"BBC America began airing ""Saxondale"" in November 2006. During an interview with Jonathan Ross on 12 September 2008, Steve Coogan announced that Saxondale would feature on his 2008 live tour of the UK. Middle-aged pest-controller Thomas ""Tommy"" Gregory Saxondale (Steve Coogan) is the survivor of a hostile divorce who now lives with his girlfriend, Magz. Tommy speaks with an East Midlands accent and occasionally refers to his Nottingham heritage, though he and Magz live in Stevenage, Hertfordshire. An ex-roadie, Tommy regards himself as a maverick and a free thinker and takes every opportunity to impart his wisdom to his young"
"the script for the 1961 film, ""The Adventures of Topo Gigio."" In 1964 he created the character and comic strip ""Kolosso"" with artist Carlo Cossio. Kolosso is a likeable, muscular giant who is sent in different ages, through a time machine used by his opponent. He is often accompanied by the weak but intelligent Ferruccio. Other artists who have worked on Kolosso are Franco Paludetti, Antonio Canale and Carlo Porciani. In 2004 a new series of Kolosso stories was published by Editrice If. Faustinelli died in Milan after a long illness. Mario Faustinelli Mario Faustinelli (November 8, 1924 – July"
"was included in the comic. . The line-up of writers and artists in the comic included Liz Argyll, Paul Bedford, Bernard Caleo, Greg Capullo, Gary Chaloner, W. Chew 'Chewie' Chan, Jason Chatfield, Chris Claremont, Rebecca Clements, Jeff Cruz, Julie Ditrich, Sarah Ellerton, Dave Elsey, Anton Emdin, Michael Evans, David Follett, Robert Forrest, Jason Franks, Doug Holgate, Paul Jenkins, Alex Major, Alex Maleev, Paul Mason, Tim McEwen, Stewart McKenny, Jessica McLeod, Michael Michalandos, Mandy Ord, Jason Paulos, Jan Scherpenhuizen, Mark Sexton, Jon Sommariva, Steve Stamadiadis, Kurt Stone, Komala Surman, Arthur Suydam, Jozef Szekeres, Tom Taylor, Ben Templesmith, Andie Tong, Daren White,"
"Ferri include ""Maskar"", ""Thunder Jack"", ""Jim Puma"" and ""Capitan Walte"". Gallieno Ferri Gallieno Ferri (21 March 1929 – 2 April 2016) was an Italian comic book artist and illustrator. He was born in Genoa. In 1960 Ferri met writer Sergio Bonelli and they created the comic book ""Zagor"". Ferri illustrated Zagor from the first issue, drawing numerous stories. He also illustrated all the covers of the regular series. In 1975, when another character, ""Mister No"", was first introduced, also written by Sergio Bonelli, Ferri illustrated numbers #1 and #2 of the regular series, and designed the cover illustrations for numbers"
"Gilbert Shelton, Will Eisner , Tanino Liberatore, Joost Swarte, Peter Pontiac ., Don Lawrence , André Franquin, Robert Crumb , Lorenzo Mattotti , Charles Burns , Daniel Clowes , Jim Woodring , Chris Ware , Judith Vanistendael , Marc Bell , Jillian Tamaki and Mariko Tamaki , David Collier , Glen Baxter , Jaromír Švejdík, Scott McCloud , Dave Cooper , Turtel Onli and Derf Backderf . The shop and the informational website both have a strong focus on underground comics, graphic novels and autobiographical comics. The exhibitions can be profit or non-profit, depending on the subject of the exposition."
