"the final episode of ""Harry Enfield and Chums"". The following morning, he wakes up transformed into a nice, polite and helpful young man. This is however later revealed to be a dream by his mother in the first of the two Christmas specials, with Kevin still behaving like before. They both eventually end up losing their virginities in Ibiza in the movie Kevin & Perry Go Large"". Due to Kevin and the other characters in ""Harry Enfield and Chums""' getting positive feedback and statements of the truth behind the writers' observations, the term ""Kevin the Teenager"" (often shortened to simply"
"comic that is heavy on parody and humor. The primary characters are a tyrannosaurus named Archie who dresses like the Terminator, a triceratops named Lorenzo who wears a Hawaiian shirt, a one-eyed stegosaurus named Reese who wields heavy weapons, and a pterodactyl named Cyrano. In the comics, the Dinosaurs are actually intelligent aliens who resemble smaller versions of Earth dinosaurs presumably due to a convergent evolution (aside from their extraterrestrial nature, their backstory was only hinted at but never confirmed). After their spacecraft malfunctions in Earth's atmosphere and crashes into the ocean, they are stranded on Earth and become mercenaries"
"Gim Toro Gim Toro is an Italian comic book series created by Andrea Lavezzolo and Edgardo Dell'Acqua. It was in syndication from 1946 until 1951. Published in 1946 in an eponymous comic book series, the comics had an immediate success; in 1947 the main series was joined by the parallel series ""Gimtorissimo"", still written by Lavezzolo but with illustrations by other artists. The success lasted until the beginning of 1950, and the series ended in 1951. It was republished several times until the second half of seventies. The main character, Gim Toro, is an Italian-American by the appearance of actor"
"gallery offered an endless stream of art greats for Cerio to rub elbows with. That list included Rick Griffin, Robert Crumb, Victor Moscoso, S. Clay Wilson and Gilbert Shelton, Last Gasp Funnies owner Ron Turner, Low Brow painter Robert Williams and poster artist Randy Tuten. After Steven Cerio unpacked in Brooklyn in 1988 he set to illustrating, animating and for such diverse clients as Nickelodeon, Disney Enterprises, Guitar world, Guitar Player, Gary Fisher Bicycles, Conde Naste, Penguin books, Entertainment Weekly, Newsweek, Warner Brothers/Inscape, Men's Health, Musician, A&M records, L.A. Weekly,Vibe, Roger Black Design group, Details, Fantagraphics Books, Village Voice Boston"
"the contestants unsuccessfully pitching various bizarre ideas (e.g. a 'kitten stomper' device) and a parodied cast of the Dragons. The emphasis is particularly on the entrepreneurs' names (e.g. 'Duncan Guillotine') and personalities (Meaden is simply 'The Grumpy Woman' – Enfield in drag). In one sketch parodying the banking crisis, Enfield's old character Tim Nice-But-Dim made an appearance and was revealed to be ""obviously"" the brother of 'Peter Jones (John Lewis)'. Enfield and Whitehouse brought back their portrayals of the characters for three Comic Relief sketches, where they play Victorian counterparts of the Dragons, and in each sketch, the entrepreneurs are"
"also wrote short novels such ""L'idolo cinese"" published by Sonzogno in 1936, and children's books published by Carroccio such as ""Il mantello magico"" in 1934 and ""Le tre Pepite"" in 1939. Lavezzolo started writing for the weekly comics magazine ""Albogiornale Juventus"" with ""La città delle tenebre"" in 1939 and in the early 1940s worked on the scenarios and text for the comic book series ""Dick Fulmine"". He went on to create a series of comic books and characters which included ""Gim Toro"" in 1946 (his first major success), ""Tony Falco"" in 1948, ""Geky Dor"" in 1949, ""Kinowa"" in 1950 and"
