"collection per year. The Wizard of Id The Wizard of Id is a daily newspaper comic strip created by American cartoonists Brant Parker and Johnny Hart. Beginning in 1964, the strip follows the antics of a large cast of characters in a shabby medieval kingdom called ""Id"". From time to time, the king refers to his subjects as ""Idiots"". The title is a play on ""The Wizard of Oz"", combined with the Freudian psychological term Id, which represents the instinctive and primal part of the human psyche. In 1997, Brant Parker passed his duties on to his son, Jeff Parker,"
"comic strip. (Parker would later create or co-create the strips ""Goosemyer"", ""Crock"" and ""Out of Bounds"".) Having already drawn cartoons about the Stone Age, Hart advanced through time to the Middle Ages, taking the idea from a deck of playing cards. ""The Wizard of Id"" was first syndicated on November 9, 1964, drawn by Parker and co-written by Parker and Hart. On November 17, 2014, the strip formally celebrated its 50th anniversary, and a number of other strips, including ""Beetle Bailey"", ""BC"", ""Ballard Street"", ""Dennis the Menace"", ""Garfield"", ""Mother Goose and Grimm"", ""Pickles"", ""Mutts"", ""Pooch Café"", ""The Brilliant Mind of"
"strips to devote more time to ""The Wizard of Id"". Parker received the National Cartoonists Society Humor Comic Strip Award for 1971, 1976, 1980, 1982 and 1983. He also received their Reuben Award for his work on the strip in 1984 and their Elzie Segar Award in 1986. Brant Parker Brant Julian Parker (August 26, 1920 – April 15, 2007) was an American cartoonist. He co-created and drew ""The Wizard of Id"" comic strip until passing the job on to his son, Jeff Parker, in 1997. Cartoonist Johnny Hart, his co-creator, continued writing the strip until his death on April"
"cartoon short in 1970, produced by Chuck Jones, directed by Abe Levitow and with voices from Paul Winchell and Don Messick. ""The Wizard of Id"" was named best humor strip by the National Cartoonists Society in 1971, 1976, 1980, 1982 and 1983. In 1984, Parker received a Reuben Award for his work on the strip. Dozens of paperback collections have been published since 1965, and some of the older titles were still in print as of 2010. In 2009, Titan Books began re-publishing the strips and is printing the complete daily and Sunday strips starting with 1971, publishing one annual"
"Johnny Hart John Lewis Hart (February 18, 1931 – April 7, 2007) was an American cartoonist noted as the creator of the comic strips ""B.C."" and ""The Wizard of Id"". Brant Parker co-produced and illustrated ""The Wizard of Id"". Hart was recognized with several awards, including the Swedish Adamson Award and five from the National Cartoonists Society. In his later years, he sparked controversy by incorporating overtly Christian themes and messages into the strips. Hart was referred to as ""the most widely read Christian of our time,"" over C. S. Lewis, Frank E. Peretti, and Billy Graham, by Chuck Colson"
"Brant Parker Brant Julian Parker (August 26, 1920 – April 15, 2007) was an American cartoonist. He co-created and drew ""The Wizard of Id"" comic strip until passing the job on to his son, Jeff Parker, in 1997. Cartoonist Johnny Hart, his co-creator, continued writing the strip until his death on April 7, 2007. Parker himself died eight days later, on April 15. Parker studied at the Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles, California. He worked for the Walt Disney Studio before and after World War II, taking time off to serve in the United States Navy. After leaving Disney"
"Wizard (DC Comics) The Wizard is a fictional DC Comics Golden Age supervillain. The Wizard first appeared in All Star Comics #34 (April–May 1947) in the story titled ""The Wiles of The Wizard"" written by his creators Gardner Fox with art by Irwin Hasen. Born approximately 1913, William Asmodeus Zard grew up living a life of crime. As a gun man for various crime bosses, he ultimately ended up in jail. With the passage of time, he formulated a strategy to become a specialized kingpin. In order to accomplish this task, he moved to Tibet and trained under a proficient"
