"royalties. A bitter Nolan retired from composing, and his song later became a favorite piano roll and calliope tune, heard at circuses and carousels. The lyrics make it clear that the Annie of the song and the Annie of the strip are two different characters: There is also a Scottish saying: ""She is having an Annie Rooney,"" which means that someone is displaying rage and anger. Annie Rooney's pet expression was ""Gloriosky!"" That unique G-rated expletive and ""Little Orphan Annie""'s ""Leapin' lizards!"" both found their way into the Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim song, ""Gee, Officer Krupke!"", from ""West Side"
"gathering all of the air conditioners out of Suburbia, and shouting, ""LET THE GLOBAL COOLING COMMENCE!!!"", just as RJ was about to plug them all in. He is a computer nerd, and he once ""broke"" the Internet. Most recently his shell was used as a hotspot for Queen Izzy, the Ant Queen, and her ant subjects, forcing him to first wear a Lucky Charms cereal box, and then a utili-kilt A hyperactive squirrel, Hammy is the least intelligent, though also the most lovable character in the strip, spouting random comments at random moments. His comments usually state an unusually short"
"Lizard (comics) The Lizard (Curtis ""Curt"" Connors) is a fictional character, a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character is usually depicted as an enemy of Spider-Man. In 2009, The Lizard was ranked IGN's 62nd Greatest Comic Villain of All Time. In the stories, Dr. Connors was a genetic biologist who researched the ability of certain reptiles to regrow missing limbs, partially to find a way to regenerate his right arm. After a test on himself, he transforms into a violent lizard monster. Though able to revert to his human form, he suffers occasional fits"
"a pug-riding cowboy. In daily life, Arthur is often found sitting on lampshades for no other reason than to keep his ducky behind warm. It is known throughout the strip that Arthur, for some reason, has a deep hatred for chickens, and a strong desire for pancakes, Shakira, Jessica Simpson, and Catherine Zeta-Jones. The strip also features a small collection of supporting characters, the principal four which are: Flaco: Thinking he was hatching an abandoned duck egg, Arthur became father to Flaco, a common North American lizard. Most storylines have him playing second-fiddle to his duck ""father"", but in one"
"with ""Zap"", is considered one of the titles to launch the underground comix movement. ""Bijou Funnies"" lasted 8 issues (from 1968 to 1973); a selection of stories from ""Bijou Funnies"" were collected in 1975 in the book ""The Best of Bijou Funnies"" (Quick Fox/Links Books). Lynch's best known comic book stories involve the human-cat duo Nard n' Pat, recurring characters in ""Bijou Funnies"". Nard is a bald middle-aged man of conservative tendencies, and Patrick is his more ""hip"" talking cat. Nard n' Pat were featured in two issues of their own comic, the first one published by Cartoonists Co-Op Press"
"an ectothermic animal was featured for the segment. In August 2016, rapper Snoop Dogg posted a remixed video of MacGyver to his Instagram account which poked fun at him and his owners. MacGyver's owners responded on Facebook, joking that “It appears that Snoop Dogg is trying to get even with me for illegally downloading ""Gin and Juice"" over 15 years ago – talk about a grudge.” MacGyver the Lizard MacGyver the Lizard (hatched July 4, 2012) is an Argentine red tegu lizard and Internet celebrity known for his intelligence, friendly personality, and large jowls. MacGyver has been described as ""a"
"Pepper, a wisecracking skunk passionate about comedy; Minka, a bouncy spider monkey with a flair for painting and visual arts; Penny Ling, a sensitive giant panda interested in rhythmic gymnastics; Russell, a hedgehog who is often the self-appointed leader of his animal bunkmates; Sunil, a mongoose and magician hopeful; Vinnie, a clumsy gecko obsessed with dancing; and Zoe, a diva-like dog with a talent for singing. Other human characters include Mrs. Twombly, owner of the shop and Blythe's boss, and Youngmee Song, Sue Patterson, and Jasper Jones, Blythe's friends. Hasbro owns the rights of both Blythe and Littlest Pet Shop,"
"Jam, neophyte author Cosgrove provides a range of new characters, including living books and snowmen, a mean-spirited giant, and a rhyming dictionary that spouts verse; but her most striking creations are Percy the white rat and the Leopard with the Changeable Spots. Cosgrove chose Percy based on her experience in laboratory work; she considered lab rats ""fascinating"" and ""clever."" Percy, who calls himself ""the personality kid,"" is an extrovert, a classic American wise guy; he calls everyone ""kiddo."" Cosgrove liked the character enough to use him again, in her second Oz book, ""The Wicked Witch of Oz"", and in a"