"""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"
"Irrera, The Uncanny Nisan Banin, Azza & Sira & Monica & Shahira, The Comic Stylings of Gary Allen, Reversible Dave Shaffer, Coward 32) Jocelyn Seagrave, Wally the Pig, The Legendary Benny Bell, Danglin' Steve Belledin, Eunjin Hwang, Tapehead Olivia Ward, Reel Big Fish 33) Rhonda Shear, The Swell Zenon Pimentel, Gloria & Baby Doll Gibson, Jugglin' Josh Weiner, Matt Fogelman, Gene's Pool, Thin Lizard Dawn 34) Jessica Biel, Coin Operator Jaymes Hodges, Dachsund Friendship Club, Bend Over Ben Binford, Andy's Chicken Delight, Holey Lori Sapp, That Dog 35) Nick Turturro, Shakin' Ollie Shasta, Wiry Yana Toyber, The Ass-tounding Peter Russo,"
"incest, and the occult. Issue #0 introduces three of Columbia's recurring characters: the hapless, Koko the Clown-like Seymour Sunshine in the opening story ""No Tomorrow If I Must Return"", and the sibling duo Pim and Francie in ""Tar Frogs"". (Both ""Tar Frogs"" and the aforementioned ""The Biologic Show"" had originally appeared in the British comics magazine ""Deadline"" but were partially redrawn for Columbia's solo book.) Issue #1 is dominated by the 16-page Pim and Francie story """"Peloria"": Part One"", intended as the start of an ongoing serial. It includes another character, Knishkebibble the Monkey-Boy, who reappears in Columbia's later work."
"Frank Mclaughlin, Tom Moore, Gary Fields, Bill White, Ray Dirgo, Doug Cushman, Nate Butler, Jim Engel, John A. Wilcox, Mark Marcus, Milton Knight, Paul Chadwick, and Mike Tiefenbacher. The Spotlight Comics titles were all edited by Jim Main. After Spotlight's demise, Maurizio and Jarvis co-produced the Tom & Jerry comic strip for a five-year run. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, Maurizio packaged and edited licensed comics such as ""The Munsters"" and ""I Dream of Jeannie"" for the short-lived publishers TV Comics and Airwave Comics. Spotlight Comics Spotlight Comics was an American comic publisher based in western Connecticut. It"
"Winsor McCay Zenas Winsor McCay ( – 1934) was an American cartoonist and animator. He is best known for the comic strip ""Little Nemo"" (1905–14; 1924–26) and the animated film ""Gertie the Dinosaur"" (1914). For contractual reasons, he worked under the pen name Silas on the comic strip ""Dream of the Rarebit Fiend"". From a young age, McCay was a quick, prolific, and technically dextrous artist. He started his professional career making posters and performing for dime museums, and in 1898 began illustrating newspapers and magazines. In 1903 he joined the ""New York Herald"", where he created popular comic strips"
"II. José Antonio Guillermo Divito's magazine ""Rico Tipo"", launched on 16 November 1944, contained many comic strips and was published until 1972. It included Adolfo Mazzone's classic ""Piantadino"" strip, Oscar Conti's ""Amarroto"" and many others. ""Intervalo"" magazine appeared in 1945, containing longer dialogs and text in comparison with comics edited in other houses. ""Patoruzito"" magazine also appeared in 1945, containing a number of children's comics in addition to the adventures of young Paturuzú. In 1948, local superhero Misterix got his own magazine, which also included other action comics, and which would become one of the most important the time period."
