Cartoonist Mell Lazarus, creator of Miss Peach and Momma, wrote a comic novel in 1963 titled The Boss Is Crazy, Too which was partly inspired by his apprenticeship days working with Capp and his brother Elliot at Toby.

* Lucky Bastard ( 1999 ) A comic novel in which a likable but amoral, devious and oversexed politician ( meant to invoke Bill Clinton ) is controlled by a female eastern-bloc subversive.

* Borgia, by Milo Manara ( artist ) & Alejandro Jodorowsky ( writer ), a comic in the form of serialized graphic novel, depicting the story of the Borgia family.

When it was first published, Don Quixote was usually interpreted as a comic novel.

The same year, the film of Leslie Thomas's 1966 comic novel The Virgin Soldiers saw Bowie make a brief appearance as an extra.

** Prince Valiant ( a fictional comic book / graphic novel character )

Sterne was at work on his celebrated comic novel during the year that his mother died, his wife was seriously ill, and he was ill himself with consumption.

Sterne continued his comic novel, but every sentence, he said, was “ written under the greatest heaviness of heart .” In this mood, he softened the satire and recounted details of Tristram's opinions, eccentric family and ill-fated childhood with a sympathetic humour, sometimes hilarious, sometimes sweetly melancholic — a comedy skirting tragedy.

Peake taught part-time at the Central School of Art, began his comic novel Mr Pye, and renewed his interest in theatre.

The character was conceived in late 1972 when Marvel Comics acquired the comic book rights to Sax Rohmer's pulp novel villain Dr. Fu Manchu while they also held the rights to the Kung Fu television program.

The pulp format declined from rising expenses, but even more due to the heavy competition from comic books, television, and the paperback novel.

Studios started publishing a 24-issue comic book limited series adaptation of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep ?, containing the full text of the novel.

Gilliam has several projects in various states of development, including an adaptation of Neil Gaiman's and Terry Pratchett's comic fantasy novel Good Omens.

In 2010 the novel was adapted in comic book form by IDW Publishing.

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

This juvenile novel inspired Joseph Greene of Grosset & Dunlap to develop the Tom Corbett, Space Cadet comic books, television series, radio show, comic strip, and novels that were popular in the early 1950s.

Fionn also appears as a character in Flann O ' Brien's comic novel, At Swim-Two-Birds, in passages that parody the style of Irish myths.

The Wizard of Oz catalog: L. Frank Baum's novel, its sequels and their adaptations for stage, television, movies, radio, music videos, comic books, commercials and more.

Set in the 80s and 90s zine heyday, Walking Man by Tim W. Brown is a comic novel written in the form of a scandalous tell-all biography that portrays the life and times of Brian Walker, publisher of the zine Walking Man, who rises from humble origins to become the most famous zinester in America.

Dime novels are, at least in spirit, the antecedent of today ’ s mass market paperbacks, comic books, and even television shows and movies based on the dime novel genres.

Indeed, the marketing of a major film often includes a novelization, a graphic novel or comic version, the soundtrack album, a game, model, toys and endless promotional publications.

* In the 1997 comic book / graphic novel Manga Shi ( comics ) and Vampirella crossover, the former steals an artifact worn by the latter and discovers that it bears an Enochian inscription which reads simply, " I will always love you, mother.

* The Magic Christian ( novel ), a 1959 comic novel by Terry Southern

In the comic book series Star Wars: Legacy, set 133 years after Return of the Jedi, Luke appears as a Force ghost to his descendant Cade Skywalker, who has renounced his connection to the Force.

Their first action was to form an " anarchist appreciation society " called The Society for the Rehabilitation for Karl Marx and Ravachol ; next they appropriated union funds to flypost " Return of the Durruti Column ", Andre Bertrand's détourned comic strip.

The Star Wars: Legacy comic book series, set 130 years after Return of the Jedi, explains that, during a civil war, the New Galactic Empire known as the Fel Empire declares war on the Galactic Alliance, the successor state of the New Republic.

