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"Omaha" the Cat Dancer
"Omaha" the Cat Dancer is an adults-only erotic comic series by Reed Waller and later Kate Worley, running from 1978 into the 1990s and helping inspire the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund.
Andy Capp
Andy Capp, comic strip character created by Reg Smythe, first appeared 5 August 1957 in the Daily Mirror's northern edition; a lazy, flat-capped Hartlepool drinker with wife Flo, later syndicated worldwide.
Archie Andrews
Archie Andrews, fictional American teenager of Archie Comics, debuted in Pep Comics #22 (1941). Known for Riverdale setting, red hair, and the Betty-Veronica love triangle; adapted as Riverdale and a planned film.
Bananaman
Bananaman is a British comic-strip superhero parody, created in 1980 for DC Thomson's comic Nutty, in which schoolboy Eric Wimp becomes a hero by eating a banana.
Beetle Bailey
Beetle Bailey is Mort Walker's American newspaper comic strip, debuting September 4, 1950 via King Features. The lazy private of Camp Swampy, originally a college student, was banned by Stars and Stripes in 1954 and now runs under Walker's sons.
Betty Cooper
Betty Cooper (Elizabeth "Betty" Cooper), Archie Comics' blonde girl-next-door, debuted in Pep Comics #22 (December 1941), vies with Veronica Lodge for Archie Andrews, fronts the Betty (1992-2012) series and the Superteen alter ego, and is played by Lili Reinhart in Riverdale.
Bill Watterson
Bill Watterson (William Boyd Watterson II, born 1958) is the American cartoonist who created Calvin and Hobbes (1985–1995), refused all merchandising licensing, won Reuben Awards in 1986 and 1988 and the 2014 Angoulême Grand Prix, and returned in 2023 with The Mysteries.
Blondie (comic strip)
Blondie, also starring Blondie Boopadoop and Dagwood Bumstead, is an American comic strip created by Chic Young, debuted September 8, 1930, in King Features syndication. The 1933 marriage turned it into the long-running Bumstead family domestic comedy; films, radio, and TV followed.
Bloom County
Bloom County, Berkeley Breathed's Pulitzer-winning American comic strip (December 8, 1980 to August 6, 1989), satirized 1980s politics through Opus the penguin, Bill the Cat, Milo Bloom, and Steve Dallas, later revived on Facebook in 2015.
Bluto
Bluto, also known as Brutus, is the large, bearded, muscle-bound villain created by E.C. Segar in 1932 as 'Bluto the Terrible' in Thimble Theatre, Popeye's rival for Olive Oyl; Fleischer Studios made him the recurring cartoon villain, and a 1957 rights confusion briefly renamed him Brutus.
Buck Rogers
Buck Rogers, also Anthony Rogers, is a science fiction hero created by Philip Francis Nowlan in the 1928 novella Armageddon 2419 A.D., star of the first science fiction comic strip (1929), radio, the 1939 Buster Crabbe serial, and the 1979-1981 NBC series.
Charlie Brown
Charlie Brown: the round-headed, ever-persevering main character of Charles M. Schulz's comic strip Peanuts, first published October 2, 1950. Known for the zigzag shirt, the Little Red-Haired Girl, the pulled-away football, and the Apollo 10 module named after him.
Cheryl Blossom
Cheryl Blossom, also known as Cheryl Marjorie Blossom, is a fictional character from Archie Comics. In the CW series Riverdale, she is a lesbian gothic heroine and the twin sister of Jason Blossom.
Comic strip
Comic strip: a short serial of drawn panels, usually 3-4 daily, syndicated to newspapers since the 1890s Hogan's Alley and Yellow Kid era; oldest survivor the Katzenjammer Kids; newspaper pages declining while the format lives on in webcomics and vertical-scroll comics.
Della Duck
Della Duck, also called Dumbella Duck, is a Disney character created in 1937 by Al Taliaferro and Ted Osborne; Donald Duck's twin sister and mother of Huey, Dewey, and Louie, long comics-only until the 2017 DuckTales reboot.
Dennis the Menace (U.S. comics)
Dennis the Menace (U.S. comics) is Hank Ketcham's syndicated newspaper panel, debuted March 12, 1951, about five-and-a-half-year-old Dennis Mitchell; distinct from the unrelated British Beano character of the same name.
