When it started in 1970, the Universal Press Syndicate gave cartoonists a 50-percent share on the ownership of their works, while the Creators Syndicate ( founded in 1987 ) granted artists full rights to the strips, something that Universal Press did in 1990. followed by King Features in 1995, while before 1999 both the Tribune and United Feature services began granting rights to creators over their works ; however the latter three syndicates only applied this to new strips, or to ones popular enough.

It was released in the summer of 1987 and quickly became popular with bulletin board system ( BBS ) operators and other users.

Fast becoming a popular car, the Gemini rapidly attained sales leadership in its class, and the nameplate lived on until 1987.

Microsoft Windows version 2 came out on 9 December 1987, and proved slightly more popular than its predecessor.

It then began to influence popular music in Europe, with songs such as " House Nation " by House Master Boyz and the Rude Boy Of House ( 1987 ) and " Doctorin ' The House " by Coldcut ( 1988 ) in the pop charts.

The Brothers Grime was a three-video cartoon-pornography series produced by Excalibur Films in 1986, 1987, and 1988, using titles primarily from the Cream Lemon series, the most popular of Japan's erotic anime before Urotsukidoji.

In 1987, Cotten published a popular autobiography, Vanity Will Get You Somewhere.

The first popular MUD codebase was AberMUD, written in 1987 by Alan Cox, named after the University of Wales, Aberystwyth.

As a result, Labour faced the 1987 election in some danger of coming third in the popular vote.

The first manufacturer of a truecolor graphic card for PCs ( the TARGA ) was Truevision in 1987, but it was not until the arrival of the Video Graphics Array ( VGA ) in 1987 that RGB became popular, mainly due to the analog signals in the connection between the adapter and the monitor which allowed a very wide range of RGB colors.

* 1987 – Roland D-50: One of the popular digital synthesizers in late 1980s ; Roland's first all-digital synthesizer implementing its Linear Arithmetic synthesis ( a form of sample-based synthesis combined with subtractive synthesis ).

* Country song " Eighteen Wheels and a Dozen Roses " made popular in 1987 by singer / song writer Kathy Mattea

MegaTraveller ( 1987 – 1992 ) was published by GDW but designed by Digest Group Publications which published the popular Traveller's Digest ( later the MegaTraveller Journal ) Traveller support magazine.

The popular culture surrounding the Trabant was referenced by the performance artist Liz Cohen in her Bodywork project, which transformed an East German 1987 Trabant into a 1973 Chevrolet El Camino.

* William Jardine and other Jardine tai-pans are fictionally portrayed in author James Clavell's popular fiction novels Tai-Pan ( 1966 ), Gai-Jin ( 1993 ), Noble House ( 1981 ) and Whirlwind ( 1987 ).

The most popular floppy disk systems ( except in East Europe ) were the DISCiPLE and + D systems released by Miles Gordon Technology in 1987 and 1988 respectively.

Films such as Class ( film ), The Breakfast Club, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Mannequin ( 1987 film ), Porky's, Pretty In Pink, Sixteen Candles, St. Elmo's Fire ( film ), Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Weird Science and Valley Girl were popular teen comedies of the era and launched the careers of several major celebrities such as: Emilio Estevez, Anthony Michael Hall, Forest Whitaker, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Andrew McCarthy, Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald, Sean Penn and Nicolas Cage.

* The 1987 film Wall Street and its 2010 sequel exemplify many popular conceptions of Wall Street, being a tale of shady corporate dealings and insider trading.

Dodge also imported a version of Mitsubishi ’ s popular Montero ( Pajero in Japan ) as the Raider from 1987 to 1989.

Accompanied by the popular Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1987 TV series, and the subsequent action figure line, the TMNT were soon catapulted into pop culture history.

In December 1987, the popular uprising known as the Intifada erupted.

Gygax's novel Saga of Old City, released in November 1985, and Artifact of Evil, released two months after Gygax's departure from TSR, proved to be popular titles, and in 1987, TSR hired Rose Estes to continue the series, albeit without Gord the Rogue, to whom Gygax had retained all rights.

The country eventually transitioned to become a market-oriented democracy in 1987 largely due to popular demand for reform, and became a developed economy by the 2000s.

The program, presented by Bamber Gascoigne, produced by Granada Television and broadcast across the ITV network, was very popular and ran until it was taken off the air in 1987.

Three of the four persons present, all foreign students in Tokyo, had been playing a game of judging popular Japanese foods by the In and Out system, an equation in which Zen philosophy was used as the modifier.

It is also the main ingredient in Mizuyōkan, another popular Japanese food.

* Issei Sagawa, a popular Japanese celebrity who killed and ate a fellow student

This has resulted in a number of forms of fusion cuisine, often very popular in the country in question, and some of these, such as ramen ( Japanese Chinese ) have become popular internationally.

Since then, Japanese research in computer music has largely been carried out for commercial purposes in popular music, though some of the more serious Japanese musicians used large computer systems such as the Fairlight in the 1970s.

* Emoticons are commonly created with diacritic symbols, especially Japanese emoticons on popular imageboards.

* Shingo Murakami ( 村上信五 ), member of the popular Japanese boyband Kanjani8.

Umami, the Japanese word for delicious, is the least known in Western popular culture, but has a long tradition in Asian cuisine.

Some popular types of ethnic foods include Italian, French, Japanese, Chinese, American, Cajun, Thai, and Indian cuisine.

In most countries, intertitles came to be used to provide dialogue and narration for the film, thus dispensing with narrators, but in Japanese cinema human narration remained popular throughout the silent era.

Movies based on Japanese television series were especially popular during this period.

These are popular with foreigners wishing to master Japanese faster and enjoy reading Japanese short stories, novels or articles.

Some websites and tools exist which provide a phonetic guide for Japanese web pages ( in hiragana, romaji or kiriji ); these are popular with both Japanese children and foreign Japanese learners.

Japanese courtesans had another form of flirting, emphasizing non-verbal relationships by hiding the lips and showing the eyes, as depicted in much Shunga art, the most popular print media at the time, until the late 19th century.

For many years a popular myth has persisted that in the Japanese version of this film, Godzilla emerges as the winner.

The Genus III edition of the popular board game Trivial Pursuit had a question that asked " Who wins in the Japanese version of King Kong vs.

The game is also popular in Korea, where it is called omok ( 오목 ( 五目 )) which has the same structure and origin as the Japanese name.

Sekien originally was trained in the aristocratic Kanō School of painting, but in middle age he started to lean toward the popular Ukiyo-e, a genre of Japanese woodblock prints.

The term Karaoke only started becoming popular during the 90s when bars started adding them and using the Japanese term to cater to influx of Japanese tourists and businessmen who requested them.