"Ken Battefield Ken Battefield (1905–1967) was a prolific comic book artist in the 1940s and early 1950s, during the Golden Age of Comic Books. He is most associated with the Nedor Publishing line of books where, at various times, he illustrated Pyroman, Doc Strange, Black Terror, American Eagle, The Scarab, Captain Future, and many others. In the latter days of working with that company he was hired to produce large amounts of work which was then ""punched"" up by Rafael Astarita and Graham Ingels. Through the Chessler, Funnies Inc., Iger, and Benjamin W. Sangor studios, as well as freelance, he"
"Tyrone Power. Other comics series created by Andrea Lavezzolo: Gim Toro Gim Toro is an Italian comic book series created by Andrea Lavezzolo and Edgardo Dell'Acqua. It was in syndication from 1946 until 1951. Published in 1946 in an eponymous comic book series, the comics had an immediate success; in 1947 the main series was joined by the parallel series ""Gimtorissimo"", still written by Lavezzolo but with illustrations by other artists. The success lasted until the beginning of 1950, and the series ended in 1951. It was republished several times until the second half of seventies. The main character, Gim"
"(short for Minerva); their sons Sam and baby James; wealthy Uncle Bim; and their annoying maid Mary. They had a cat named Hope and a dog named Buck. The idea was envisioned by Joseph Patterson, editor and publisher of the ""Chicago Tribune"", who was important in the early histories of ""Little Orphan Annie"" and other long-run comic strips. Patterson referred to the masses as ""gumps"" and thought a strip about the domestic lives of ordinary people and their ordinary activities would appeal to the average American newspaper reader. He hired Smith to write and draw the strip, and it was"
"Activity Book"" and the soon-to-be-released ""Haunted House"" Storybooks and ""Magic Answer"" Books. Detorie's illustrations have appeared in motion pictures, record albums, greeting cards, jigsaw puzzles, toys, games, kites, posters, pencils, lunch boxes, napkins and Burger King Meal Packs. Some of his freelance cartoons have appeared in various magazines, including ""Saturday Review"", ""The Saturday Evening Post"", ""TV Guide"", ""Penthouse"", ""National Lampoon"". Rick Detorie Rick Detorie is the creator of the popular comic strip ""One Big Happy"". He is the author of 14 humor books, including ""No Good Men"", ""No Good Lawyers"", ""Totally Tacky Cartoons"", ""Catholics"" and ""How to Survive an Italian"
"included; Vince Alascia, Jon D'Agostino, Sam Glanzman, Rocco ""Rocke"" Mastroserio, Bill Molno, Charles Nicholas and Sal Trapani. The primary writer was the remarkably prolific Joe Gill. The company began a wide expansion of its comics line, which would include notoriously gory horror comics (the principal title being Steve Ditko's ""The Thing!""). In 1954–55, it acquired a stable of comic book properties from the defunct Superior Comics, Mainline Publications, St. John Publications, and most significantly, Fawcett Publications, which was shutting down its Fawcett Comics division. Charlton continued publishing two of Fawcett's horror books—""This Magazine Is Haunted"" and ""Strange Suspense Stories""—initially using"
"David Tischman's ""Barnum!"" (with art by Niko Henrichon) similarly drifted in the realms of fictionalized biography, but did not stray into the horror/supernatural world. The tale of P. T. Barnum: secret agent saw the celebrated showman saving the life of President Grover Cleveland and (with his circus charges, including original siamese twins Chang and Eng) and matching wits against the ""evil"" Nikola Tesla. Also previewed as a 2003 release from Vertigo was Brett Lewis and John Paul Leon's ""The Winter Men"", which ultimately saw its first issue released in September 2005 through WildStorm's ""Signature Series"" imprint. ""Lovecraft"" by Hans Rodionoff,"
"The six trade paperback editions were republished by Image Comics in 2014. Two one-shot issues of new material, ""Criminal Special Edition"" (February 2015) and ""Criminal 10th Anniversary Special"" (April 2016), followed, and were collected as ""Wrong Time, Wrong Place"" in September 2016. The series' story arcs are self-contained and focus on different characters, but these central characters inhabit the same world, grew up in fictional Center City, frequent the same bar, and share a common history of two generations of crime. With his partner Ivan, Tommy Patterson ran the city's most proficient crew of pickpockets and taught the trade to"