"number of stories for them and for other publishers, featuring The Phantom, Flash Gordon, Rip Kirby, and Secret Agent X-9. Since 1987, he has produced many stories for SEMIC International. His work has been published in Italy, France, Norway, Denmark, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia, and in the United States he has drawn covers for Comics Revue. Romano Felmang Romano Felmang (born 1941) is an Italian artist best known for his illustrations of American comic strip characters such as The Phantom and Flash Gordon. Felmang was born in Rome. His first work, in 1962, was a Phantom story titled ""Kaniska"", which was"
"Severin, Brian Bolland, Jim Mooney, Joe Giella, Bruce Timm, Kevin Nowlan, Wendy Pini, Jordi Bernet, Phil Jiminez, Bernie Wrightson, Matt Haley, Tom Simmons, Will Blyberg, Dave Gibbons, Steve Rude, Dick Giordano, Mike Grell and Dan Spiegle. The covers also featured Finster added into homages to classic comic book covers. FANBOY Magazine was also a 4-issue publication, 1993. Finster, the protagonist, is a teenager, who works in a comic shop, while also being an artist. He daydreams about, and has had real, adventures. He usually mixes his own life with Fantasy, and is always talking to the reader. The original six"
"Index confirms his death as May 1, 2002. Eros' ""Dementia's Dirty Girls"" #1 (May 2002) included a tribute by Bill Pearson. Tom Sutton Thomas F. ""Tom"" Sutton (April 15, 1937 – May 1, 2002) was an American comic book artist who sometimes used the pseudonyms Sean Todd and Dementia. He is best known for his contributions to Marvel Comics and Warren Publishing's line of black-and-white horror-comics magazines, particularly as the first story-artist of the popular character Vampirella. Tom Sutton was born and raised in North Adams, Massachusetts, where father Harry was a plumbing, heating and air conditioning shopkeeper, and a"
"Tom Sutton Thomas F. ""Tom"" Sutton (April 15, 1937 – May 1, 2002) was an American comic book artist who sometimes used the pseudonyms Sean Todd and Dementia. He is best known for his contributions to Marvel Comics and Warren Publishing's line of black-and-white horror-comics magazines, particularly as the first story-artist of the popular character Vampirella. Tom Sutton was born and raised in North Adams, Massachusetts, where father Harry was a plumbing, heating and air conditioning shopkeeper, and a machinist and gunsmith for General Electric and others. He had a half-sister ""seven or eight years older than I am"" from"
"many were already well known as cartoonists, but numerous others were leading creative figures of the 20th century in other fields. Pieces were created especially for the book by writers, artists, and composers including the writer William Burroughs, the filmmaker Federico Fellini, the writer Tom Wolfe, the musician Frank Zappa, founding ""Mad (magazine)"" cartoonists Harvey Kurtzman and Wallace Wood, the cartoonists Gahan Wilson and Ed Subitzky, the artist Red Grooms, and 160 others. The Someday Funnies The Someday Funnies is an exceptionally large and varied book of comics which was published by Abrams on November 1, 2011. The book was"
"Zuffi, Nino Puglisi, Nini Segna, Piero Sartori, Dario Guzzon and Giovanni Sinchetto alternated as illustrators. Other series were presented in the appendix of each issue, including Mario Uggeri's ""Ravengart"" and Paolo Piffarerio's ""Carlin"". Starting from 1953 the series was translated into German. Other comics series created by Tristano Torelli: Carnera (comics) Carnera is an Italian comic book series created by publisher and writer Tristano Torelli and graphically rendered by illustrator Mario Uggeri. It originally run from 1947 until 1950. The comics were inspired by the figure of Italian boxer Primo Carnera, who had already graphically inspired another comic character, Dick"
"Themo Lobos Themístocles Nazario Lobos Aguirre (December 3, 1928 – July 24, 2012), better known as Themo Lobos, was a Chilean cartoonist. He created the characters ""Máximo Chambónez"", ""Ferrilo"", ""Nick Obre"", and ""Alaraco"", with his most famous work being ""Mampato"", a character first developed, briefly, by Eduardo Armstrong and Óscar Vega; Lobos then wrote and illustrated his adventures from 1968 to 1978. He was also the publisher of the comic-book ""Cucalón"", which collected all his previous characters and stories. Themístocles Lobos was born in San Miguel, Santiago, Chile in 1928. He began drawing cartoons at age 7, at first copying"
