* 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

" 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.

1984 – 2000 ) has even more potential starting points, but is generally agreed to be the publication of Frank Miller's Batman: The Dark Knight Returns and Alan Moore's Watchmen by DC Comics in 1986, as well as the publication of DC's Crisis on Infinite Earths, written by Marv Wolfman with pencils by George Pérez.

Apocryphal legend has it that in 1961, either Jack Liebowitz or Irwin Donenfeld of DC Comics ( then known as National Periodical Publications )

Genosha is a fictional country that has appeared in numerous comic book series published by Marvel Comics.

To that end, he has worked on projects with Image Comics, Marvel Comics, and DC Comics, as well as developing a manga adaptation of the film Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace.

He has also written for the DC Comics character Green Lantern including in his stories hard science fiction concepts such as universal entropy and the redshift effect, which are unusual in comic books.

* Marvel Comics has trademarked two words of their own invention: thwip !, the sound of Spider-Man's web shooter, and snikt!

He has had little success in American comics, with the exception of Marshal Law, a savage superhero satire published by Marvel Comics ' Epic imprint in the late 1980s, drawn by O ' Neill.

* The Marvel Comics character known as Tyrannus has the " real name " of " Romulus Augustus ", and originates in ancient Rome.

Classical Comics, a UK publisher creating graphic novel adaptations of classical literature, has produced a full colour paperback Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street Sweeney Todd ( 176 pages, November 2010, Original Text, ISBN 978-1-906332-79-2, Quick Text, ISBN 978-1-906332-80-8, forthcoming ) with script adaptation by Sean M. Wilson, linework by Declan Shalvey ; colouring by Jason Cardy & Kat Nicholson and lettering by Jim Campbell.

* In the Marvel Comics comic book series The X-Men, the Hellfire Club is a criminal organization that has played a prominent role in various story lines since its introduction during the Dark Phoenix Saga.

This archetype has been widely exemplified, notably by such characters as Countess Zaleska in the 1936 film Dracula's Daughter, Barnabas Collins in the TV soap opera Dark Shadows, Mick St. John in the TV show Moonlight, Louis de Pointe du Lac in Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire, Kain in the Legacy Of Kain video games, Marvel Comics character Morbius, the Living Vampire, Nick Knight in the TV series Forever Knight, Angel from the Buffy the Vampire Slayer universe, and Bill Compton in Charlaine Harris ' The Southern Vampire Mysteries.

Being an early pioneer next to Rodolphe Töpffer in the art of combining words and pictures to tell often humorous stories in sequential panels, throughout the latter half of the 20th century Busch has become posthumously known in German by the honorary epithet of Großvater der Comics (" Grandfather of Comics ").

Due to Firestar's popularity with fans, she has since become a part of the mainstream Marvel Universe ( see Comics above ).

In Marvel Comics, the term " cape-killer " has been used to describe Superhuman Restraint Unit, even though few notable Marvel heroes wear capes.

The Phoenix Force is an entity in the Marvel Comics fictional universe which has bonded with other characters, who often used the alias Phoenix.

In 1994, corporate cousin DC Comics became the publisher for comics featuring all the classic Warner Bros. cartoon characters, and while not getting his own title, Daffy has appeared in many issues of Looney Tunes.

He has also worked on Birds of Prey, OMAC Project and Wonder Woman for DC Comics, and Rogue, Excalibur ( vol.

The name derives from the word " archive " without the v. Alan Emtage has said that contrary to popular belief, there was no association with the Archie Comics and that he despised them.

At various points, Archie Comics has experimented with publishing various superhero titles.

Dennis the Menace has been published in comic books and comic digests from the 1950s through the 1980s by a variety of publishers, including Standard / Pines ( 1953 – 58 ), Fawcett Comics ( 1958 – 80, during their only return to comics after losing the Captain Marvel lawsuit ), and Marvel Comics ( 1981 – 82 ).