"in Our Midst!"" in which he helped Batman track down Professor Milo. But after Batman left, the Spectre turned Milo into cheese and released the lab rats which soon eat Milo (off-screen). The Spectre later makes a non-speaking appearance in the episode ""Crisis: 22,300 Miles Above Earth!"" where he appears alongside the Justice Society of America. The character won the ""1961 Alley Award as the Hero/Heroine Most Worthy of Revival"" and the ""1964 Alley Award for Strip Most Desired for Revival"". IGN ranked the Spectre as the 70th greatest superhero of all time. Spectre (DC Comics character) The Spectre is"
"that wasn't tied down, whilst shouting ""Yuk Yuk!"". He had a number of accomplices, including Jessie James, Sid the Kid and Goo Goo McGoo who were also, apparently, babies. Their chief nemesis was Sheriff ""Marsh"" Mallow of Cactus Gulch. When the strip returned in 1980, the Wild West theme was dropped, and the setting was moved to England. The tagline was also changed to ""The Cutest Bandit Around"". However, in the final strip of the second series, he was posted back to America by the angry Beano editor, whom Baby-Face had tried to kidnap. On both occasions, the strip was"
"bird. The best feature of the strip was the sign above Wizard Prang's front door. This usually read ""Wizard Prang is... In"" (if he was at home) or ""Wizard Prang is... Out"" (if he was out and about); but if he'd had a bad time in the story, the sign would often make a humorous remark in the final panel, such as ""Wizard Prang is... All At Sea"". ""Sammy Shrink"" was a humour strip about a boy who was only two inches tall. Sammy had the most chequered career of all the characters in ""Smash"", having originated in ""Wham"", then"
"comics, including ""Lorna, the Leopard Woman, In the Lair of the Great Serpent"". The circus boa constrictor sneaks up on Condiment as a prank, suggesting, ""Want a little hug?"" He flees in terror, giving Freddy the idea to pose as Lorna. Using a phony Spanish accent, he visits Condiment, letting drop that he is the Leopard Woman. Uncle Ben considers undermining enemies by selling them his defective bombsite, until Freddy discovers by accident that it is good at finding lost change. (This eventually proves to be more interesting to the generals.) Freddy's is plane now freed from bombsite testing, he"
"stand-alone story arc known as Tabletop Campaigns, finished its run on January 26, 2007 with episode 114. The original Tournament War storyline began reruns in February 2007 using a four panel per page format to save space on the servers. After an extended hiatus the L.A.R.P. storyline resumed production in the summer of 2008. The main stars of the strip were four stuffed animals. Mossfoot, the adventurous green teddy bear, is leader and Game Master for the group. Violet, the violet and sometimes ""violent"" teddy bear, is Mossfoot's girlfriend. The others stars are Target, the black cat who hates LARPs"
"his other catchphrase is saying things are his ""favourite thing"". He also likes to play supertiger (Wallace Gets Very Cross), elephants. & Falling Down (Humf & Wallace Fall Down). He is best friends with Humf and Loon. Loon Loon is a pink feathery thing who lives in the flat below Humf. She likes to go out to the park and the supermarket, most of the time with her friends Humf and Wallace, along with her mother. She is the only one of the three friends who has yet to be shown a father. She is also described as being a"
"an unseen crew of slaves imprisoned into the ship's bowels. Trump: Dr. Agon's pet and sidekick, a flying critter resembling a cross between a bat and a trumped lizard. Capable of talking, Trump also enjoys emitting sarcastic raspberry sounds now and then. Short Fred Ledd: a one-legged, dim-witted space pirate who roams galactic seastreams in his own galleon-shaped craft, the ""Cutting Snark"". He often uses a pair of crutches to move around, though being perfectly able to stand on his unique leg all the same. Mean, greedy and rancorous, he is bent on hijacking the ""Paradox"" and selling its crew"
"and named ""Swee'Pea."" Other regular characters in the strip were J. Wellington Wimpy, a hamburger-loving moocher who would ""gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today"" (he was also soft-spoken and cowardly; Vickers Wellington bombers were nicknamed ""Wimpys"" after the character); George W. Geezil, a local cobbler who spoke in a heavily affected accent and habitually attempted to murder or wish death upon Wimpy; and Eugene the Jeep, a yellow, vaguely dog-like animal from Africa with magical powers. In addition, the strip featured the Sea Hag, a terrible pirate, as well as the last witch on earth (her even more"
"originally animated without his buckteeth; they were added later on to make him look even more like Lewis's character. He was named after television writer John Frink, who was later hired on ""The Simpsons"". Frink's nonsensical utterances are written in the scripts as ""Frink noise"". Azaria has voiced Frink ever since the first appearance of the professor. Of the many characters that Azaria voices, Frink is his favorite because he was a fan of Lewis in his younger years and he enjoys imitating the voice of the nutty professor. He has said that ""once you start talking like [Julius Kelp]"
