Astronauta – Magnetar (2012) is a comic strip character adapted to the graphic novel format, written and illustrated by Danilo Beyruth. It is the debut of Graphic MSP, a comics series dedicated to publishing graphic novels starring some of Mauricio de Sousa Produções (MSP)’s most famous characters. A “Brazilian Disney” for some interpreters, Mauricio [...]
“The Bash Street Kids” is an ongoing comic strip series found in The Beano. It debuted 13 February 1954, and was conceived by Leo Baxendale (1930), a British comic artist mainly known for his many contributions to The Beano, The Beezer, Smash!, Wham!, Valiant, Whizzer and Chips, Monster Fun Comic, as well his own [...]
Carpanta, the protagonist of the series of the same name created by Spanish cartoonist Josep Escobar (1908-1994), first appeared in the magazine Pulgarcito in 1947. The comic strip’s plot is simple: Carpanta (which means “ravenous hunger”) is a poverty-stricken man who combines a three-day beard with an outfit consisting, surprisingly, of a jacket, a [...]
Condorito (Spanish for little condor) is a Chilean comic-book and comic-strip character created by cartoonist René Ríos Boettiger, also known as Pepo. Condorito was born when Pepo watched the Disney’s 1942 animated motion picture Saludos Amigos and felt displeased with the way Chile was represented in the movie: a small airplane called Pedrito (supposedly [...]
The Crimson Comet was a rare example of a successful Australian superhero, who flourished at a time when American comic-book heroes such as Superman and Captain Marvel dominated Australian newsstands throughout the 1940s and 1950s. Yet like many successful Australian comics of the post-war era, The Crimson Comet was portrayed as an ostensibly American [...]
Doctor Who comics are based on the long-running science fiction television show from creators Sydney Newman, C.E. Webber, and Donald Wilson. The television series, which first aired on the British Broadcasting Channel (BBC) from 1963 through 1989 and was re-introduced in 2005, has become a staple of British popular culture and also boasts an [...]
Doraemon is one of Japan’s most internationally recognised and loved manga and anime character creations. First published in 1969 by the Japanese publisher Shogakukan, the comedic science fiction adventures of Doraemon, a blue and white earless cat-shaped nuclear-powered robot from the 22nd Century, and the 10-year old boy, Nobita and his friends, were created [...]
Dragon Ball is a fantasy manga series serialized within the pages of Weekly Shonen Jump from 1984 to 1995 and is written and illustrated by Akira Toriyama. Licensed by Viz Media in the United States, its popularity has led to its expansion into a multimedia franchise including several anime adaptations and continuations, 19 animated [...]
Fred Basset is a comic book dog who first appeared in the Daily Mail during 1963.The titular character was created by Scottish artist Alex Graham (1913-1991) who did not own a dog at the time he started work on the comic, and was not familiar with what a basset hound looked like. However, he [...]
Judge Dredd, originating in 1977, is Britain’s most iconic comic character export. Set in an American metropolis in the 22nd Century, the futuristic setting for the “Judge Dredd” series was one of several created for the science fiction comic anthology 2000AD to tap into the wave of 1970s science fiction cinema as well as [...]