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Jon Arbuckle
Jon Arbuckle is the fictional cartoonist owner of Garfield and Odie in Jim Davis's strip, originally the star of the 1976 prototype comic Jon before Garfield took over, later coupled with Liz Wilson.
Jughead Jones
Jughead Jones (Forsythe Pendleton Jones III), Archie Comics character debuting in Pep Comics #22 (December 1941); Archie's hungry, lazy, dating-averse best friend with a whoopee cap, asexual in the 2015 reboot and played by Cole Sprouse in Riverdale.
Krang
Krang is the brain-like alien warlord villain created by David Wise for the 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon, voiced by Pat Fraley, inspired by the comics' Utroms, riding in Shredder-built android bodies, later reimagined as IDW's General Krang and the Kraang.
Krazy Kat
Krazy Kat, George Herriman's American comic strip (1913–1944) in Hearst's New York Evening Journal: Ignatz Mouse throws bricks at the gender-ambiguous cat Krazy, who reads them as love messages; The Comics Journal ranked it the 20th century's best strip.
Li'l Abner
Li'l Abner, Al Capp's satirical American comic strip (1934–1977), set in Dogpatch, featuring Abner Yokum, Daisy Mae, Sadie Hawkins Day, and the Shmoo, adapted to Broadway and film.
Life in Hell
Life in Hell is Matt Groening's weekly black-and-white comic strip (1977-2012, 1,669 installments) featuring rabbits Binky, Sheba, and Bongo plus the gay couple Akbar and Jeff; declining to sell it to Fox, Groening created The Simpsons instead.
List of Peanuts characters
Characters of Peanuts, Charles M. Schulz's comic strip (1950-2000): Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Lucy, Linus, Franklin (first Black character, 1968), Marcie, Pig-Pen, and unseen figures like the Little Red-Haired Girl, with debut dates and cast evolution.
Little Orphan Annie
Little Orphan Annie, Harold Gray's American comic strip debuting August 5, 1924 in the New York Daily News, ran 86 years to 2010; also known simply as Annie, it spawned a radio serial, the 1977 Broadway musical, and films.
Little Red-Haired Girl
Little Red-Haired Girl: unseen Peanuts character, Charlie Brown's unrequited love, first mentioned November 19, 1961, never named in the strip; inspired by Donna Mae Wold; named Heather in 1977 TV specials.
Mandrake the Magician
Mandrake the Magician: Lee Falk's American adventure comic strip, first published by King Features on June 11, 1934, about a stage magician with real hypnotic powers, often called comics' first superhero; drawn by Phil Davis, later Fred Fredericks.
Marmaduke
Marmaduke is an American newspaper comic panel and Sunday strip about a huge Great Dane and the Winslow family, first published November 15, 1954, drawn by Brad Anderson with gag writer Phil Leeming, and still syndicated today.
Mutt and Jeff
Mutt and Jeff, also known as A. Mutt, is Bud Fisher's American comic strip begun November 15, 1907 in the San Francisco Chronicle, generally credited as the first successful daily comic strip, starring tall gambler Mutt and short Jeff, running until 1982 or 1983.
No Home (집이 없어)
No Home (집이 없어, also Homeless) is a completed Korean webtoon by Wanan, serialized on Naver Webtoon from December 31, 2018 in 270 episodes, about homeless teens Go Hae-jun and Baek Eun-young sharing an abandoned school dormitory; adapted into a 2024 Studio LICO animation, with no official English edition.
Oglaf
Oglaf is an Australian NSFW sex-comedy webcomic by Trudy Cooper and Doug Bayne, running weekly at oglaf.com since 2008, parodying fantasy tropes with recurring characters such as Ivan, Mistress, and the cumsprites.
Olive Oyl
Olive Oyl is a comic-strip character created by Elzie Crisler Segar for Thimble Theatre, debuting December 19, 1919, nearly ten years before Popeye; originally Ham Gravy's girlfriend, she became Popeye's sweetheart, star of Fleischer and Famous Studios cartoons voiced by Mae Questel and others, played by Shelley Duvall in 1980, and public domain in her original form in the United States.
