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The comic strip Plastic Millennium, published in the Doctor Who Magazine Winter 1994 Special ; Craig Hinton's Virgin Missing Adventures novel Millennial Rites ( October 1995 ); Justin Richards's Past Doctor Adventures novel Millennium Shock ( May 1999 ), the Short Trips: Seven Deadly Sins story " Suitors, Inc ." ( 2005 ) and the Fourth Doctor's segment from the comic The Forgotten ( 2008 ) all take place on those dates, as do elements of the Torchwood episode " Fragments ".
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* Alphonse " Big Boy " Caprice, character in the comic strip Dick Tracy
* Alphonse and Gaston, French duo in a comic strip created by Frederick Burr Opper
* 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, a fictional penguin in the comic strip Zig et Puce
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.
Among his earliest influences were Punch cartoonist – illustrator Phil May, and American comic strip cartoonists Tad Dorgan, Cliff Sterrett, Rube Goldberg, Rudolph Dirks, Fred Opper, Billy DeBeck, George McManus and Milt Gross.
His younger brother Elliot Caplin also became a comic strip creator, best known for co-creating the soap opera strip The Heart of Juliet Jones with artist Stan Drake, and conceiving the comic strip character Broom-Hilda with cartoonist Russell Myers.
The comic strip stars Li ' l Abner Yokum — the simple-minded, loutish but good-natured and eternally innocent hayseed who lives with his parents — scrawny but superhuman Mammy Yokum, and shiftless, childlike Pappy Yokum.
Capp peopled his comic strip with an assortment of memorable characters, including Marryin ' Sam, Hairless Joe, Lonesome Polecat, Evil-Eye Fleegle, General Bullmoose, Lena the Hyena, Senator Jack S. Phogbound ( Capp's caricature of the anti-New Deal Dixiecrats ), the ( shudder!
The technique — as invigorating as it was unorthodox — was later adopted by cartoonists like Walt Kelly and Garry Trudeau ," wrote comic strip historian Rick Marschall.
Li ' l Abner was also the subject of the first book-length, scholarly assessment of an American comic strip ever published.
( Siegel and Shuster had earlier poked fun at Capp in a Superman story in Action Comics # 55, December 1942, in which a cartoonist named " Al Hatt " invents a comic strip featuring the hillbilly " Tiny Rufe.
Capp briefly resigned his membership in 1949 to protest their refusal of admission to Hilda Terry, creator of the comic strip Teena.
" 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 ).
" The article recounted Capp's days working for an unnamed " benefactor " with a miserly, swinish personality, who Capp claimed was a never-ending source of inspiration when it came time to create a new unregenerate villain for his comic strip.
Fisher retaliated clumsily, doctoring photostats of Li ' l Abner and falsely accusing Capp of sneaking obscenities into his comic strip.
Another " feud " seemed to be looming when, in one run of Sunday strips in 1957, Capp lampooned the comic strip Mary Worth as " Mary Worm.
In the Golden Age of the American comic strip, successful cartoonists received a great deal of attention ; their professional and private lives were reported in the press, and their celebrity was often nearly sufficient to rival their creations.
Besides his use of the comic strip to voice his opinions and display his humor, Capp was a popular guest speaker at universities, and on radio and television.
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Jack Ralph Cole ( December 14, 1914 – August 13, 1958 ) was an American comic book artist and Playboy magazine cartoonist best known for creating the comedic superhero Plastic Man.
Progressively floundering, the comic Plastic Man was cancelled in 1956 after several years of reprinting the Cole material, and new stories by lesser talents.
Evanier subsequently wrote for the Hanna-Barbera comic book division and a number of variety shows and specials, and he began writing for animated cartoon shows, including Scooby Doo, Plastic Man, Thundarr the Barbarian, The ABC Weekend Special, Richie Rich, The Wuzzles, and Dungeons & Dragons.
Additionally, the character of The Flash was portrayed as somewhat younger and significantly more brash than his comic book counterpart, taking on a number of personality traits of Plastic Man, who provides a similar comic relief function in the JLA comics.
* Plastic flats and their ads in American comic books
Kyle John Baker ( born 1965 ) is an American cartoonist, comic book writer-artist, and animator known for his graphic novels and for a 2000s revival of the series Plastic Man.
