Comedy, unlike other film genres, puts much more focus on individual stars, with many former stand-up comic transitioning to the film industry due to their popularity.

Attesting the team's popularity, DC Comics published the best-selling The Adventures of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis comic books from 1952 to 1957, after which DC featured Lewis solo in The Adventures of Jerry Lewis until 1971.

The greatest popularity, however, was achieved by a 1957 comedy about a testy, ill-tempered character nicknamed Patate and a 1962 comic mystery L ' Idiote Idiot, best known in America as the basis for the play and film A Shot in the Dark.

The popularity of the film led to a franchise that continued the story of Leatherface and his family through sequels, remakes, comic books and video games.

The growing popularity of Uncanny X-Men and the rise of comic book specialty stores led to the introduction of a number of ongoing spin-off series nicknamed " X-Books.

Pym's literary career is noteworthy for the long hiatus between 1963 and 1977 when, despite early success and continuing popularity, she was unable to find a publisher for her richly comic novels.

By 2000, The Bash Street Kids had reached such a heightened popularity they were all featured in feature length strips taking up a whole Beano comic.

He made many comic embellishments to the role, which added to the popularity of the play.

The popularity of Captain Marvel allowed Fawcett to produce a number of spin-off comic books and Beck to open his own New York City comics studio in 1941.

At the height of the villain's popularity, he was given his own comic book, The New Adventures of the Phantom Blot, which lasted for seven issues.

It gives a good indication of Bilal's popularity in France, that Rendez-vous à Paris was the fifth best selling new comic of 2006, with 280, 000 copies sold.

His interpretation of the character has become predominate in popular culture considering the popularity of the comic villain, Dr.

During this time, modern comic books were first published and enjoyed a surge of popularity ; the archetype of the superhero was created and defined ; and many of the most famous superheroes debuted, among them Superman, Batman, Captain America, Wonder Woman, and Captain Marvel.

As World War II ended the popularity of the superhero comics diminished, and in an effort to retain readers comic publishers began diversifying more than ever into war, Western, science fiction, romance, crime and horror comics.

While he first gained his popularity as a comic actor, his dramatic roles, his poetry, and his songs are all deemed to be outstanding ; his style and a number of his recurring jokes and gestures have become universally known memes in Italy.

After its creation, the character spun off into an independent comic book series in 1988, and gained mainstream popularity through an animated TV series on Fox in 1994.

Early in its development, it achieved great popularity as the comic closing part of a longer evening of entertainment, following a more serious presentation with operatic and balletic elements.

The harlequinade lost popularity by the 1880s, when music hall, comic opera and other comic entertainments dominated the British comedy stage.

Betty Boop's popularity continues well into present day culture, with references appearing in the comic strip Doonesbury, where the character B. D.

Archie Comics ' own creation Josie and the Pussycats was successful both as an animated series and as a comic book ( and later a live action motion picture ), but The Bingoes and The Madhouse Glads lacked its popularity and never appeared in animation.

His success at small or " low " comic roles such as Dazzle earned him the nickname " Little Johnny Brougham ," a moniker which he embraced and which boosted his popularity with working-class audiences.

Propelled by the artists ' popularity and the eagerness of comic book collectors to get in on the " next big thing ", these series sold in numbers that no publisher other than Marvel, DC, or Valiant Comics had achieved since the market's decline in the 1970s.

He regretted, as had Sullivan before him, that his popularity stemmed mostly from his comic operas.

The Capp-Fisher feud was well known in cartooning circles, and it grew more personal as Capp's strip eclipsed Joe Palooka in popularity.

Although at first intended to have only a brief lifespan, its immense popularity urged Tagawa to continue producing the strip.

Currently, the town has plans to revitalize Shenandoah, which like most other small, rural town's in America, suffered from the popularity of strip malls and the development of large shopping centers.

The strip reached its peak of popularity in the mid-1980s, with the books selling millions of copies in Australasia.

The cat-and-mouse strip was gaining in popularity, and instead of filling up space in the bottom of the Dingbat's panels, it began to take a tier of panels of its own.

As Donald's popularity grew, he became the star of the Silly Symphony strip for an extended run ( August 1936 to December 1937 ), and then got his own daily strip starting on February 7, 1938.

In recent years, Oxford Street has garnered a reputation as being Sydney's primary " nightclub strip ", popular with both gay and straight clubbers, and surpassing the notorious red-light district of Kings Cross in popularity.

However, due to its enormous popularity and the numerous fan letters he received, Capp made it a tradition in the strip every November, lasting four decades.

The strip's medium-subverting elements became toned down as the strip gained in popularity, becoming more simplistic to appeal to the new audience.

As it gained popularity, the comic strip was picked up by the Universal Press Syndicate and made its national debut on April 19, 1999.

Chic Young's Sunday Blondie page for May 7, 1950, when it was at a peak of popularity with the strip, movies, and radio.

However, due to its enormous popularity and the numerous fan letters he received, Capp obligingly made it a tradition in the strip every November, lasting four decades.

The popularity of the character led to the strip being expanded to two pages as of issue # 2931 ( 19 September 1998 ).

In the spring of 1930, after six years of Dumb Doras increasing popularity, Young requested more money and strip ownership.

In another parallel to The Simpsons, Kochikame's immense popularity has led to guest appearances in the strip by Japanese celebrities such as Tetsuya Komuro.

Its popularity rose after Dilbert creator Scott Adams, a fan of the strip, showed it to his own fans.

Milton Caniff's Steve Canyon, although not gaining the popularity of Terry and the Pirates ( comic strip ) | Terry and the Pirates, nevertheless enjoyed greater longevity.

While Steve Canyon never achieved the popularity that Terry and the Pirates had at its height as a World War II military adventure or the cult fame Terry generated over the years, it was a successful comic strip with a greater circulation than Terry ever had.

During the 1950s, at the height of its popularity, the strip appeared in 250 newspapers.

Bringing Up Father still enjoys popularity in Norway ; known as Fiinbeck og Fia, the strip has been published weekly in the family journal Hjemmet since 1921 ; a yearly Christmas book with the strip is published every year since 1930, in the last few decades mostly reprints of material produced by McManus in the 1940s and 1950s.

This publication was distinctive in that all stories were published anonymously, with the identities of contributing authors being normally withheld until the following issue, an arrangement intended to temporarily strip the reader of any prejudices surrounding the author's name ( including popularity, gender and place of origin ), and thus level the playing field for the writer.