"included in ""The Wizard of Id"". They are not individually identifiable, but they serve as the ""straight men"" and joke-tellers for each day's strip. In addition to assorted guards, peasants and executioners, they include fortune tellers, dentists, bartenders, innkeepers, town criers, insurance salesmen, monks, rats, horses, dragons and frogs, to name a few. In 1969, Jim Henson and Don Sahlin produced a test pilot for ""The Wizard of Id"". By the time interest was expressed in the concept Henson was deeply involved in other projects and decided to not pursue it any further. The comic was also adapted into a"
"been involved with creating ""Id"" for a decade. In 2002, the strip appeared in some 1,000 newspapers all over the world, syndicated by Creators Syndicate. Hart's grandson Mason Mastroianni took over artist's duties on the strip after Hart's death in 2007. The new byline, ""B.C. by Mastroianni and Hart,"" appeared for the first time in another of their strips on January 3, 2010. On December 14, 2015, Jeff Parker also passed his duties on to Mastroianni. In the early 1960s, Johnny Hart, having already created the successful ""B.C."", began collaborating with his friend, then-unpublished cartoonist Brant Parker, on a new"
"Vaughn Bodē Vaughn Bodē (; July 22, 1941 – July 18, 1975) was an American underground cartoonist and illustrator known for his character Cheech Wizard and his artwork depicting voluptuous women. A contemporary of Ralph Bakshi, Bodē has been credited as an influence on Bakshi's animated films ""Wizards"" and ""The Lord of the Rings"". Bodē has a huge following among graffiti artists, with his characters remaining a popular subject. Bodē was inducted into the Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame for comics artists in 2006. In 1963, at age 21, and while living in Utica, New York, Bodē self-published ""Das"
"Wizard (Archie Comics) The Wizard is a fictional superhero character created by Will Harr and Edd Ashe, Jr. for MLJ Comics, which later became Archie Comics. He first appeared in ""Top-Notch Comics #1"" in December 1939, and he was one of the headliners of that title until its cancellation in 1944. He was one of the earliest superhero characters to appear after the debut of Superman in 1938. His real name is Blane Whitney, a man of great intelligence. He descends from a long line of men who fought for America in its wars, including General Steven Whitney who was"
"the fort. ""Crock"" is featured in the Universal Studios Florida theme park, Islands of Adventure, where Crock's fort is part of the ""Toon Lagoon"" attraction. Crock (comic strip) Crock is an American comic strip created by Bill Rechin and Brant Parker depicting the French Foreign Legion. Distributed by King Features Syndicate, the strip began in 1975 and ended in May 2012. , it appeared in 250 newspapers in 14 countries. Don Wilder took over the writing duties in 1976 as Parker returned his focus to ""The Wizard of Id"". Following the death of Bill Rechin in May 2011, the strip"
"""The Wizard of Id"", ""One Big Happy"", ""Speed Bump"", ""Chuckle Brothers"", ""Agnes"", ""Ballard Street"", ""Liberty Meadows"", ""Rubes"", ""The Other Coast"", ""Archie"", ""Long Story Short"", ""Batman"", ""Zorro"", ""Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles"", ""Mickey Mouse"" and ""Donald Duck"". He also syndicated ""The Far Side"" internationally. In 2008 Creators Syndicate acquired the Copley News Service, a wire service that distributed news, political cartoons, and opinion columns. In 1991 Creators Syndicate took over Heritage Features Syndicate, which was part of the conservative Heritage Foundation based in Washington, D.C. In 2011 Jack Newcombe became President of Creators Syndicate, and together with Rick Newcombe started Creators Publishing"
