This practice is also fairly common in certain comics, such as Svetlana Chmakova's Dramacon, which makes several product-placement-esque usages of " Pawky ", ( a modification of the name of the Japanese snack " Pocky ", popular among the anime and manga fan community in which the story is set ) or Naoko Takeuchi's Sailor Moon, which includes numerous references to the series Codename: Sailor V, which Sailor Moon was spun off of ; the anime makes further use of this meta-referential gag, going so far as having an animator on a Codename: Sailor V feature film be a victim in one episode.

Spiegelman's work as cartoonist and editor had long been known and respected in the comics community, but the media attention after the first volume's publication in 1986 was unexpected.

Zap was also one of the books that put the " underground " in comics: Zap # 4 ( by then being published by The Print Mint ), in particular, was the subject of numerous " community standards " obscenity busts and court cases.

Within the comics community, he was also known as Woody, a name he sometimes used as a signature.

It had received positive reviews from the motion comics community.

Comics and Sequential Art is well regarded in the community of comics professionals, garnering praise from the likes of Michael Chabon, Neil Gaiman, Jeff Smith, and referenced and expanded on by Scott McCloud in Understanding Comics.

The award recognizes one person in comics each year who demonstrates particular generosity and integrity in support of the overall comic book community.

The series polarized the comics community, with Batiuk being both praised for dealing with the topic and criticized for his graphic depiction of Lisa's slow deterioration and ultimate death.

He is known for maintaining close links with the fan community, for example by contributing to small press comics such as Solar Wind, despite a public persona he describes as " a grumpy Scottish git ".

Given the fact that they are the least violent non-parody finishing moves in Mortal Kombat history, Heroic Brutalities were not well received among either the MK series ' fans or the comic book fan community, as even the DC comics themselves are often far more brutal.

Responding to pressure from the African-American community, the character Lil ' Eightball ( who appeared in a handful of Walter Lantz cartoons in the late 1930s and in those initial appearances constituted what animation and comics historian Michael Barrier described as being a " grotesquely stereotypical black boy ") was discontinued as one of the featured characters in the Lantz anthology comic book New Funnies ; the last appearance of the character was in the August 1947 issue.

Drawn & Quarterly has a strong reputation in the comics community

Many artistic members of the fan community, such as Don Figueroa and Guido Guidi, were hired by the company, entering the professional world of comics via their hobby.

He started creating modern-style black and white comics in the 1980s, making a name for himself in the Swedish fanzine community.

He is also an enthusiastic and well-received participant in online community discussions on Sally Forth in particular and comics in general, including Gene Weingarten's online chats at the Washington Post Web site, and in the comments section of the Comics Curmudgeon blog.

He was accepted as an art major at a local community college, but dropped out after one semester, when an instructor told him he needed to learn how to draw in order to draw comics.

He was familiarly known in the professional comics community as Ray Van Buren.

Both the Philippine and international comics community made an effort to raise funds for his treatment.

Giardino's maniacal attention to details in both his art and his stories has made him a star even outside the comics community.

PHWOnline ( Formerly PHWComics ) was a website dedicated to making comics for the Half-Life 2 community, using a popular modification called Garry's Mod for the PC game Half-Life 2.

In time, the site's name was changed to PHWOnline, highlighting their move away from just comics, and to a general entertainment community.

Vincenzo Francisco Gennaro Di Fago ( November 28, 1914 — June 13, 2002 ), known in the comics community as Vince Fago, was an American comic-book artist and writer who served as interim editor of Timely Comics, the Golden Age predecessor of Marvel Comics, while editor Stan Lee did his World War II service.

Both strips were replaced by more innocuous strips in the printed versions, but the ' objectionable ' strips relating to Lola's religious beliefs were offered in a variety of Internet comics sites, including Breathed's homepage and the " My Comics Page " site ( this site now requires a paid " pro " registration for access to the censored strips, but free access to the censored strips is still available via http :// www. salon. com / comics / opus / 2007 / 08 / 26 / opus / index. html and http :// www. salon. com / comics / opus / 2007 / 09 / 02 / opus / index. html ).