"some other characters, as Paterson has also drawn other strips for the same comic including Minnie the Minx, The Numskulls and Dennis the Menace. James' long-suffering lemming friend and pet, who rarely has as much bad luck as his owner. One of Alexander's hobbies is plummeting from great heights, which often helps James overcome his fate. He also tends to anoint James with balm or ointment if he gets hurt. In one strip, James gave his shirt to Alexander Lemming, and he had a day of bad luck and James had a day of good luck. Soon, Alexander got fed"
"dinosaurs), and a regular cast of characters, whose leader is Níquel Náusea. Humans also appear occasionally. A few of the characters' names embody specific jokes: for instance, the name of the character ""Flit"" (a drug-abusing cockroach, who enjoys insecticides, and is Níquel's best friend) is originally a brand-name for an insecticide spray. The name of the rat ""Rato Ruter"" comes from the American company Roto-Rooter, which specializes in clearing clogged drains. http://www2.uol.com.br/niquel/ - official website (in Portuguese) Níquel Náusea Níquel Náusea is the name of a comic strip created by Brazilian cartoonist Fernando Gonsales and of a character who appears"
"poker and checkers. He also has some proclivity toward stealing chickens, which led to a brief but effective use of his character in a marketing campaign by the Tyson Foods corporation in the early 1980s. In 1937 he held the post of ""Royal Doodle Bug"" in the ""Varmints"" lodge; during this period, the strip heavily employed the catchphrase, ""What did the Doodle-Bug say?"", an apparent homage to ""What did the Woggle-Bug say?"" in L. Frank Baum and Walt McDougall's ""Queer Visitors from the Marvelous Land of Oz"" strip of 1904–1905. Almost all of the characters in the strip (except the"
"to the series in the 1970s, when she was rescued at sea. Shortly after she joined the strip, a story arc involved her convincing Boner to shave his moustache. He remains clean-shaven until the end of the strip. Duke is a male penguin and a member of the society on the ark. Rex is a dinosaur, usually depicted on the deck of the Ark or in the hospital with the Doctor. Cubcake is a koala, occasionally referred to as Captain Boner's nephew. The character was originally nameless. ""Cubcake"" was the winning entry after the strip asked readers for suggestions regarding"
"Zippy the Pinhead Zippy the Pinhead is a fictional character who is the protagonist of ""Zippy"", an American comic strip created by Bill Griffith. Zippy's most famous quotation, ""Are we having fun yet?"", appears in ""Bartlett's Familiar Quotations"" and became a catchphrase. He almost always wears a yellow muumuu/clown suit with large red polka dots, and puffy, white clown shoes. (Other forms of attire may be seen when appropriate to the context, e.g. a toga.) Although in name and appearance, Zippy is a microcephalic, he is distinctive not so much for his skull shape, or for any identifiable form of"
"his strip ""Birdseye Center"", whose setting he described as ""any Canadian village""; its lead characters included bowler-hatted Pigskin Peters, Old Archie and his pet moose Foghorn, and lazy Eli Doolittle and his wife Ruby. The strip grew in popularity and in 1926 was voted favourite comic strip in a readers' poll—as a write-in, since the strip did not appear in the list of options. From about 1920 Frise shared an office with the journalist and Vimy ridge veteran Greg Clark (1892–77). They became friends, and Frise began providing colour illustrations to Clark's tales in the ""Star"" of the pair's misadventures"
"due to the Zoo Crew looking like talking cartoon animals. Green Lantern then leaves, where Little Cheese tells Superman that his friend was very inappropriate, causing Superman to apologize to him, but Batman starts laughing at Little Cheese's name. Little Cheese Little Cheese (real name Chester Cheese alias ""Benjamin Crow"") is a fictional character in the DC Comics universe, an anthropomorphic mouse. Chester Cheese is a superhero who lives on the otherdimensional world of Earth-C, an alternate Earth populated by sentient animals. His first appearance was in ""Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew"" #12 (February 1983). Chester Cheese was"
"comedy teams. One of the characters is a snake, while the other is a strip of bacon. Other characters in the comic were Criminal District Attorney and Underpants-On-His-Head-Man. Utterances by Snake and Bacon are limited to hissing (on Snake's part) and making bacon-related comments (on Bacon's part) such as ""I'm real bacon"" and advice such as ""Wrap your dog's pill in me."" Still, their communications are filled with sexual innuendos. The characters ""highlight what is perhaps Kupperman’s greatest comedic skill--the ability to sell surreal ideas in the most serious way possible, highlighting the humor all the more vividly,"" according to"