"his color cartoons in ""Esquire"". He would later work for a string of national advertisers and for ""Playboy"". Albert Carreno (1905–64). This Mexican-born caricaturist and cartoonist portrayed stage and sports personalities for the ""Chicagoan"" in the late 1920s while working for the ""Chicago Daily News"". He then moved to New York and was employed by a series of publishers and comic-book producers including Fawcett, National, and Marvel. Nat Karson (1908–54). Born in Switzerland, he attended Chicago public schools and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and increasingly concentrated his efforts on theatrical caricature. After he moved to New"
"""Gim Toro"" and ""Dixy Scott"" comic books, and collaborated with the publisher Dardo and with the magazines ""Il Vittorioso"" and ""Il Monello"". In 1952 he started a thirty years-long collaboration with Disney, first as cover illustrator of ""Topolino"" and later drewing hundreds of stories and illustrations for many Disney publications. During this time he also collaborated with other publishers, co-creating with Andrea Lavezzolo the series ""Poldo e Poldino"" for ""Il Giorno dei Ragazzi"" and drewing several episodes of ""Fix and Foxi"". Giuseppe Perego Giuseppe Perego (1 June 1915 – 6 December 1996) was an Italian comic artist, active between the"
"to the history of comics are Tom Roberts (""Alex Raymond: His Life and Art""), Jim Amash (""Matt Baker: The Art of Glamour,"" ""Carmine Infantino: Penciler, Publisher, Provocateur,"" ), Dewey Cassell (""The Art of George Tuska"", ""Marie Severin: The Mirthful Mistress of Comics""), Wallace Harrington (""Neville Colvin: A Modest Man""), Gary Land (Edwin Austin Abbey: Master of Detail Illustration Magazine #40), Benno Rothschild (""Rough Stuff"" Interview with Brian Stelfreeze in ""Rough Stuff"" #6), David L. Applegate (""""Coming out in the comic strips"","" from ""Hogan's Alley"" no. 1, 1994, Bullmoose Publishing, Atlanta), Raymond A. Cuthbert (""The Two-Gun Kid: The Silver Age Western"
"to their form. Another difference between the comic and the show is the name changes. Toad, originally Mortimer Toynbee, is changed to Todd Tolansky, and Avalanche, originally Dominic Petros, is changed to Lance Alvers. Both changed names have similarities to their codenames. Also, their nationalities were changed to American from, respectively, British and Greek. X-23, an original character introduced in later seasons, made her comic book debut in the miniseries ""NYX"", where her appearance was slightly altered to more closely resemble Wolverine. She received a self-titled comic miniseries in 2005. Much like Harley Quinn of """", Terry McGinnis of ""Batman"
"in Heavy Metal Magazine (including special issues) Massimiliano Frezzato Massimiliano Frezzato (born March 12, 1967) is an Italian comic book author. Born in Turin, he studied art in that city and won the first Prize in the 1989 comics contest in Prato. In 1990 he started the series ""Margot"", written by Jerome Charyn. His most famous work is ""I custodi del Maser"" (""Keepers of the Maser""), which appeared in 1996 and has been translated in numerous countries, including France, Belgium, Portugal, United States, Germany, Poland and Denmark. Frezzato's influences include Moebius, Enki Bilal, Tanino Liberatore, Hayao Miyazaki and Katsuhiro Ōtomo."
"Garry Trudeau Garretson Beekman ""Garry"" Trudeau (born July 21, 1948) is an American cartoonist, best known for the ""Doonesbury"" comic strip. Trudeau is also the creator and executive producer of the Amazon Studios political comedy series ""Alpha House"". Trudeau was born in New York City, the son of Jean Douglas (née Moore) and Francis Berger Trudeau Jr. He is the great-grandson of Dr. Edward Livingston Trudeau, who created Adirondack Cottage Sanitarium for the treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis at Saranac Lake, New York. Edward was succeeded by his son Francis and grandson Francis Jr. The latter founded the Trudeau Institute at"
"Pat McCormick, comic Neil Connie Wallace, raconteur Mr. Sragow, Red Lightning (4/29/95) 67) Tom Arnold, comic Neil Connie Wallace, Underdog dancer Suzanne Muldowney, raconteur Mr. Sragow (5/13/95) 68) Soleil Moon Frye, The Singing Cowgirl from Queens, Marilyn Monroe conspiracy theorist M. Vinson Hayes, comic Neil Connie Wallace (7/11/95) 69) The Del Rubio Triplets, comic Neil Connie Wallace, comic cabbie Al Mustakoff (9/5/95) 70) Johnnie Whitaker, Billy Barty, Mr. Sragow, poet Chairman Steve (9/15/95) 71) Singer Joey Marlowe, poet Bingo Gazingo, comic Neil Connie Wallace 72) Tiny Tim, Arthur Tracy, Izzy Fertel, poet Chairman Steve 73) Tribute to KISS fans (5/25/96)"
