* 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.

* He also was featured in the Topps comic series Xena: Warrior Princess / Joxer: Warrior Prince in 1997 and 1998 battling the title heroine in issues # 2 and # 3.

* Sabrina Spellman, a character in Archie Comics, heroine of the Sabrina the Teenage Witch comic book and television series franchise

Introduced as a minor character in a non-fantasy historical story by Robert E. Howard, " The Shadow of the Vulture ", Red Sonya of Rogatino would later inspire a fantasy heroine named Red Sonja, who first appeared in the comic book series Conan the Barbarian written by Roy Thomas and illustrated by Barry Windsor-Smith.

He was conceived as an everyman and a male character for series heroine Buffy Summers ( Sarah Michelle Gellar ) to interact with, and to provide comic relief in the series.

* Princess Ida, eponymous heroine of Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera

According to Michael Booth in his classic study English Melodrama the Victorian stage melodrama featured a limited number of stock characters: the hero, the villain, the heroine, an old man, an old woman, a comic man and a comic woman engaged in a sensational plot featuring themes of love and murder.

Notable examples include the character Nyoka the Jungle Girl, who was created by Edgar Rice Burroughs for comic books and was later adapted into a serial heroine in Republic productions such as Perils of Nyoka.

Around this time, Angel publicly reveals himself as a mutant after discovering that not only has his uncle, Burt Worthington ( who goes by the name of the Dazzler — though he is in no way related to Alison Blaire, a later mutant heroine and brief love interest for Warren in her own comic series who also uses the name ), murdered Warren's father, Warren Worthington, Jr., but also poisoned his mother in order to ensure his inheritance of the Worthington fortune.

The eponymous heroine is a highly sympathetic 50th-century everywoman, and the tone of the strip runs from the comic to the poignant.

During her sixty year career Singleton appeared as the comic strip heroine Blondie Bumstead in a series of 28 motion pictures from 1938 until 1950 and the popular Blondie radio program from 1939 until 1950.

Birds of Prey is a comic book series published by DC Comics that features the adventures of the heroine Oracle and her group of superheroines.

Ayla Ranzz, known originally as Lightning Lass ( also known as Light Lass and Spark ) is a comic book fictional character, who is a super heroine in a future DC Comics universe.

Sheena, Queen of the Jungle is a fictional, American comic book jungle girl heroine, published originally by Fiction House.

Barry and the younger Bracegirdle had often worked together as a tragic / comic heroine pair to bring audiences the typically tragic / comic rollercoaster experience of Restoration plays.

* Herbert West makes a guest appearance in the Dynamite Entertainment Hack / Slash comic book series (# 15-17 ) in a crossover " Hack / Slash vs. Re-Animator " where the main heroine, Cassie Hack's father is an assistant to Herbert.

* Cobweb ( comics ), a comic book heroine

" The Newsday reviewer wrote: " She has a smile that may remind you of Mary Tyler Moore, the gawky comic precision of the young Carol Burnett, the lyricism of a romantic heroine and a smallish but vibrant voice as accurate as it is expressive.

: The apparent heroine of the comic Miyuki was reading.

Mrs. Emily Pollifax is the heroine of a series of comic spy-mystery novels by Dorothy Gilman.

The Cobweb is a comic book heroine co-created by famed writer Alan Moore and veteran underground artist Melinda Gebbie.

Jonni Future is a fictional comic book heroine, who appeared in the pages of Tom Strong's Terrific Tales, a series published under writer Alan Moore's America's Best Comics line of comic books for Wildstorm Comics.