* Aliens ( comic book )

The comic book series Cerebus The Aardvark ( created, written and illustrated by Dave Sim ) features an aardvark as its protagonist.

* Atlas ( comics series ), a comic book series by Dylan Horrocks

* 1960 – Batem, French comic book artist

* Adrian Alphona, Canadian comic book artist

Perhaps the most unusual thing about the privately operated buses is the fact that they are all highly decorated and personalized, with decaling and home made interior designs that range from comic book scenes, to erotic themes, and even to " Hello Kitty " themes.

* Ambrós ( Miguel Ambrosio Zaragoza ( 31 August 1913 – 30 September 1992 )), a distinguished comic strip cartoonist, most famous for the comic book series Capitán Trueno ( Captain Thunder ).

* 1953 – James Vance, American comic book writer, author and playwright

* Alfred Pennyworth, a DC comic book character who serves as Batman's butler

* Lisa Simpson is delighted at the sight of a rack with Tintin and Asterix comics in a comic book store, depicted in The Simpsons episode " Husbands and Knives ".

* In the episode " Goodnight Mr. Bean ", Mr. Bean and Teddy are reading an Asterix comic book.

In the comic book Asterix and Cleopatra, the author Goscinny inserted a pun about alexandrines: when the Druid Panoramix (" Getafix " in the English translation ) meets his Alexandrian ( Egyptian ) friend the latter exclaims Je suis, mon cher ami, || très heureux de te voir at which Panoramix observes C ' est un Alexandrin (" That's an alexandrine!

* 1971 – Michael Turner, American comic book artist ( d. 2008 )

* 1939 – DC Comics publishes its second major superhero in Detective Comics # 27 ; he is Batman, one of the most popular comic book superheroes of all time.

is a comic book limited series written by Toshimichi Suzuki and illustrated by Tony Takezaki.

Fearless Fosdick — and Capp's other spoofs like " Little Fanny Gooney " ( 1952 ) and " Jack Jawbreaker "— were almost certainly an early inspiration for Harvey Kurtzman's Mad Magazine, which began in 1952 as a comic book that specifically parodied other comics in the same distinctive style and subversive manner.

In 1946 Capp created a special full-color comic book, Al Capp by Li ' l Abner, to be distributed by the Red Cross to encourage the thousands of amputee veterans returning from the war.

( This fable-like story was collected into an educational comic book called Mammy Yokum and the Great Dogpatch Mystery !, and distributed by the Anti-Defamation League of B ' nai B ' rith later that year.

) Two years later, Capp's studio issued Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story, a 1958 biographical comic book distributed by The Fellowship of Reconciliation.

There was also a separate line of comic book titles published by the Caplin family-owned Toby Press, including Shmoo Comics featuring Washable Jones.

However, Frazetta returned briefly a few years later to draw a public service comic book called Li ' l Abner and the Creatures from Drop-Outer Space, distributed by the Job Corps in 1965.

Highlights of the strip's final decades include " Boomchik " ( 1961 ), in which America's international prestige is saved by Mammy Yokum, " Daisy Mae Steps Out " ( 1966 ), a female-empowering tale of Daisy's brazenly audacious “ homewrecker gland ," " The Lips of Marcia Perkins " ( 1967 ), a satirical, thinly-veiled commentary on venereal disease and public health warnings, " Ignoble Savages " ( 1968 ), in which the Mob takes over Harvard, and " Corporal Crock " ( 1973 ), in which Bullmoose reveals his reactionary cartoon role model, in a tale of obsession and the fanatical world of comic book collecting.

Army of Darkness had a comic book adaptation and several comic book sequels.

In the canonical comic Angel: After the Fall, it is confirmed Illyria survived the final battle against the Senior Partners.

Illyria appears substantially in the comic books published by IDW Publishing following Angels series finale.

Peter David also published an Illyria crossover with his own comic book, Fallen Angel.

In the comic Illyria: Haunted ( 2011 ), Illyria begins having nightmares consisting of Fred's partial memories.

In the comic book Angel: Only Human, when facing her old enemy Baticus ( who had been empowered with the energy drained from Illyria by the Mutari generator ) Illyria again regained some of her former power, being able to teleport and freeze time.

Illyria has also appeared in Angel expanded universe material such as comics, most notably her own one-shot comic Illyria: Spotlight in 2006.

: Illyria appears in the first three issues of Peter David's comic book series Fallen Angel Reborn in 2009.