Onepiece (single volume)
One Piece Volume 1, Romance Dawn (冒険の夜明け), is the first tankōbon of Eiichiro Oda's One Piece: Shueisha, December 24, 1997, chapters 1–8, introducing Luffy, Shanks, Koby, Zoro, and Nami; Viz's English edition appeared September 2, 2003.
Peanuts
Peanuts, Charles M. Schulz's American comic strip (debut October 2, 1950, as a renamed Li'l Folks), follows Charlie Brown, Snoopy, and friends; over 18,000 strips, 2,600-plus newspapers, 75 countries, Sony holds 80%.
Pig-Pen
Pig-Pen (also Pigpen) is the perpetually dirty Peanuts boy created by Charles M. Schulz, first appearing July 13, 1954, enveloped in a permanent dust cloud, appearing in about 100 of 17,897 strips, last seen in 1999.
Popeye
Popeye the Sailor Man, created by E.C. Segar, debuted in the Thimble Theatre comic strip on January 17, 1929; a spinach-powered sailor who starred in Fleischer cartoons from 1933 and entered US public domain in 2025.
Prince Valiant
Prince Valiant is Hal Foster's Sunday-only King Features adventure comic strip, debuting February 13, 1937, about an exiled prince of Thule who becomes a knight of King Arthur's Round Table, told in captions without word balloons.
Pugsley Addams
Pugsley Addams, originally to be named Pubert, is the son of Gomez and Morticia in Charles Addams's Addams Family cartoons from 1938; named for the 1964 ABC series, played by Ken Weatherwax, later by Workman, Wolfhard, and Ordonez.
Pusheen
Pusheen (プシーン) is a chubby gray tabby cat character created in 2010 by Claire Belton and Andrew Duff in the webcomic Everyday Cute; famous for Facebook stickers (14 million daily sends) and licensed merchandise in over 60 countries.
Questionable Content
Questionable Content is a slice-of-life/sci-fi webcomic by Jeph Jacques, running since August 1, 2003, set in alternate-present Northampton, Massachusetts, following Marten, Faye, and robots like Pintsize and Bubbles.
Reggie Mantle
Reggie Mantle (Reginald Mantle), Archie Comics prankster-rival of Archie Andrews, debuting in Jackpot Comics #5 (Spring 1942); known for vanity, schemes against Archie and Moose, Evilheart alter ego, The Archies membership, and TV adaptations.
Return of the Blossoming Blade (화산귀환)
Return of the Blossoming Blade (화산귀환, Return of the Mount Hua Sect) is Biga's 2019 Naver Series murim web novel and its hit Naver Webtoon adaptation by LICO and ARCHE, following Cheongmyeong's rebirth to rebuild the Mount Hua Sect.
Robert Ripley
Robert Ripley (LeRoy Robert Ripley, 1890 or 1893–1949), American cartoonist from Santa Rosa, California, created Believe It or Not! in 1918; the odd-facts panel reached 300+ papers, spawned radio, books, and Odditoriums.
Sabrina Spellman
Sabrina Spellman, also Sabrina the Teenage Witch, is an Archie Comics fictional teenage half-witch created by George Gladir and Dan DeCarlo, debuting in Archie's Mad House #22 (1962), later adapted into sitcom and Netflix series.
Sabrina the Teenage Witch
Sabrina the Teenage Witch (Sabrina Spellman) is an Archie Comics half-witch created by George Gladir and Dan DeCarlo, debuting in Archie's Madhouse #22 (1962), later spanning animated series, the 1996 Melissa Joan Hart sitcom, Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, and a 2026 Oni Press ongoing comic.
Salem Saberhagen
Salem Saberhagen is the talking black cat familiar of Sabrina Spellman in Archie Comics and Sabrina the Teenage Witch. A warlock sentenced to 100 years as a cat for world domination; created by George Gladir and Dan DeCarlo, voiced by Nick Bakay.
Shmoo
Shmoo (plural shmoon), fictional gourd-shaped creature created by Al Capp, introduced in Li'l Abner on August 31, 1948; provides all human needs, sparked the 1948–1952 Shmoo Craze, and became an economics allegory.