Lat paid attention to family life and children because of his idolisation of Raja Hamzah, a senior cartoonist who was also popular in the 1960s with his comics about swashbuckling heroes.

The paper attacked the newly created Superman comics character and his Jewish creator, Jerry Siegel, urged harsh action against grumblers, put forth anti-American propaganda with the suggestion that the Jews were responsible, and paid tribute to Hitler on his birthday.

National agreed to settle with Fawcett out of court, and Fawcett paid National $ 400, 000 in damages and agreed to cease publication of all Captain Marvel-related comics.

The pairs of characters were very much alike and Roy Thomas, who wrote the original Conan comics, made no secret that it was his intention to create characters that were a tribute to Fritz Leiber's creations.

Some of his comics with scenes in Billy's bedroom depict an NC pennant hanging on the wall, a tribute to his alma mater and his Catholic education.

In his later years, Kirby, who has been called " the William Blake of comics ", began receiving great recognition in the mainstream press for his career accomplishments, and in 1987, he, along with Carl Barks and Will Eisner, was one of the three inaugural inductees of the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame.

Ditko was inducted into the comics industry's Jack Kirby Hall of Fame in 1990, and into the Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame in 1994.

He worked with Will Eisner, assisting on the writer-artist's signature hero The Spirit — a masked crime-fighter created for a weekly syndicated, newspaper Sunday-supplement, with his adventures reprinted in Quality comics.

American and British comic books are not as well represented in the French and Belgian comics market, probably due to the differences in comic traditions between these countries, although the work of Will Eisner is highly respected.

The term was coined in 1985 by comics artist Will Eisner in his book Comics and Sequential Art.

Vertigo comics series have won the comics industry's Eisner Award, including the Best Continuing Series of various years ( The Sandman, Preacher, 100 Bullets and Fables ).

After having nominated webcomics in several of their traditional print-comics categories, the Eisner Awards began awarding comics in the Best Digital Comic category in 2005.

Initially buying features from Eisner & Iger, a prominent " packager " that produced comics on demand for publishers entering the new medium, Quality introduced such superheroes as Plastic Man and Kid Eternity, and non-superhero characters including the aviator hero Blackhawk.

* Spirit ( comics ), title character of the comic strip The Spirit by Will Eisner

Around 1950 Bilbrew became an assistant to the hugely influential comics artist Will Eisner, on The Spirit, where Bilbrew took over the back-up series Clifford — a little-kid humour page — after its originator Jules Feiffer was drafted into the army.

His comics have earned him four Ignatz Awards ( Outstanding Minicomic 1997, Outstanding Series 2002, Outstanding Online Comic 2003 and 2004 ), a Harvey Award ( Best Online Comic 2006 ), and multiple nominations for the Eisner Award.

He was inducted into the comics industry's Jack Kirby Hall of Fame in 1996 and the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 1997.

The following year, Kane began to work at Iger's subsequent studio, Eisner & Iger, which was one of the first comic book " packagers " that produced comics on demand for publishers entering the new medium during its late-1930s and 1940s Golden Age.

Comics and Sequential Art is a 1985 book by Will Eisner that provides an analytical overview of comics.

In the first chapter Eisner demonstrates that comics have a vocabulary and grammar in both prose and illustration.

Busiek's work has won him numerous awards in the comics industry, including the Harvey Award for Best Writer in 1998 and the Eisner Award for Best Writer in 1999.

He has won critical acclaim ( including five Eisner Awards ) for his self-published, Image Comics and Marvel Comics work, and is one of the most successful writers working in mainstream comics, with his books selling consistently highly for over a decade.

Powers won major comics industry awards, including Harvey, Eisner, and Eagle Awards, and was referenced in the song " Powers " by singer Brodie Foster Hubbard.

There he studied under the comics masters Art Spiegelman, Will Eisner and Harvey Kurtzman.