"(Peterson also published three issues of ""Choppertoons"", of which very little has been written.) ""CARtoons"" featured articles, comic strips, step-by-step how-to drawing pages and more. The first issue included a comic strip, ""Rumpsville: The Saga of Rumpville"", illustrated by Millar. In the 1960s until 1975 it carried the ""Unk and them Varmints"" strip (by Mike Arens and Willie Ito). Through the years, some of the featured artists were Alex Toth, Tom Medley, Mike Arens, Jim Willoughby, Russ Manning, Willie Ito, Dale Hale, George Trosley (creator of ""Krass & Bernie""), John Kovalic, Shawn Kerri (one of the few women who drew"
"have survived Nazi concentration camps only to pursue a hatred for normal humanity. His key followers, Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch, were Romani. Only one new member of the X-Men was added, Mimic/Calvin Rankin, but soon left due to his temporary loss of power. The title lagged in sales behind Marvel's other comic franchises. In 1969, writer Roy Thomas and illustrator Neal Adams rejuvenated the comic book and gave regular roles to two recently introduced characters: Havok/Alex Summers (who had been introduced by Roy Thomas before Adams began work on the comic) and Lorna Dane, later called Polaris (created by"
"upon a webcomic co-created by Dennis Calero and actor Todd Stashwick, was optioned in 2011 for development. It was also announced on Deadline.com that Calero and Stashwick were writing an original pilot for the SyFy channel called Clandestine. Dennis Calero Dennis Calero is an American comic book artist and illustrator, known for his work on titles such as ""X Factor"", ""Legion of Superheroes"", and """". Calero's work includes Acclaim Comics' licensed-product titles ""Sliders"" and """"; Moonstone Books' TV tie-in titles ""Cisco Kid"" and """", Platinum Comics' ""Cowboys & Aliens""; IDW Publishing's ""Masters of Horror: Dreams in the Witch House""; and"
"Tarzanetto Tarzanetto is the title character of an Italian comic series created by Antonio Terenghi. A parody of Tarzan, Tarzanetto was created by Terenghi in 1954, with his stories published in the comics magazine ""Chicchirichì"". A young, bald boy with cigar and bowler hat, Tarzanetto became soon the most popular character of the magazine, as to make the magazine renamed ""Chicchirichì presenta Tarzanetto"". In 1959 the magazine was eventually renamed ""Tarzanetto"" until 1961. After a long hiatus, in 1974 Terenghi reprised the character with new stories published in ""Corriere dei Piccoli"". Following the audience's new interest for the character, in"
"Kato, The Shadow, and The Spider. It was written by Chris Roberson with art by Alex Ross and Dennis Calero. Dynamite Entertainment also published a seven-issue series titled ""Django/Zorro"" between November 2014 and May 2015, teaming Zorro with the character Django Freeman from Quentin Tarantino's movie ""Django Unchained"" (2012). The series was co-written by Tarantino and Matt Wagner, with art by Esteve Polls. In 2018, American Mythology took the license, launched the series ""Zorro Legendary Adventures"", written by Jean-Marie Nadaud and drawn by Robert Rigot and minisseries ""Zorro: Swords of Hell"", written by David Avallone and illustrated by Roy Allan"
"Michael Payne (cartoonist) Michael Payne (born 13 April 1944) known by his professional name """"Mike Payne"" is a British cartoonist, artist, illustrator, writer and actor best known for creating ""Tatty Teddy"" for the ""Me to You"" concept for Carte Blanche Greetings which he drew for seventeen years. He created ""Teddy Bigfoot"" and ""The Miranda Gang"" for the same company under his pen name of ""Miranda"". He is also the creator and writer of the Charlie's Ark children’s stories, Norm Bear (with Richard Digance) and was the cartoonist for Sky News. Mike Payne was born in Amersham, Buckinghamshire, England on 13"
"Tony Bedard Antony J. L. Bedard is an American writer and editor who has worked in the comic book industry from the early 1990s through the present. He is best known for his work at CrossGen Comics, where he was under exclusive contract, and for his run writing Marvel Comics ""X-Men"" spin-off ""Exiles"". Back in Tony's college days at the Alpha Gamma Chapter of the Delta Sigma Phi Fraternity he would write comic book characters for all of the brothers. His personal character was Tonan the Barbarian, who he posed as in his 1989 composite photo while the President of"