Plastic bags are used for containing and transporting goods such as foods, produce, powders, ice, magazines, comic books, chemicals and waste.
Kidd is as a fan of comic book media, particularly Batman, and has written and designed book covers for several DC Comics publications, including The Complete History of Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman, The Golden Age of DC Comics: 365 Days, and the aforementioned Jack Cole and Plastic Man.
He is the comic relief sidekick to the superhero Plastic Man, and first appeared in Police Comics # 13 ( November 1942 ).
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In 1990, Millennium Publications produced a four-part comic book series (" The Night Of The Iron Tyrants ") scripted by Mark Ellis with art by Darryl Banks.
From November 12 – 14, 2004, a comic book convention promoted as " Fiddler's Green, A Sandman Convention " was held at the Millennium Hotel in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
* Millennium Publications, a defunct comic book publisher
* Millennium, Vampire Nazi regiment in the Hellsing comic series
" Millennium " was a comic book crossover story line that ran through an eight-issue, self-titled, limited series and various other titles cover dated January and February 1988 by DC Comics.
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* In the Judge Dredd comic stories, originally published in 2000 AD, the megalopolis of Mega-City One consists of many hundreds, if not thousands, of City Blocks, in which a citizen can be born, grow, live, and die without ever leaving.
There was also a separate line of comic book titles published by the Caplin family-owned Toby Press, including Shmoo Comics featuring Washable Jones.
From 1994 to 1996, Marvel Comics published a monthly Beavis and Butt-Head comic under the Marvel Absurd imprint by a variety of writers, but with each issue drawn by artist Rick Parker.
On December 21, 1999 a short piece, written by Watterson to mark the forthcoming end of the comic strip Peanuts, was published in the Los Angeles Times.
The Beano is a British children's comic, published by D. C. Thomson & Co and is arguably their most successful.
The comic first appeared on 30 July 1938, and was published weekly.
On 15 February 2007, the first issue of a monthly comic entitled BeanoMAX was published.
* Rasmus Klump, a comic strip published as Bruin
His illustrated stories such as Histoire de M. Vieux Bois ( 1827 ), first published in the USA in 1842 as The Adventures of Obadiah Oldbuck or Histoire de Monsieur Jabot ( 1831 ), inspired subsequent generations of German and American comic artists.
The Little Bears ( 1893 – 96 ) was the first American comic with recurring characters, while the first color comic supplement was published by the Chicago Inter-Ocean sometime in the latter half of 1892, followed by the New York Journals first color Sunday comic pages in 1897.
Frank Stack's The Adventures of Jesus, published under the name Foolbert Sturgeon, has been credited as the first underground comic.
The rise of comic book specialty stores in the late 1970s created / paralleled a dedicated market for " independent " or " alternative comics " in the U. S. The first such comics included the anthology series Star Reach, published by comic book writer Mike Friedrich from 1974 to 1979, and Harvey Pekar's American Splendor, which continued sporadic publication into the 21st century and which Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini adapted into a 2003 film.
Nuestra Señora de los Vampiros is a black and white one-shot published in 1999 by Spanish comic publisher Dude Comics based on the story by Sheridan Le Fanu, but with a modern twist.
This 64-page story was adapted by Donald Duck comic strip writer Bob Karp from an unproduced feature, and published in October 1942 in Four Color Comics # 9.
This actually was not his first work in comics, as earlier the same year Barks along with Hannah and fellow storyman Nick George scripted Pluto Saves the Ship, which was among the first original Disney comic book stories published in the United States.
But to earn a living in the meantime he inquired whether Western Publishing, which had published Pirate Gold, had any need for artists for Donald Duck comic book stories.
The last new comic book story drawn by Carl Barks was a Daisy Duck tale (" The Dainty Daredevil ") published in Walt Disney Comics Digest issue 5 ( Nov. 1968 ).
He is a talented artist, and has worked on the Captain America comic book published in the Marvel universe.
The comic was published the same week as the death of Mother Teresa, leading to a huge backlash.
Dennis the Menace may refer to separate UK and U. S. comic strip characters that both appeared in March 1951 in their respective readership areas, and are still published as of 2012.
* Dennis the Menace ( UK comics ), the original title of a British comic strip which first appeared in " The Beano ", dated March 17, 1951 ; now published as Dennis and Gnasher
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