"in a ""Breakpoint"" column. Born in Endicott, New York, Hart's first published work was in ""Stars and Stripes"" while he served in Korea as an enlisted member of the United States Air Force. Returning in 1953, he published cartoons in ""The Saturday Evening Post"", ""Collier's Weekly"" and other magazines. His pre-cartooning employment included working in a barbecue restaurant and sign painting. Hart's biggest success, ""B.C."", was created in 1957 and began appearing in national daily newspapers on February 17, 1958. Hart also co-created and wrote the comic strip ""The Wizard of Id"", drawn by Brant Parker, which has been distributed"
"Hart in his ""Mallard Fillmore"" strip of July 10, 2007. There was also a tribute in ""The Wizard of Id"" strip. In the February 14, 2008, strip, two peasant women are talking. One who has just bought some flowers says: ""How come you don't celebrate Valentine's Day?"" and the other answers: ""My Hart isn't in it this year."" With the release of ""Wizard of Id"" in 1964, Hart became one of only four cartoonists to have two comic strips appearing in over 1000 papers each. He won numerous awards for his work, including the National Cartoonists Society's Reuben award for"
"by Jan Andersson, and ""Shoulder Pain? the Solution and Prevention"", by Dr. John Kirsch. He also contributed to the Chinese book, ""An Ivarsson Product: Three Generations of Ivarsson"" by Xu Hai, which was published in 2015. Richard S. Newcombe Richard S. Newcombe (born August 8, 1950) is the founder and chairman of Creators Syndicate, which currently represents more than 200 writers and artists. Since the company's founding in 1987, the roster of talent has included Ann Landers, Hillary Clinton, Bill O'Reilly, Hunter S. Thompson, Herblock and the comic strips ""B.C."", ""The Wizard of Id"", ""Archie"" and ""Mickey Mouse"". Creators Syndicate"
"Fred Guardineer Frederick B. Guardineer (October 3, 1913 – September 13, 2002) was an American illustrator and comic book writer-artist best known for his work in the 1930s and 1940s during what historians and fans call the Golden Age of Comic Books, and for his 1950s art on the Western comic-book series ""The Durango Kid"". A pioneer of the medium itself, Guardineer contributed two features to the seminal ""Action Comics"" #1, the comic book that introduced Superman. Fred Guardineer was born in Albany, New York. He acquired a fine arts degree in 1935, then moved to New York City, where"
"in 1945, he moved to New York to work as a political cartoonist for the ""Binghamton Press"". It was in New York that he met Johnny Hart in 1950; Parker was judging an art contest in which 18-year-old Hart was an entrant. The meeting was the beginning of a friendship that led to the two collaborating on ""The Wizard of Id"" in 1964. Parker teamed with Don Wilder on the political commentary strip, ""Goosemyer"", which ran from 1981 to 1983. He collaborated with Bill Rechin and Wilder on the strips ""Out of Bounds"" and ""Crock"". Early on, Parker left those"
"the strip began being produced by Hart's grandsons Mason Mastroianni (head writer and cartoonist) and Mick Mastroianni (writer for both ""B.C."" and Hart's other creation, ""The Wizard of Id""), and Hart's daughter Perri (letterer and colorist). (The Mastroianni Brothers also created an original strip, ""The Dogs of C Kennel"", in 2009.) For a visual glossary, see Meet The Actors at John Hart Studios. Hart was inspired to draw cavemen (and many other creatures) through the chance suggestion of one of his coworkers at General Electric, and took to the idea ""because they are a combination of simplicity and the origin"
"Ted Key Ted Key (born Theodore Keyser; August 25, 1912 – May 3, 2008), was an American cartoonist and writer. He is best known as the creator of the cartoon panel ""Hazel"", which was later the basis for a television series of the same name, and also the creator of ""Peabody's Improbable History"". Born in Fresno, California, Key was the son of Latvian immigrant Simon Keyser, who had changed his name from Katseff to Keyser, and then to ""Key"" during World War I. Though his family thereafter went by Key, Theodore Keyser did not legally adopt the name until the"