Shear also briefly hosted a comedy program called " Spotlight Cafe ," hosted previously by comic Judy Tenuta.

The comic book " Wesley: Spotlight " focuses on Wesley's struggles to save the life of Fred's love interest and ( unbeknownst to Wesley ) future murderer, Knox.

They then published a one shot comic based on the film The 7th Voyage of Sinbad in 1975 with Marvel Spotlight # 25.

Gunn has also appeared in Angel expanded universe material such as comics and novels, most notable his own one-shot comic Gunn: Spotlight in 2006.

Marvel Spotlight is the name of several comic book series published by Marvel Comics as a try-out book for new characters.

In December 2005, the Marvel Spotlight title was used for a series of comic book-sized magazines, usually featuring profiles of and interviews with Marvel creators ( one writer and one artist each issue ), or spotlighting special Marvel projects such as Stephen King's The Dark Tower.

However, a number of writers of the novels and audio plays are also writing for the new television series, and Russell T Davies refers to the comic strips, audio plays and novels in an essay describing the Time War, written for the Doctor Who Annual 2006.

* 2006 – Dave Cockrum, American comic book artist ( b. 1943 )

* 1931 – Luciano Bottaro, Italian comic book artist ( d. 2006 )

A second issue followed in 1990, and a third in March 1991, after which the venture stalled ( although several ashcans of the as yet unpublished Fourth Trip were distributed at comic book conventions in the Detroit and Chicago areas between 1991 and 2006 ).

* Chart Throb ( 2006 ) is a comic novel by Ben Elton that parodies The X Factor and The Osbournes, among other reality shows.

* Capitalist Piglet, a comic strip that appeared briefly in The Sheaf during 2005 – 2006

Scott Tipton's 2006 comic Spike: Old Wounds is detective fiction set during Season Five, and also features allusions to Spike's activities in the late 1940s.

Frank Miller's 1998 comic book miniseries 300, and the 2006 film adaptation of the same name, portray Ephialtes as a severely deformed Spartan in exile who betrays the Spartan army after Leonidas, although sympathetic towards him, denies him the right to fight because he was unable to lift a shield high enough, thus compromising the integrity of the phalanx formation.

* In a 2006 comic book story featuring Lee Falk's The Phantom, the 19th Phantom has to fight Professor Moriarty.

His weekly comic strip This Modern World, which comments on current events, appears regularly in over 90 newspapers across the U. S. and Canada as of 2006, as well as on CREDO Action and Daily Kos, where he is its comics curator.

It gives a good indication of Bilal's popularity in France, that Rendez-vous à Paris was the fifth best selling new comic of 2006, with 280, 000 copies sold.

In the summer of 2006, Kreuk starred in the short film, Dream Princess by comic book writer / artist Kaare Andrews.

The film is a comic documentary filmed over several years in Shetland and was released in 2006.

* The Exterminators ( comic book ; 2006 – 08 )

Examples include a parody of the story published in a 1970 Batman comic book, comedic references in television programmes such as The Simpsons ( 1990 ), being discussed in a 2006 episode of the Catalan soap opera El Cor de la Ciutat, and a 2009 Wired Italia magazine article which compared selected photographs of McCartney, taken before and after his alleged demise.

In 2006, Moonstone Books began publishing comic books depicting earlier and further adventures of Buckaroo Banzai and the Hong Kong Cavaliers.

The black-and-white preview edition of the comic was released in February 2006, featuring a behind-the-scenes article by Dan Berger regarding the transformation of the rejected Buckaroo Banzai television pilot script Supersize those Fries into the present comic book miniseries.

In 2006 he was announced as co-writer on a feature film adaptation of Marvel Comics comic book character Ant-Man, with Shaun of the Dead director Edgar Wright.

In its 2006 gift guide, the Christian Science Monitor gave Brisco a positive review, saying, " Folks, there are so few comic sci-fi / Westerns, they should be celebrated, not canceled prematurely.

He co-wrote the script for Nacho Cerdà's feature debut The Abandoned ( 2006 ) and delivered the screenplay for Cerdà's upcoming comic book adaptation I Am Legion ( 2012 ).

* Casanova ( comics ), a 2006 espionage comic book

* Routine Valor, 2006 Star Wars comic book by Dark Horse Comics

A final, specially drawn strip appeared on the Daily Mirror's comic page on Saturday June 10, 2006.

The 2006 Eros Comix print catalog sells over 470 items, mostly adult comic books.