During the 1980s, The Beano ran a ' Readers ' Request ' feature where readers could request for a particular comic strip to feature in the Beano.

The comic also ran A4-sized Beano Specials in 1987 with full coloured pages, which later were replaced by Beano Superstars which ran for 121 issues from 1992-2002.

The " Monarch of Medioka " story in Floyd Gottfredson's Mickey Mouse comic strip ran from September 8, 1937 to May 2, 1938.

In 1978, British comic 2000AD ran a Judge Dredd comic strip featuring Chief Judge Cal, loosely based on the real life Roman emperor.

The magazine also ran a series of cartoons called 101 Uses for a John Major ( based on a comic book of some ten years earlier, called 101 Uses for a Dead Cat ), in which Major was illustrated serving a number of bizarre purposes, such as a train-spotter's anorak.

Gaming magazine White Dwarf ran a comic strip called The Travellers by Mark Harrison from 1983 to 1986.

In the US, there was a Gold Key Comics comic book series ( one based on the show ), which ran for about a dozen issues.

The Yellow Kid was the name of a lead comic strip character that ran from 1895 to 1898 in Joseph Pulitzer's New York World, and later William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal.

The comic was reprimanded by the United Nations after featuring a strip called " The Thieving Gypsy Bastards " During the resulting court case, UK newspaper The Sun ran a story revealing that the principal Roma man who initiated the action against them was in fact also being tried for ( and was later found guilty of ) handling stolen property.

Both dropped out before graduating and ran a carpentry business in Chicago while creating comic books.

Innovation Publishing produced a series of comic books which ran for thirteen issues from September 1991 through August 1993.

His cartoons regularly appeared in The New Yorker, and he also created a syndicated comic strip, Out of This World, which ran in 1956.

Unlike the Snow White comic strip, which only adapted the film, Uncle Remus ran for decades, telling one story after another about the characters, some based on the legends and others new, until it ended on December 31, 1972.

The main comic book series ( simply named Dennis the Menace ) ran in tandem with the “ Giant ” series.

* Angus Og ( comic strip ), a comic strip which ran in the Daily Record

The Medieval Castle ( 1957 ) collected the comic strip which ran beneath Prince Valiant in 1944-45 as a result of the government's WWII request that syndicates reduce strip size to save paper for the war effort.

Afterwards, also for Blackthorne, he drew and wrote a short-lived superhero parody comic called " Possibleman ," which ran for two issues.

In 1969, Supergirl's adventures became the lead feature in Adventure Comics, and she later starred in an eponymous comic book series which debuted in 1972 and ran until 1974, followed by a second monthly comic book series titled The Daring New Adventures of Supergirl, which ran from 1982 to 1984.

* In 2001, The New York Times ran a comic book telling how Smith met and first kissed his wife Jennifer Schwalbach Smith.

Apart from misplaced modifiers and headlinese, journalism contributes a wide variety of comic ambiguities in both editorial and advertising matter.

), a movie based on a character from the Mexican comic Los Supermachos of Mexican cartoonist Rius, who co-wrote the screenplay.

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.

In the Symposium, Agathon is presented as the friend of the comic poet Aristophanes, but this alleged friendship did not prevent Aristophanes from harshly criticizing Agathon in at least two of his comic plays: the Thesmophoriazousae and the ( now lost ) Gerytades.

Jonathan Rosenberg, author / artist of the humorous science fiction webcomic Scenes from a Multiverse, references an ansible powered by a quantum-entangled ferret in the 2012-Jun-25 edition of the comic.

Atlantis inspires today's literature, from science fiction to comic books to films.

Gluck feared that the Parisian critics would denounce the opera by a young composer known mostly for comic pieces and so the opera was originally billed in the press as being a new work by Gluck with some assistance from Antonio Salieri, then shortly before the premiere of the opera the Parisian press reported that the work was to be partly by Gluck and partly by Salieri, and finally after popular and critical success were won on stage the opera was acknowledged in a letter to the public by Gluck as being wholly by the young Antonio.

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.

" In 1950, Capp introduced a cartoonist character named " Happy Vermin "— a caricature of Fisher — who hired Abner to draw his comic strip in a dimly lit closet, ( after sacking his previous " temporary " assistant of 20 years, who had been cut off from all his friends in the process ).

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.

The resulting publicity led to hundreds of papers dropping his comic strip, and Capp, already in failing health, withdrew from public speaking.

William " Bill " Boyd Watterson II ( born July 5, 1958 ) is an American cartoonist and the author of the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes, which was syndicated from 1985 to 1995.

Watterson battled against pressure from publishers to merchandise his work, something he felt would cheapen his comic.