"illustrating 10 days before his death in February 1963. Charles Folkard Charles James Folkard (6 April 1878 – 26 February 1963) was an English illustrator and comics artist. He worked as a conjuror before becoming a prolific illustrator of children’s books. In 1915, he created Teddy Tail, a popular cartoon character who ran in the ""Daily Mail"" newspapers for decades. Folkard is well known for his work on ""The Arabian Nights"", ""Grimms' Fairy Tales"", ""Aesop's Fables"", and ""Pinocchio"". Folkard was born in Lewisham, south London in 1878. He worked for a period of time as a conjuror after attending a"
"character, which Pazienza continued to elaborate until his death in 1988. Zanardi (comics) Zanardi (full name: ""Massimo Zanardi"") is a comics character created by Andrea Pazienza, arguably his most famous creation. He is the main actor in a series of graphic novels which appeared in installments on several Italian comics magazines during the early 1980s. Zanardi first appeared on ""Frigidaire"" magazine in 1981, in ""Giallo Scolastico"" (""High School Mystery""). The character quickly found an enthusiastic audience in the clique of young, artsy, new-waveish Italians who were disillusioned with the previous decade's political slant and were instantly hooked on the character's"
"a nerdy bald inventor whose inventions would always go wrong. It was drawn by Tom Paterson between 1997-2005 before it was taken over by Duncan Scott. The strip disappeared when the comic became Dandy Xtreme. He returned in the 2012 Dandy Annual drawn by Steve Beckett. He was one of the characters featured in the PC game, Beanotown Racing. Tom Paterson Tom Paterson is a Scottish comic artist who drew characters for Fleetway in 1973–1990, and D.C Thomson from 1986-onwards. He lives in Leith, with three children, and is a Hearts supporter. Taking stylistic inspiration from Leo Baxendale's work on"
"added to Sardi’s growing popularity. Winchell and Morehouse belonged to a group of newspapermen, press agents, and drama critics who met for lunch regularly at Sardi’s and referred to themselves as the Cheese Club. Heywood Broun, Mark Hellinger, press agent Irving Hoffman, actor George Jessel, and Ring Lardner were also Cheese Club members. In fact, it was Hoffman who first brought Alex Gard to Sardi's for lunch at the Cheese Club table. Gard drew caricatures of the Cheese Club members, and Vincent Sardi hung them above their table. It was then that Sardi recalled the drawings at Zelli's and made"
"Il Giornalino Il Giornalino is an Italian comics magazine published in Italy. ""Il Giornalino"" was founded by the Catholic publisher Edizioni San Paolo of Alba in 1924. During its history, the magazine has published the Italian translation of numerous American and European comics series, such as Looney Tunes, The Smurfs, Lucky Luke, Popeye, Hanna-Barbera's characters, Asterix and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. It also featured adaptations of famous novel and literary works, including ""The Betrothed"", ""Robinson Crusoe"", ""Gargantua and Pantagruel"", ""Hamlet"" and others. Original characters published on the pages of ""Il Giornalino"" include Commissario Spada, Dodo & Cocco, Jack Speed,"
"""Tommy Wack"", and he comic strips of Don Martin; crime and adventure series published by the magazine included ""Kerry Drake"", ""Joe Palooka"", ""James Bond"", ""Modesty Blaise"", ""Spirit"", ""Red Barry"", Burne Hogarth's ""Drago"". In the first years Italian production was only represented by ""Maxmagnus"" and by occasional short stories. There was also a significant room devoted to articles of comics criticism. Starting from the 1970s the Italian contents gradually grew, and included Bonvi's ""Sturmtruppen"" and ""Cronache del Dopobomba"", Silver's ""Lupo Alberto"", Pino Zac's ""Kirie e Leison"" and ""L'Orlando Furioso"", Secchi's and Paolo Piffarerio's ""Fouche"", Guido Barletta's ""Mr. Manager"", Luca Novelli's ""Historiettes""."
"the cartoons, Bob Clampett's ""A Tale of Two Kitties"" (1941), introduced Tweety. The other cartoons are ""A Tale of Two Mice"" and ""Mouse-Merized Cat"". In all three cartoons, Tedd Pierce (normally a storyman/writer for the cartoons) and Mel Blanc, respectively, provide voice impressions of the comedy duo. The revival of their former television series in syndicated reruns in the late 1960s and early 1970s helped spark renewed interest in the duo, as did the televising of many of their old film hits. In 1994, comedian Jerry Seinfeld— who says Abbott and Costello were strong influences on his work — hosted"