"persecuted by bad luck for 1000 years!""). Romano Scarpa wrote and drew many masterpieces such as ""Paperino e i gamberi in salmì"", ""Topolino e l'unghia di Kali"" (English: ""Kali's Nail""), ""Topolino e la dimensione delta"" (""Mickey Mouse in the Delta Dimension""), ""Topolino e la collana chirikawa"", ""Topolino imperatore della calidornia"", ""Paperino e le lenticchie di Babilonia"" (""The Lentils from Babylon""), ""Paperin Hood"". He also created many new characters such as Atomo Bleep-Bleep (Atomino Bip Bip), Trudy Van Tubb (Peg Leg Pete's girlfriend), and Brigitta MacBridge, a female duck enamoured of Scrooge (though the feelings are unrequited). Rodolfo Cimino was initially"
"Even when there was an episode actually called “Bad Tina,” the eldest Belcher child had her heart in the right place whenever Tammy wasn’t forcing her otherwise, give or take an occasional snide side comment to Linda."" Teen-a Witch ""Teen-a Witch"" is the third episode of the seventh season of the American animated comedy series ""Bob's Burgers"" and the 110th episode overall. It was directed by Chris Song and written by Holly Schlesinger. Its guest stars are Betsy Sodaro as Jackie the crossing guard, Billy Eichner as Mr. Ambrose, Kevin Kline as Calvin Fischoeder, Jay Johnston as Jimmy Pesto, David"
"Peter Pokus, Red Stuart, Lizard Man, Bill Berry, Mr. Pennygaff, The Great Fredini, Jewels, Natasha Veruschka, Todd Robbins, Tim Cridland, Tyler Fyre, Miss Behave, Wasp Boy, Lucky Diamond Rich, Claudio Borghi, David Straitjacket, the Space Cowboy (real name Chayne Hultgren), Elena Sellentin, Marco Cardona, Helmut Hannibal Helmurto, Gordo Gamsby, Barry Silver, Lenore “Angel” Lovelace, Alexsander, Eric Kloeliker, Manx, Julz, Sideshow Stevie, Luther Bangert, Donny Vomit, Tom Balmont and The Mighty Gareth. Captain Frodo Captain Frodo (born 1976 in Haugesund, Norway), also known as “The Incredible Rubberman”, is a Guinness World Record breaking contortionist living in Australia. He is the son"
"writer, Felix Wilkinson (Alastair Sim). Joe and Alec find Wilkinson’s house, find out the comic's editions are being manipulated and tell Wilkinson. He sees the criminals are using the codes from the comic to communicate their plans but, fearful of the gang, Wilkinson refuses to aid the boys. Joe tells the police but nobody listens so he visits the offices of the Trump. Here Joe meets Norman and together they work out the code from the next issue - 'Tattoo Jack's’ plan to rob an Oxford Street department store. At the store, Joe’s gang think they have overpowered the thieves"
"and his brothers James ""Jake"" and Anthony, Anthony Granza, Vincent Ferrara and Louis Cirillo who worked for Albert ""The Mad Hatter"" Anastasia and Carlo ""Carl"" Gambino. Even with all the growing animosity Lucky Luciano couldn't leave out his old associate, Vito ""Don Vito"" Genovese who had his group of distributors including Anthony ""Tony Bender"" Strollo, Vincent ""Vinnie Bruno"" Mauro, Frank ""The Bug"" Caruso, Salvatore ""Sam"" Maneri, Vincent ""Chin"" Gigante and even Joseph ""Joe Cago"" Valachi who were all associated with the ""Papalia-Agueci Network"" of the Magaddino crime family of Buffalo and led by members Johnny ""Pops"" Papalia and Alberto Agueci"
"Luciano Bottaro Luciano Bottaro (November 16, 1931 – November 25, 2006) was an Italian comic book artist. Bottaro's characteristic style is highly appreciated in Europe - many countries publish his comics (such as France, Germany, Greece, Spain, Portugal, and in the former Yugoslavia, as well as such far flung sites as Argentina, Australia and Brazil). He was influenced by Otto Messmer's ""Felix the Cat"", Winsor McCay's ""Little Nemo in Slumberland"", Frederick Burr Opper's ""Happy Hooligan"", Rudolph Dirks's ""the Katzenjammer Kids"", and Barks and Gottfredson's Disney adaptations. Born in Rapallo, he abandoned his accounting studies for cartooning in 1949. That year,"