"Fred Fredericks Harold ""Fred"" Fredericks, Jr. (August 9, 1929 – March 10, 2015) was an American cartoonist, who drew the ""Mandrake the Magician"" comic strip from June 1965, taking over for the late Phil Davis. Creator Lee Falk modernized the comic when Fredericks took over the strip, making it more reality-based by focusing less on science fiction and fantasy, and making Mandrake operate more like a secret agent, often helping out the police with cases they could not solve. Fredericks is also well known for inking ""The Phantom"" Sunday strips 1995 to 2000 (pencilled by George Olesen); Graham Nolan succeeded"
"Ken Bald Kenneth Bruce Bald (born August 1, 1920) is an American illustrator and comic book artist best known for the ""Dr. Kildare"" and ""Dark Shadows"" newspaper comic strips. Due to contractual obligations, he is credited as ""K. Bruce"" on the ""Dark Shadows"" strip. Ken Bald was born in New York City, New York and raised in suburban Mount Vernon, New York. He attended Pratt Institute in Brooklyn for three years, through 1941. After Pratt, Bald joined the Englewood, New Jersey studio of Jack Binder, one of the early comic-book ""packagers"" who would supply complete comics on demand for publishers"
"Madman (Image Comics) Madman is a creator owned fictional character, a comic book superhero that appears in comic books by creator Mike Allred and which has been published by a number of publishers over the years. The character first appeared in ""Creatures of the Id"" (Oct. 1990). His name, Frank Einstein, is a combination of Frank Sinatra and Albert Einstein, and is also a reference to Frankenstein. Frank Einstein was born Zane Townsend, an agent of the Tri-Eye Agency. Townsend was killed in a car accident, then stitched back together and brought to life by two scientists, Dr. Egon Boiffard"
"Edison Lee"", and ""Barney Google and Snuffy Smith"" ran special 50th anniversary commemorative strips (e.g., Beetle called Sarge ""a fink,"" and ended up sharing a dungeon cell with Spookingdorf). ""Hi and Lois"" ran an otherwise-ordinary strip with a portrait of the Wizard in the last panel, while ""Speed Bump"" ran a cartoon of Harry Potter in a Wizard of Id T-shirt, ""Family Circus"" put a greeting on a book (being held upside down), and ""Blondie"" showed a greeting written on a cake in the first panel. ""The Wizard of Id"" deals with the goings-on of the rundown and oppressed mythical"
"Delano, and ""War Story"", with Garth Ennis, for DC; and ""Global Frequency"", with Warren Ellis, for WildStorm. With Delano he drew ""The Territory"" for Dark Horse Comics, where he also worked on some of their licensed properties such as ""Aliens"" and ""James Bond"". In 2006 Lloyd created a graphic novel, ""Kickback"", for the French publisher . In 2012 Lloyd established ""Aces Weekly"", an online comics anthology featuring creators such as Mark Wheatley, Val Mayerik, John McCrea, Phil Hester, and Lew Stringer. David Lloyd (comics) David Lloyd (born 1950) is a British comics artist best known as the illustrator of the"
"""B.C."" in 1968 and ""Wizard of Id"" in 1984. National Cartoonists Society Newspaper Comic Strip (Humor) Award for ""B.C."" National Cartoonists Society The International Congress of Comics – Lucca, Italy. This was the first time this award was given to an American cartoonist. National Cartoonists Society For outstanding contributions to NASA The National Cartoonist Society “B.C. The First Thanksgiving” The Advertising Council ""B.C. Tickets for ACTION"" The International Society of Radio and Television Broadcasters ""B.C. ‘A’ We’re the ACTION Corps"" The Swedish Academy of Comic Art The National Cartoonist Society The National Cartoonist Society King Features Syndicate The Yorkton Short"