"family of spiders driving in a car with a ""Have a Nice Day"" bumper sticker, featuring a ""smiley face"" with eight eyes. One of Larson's more famous cartoons shows a chimpanzee couple grooming. The female finds a blonde human hair on the male and inquires, ""Conducting a little more 'research' with that Jane Goodall tramp?"" A representative from the Jane Goodall Institute thought that this was in bad taste and wrote a critical letter to Larson regarding the cartoon. Larson contacted the Goodall Institute to apologize only to find that Jane Goodall herself, who was in Africa at the time"
"Heydrich. Eventually, as part of MLJs change in editorial policy from superheroes towards humor comics, although ""Steel Sterling"" retained his place in ""Zip Comics"", in issue #35 (March 1943) ""Wilbur"" was joined by teen humor strip ""Ginger"", and in the following issues MLJ replaced the other costumed heroes with further humor content, such as funny-animal characters ""Chimpy"", ""Woody the Woodpecker"" (not the same as the better-known Woody Woodpecker character), ""Senor Banana"" a comic strip with a continuing storyline, and country folk ""The Applejacks"", together with text stories of both ""Ginger"" and ""The Applejacks"". From then on until the end of"
"interventions of Coconino County's other anthropomorphic animal residents, and even forces of nature, occasionally change the dynamic in unexpected ways. Other strips have Krazy's imbecilic or gnomic pronouncements irritating the mouse so much that he goes to seek out a brick in the final panel. Even self-referential humor is evident—in one strip, Officer Pupp, having arrested Ignatz, berates Herriman for not having finished drawing the jailhouse. Public reaction at the time was mixed; many were puzzled by its iconoclastic refusal to conform to linear comic strip conventions and straightforward gags. But publishing magnate William Randolph Hearst loved ""Krazy Kat"", and"
"Two Lumps Two Lumps — The Adventures of Ebenezer and Snooch is a webcomic which is drawn and written by James L. Grant and Mel Hynes. The first strip appeared on March 16, 2004. The main characters are a pair of sibling Russian Blue cats named Ebenezer (a.k.a. Eben or Benny) and Snooch. The strip is invariably written from their point of view, albeit with a tone and approach which has led to the comic being described as ""the Anti-Garfield"". Other characters make occasional appearances: Grant himself appeared in the second strip (in a parody of Garfield's debut), and Hynes"
"Tigger Tigger is a fictional tiger character originally introduced in A. A. Milne's book ""The House at Pooh Corner."" Like other Pooh characters, Tigger is based on one of Christopher Robin Milne's stuffed toy animals. Tigger appears in the Disney cartoon versions of Winnie the Pooh and has also appeared in his own film. He is known for his distinctive orange and black stripes, large eyes, a long chin, a springy tail, and his love of bouncing. As he says himself, ""Bouncing is what Tiggers do best."" Tigger never refers to himself as a tiger, but as a ""Tigger"". Although"
"parodies, such as Supermask and Super Salad Man (a spoof of Superman). Some Marvel references were made too, like the Mask becoming Biclops (a spoof of Cyclops), Spiderhyny (alias Spider-Man), the Green Surfer (alias Silver Surfer) and the Toolverine (a spoof of Wolverine), and a villain that turned into a dinosaur like Sauron. Notable were Skillit (spoof of Mr. Mxyzptlk and Peter Pan, albeit much more malevolent in nature), Buzz Stingman (who was transformed by mutant bees in a similar manner to Swarm) and Putty Thing (spoof of the """" version of Clayface, portrayed as a dumb teenager rather than"
"Reuben Award for the series in 1951. The principal characters were Pogo the Possum, Albert the Alligator, Churchy LaFemme (cf. Cherchez la femme), a turtle, Howland Owl, Beauregard (Houndog), Porkypine, and Miz Mamzelle Hepzibah, a French skunk. Kelly used the strip in part as a vehicle for his liberal and humanistic political and social views and satirized, among other things, Senator Joseph McCarthy's anti-Communist demagogy (in the form of a shotgun-wielding badger named ""Simple J. Malarkey"") and the sectarian and dogmatic behavior of communists in the form of two comically doctrinaire cowbirds. The setting for Pogo and his friends was"
"and vacant circles for eyes. Her catchphrases are ""Gee whiskers"" and ""Leapin' lizards!"" Annie attributes her lasting youthfulness to her birthday on February 29 in a leap year, and ages only one year in appearance for every four years that pass. Annie is a plucky, generous, compassionate, and optimistic youngster who can hold her own against bullies, and has a strong and intuitive sense of right and wrong. Sandy enters the story in a January 1925 strip as a puppy of no particular breed which Annie rescues from a gang of abusive boys. The girl is working as a drudge"