"Denis Kitchen and Richard ""Grass"" Green, one of the few African-American comix creators. Other important underground cartoonists of the era included Deitch, Rick Griffin, George Metzger, Victor Moscoso, S. Clay Wilson and Manuel Rodriguez, aka Spain. Skip Williamson created his character Snappy Sammy Smoot, appearing in several titles. Gilbert Shelton became famous for his superhero parody ""Wonder Wart-Hog"" (Millar, 1967), ""Feds 'n' Heads"" (self-published in 1968) and ""The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers"" (Rip Off Press, 1971), a strip about a trio of ""freaks"" whose time is spent attempting to acquire drugs and avoid the police. Wilson's work is permeated by"
"credited as working on the book having sworn never to work for Fleetway again, but was said to have worked with partner Melinda Gebbie on her pages.) The comic was unique in that it featured appearances by characters from across the spectrum of comics publishers, including Marvel and DC superheroes, ""Beano"", ""Dandy"", ""Eagle"" and ""Viz"" characters, ""Doctor Who"", the ""Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles"", in addition to a cavalcade of British comedy figures (both real and fictional). These were all linked by the twin framing narratives of the Comic Relief night itself, and the tale of ""Britain's meanest man"" Sir Edmund"
"Nedor Comics, and Lev Gleason Publications. Features the studio worked on included the Fighting Yank, Mister Scarlet and Pinky, Bulletman, Ibis the Invincible, Captain Battle, the Black Owl, and the adapted pulp magazine features Doc Savage and The Shadow. In addition to running the studio, Binder drew layouts for Fawcett Comics stories which other artists finished for him. Artists employed by Jack Binder Studios included Ken Bald, Carmine Infantino, Gil Kane, Pete Riss, Kurt Schaffenberger, and Bill Ward. Bald eventually became the studio art director. As Kane recalled, ""Binder had a loft on Fifth Avenue and it just looked like"
"accompanied by his uncle and by Professor Olegario Bambufoca. Both tried to take advantage of the boy, but without success. Adolfo Mazzone Adolfo Mazzone (6 June 1914 – 19 February 2001) was a prolific Argentine comics artist and humorist. His characters included the convict ""Piantadino"", who became the subject of a 1950 film, and ""Mi Sobrino Capicúa (My Nephew Palindrome)"", whose adventures were published for almost forty years. Mazzone was born on 6 June 1914 in the neighborhood of Balvanera, and died on 19 February 2001. He created the classic characters of Piantadino, Capicúa, Afanancio, Batilio, Perkins and Macoco, among"
"for which Landolfi, in addition to having made several comic adaptations from literary such as ""Gulliver's Travels"" and ""Father Brown"", co-created with writer Claudio Nizzi the popular ""Piccolo Dente"", leading character of a long lasting eponym comic strip. Lino Landolfi Lino Landolfi (6 April 1925 – 11 February 1988) was an Italian cartoonist. Born in Rome, Landolfi attended various art schools including the Accademia where he studied painting, sculpture, decorating and scenery. He debuted as a cartoonist in 1947 with the character of ""Joe"", published by ""Corriere dei Piccoli"". In 1951 he created his most popular character, Procopio, realized for"
"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"
"Lino Landolfi Lino Landolfi (6 April 1925 – 11 February 1988) was an Italian cartoonist. Born in Rome, Landolfi attended various art schools including the Accademia where he studied painting, sculpture, decorating and scenery. He debuted as a cartoonist in 1947 with the character of ""Joe"", published by ""Corriere dei Piccoli"". In 1951 he created his most popular character, Procopio, realized for the magazine ""Il Vittorioso"" until 1968. In 1968, he changed his usual graphic style for a critically appreciated grotesque-realistic version of ""Don Quixote"" published by ""Vitt"". In 1969 he started a collaboration with the children magazine ""Il Giornalino"","
"Tiger, reminding the viewer to ""stay weird"" and then checking Steven off a list of other CN protagonists: Dexter and Dee Dee (""Dexter's Lab""), Blossom, Bubbles and Buttercup (""The Powerpuff Girls""), Ed, Edd n Eddy, Billy and Mandy (""The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy""), Mac (""Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends""), Juniper Lee (""The Life and Times of Juniper Lee""), Flapjack (""The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack"") and Finn (""Adventure Time""), as well as the Hanna-Barbera-created """", leaving Clarence as the last one on the list. The screen at the end of the episode says ""In loving memory of Pizza Steve"","