* Goldstein, Kalman, " Al Capp and Walt Kelly: Pioneers of Political and Social Satire in the Comics " from Journal of Popular Culture ; Vol.

His lengthiest interview was featured as the cover story in The Comics Journal # 127 in the late 1980s.

* The Comics Journal

" The Comics Journal has described Aragonés as " one of the most prolific and brilliant cartoonists of his generation.

" In 2004, Comics Journal publisher Gary Groth discovered that Archie had neglected to renew the copyright to the strip, and that it had fallen into the public domain.

In his retirement Beck produced a regular opinion column for The Comics Journal entitled " The Crusty Curmudgeon ".

Beginning in the early 1970s he became a prolific illustrator for many anarchist, radical, alternative and mainstream publications, organisations, groups and individuals including Freedom Press, Undercurrents, Respect for Animals, BIT Newsletter, Arts Lab Newsletter, Idiot International, 1977 Firemans Strike, Libertarian Education, The Idler, Radical Community Medicine, Anarchy Magazine, Black Flag, Anarchy Comix, Common Ground, Industrial Worker, Aberlour Distillery, Country Life, Graphical Paper and Media Union, The Times Saturday Review, Tolpuddle Martyrs Festival, New Scientist, Oxford University Press, Penguin Books, Times Educational Supplement, London Anarchist Bookfair, Public and Commercial Services Union, The Sunday Times Magazine, Catholic Worker, Soil Association, The Bodleian Library, New Statesman, Cienfeugos Anarchist Review, Headline Books, The Financial Times, Resurgence, Scotland on Sunday, Town and Country Planning Association, Movement Against A Monarchy, Nursing Times, John Hegarty, The Listener, Zero, McCallan Whisky, Solidarity, New Society, News from Neasden, House & Garden, The Tablet, Radical Science Journal, Royal Mail, The Co-ops Fairs, Picador Books, Pluto Press, Working Press, Anarchismo, Insurrection, Our Generation, Ogilvy & Mather, Vogue, Radio Times, National Union of Teachers, Faber & Faber, Pimlico, Trades Union Congress, Transport and General Workers Union, Serpents Tale, Compendium Books, Poison Girls, Yale University Press, The Daily Telegraph, The Independent, Elephant Editions, Intelligent Life, Landworker, Zounds, Honey, New Musical Express, Knockabout Comics, Trickett and Webb, The Times, See Sharp Press, Countryside Commission, Industrial Common Ownership Movement, BBC Worldwide, Stop the War Coalition, The Folio Society, Unison, Anarchist Studies, Country Standard, Fitzrovia News, Anarchist Black Cross and many others.

Nonetheless he did face some complaints from his editors over the years ; in a late-1990s interview with The Comics Journal Hirschfeld recounted how one editor told him his drawings of Broadway's

The Comics Journal placed it first on its list of the greatest comics of the 20th century.

The first wider recognition of Gilbert and his brothers ' work occurred in 1982, after they had sent in a copy of their Love & Rockets comic, which up to that point they had been self publishing, to the Comics Journal, the foremost U. S. magazine of news and criticism pertaining to comic books and strips.

Also released in 1992, The Comics Journal Interview CD ( Fantagraphics, 2002 ): Contains 15-20 minute audio excerpts with five of the most influential cartoonists in the American comics industry: Charles Schulz, Jack Kirby, Walt Kelly ( interviewed by Gil Kane in 1969 ) and R. Crumb.

In 2009 two Carleton students founded the only comics magazine at Carleton, the Carleton Comics Journal ( now known as the Carleton Graphic ).

The Comics Journal, 2000.

Catron acted as Fantagraphics ' co-publisher until 1985, also handling advertising and circulation for The Comics Journal from 1982 – 1985, when he left the company.

Fantagraphics publishes The Comics Journal ( TCJ ), a magazine that covers comics as an art form from a critical perspective.

* The Comics Journal — magazine of comics news and criticism

The word " padiddle " first appeared in print in a 1948 B. Montana Archie comic strip, published in the Nevada State Journal on 23 May ( Comics section ).

