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Shōnen manga (少年漫画)
Shōnen manga (少年漫画), also shonen or shounen manga, is manga published in magazines for boys and teenage males, a demographic category rather than a genre. Key facts: highest-selling manga category; Manga Shōnen founded 1947; Weekly Shonen Jump peaked at 6.5 million copies weekly in the 1990s.
Shotaro Kaneda (金田正太郎)
Shotaro Kaneda (金田正太郎) is the protagonist of Katsuhiro Otomo's AKIRA manga and 1988 film: a teenage biker-gang leader in Neo-Tokyo, friend turned enemy of Tetsuo, named after Tetsujin 28-go's hero and famous for his red motorcycle.
Shungiku Uchida
Shungiku Uchida (内田春菊) is a Japanese manga artist, novelist, essayist, and actress born in 1959 in Nagasaki Prefecture, known for Minami-kun no Koibito and the autobiographical novel Fatherfucker.
Sickos
Sickos, or Sickos Haha Yes, is an internet meme of a bearded man in a black "Sickos" shirt laughing through a window, drawn by Ward Sutton as Onion cartoonist Stan Kelly, from the 2015 comic Painful Procedural, used for schadenfreude and sports fandom.
Silk Spectre
Silk Spectre, two Watchmen characters by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons: Sally Jupiter, original Minutemen-era heroine, and her daughter Laurie Juspeczyk, Doctor Manhattan's partner, inspired by Black Canary, Nightshade, and Phantom Lady.
Skaar (character)
Skaar (character): Marvel Comics son of the Hulk and Caiera the Oldstrong, created by Greg Pak and John Romita Jr., debuting in World War Hulk #5 (2008). Wields gamma powers and Sakaar's Old Power; adapted in Agents of S.M.A.S.H. and She-Hulk (2022, Wil Deusner).
Slave Labor Graphics
Slave Labor Graphics (SLG), founded by Dan Vado in San Jose in 1986, is an independent comics publisher known for Johnny the Homicidal Maniac, Lenore, and Milk and Cheese, its Amaze Ink imprint, and its 2011 digital-first conversion.
Spider-Boy
Spider-Boy is a Marvel Comics name shared by Bailey Briggs, Dan Slott's 2023 retconned child sidekick of Spider-Man with extra eyes and spider speech, and Peter Ross, the 1996 Amalgam Spider-Man/Superboy hybrid.
Spider-Man: Life Story
Spider-Man: Life Story is a six-issue Marvel Comics miniseries from 2019, by writer Chip Zdarsky and artist Mark Bagley, imagining Peter Parker aging in real time since his 1962 debut.
Spirou (magazine)
Spirou (Le Journal de Spirou) is a weekly Franco-Belgian comics magazine published by Dupuis at Marcinelle since 21 April 1938; creator Rob-Vel's bellboy Spirou, the Amis de Spirou club, and series like Lucky Luke, Gaston, and the Smurfs define it.
Stephanie Phillips
Stephanie Phillips (Stephanie Nicole Phillips), American comic book writer active since 2019, known for DC's Harley Quinn, Wonder Woman: Evolution, Grim at BOOM!, Marvel's Phoenix and the 2026 Daredevil run with Lee Garbett; holds a PhD in rhetoric and composition.
Stephen Wacker
Stephen Wacker (b. 1970, St. Louis), also Steve Wacker, American comics editor: DC's 52, Marvel senior editor for Brand New Day, Superior Spider-Man, Ms. Marvel, later Marvel animation, 3W3M, Stone Kite, and Marvel Editor-in-Chief.
Steve Canyon
Steve Canyon: American adventure newspaper comic strip by Milton Caniff (1947–1988), creator-owned successor to Terry and the Pirates, about an Air Force aviator; reached ~400 papers, 30 million readers, and a 1958 TV series.
StoneToss
StoneToss is a pseudonymous four-panel webcomic launched July 18, 2017 at stonetoss.com, presenting itself as comedy about current events and internet culture while critics, researchers, and the Counter Extremism Project describe it as promoting alt-right, xenophobic, anti-Semitic, and white nationalist ideas; the artist was identified as Hans Kristian Graebener in 2024.
