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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.
Sidney Paget
Sidney Paget (Sidney Edward Paget, 1860-1908), British illustrator for The Strand Magazine whose 356 Sherlock Holmes drawings, deerstalker and Inverness cape, defined the detective's iconic image.
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.
Simon Stålenhag
Simon Stålenhag (born 1984) is a Swedish artist and author of the narrative art books Tales from the Loop, Things from the Flood, and The Electric State, self-taught digital paintings of alternate-history Sweden adapted into a 2020 Amazon series and 2025 Netflix film.
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.
Sleepwalker (character)
Sleepwalker is a Marvel Comics superhero created by Bob Budiansky and Bret Blevins, debuting in Sleepwalker #1 (June 1991): an alien Mindscape guardian bonded to Rick Sheridan, starring in a 33-issue 1991–1994 series, distinct from other Marvel characters of the same name.
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
Spider-Man, the Marvel Comics superhero created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko, debuted in Amazing Fantasy #15 (August 1962) as Peter Parker, a Queens teenager with spider powers bound by Uncle Ben's great-responsibility maxim, later joined by Miles Morales and film stars Maguire, Garfield, and Holland.
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.
Spy vs. Spy
Spy vs. Spy is Mad magazine's wordless comic strip, created by Cuban exile cartoonist Antonio Prohias and debuting in Mad #60 (January 1961), pitting the Black Spy against the White Spy; drawn by Peter Kuper since 1997.
Stan Winston
Stan Winston (1946–2008), American makeup, creature, and visual-effects artist, founder of Stan Winston Studio and co-founder of Digital Domain; four Oscar wins for Aliens, Terminator 2, and Jurassic Park.
Stanley Donwood
Stanley Donwood (Dan Rickwood, born 1968) is the English artist and writer behind nearly all Radiohead album artwork since The Bends (1995), working alongside Thom Yorke, his Exeter University collaborator, plus Glastonbury Festival art since 2002, two Grammys, Macfarlane book covers, and the 2025 Ashmolean retrospective.
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.
Steve Ditko
Steve Ditko (1927–2018), American comic book artist and co-creator with Stan Lee of Marvel's Spider-Man and Doctor Strange; also created Mr A, The Question, the Creeper, Hawk and Dove, and Shade; famously reclusive, no interviews after 1968; his estate settled a 2023 Marvel copyright suit.
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.
Storyboard
Storyboard: a sequence of illustrated panels planning a film's shots before production, showing framing, composition, and camera movement. Developed at Walt Disney Productions in the early 1930s (Webb Smith); distinct from the shot list (text) and animatic (timed).
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.
Syd Mead
Syd Mead (1933–2019), American industrial designer and 'visual futurist' who coined the credit on Blade Runner; Art Center graduate, U.S. Steel illustrator, and concept artist for Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Tron, Aliens, and Blade Runner 2049.
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.
Tattoo
Tattoo: permanent ink deposited 1.5-2 mm into the dermis by needles puncturing the skin about 100 times per second; from Tahitian tattau; oldest example Otzi (5,300 years). Temporary forms include decals, henna, jagua.
Team Fortress Comics
Team Fortress Comics are Valve's official webcomics for Team Fortress 2: update comics from 2009 and a seven-issue main series (2013-2024) written mainly by Jay Pinkerton, set in alternate 1972 around Mann Co. and its stolen Australium.