocery department, with none of the other departments or product offerings.

Previous anchors and large stores included A & P, Leon's, Marks & Spencer, Miracle Mart, Miracle Food Mart, Simpsons and Smith's ( a local department store ).

Smith's began in 1932 when Lorenzo J. Smith opened his first grocery store in Brigham City, Utah.

In 1989, Smith's exited the once successful Boise, Idaho market after the Boise City Council refused approval for Smith's to open a large store in Boise.

Smith's Marketplaces contain a full-line food and drug store, with a full assortment of general merchandise, and Fred Meyer Jewelers.

Kevin Smith would later go on to include Wes Craven in a cameo as the director of the then fictitious Scream 4 in Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back ; in addition, a copy of Scream 3 can be seen in the background of a scene taking place within a video store in Smith's Jersey Girl.

In 1984, Our Price was the first specialist music store to float on the London Stock Exchange, and two years later, it was acquired by WH Smith for £ 43 million, with Smith's Sound FX chain immediately absorbed into Our Price.