Ackbar played a supporting role in the 1983 film Return of the Jedi, and later became a prominent character in the novels, comic books and other media of the Star Wars Expanded Universe.

Although his role in Return of the Jedi was relatively brief, Admiral Ackbar became a prominent character in the Star Wars Expanded Universe, which encompasses all licensed stories in the Star Wars universe outside of the six main feature films, such as novels, comic books, video games and television shows.

First published in 1984, the comic continues to this day, with Sakai as the lone author and nearly sole artist ( Tom Luth serves as the main colorist on the series, and Sergio Aragonés has made two small contributions to the series: the story " Broken Ritual " is based on an idea by Aragonés, and he served as a guest inker for the black-and-white version of the story " Return to Adachi Plain " that is featured in the Volume 11 trade paperback edition of Usagi Yojimbo ).

The PHB's real name is unknown in the comic, although in one episode of the TV series (" The Return ") he signs for a package using his line dancing pseudonym " Eunice ".

According to an ongoing comic book series from Dark Horse called Star Wars: Legacy, which takes place 125 years after Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi, Cade Skywalker, son of Kol Skywalker and a direct descendant of Luke Skywalker, is the last surviving Skywalker of his time.

There is a Finnish comic strip called " Väinämöisen paluu " ( The Return of Väinämöinen ) by Petri Hiltunen, where Väinämöinen returns from thousand-year exile to modern Finland to comment on the modern lifestyle with humor.

When Disney was publishing their own comics in the mid-90s, they produced a two issue Aladdin comic presenting an alternate version of The Return of Jafar.

At the age of sixteen, in conjunction with his father, he scored a dramatic success with The Soldier's Return, a comic opera, and this he followed up with a series of popular ventures with John Liston and Charles Mathews, including Teleki.

* Doomsday appears in The Death and Return of Superman video game adaptation of the major comic book storyline of the same name, he appears as the second boss in the game.

The Death and Return of Superman storyline brought in millions of readers to DC Comics, despite the entirety of the story being intertwined through numerous different comic series, including Action Comics, Superman, Superman: The Man of Steel, and Adventures of Superman, among others.

It was Marvel UK's practice at the time to use a less well-known series as a second strip in a comic devoted to more recognizable characters, and Power Pack became the " back-up strip " in a run of Marvel's licenced Star Wars weekly Return of the Jedi.

Prior to the Return of the Jedi comic, the strips in the UK Star Wars comics were printed in black and white, even those taken from the American color versions.

The 1993 comic strip Return of the Taxidermist in Judge Dredd Megazine includes stare-outs as one of several unlikely Olympic sports, others including taxidermy and sex.

Hiltunen is best known in the Finnish popular consciousness from his much lighter, humorous newspaper comic strip Väinämöisen paluu (" The Return of Väinämöinen "), published in many major newspapers and as comic books.

This financial success spawned two direct-to-video sequels, Darkman II: The Return of Durant and Darkman III: Die, Darkman, Die, as well as comic books, video games and action figures.

Cameo appearances in the movie include Kevin Smith ( filmmaker and comic book writer ), Hugh Hefner ( originator of Playboy ), Stan Lee of Marvel Comics, Lloyd Kaufman ( filmmaker and president of Troma Films ), actor Bruce Campbell, Peter David ( comic book writer ), Paul Dini ( comic book and animated series writer ), Bruce Timm ( comic book and animated series writer ), David Prowse ( who played Darth Vader opposite Hamill in Star Wars ), actor Peter Mayhew ( who played Chewbacca alongside Hamill in Star Wars ), actor Jeremy Bulloch ( who played Boba Fett alongside Hamill in The Empire Strikes Back and Return Of The Jedi ), actor and voiceover performer Edd Hall, special effects designer Greg Nicotero, and Matt Groening ( creator of the comic Life in Hell and animated TV series The Simpsons and Futurama ).