Sunstone (comics)
Sunstone is an erotic romantic comedy comic by Croatian artist Stjepan Šejić, begun as a DeviantArt webcomic in 2011 and published in print by Image Comics/Top Cow from December 2014, following the BDSM romance of Ally and Lisa.
Super-Sons
Super-Sons is a DC Comics name for two pairings: the 1970s imaginary-story sons of Superman and Batman (Clark Kent, Jr. and Bruce Wayne, Jr. of Earth-216) by Bob Haney and Dick Dillin, and the 2017 Super Sons series teaming Jon Kent and Damian Wayne.
SuperMutant Magic Academy
SuperMutant Magic Academy is Jillian Tamaki's webcomic (started 2010 on Tumblr) and 2015 Drawn & Quarterly collection about mutant and witch teens at a prep school, centered on Marsha's crush on fox-girl Wendy; Ignatz 2011–2012 and Eisner 2016 winner, with an Adult Swim adaptation in development.
Suske en Wiske
Suske en Wiske (Bob & Bobette, Spike & Suzy) is a Belgian comic series by Willy Vandersteen running since 1945, starring two children, Aunt Sidonia, Lambik, Jerom and Professor Barabas.
Takehiko Inoue (井上雄彦)
Takehiko Inoue (井上雄彦), born 1967 in Kagoshima, is the Japanese manga artist of SLAM DUNK (over 100 million copies), Vagabond, and Real, founder of the Slam Dunk Scholarship, and director of the 2022 film THE FIRST SLAM DUNK.
Takeshi Obata (小畑 健)
Takeshi Obata (小畑 健), born 1969 in Niigata as Shigeru Hijikata, is a Japanese manga artist who draws in collaboration with writers: Hikaru no Go with Yumi Hotta, and Death Note, Bakuman., and Platinum End with Tsugumi Ohba.
Tales to Astonish
Tales to Astonish was a Marvel Comics anthology series running 101 issues from 1959 to 1968, beginning as a monster anthology and ending as a Hulk and Sub-Mariner split book.
Terra (character)
Terra is a DC Comics character, the code name of Tara Markov, a geokinetic teenager created by Marv Wolfman and George Pérez, first appearing in New Teen Titans in 1982.
Thanos
Thanos, the Mad Titan, is a Marvel Comics supervillain created by Jim Starlin, first appearing in Iron Man #55 (1973). Known for the Infinity Gauntlet saga, his love of Death, and as the MCU antagonist played by Josh Brolin.
The Adventures of Tintin
The Adventures of Tintin (Les Aventures de Tintin): 24-album Belgian comic series by Hergé, debuting 10 January 1929 in Le Petit Vingtième; ligne claire style, over 150 million copies, unfinished Alph-Art.
The Brave and the Bold
The Brave and the Bold is a DC Comics anthology and team-up title (1955-1983, 200 issues), famous for debuting the Justice League and Suicide Squad and for its Batman team-up era; later revivals, a 2023 anthology, and a planned DCU film share the name.
The Dark Knight Strikes Again
The Dark Knight Strikes Again (DK2) is Frank Miller's 2001-2002 three-issue DC miniseries sequel to The Dark Knight Returns, with Lynn Varley colors, set three years later as Batman fights Lex Luthor and Brainiac's police state.
The Death of Captain Marvel
The Death of Captain Marvel, Marvel Graphic Novel #1 (1982) by Jim Starlin, Steve Oliff, and Jim Novak, is the story in which the Kree hero Mar-Vell, the original Captain Marvel, dies permanently of cancer caused by the villain Nitro's nerve toxin.
The Golden Age (comics)
The Golden Age (later JSA: The Golden Age) is a four-issue 1993–1994 DC Elseworlds miniseries by James Robinson and Paul Smith depicting the postwar Justice Society facing McCarthyism and a hidden conspiracy.
The Gumps
The Gumps was an American comic strip by Sidney Smith, running in the Chicago Tribune from February 12, 1917 to October 17, 1959. Pioneering continuity storytelling with Andy, Min, and Uncle Bim, it drove Tribune syndication, earned Smith a $1 million contract, and became the first comic strip adapted to radio in 1931.
The Infinity Crusade
The Infinity Crusade is a six-issue Marvel Comics limited series published in 1993 and 1994, written by Jim Starlin with art by Ron Lim, third of Marvel's 1990s cosmic trilogy.