"at WonderCon, in Oakland, California. One source says Guardineer moved to San Ramon, California, where he died in 2002, though the Social Security Death Index gives his last place of residence as Babylon, New York (ZIP Code 11702) in Suffolk County, Long Island. Fred Guardineer Frederick B. Guardineer (October 3, 1913 – September 13, 2002) was an American illustrator and comic book writer-artist best known for his work in the 1930s and 1940s during what historians and fans call the Golden Age of Comic Books, and for his 1950s art on the Western comic-book series ""The Durango Kid"". A pioneer"
"Crock (comic strip) Crock is an American comic strip created by Bill Rechin and Brant Parker depicting the French Foreign Legion. Distributed by King Features Syndicate, the strip began in 1975 and ended in May 2012. , it appeared in 250 newspapers in 14 countries. Don Wilder took over the writing duties in 1976 as Parker returned his focus to ""The Wizard of Id"". Following the death of Bill Rechin in May 2011, the strip was drawn by Kevin Rechin and written by Bob Morgan, who is Rechin's brother-in-law. Publication of new ""Crock"" strips ended with the May 20, 2012,"
"spin-off of this, he drew the four-issue Acclaim Comics miniseries ""Magic: The Gathering — The Shadow Mage"" (July-Oct. 1995). As of at least 2010, artist Mayerik and writer James Hudnall produce the comic strip ""Useful Idiots"" for the political site BigJournalism.com, later a section of Breitbart. Mayerik has done storyboards and other art for clients ranging from Coca-Cola and Microsoft to the American Indian College Fund and the Oregon Historical Society. Source: Val Mayerik Val Mayerik (born March 29, 1950) is an American comic-book and commercial artist, best known as co-creator of the satiric character Howard the Duck for Marvel"
"at the age of 74 on November 29, 2009. Don Addis Donald Gordon ""Don"" Addis (September 13, 1935 – November 29, 2009) was an American comic strip artist. He received his bachelor's degree from the University of Florida, where he was in charge of the production lab for the student newspaper, ""The Alligator"" (later ""The Independent Florida Alligator""). His work includes a self-published collection of his work at the U of F, numerous freelance cartoons for ""Playboy"" magazine, and the syndicated newspaper strips: Addis was a longtime member of the Freedom From Religion Foundation. He received the Foundation’s Freethought in"
"around the Syracuse University campus (where Bodé was attending school). Cheech Wizard stories ran in the ""Funny Pages"" of ""National Lampoon"" magazine in almost every issue from 1971 to 1975. The first Cheech Wizard collection was published in 1972 by the San Francisco-based underground publisher Company & Sons. All the Cheech Wizard stories were later collected and reprinted in two volumes by Fantagraphics Books. Cheech Wizard was revived by Bodé's son Mark Bodé in ""The Lizard of Oz"" (Fantagraphics, 2004), a send-up of ""The Wizard of Oz"" based on an original concept by Vaughn Bodé. The Wizard wears a very"
"William Wallace Denslow William Wallace Denslow (; May 5, 1856 – March 29, 1915), professionally W. W. Denslow, was an American illustrator and caricaturist remembered for his work in collaboration with author L. Frank Baum, especially his illustrations of ""The Wonderful Wizard of Oz"". Denslow was an editorial cartoonist with a strong interest in politics, which has fueled political interpretations of ""The Wonderful Wizard of Oz"". Born in Philadelphia, Denslow spent brief periods at the National Academy of Design and the Cooper Union in New York, but was largely self-educated and self-trained. In the 1880s, he traveled about the United"
"handy teleportation trick he had learned from a stage magician of that name). Apparently no relation to Blane Whitney, this Whitney was assisted by his secretary, the wonderfully named Jinx Friday, as he battled both New York City gangsters and the beautiful but evil Chinese femme fatale Ah Ku who referred to herself as the ""Princess of Crime"". Wizard (Archie Comics) The Wizard is a fictional superhero character created by Will Harr and Edd Ashe, Jr. for MLJ Comics, which later became Archie Comics. He first appeared in ""Top-Notch Comics #1"" in December 1939, and he was one of the"