Dennis the Menace and Gnasher
Dennis the Menace and Gnasher (originally Dennis the Menace) is a long-running British comic strip in The Beano, created by David Law, debuting March 1951; the dog Gnasher joined in 1968, distinct from the coincidental American Dennis the Menace.
Dick Tracy
Dick Tracy: American newspaper comic strip about a plainclothes police detective, created by Chester Gould, debuting October 4, 1931 in the Detroit Mirror; known for grotesque villains, forensic detective work, and adaptations in radio, film serials, and the 1990 Warren Beatty movie.
Duck family (Disney)
The Duck family is a fictional family of Disney cartoon ducks related to Donald Duck, centered in comics, with Huey, Dewey, and Louie and Scrooge McDuck.
Eleceed (일렉시드)
Eleceed (일렉시드) is a South Korean action-fantasy webtoon by writer Jeho Son (Noblesse) and artist ZHENA (Girls of the Wild's), serialized on Naver Webtoon/WEBTOON since 2018. It follows Jiwoo Seo and Kayden, an Awakened being trapped in a cat's body; over 1.4 billion views, 10 languages, anime by DandeLion Animation Studio premiering April 2027.
Families of Archie's Gang
Families of Archie's Gang: the parents and siblings of Archie Andrews, Betty Cooper, Veronica Lodge, and Jughead Jones in Archie Comics, including Chic and Polly Cooper and Jellybean Jones, used sparingly in a non-continuity franchise.
Flash Gordon
Flash Gordon is a 1934 Alex Raymond science fiction comic strip for King Features, created to rival Buck Rogers, following Flash, Dale Arden, and Dr. Zarkov against Ming the Merciless on Mongo; famous for its Universal serials and Star Wars influence.
Fritz the Cat
Fritz the Cat (1972) is Ralph Bakshi's adult animated comedy adapted from Robert Crumb's underground comic, the first animated feature rated X by the MPAA, grossing $30 million worldwide by 1973.
Garfield (character)
Garfield, the orange tabby cat of Jim Davis's comic strip, debuted June 19, 1978. Known for lasagna, naps, and hating Mondays; world's most syndicated comic strip with a vast merchandising empire.
Hägar the Horrible
Hägar the Horrible, also rendered Hagar the Horrible or German Hägar der Schreckliche, is Dik Browne's 1973 King Features gag-a-day comic strip about a family-man Viking, continued by sons Chris and Chance Browne and reaching tens of millions of readers worldwide.
Happy Kanako's Killer Life
Happy Kanako's Killer Life (幸せカナコの殺し屋生活, Shiawase Kanako no Koroshiya Seikatsu) is Toshiya Wakabayashi's full-color yonkoma comedy manga about office worker Kanako Nishino, who accidentally joins an assassination agency. Nine volumes since 2019, over 1.2 million copies, Seven Seas English edition, 2025 DMM TV live-action drama, and an April 2027 TV anime.
Hiram Lodge
Hiram Lodge, originally introduced as Burton Lodge, is the wealthy father of Veronica Lodge in Archie Comics, first appearing in Pep Comics #31 (September 1942); later the villainous father in Riverdale, played by Mark Consuelos.
I'm Living with an Otaku NEET Kunoichi!?
I'm Living with an Otaku NEET Kunoichi!? (Nīto Kunoichi to Nazeka Dōsei Hajimemashita) is a 2025 romantic-comedy anime from studio Quad, based on a 2020 web manga by Koryu and Mato Yagito, about salaryman Tsukasa Atsumi living with the kunoichi protector Shizuri Ideura, an otaku NEET gamer; 24 episodes plus 2 OVAs, streamed on HiDIVE.
J. Wellington Wimpy
J. Wellington Wimpy, or Wimpy, is E.C. Segar's 1931 Thimble Theatre (Popeye) character, a mooching hamburger lover famous for "I'll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today," inspired by Chester, Illinois's Windy Bill Schuchert.
Jimoto Saiko!
Jimoto Saiko! (地元最高！), "My Hometown is the Best!", is usagi's web manga on X since 2021, published by Saizusha in 8 volumes; a MAPPA anime for Netflix was announced June 2026, distinct from other works sharing the phrase.