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Doonesbury
Doonesbury, Garry Trudeau's political comic strip (from Bull Tales), debuted October 26, 1970 in 28 newspapers via Universal Press Syndicate; first comic strip to win the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning (1975), Sunday-only since 2014.
E. C. Segar
E. C. Segar (Elzie Crisler Segar, 1894–1938), American cartoonist from Chester, Illinois, creator of the comic strip Thimble Theatre (1919) and the sailor Popeye (1929), whose spinach-loving character drove a 33% US spinach-consumption rise.
Ed Brubaker
Ed Brubaker (born 1966, Bethesda, Maryland), American comic writer of crime/noir comics; co-creator of the Winter Soldier with Sean Phillips; created Criminal, Fatale, Pulp, and The Fade Out.
Edgar P. Jacobs
Edgar P. Jacobs (Edgard Félix Pierre Jacobs, 1904–1987), Belgian comic author and former opera singer, creator of Blake and Mortimer; worked with Hergé recoloring Tintin albums before launching Le Secret de l'Espadon in Tintin in 1946.
Emilia Harcourt
Emilia Harcourt, DC Comics intelligence agent introduced in Suicide Squad (2016) #2, an NSA/ARGUS operative monitoring Task Force X; on screen played by Jennifer Holland in The Suicide Squad and Peacemaker.
Ernie Bushmiller
Ernie Bushmiller (1905–1982), American cartoonist who created the comic strip Nancy, taking over Fritzi Ritz in 1925 at age 19 and building each gag backward from the final 'snapper' panel.
Evan Dorkin
Evan Dorkin (born 1965), American cartoonist and writer, creator of Milk & Cheese, Dork, The Eltingville Club, and co-creator of Beasts of Burden; Eisner and Harvey Award winner, animation writer with Sarah Dyer, subject of the 2026 Nerd Inferno omnibus.
Everything for Demon King Evelogia
Everything for Demon King Evelogia (Maō Iburogia ni Mi wo Sasageyo) is a Japanese Boys' Love isekai manga by Io Kajiwara, adapted into a nine-episode anime in 2021.
Excalibur (comics)
Excalibur is a Marvel Comics superhero team and comic book series launched in 1988 by Chris Claremont and Alan Davis, uniting X-Men characters Kitty Pryde, Rachel Summers, and Nightcrawler with Captain Britain and Meggan in a UK-based team, with later volumes in 2001, 2004, and 2019.
Exiles (Marvel Comics)
Exiles is a Marvel Comics series about a multiverse-hopping team of alternate-reality heroes, launched in 2001 by Judd Winick and Mike McKone, led by Blink, with revivals in 2009, 2018, 2022, and 2025.
Female Furies
Female Furies: DC Comics team of elite women warriors of Apokolips, created by Jack Kirby, first appearing in Mister Miracle #6 (1971); trained by Granny Goodness, serving Darkseid; members include Big Barda, Lashina, Bernadeth; subject of a 2019 six-issue miniseries by Cecil Castellucci and Adriana Melo.
Firestorm (character)
Firestorm (Ronnie Raymond and Martin Stein) is a DC Comics superhero, the fused "Nuclear Man" of the Firestorm Matrix, debuting in Firestorm: The Nuclear Man #1 (1978) by Gerry Conway and Al Milgrom, with transmutation powers and a 2026 Lemire series.
Flag-Smasher
Flag-Smasher: Marvel Comics anti-nationalist terrorist created by Mark Gruenwald and Paul Neary, first appearing in Captain America #312 (December 1985) as Karl Morgenthau; later Guy Thierrault; adapted as Karli Morgenthau's Flag Smashers in The Falcon and the Winter Soldier.
Flash Thompson
Flash Thompson (Eugene Thompson) is a Marvel Comics character, Spider-Man's high school bully and biggest fan, later a legless war veteran who becomes Agent Venom and Agent Anti-Venom, debuting in Amazing Fantasy #15 (1962).
Forever People
The Forever People are a DC Comics superhero team of five young New Gods created by Jack Kirby, debuting in The Forever People #1 (1971) as part of the Fourth World saga; touching their Mother Box summons the Infinity Man.