The Beano comic takes its name from the English word beano which can be loosely interpreted as a good time.

Released monthly, these titles are a feature length ( usually about 64 page ) adventure, featuring a character from the comic itself.

Plug was a comic based on the eponymous character from The Bash Street Kids that began with issue dated 24 September 1977, and is notable for being the first comic to make use of rotogravure printing.

Another occurred in issue 2674, dated 16 October 1993, when the whole comic was now printed in full colour, along with some new strips such as The Numskulls, which had been moved from The Beezer.

Two new comic strips were introduced, these being The Riot Squad and Fred's Bed, reprints from Hoot and The Beezer and Topper respectively.

At the start of 2011, the Beano VIP pages were dropped from the comic, but the online features remain.

According to David Robinson, unlike in more conventional slapstick comedies, the comic moments in Chaplin's films centred on the Tramp's attitude to the things happening to him: the humour did not come from the Tramp bumping into a tree but from his lifting of his hat to the tree in apology.

Chaplin also diverged from conventional slapstick by slowing down his pace and exhausting each scene of its comic potential, and focusing more on developing the viewer's relationship to the characters.

* 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 ).

Alfred Gerald Caplin ( September 28, 1909 – November 5, 1979 ), better known as Al Capp, was an American cartoonist and humorist best known for the satirical comic strip Li ' l Abner.

The Silver Age of comic books is generally considered to date from the first successful revival of the dormant superhero form — the debut of Robert Kanigher and Carmine Infantino's Flash in Showcase No. 4 ( September / October 1956 ).

*** Dennis and Gnasher ( 2009 TV series ), the latest series based on the Beano comic, released on September 7, 2009.

From December 3, 1978, to September 20, 1980, Encyclopedia Brown was a daily and Sunday comic strip syndicated by Universal Press Syndicate.

Little Nemo is the main fictional character in a series of weekly comic strips by Winsor McCay that appeared in the New York Herald and William Randolph Hearst's New York American newspapers from October 15, 1905 – July 23, 1911 and September 3, 1911 – July 26, 1914 ; respectively.

Sergio Aragonés Domenech ( born 6 September 1937, Sant Mateu, Castellón, Spain ) is a cartoonist and writer best known for his contributions to Mad Magazine and creator of the comic book Groo the Wanderer.

* September – Marvel Comics releases the first-ever X-Men comic book

* September 2 – Eddie Collins, American vaudeville-veteran comic ( b. 1883 )

* September 9 – The long-running comic strip For Better or For Worse begins its run.

* September 5 – Nell Brinkley, American illustrator and comic artist ( d. 1944 )

The episode of McCay's newspaper comic In the Land of Wonderful Dreams published in newspapers on the 21st of September 1913 showed the reader some of the creatures from the upcoming film: a " dinosaurus ", a sea serpent and a four-winged lizard.

James Shooter ( born September 27, 1951 ) is an American writer, occasional fill-in artist, editor, and publisher for various comic books.

Eega BeevaEega Beeva, also known by his full name Pittisborum Psercy Pystachi Pseter Psersimmon Plummer-Push, is a human from the future, sometimes also referred to as an alien, and first appeared on September 26, 1947 in the Mickey Mouse comic strip storyline titled The Man of Tomorrow.

He first appeared in the Mickey Mouse comic strip adventure Mickey Mouse Outwits The Phantom Blot by Floyd Gottfredson, which was published in the form of daily strips from May 20 to September 9, 1939.

Winsor Zenic McCay ( September 26, 1869 – July 26, 1934 ) was an American cartoonist and animator, best known for the comic strip Little Nemo ( begun 1905 ) and the animated cartoon Gertie the Dinosaur ( 1914 ).

Dream of the Rarebit Fiend was a newspaper comic strip by American cartoonist Winsor McCay which began 10 September 1904.

* TenNapel has also contributed to several other comic books, such as issue # 5 of Bart Simpson's Treehouse of Horror, issue # 3 of Scud: Tales from the Vending Machine ( TenNapel also contributed cover art to the 24th and final issue of the main Scud: The Disposable Assassin series, as well as penciling a single page on the same issue ), the Fractured Fables anthology graphic novel, 9-11: September 11, 2001 ( Artists Respond ), and Flight Volume 2.

Superman / Batman: Apocalypse, a direct-to-video animated film released in September 2010, largely parallels the origin-story arc launched in the Superman / Batman comic series in 2004, with some minor plot differences.

The company's first comic book was Yellowjacket, an anthology of superhero and horror stories launched September 1944 under the imprint Frank Comunale Publications, with Ed Levy listed as publisher.