* Goldstein, Kalman, " Al Capp and Walt Kelly: Pioneers of Political and Social Satire in the Comics " from Journal of Popular Culture ; Vol.

* Listing for The Comics Journal No. 173, including interviews with Wagner and Jeff Smith

By keeping back issues in print and available ( contrary to the industry practice of the time ), Pekar continued to receive income on previously-completed work, although at the time some of them were published, according to his Comics Journal interview, he was losing thousands of dollars per year on the books.

Harvey, excerpted from The Comics Journal # 179 " " The Comics Journal "

*" Still Thinking: By Charles Hatfield " " The Comics Journal "

We now have not only what has been called over here the comedy of menace but we also have horror jokes, magazines known as Horror Comics, and sick comedians.

* Tabitha Smith, a Marvel Comics comic book superhero, formerly called Boomer

In the meantime, the abandoned trademark had been seized by Marvel Comics in 1967, disallowing the DC comic itself to be called that.

In May 2004, Woody Hearn of GU Comics called for all EverQuest gamers to boycott the Omens of War expansion in an effort to force SOE to address existing issues with the game rather than release another " quick-fire " expansion.

* In Marvel Comics, Limbo is a section outside time, ruled over by a future version of Kang the Conqueror called Immortus.

Shang-Chi () is a Marvel Comics character, often called the " Master of Kung Fu ".

In 1982, a comic book adaptation of the film called A Marvel Comics Super Special: Blade Runner was released by Marvel Comics.

In 2012 for the first time in Marvel Comics a new team was composed of Avengers and X-Men members called Uncanny Avengers.

A project called " Sine Fiction " Achewood, Dinosaur Comics and Killroy and Tina are examples of this.

* The Southern Knights were originally called the Crusaders in their first issue but had to change their name due to Archie Comics ' Mighty Crusaders

Archie tried publishing superheroes again in the late 1980s with an imprint called Spectrum Comics, featuring a number of high-profile talents, including Steve Englehart, Jim Valentino, Marv Wolfman, Michael Bair, Kelley Jones, and Rob Liefeld.

Shooter returned to Valiant ( now called Acclaim Comics ) for a brief stint in 1999 to write Unity 2000 ( an attempt to combine and revitalize the older and newer Valiant universes ) but Acclaim folded after the completion of only three of the planned six issues.

The first was a 5 issue series published by Caliber Press in 1991, while the other was a series called Jason and the Argonauts: Kingdom of Hades, a 5 issue mini-series, published by Bluewater Comics in 2007.

But due to then-current Mighty Mouse cartoons ' use of a city called Mouseville, the new name Mouseton was created for Mickey's town instead ; both in Mickey Mouse Adventures, and in Disney's contemporary reprints of vintage stories in Walt Disney's Comics and Stories ( 1991 – 93 ).

In the 1970s Bob Rozakis called his fellow young fans turned DC Comics editorial employees Junior Woodchucks and they referred to themselves as such in the pages of the pro-zine The Amazing World of DC Comics which they co-edited.

* There is in DC Comics a city called Argo, Supergirl's home on the now destroyed planet Krypton

* In 1996, Marvel Comics and DC Comics teamed up to create Amalgam Comics it released several future-based comic book series called Legion of Galactic Guardians 2099

The comic book version of The Simpsons, Simpsons Comics, also published a story called ' The Last Fat Man ', based partially on ' Time Enough at Last ' and actually has a short scene where Homer Simpson shoos a bespectacled man who is reading a book out of a nuclear bunker so he can eat in it, unintentionally taking shelter in it.

In DC Comics, Superman resides in a city called " Metropolis ", and hence, Metropolis, Illinois has a giant statue of him on a main street in downtown Metropolis.

All Star Comics # 58 ( January – February 1976 ) saw the group return as mentors to a younger set of heroes ( briefly called the " Super Squad " until they were integrated into the JSA proper ).

Additionally, during the company's first year, eight trade paperbacks called Disney Comics Album ( sic ) were published.