Frank Quitely
Frank Quitely, also known as Vincent Deighan, is a Scottish comic book artist born in 1968. He is known for his work on All-Star Superman and The Invisibles.
Freedom Force (comics)
Freedom Force (Marvel Comics) is a 1985 government-sponsored mutant team formed when Mystique's Brotherhood of Evil Mutants took a federal pardon, battled the X-Men, and preceded the federal X-Factor.
Funky Winkerbean
Funky Winkerbean, also known as Funky, was Tom Batiuk's newspaper comic strip about Westview High School, running March 27, 1972 to December 31, 2022, famous for its 1992 time jump and the Lisa Moore breast-cancer storyline that made Batiuk a 2008 Pulitzer finalist.
Fury (DC Comics)
Fury (DC Comics) is a codename shared by three DC superheroes: Helena Kosmatos, the Golden Age Fury; her daughter Lyta Trevor of Infinity, Inc.; and a New 52 Earth 2 character. Lyta, originally Wonder Woman's daughter, is the mother of Daniel Hall in The Sandman.
Garfield
Garfield is Jim Davis's comic strip about a lazy, lasagna-loving orange cat, debuted June 19, 1978 in 41 newspapers; Guinness record holder for widest syndication, run through Paws, Inc., acquired by Viacom in 2019.
Garry Trudeau
Garry Trudeau, American cartoonist and creator of the comic strip Doonesbury (launched 26 October 1970), first comic strip artist to win the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning (1975); also created Alpha House.
Gene Colan
Gene Colan (1926-2011), American comic book artist of Marvel's Silver Age known for Daredevil, Tomb of Dracula, and Howard the Duck; co-created Falcon and Blade; painterly pencil style.
General Zod
General Zod (Dru-Zod) is a DC Comics supervillain, Kryptonian military leader and Superman enemy, first appearing in Adventure Comics #283 (1961); banished to the Phantom Zone, famous for Terence Stamp's "Kneel before Zod" and Michael Shannon's Man of Steel portrayal.
Genosha
Genosha is a fictional island nation in Marvel's X-Men comics, created by Chris Claremont and Rick Leonardi in Uncanny X-Men #235 (1988) as an apartheid allegory where mutants were enslaved, later Magneto's mutant haven, destroyed by Sentinels in New X-Men.
Geoff Johns
Geoff Johns, born 1973 in Detroit, American comic book writer and producer behind Green Lantern: Rebirth, Blackest Night, 52, Stargirl, and DC Entertainment leadership; since 2023 co-founder of the creator-owned publisher Ghost Machine.
Giant-Man
Giant-Man is a Marvel Comics superhero identity, first the size-growing alias of Hank Pym (debut Tales to Astonish #49, November 1963, by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby), later held by Bill Foster from Marvel Two-in-One #55 (1979).
Gotham City
Gotham City, the fictional DC Comics metropolis and home of Batman, first named in Batman #4 (winter 1940/41) by Bill Finger, given a 1635 founding myth in Swamp Thing #53, mapped by Eliot Brown in 1999, and read as a dark counterpart to Metropolis.
Grace Choi
Grace Choi is a DC Comics superhero created by Judd Winick and Tom Raney, debuting in Outsiders vol. 3 #1 (2003); a bisexual half-Bana-Mighdall Amazon with super strength, partner of Thunder/Anissa Pierce, and adapted on The CW's Black Lightning.
Grandmaster (Marvel Comics)
Grandmaster (En Dwi Gast), Marvel Comics Elder of the Universe created by Roy Thomas and Sal Buscema, debuting in Avengers #69 (1969); a game-obsessed immortal, brother of the Collector, played by Jeff Goldblum in Thor: Ragnarok.
Hallows' Eve (Marvel Comics)
Hallows' Eve (Hallow's Eve), Marvel Comics Spider-Man character, real name Elizabeth Tyne/Janine Godbe, created by DeMatteis and Romita Jr. in 1995; became a mask-powered Dark Web villain in Amazing Spider-Man #14 (2022) and headlined a 2023 series by Erica Schultz.