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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).
Gibson Girl
The Gibson Girl was an idealized female figure created by Charles Dana Gibson in the 1890s. She became the dominant visual standard of feminine beauty until 1913.
Gil Kane
Gil Kane (Eli Katz, 1926–2000), Latvian-born American comic book artist of the Silver Age; co-created DC's Green Lantern and the Atom, Marvel's Morbius, Iron Fist, and Adam Warlock, and the early graphic novel Blackmark.
Glen Keane
Glen Keane (born 1954), American animator and Disney Legend; son of Family Circus creator Bil Keane. Animated Ariel, Beast, Aladdin, Pocahontas, Tarzan, Rapunzel; won the 2018 Oscar for Dear Basketball with Kobe Bryant.
Glenn McQueen
Glenn John McQueen (1960–2002), Toronto-born Pixar supervising animator behind Woody and Boo, helped shape early CG character animation; Finding Nemo was dedicated to him and Lightning McQueen of Cars was named in his honor.
Go Nagai (永井豪)
Go Nagai (永井豪), born 1945 in Wajima, Ishikawa, is a Japanese manga artist, real name Kiyoshi, who debuted in 1967 after assisting Ishinomori. Harenchi Gakuen, Devilman, and Mazinger Z made him a pioneer of erotic, violent, and piloted-robot manga and of the media mix.
Golden Age of American Illustration
The Golden Age of American Illustration, roughly 1880 to 1930, was the period when reproduced images in magazines and books became America's most widely encountered art.
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.
Grace Gifford
Grace Gifford (Grace Evelyn Gifford Plunkett, 1888-1955) was an Irish cartoonist and republican who married 1916 Easter Rising leader Joseph Plunkett in Kilmainham jail hours before his execution. Known for caricatures, suffrage and Sinn Féin artwork, and the Kilmainham Madonna mural.
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.
Gudetama (ぐでたま)
Gudetama (ぐでたま), also GUDETAMA, is Sanrio's lazy egg character created by designer Amy, debuting in 2013 from the Tabekara Sosenkyo food contest; known for 'darii~' catchphrases, birthday 'every day', a 2022 Netflix series, and stronger overseas rankings than in Japan.
Gustave Doré
Gustave Doré, full name Paul Gustave Louis Christophe Doré, was a French illustrator, painter, and sculptor (1832–1883), famed for illustrated editions of Dante, Cervantes, and Milton.
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.
Halo (DC Comics)
Halo (Gabrielle Doe, originally Violet Harper merged with the alien Aurakle) is a DC Comics photokinetic superhero and original Outsiders member, created by Mike W. Barr and Jim Aparo in The Brave and the Bold #200 (July 1983), later adapted as Gabrielle Daou in Young Justice: Outsiders.
Hammerhead (character)
Hammerhead (Joseph) is a Marvel Comics Spider-Man villain, a Maggia crime boss created by Gerry Conway and John Romita, debuting in Amazing Spider-Man #113 (1972) with a steel-reinforced skull and 1920s mobster persona.
Hank Ketcham
Hank Ketcham (Henry King Ketcham, 1920–2001), American cartoonist, Seattle-born, creator of the Dennis the Menace daily panel (debut 1951), former Disney animator, Reuben Award winner, retired 1994.
Harrow County
Harrow County is a 32-issue southern gothic folk horror comic by Cullen Bunn and Tyler Crook, published by Dark Horse from 2015 to 2018, about Emmy, possibly the reincarnation of the witch Hester Beck, with watercolor art, an Eisner nomination, a Syfy option, and Tales from Harrow County sequels.
Harry Clarke
Harry Clarke (Henry Patrick Clarke, 1889–1931) was an Irish stained-glass artist and book illustrator who made about 55 stained-glass commissions and illustrated Poe and Andersen.
Heathcliff (comic strip)
Heathcliff is a single-panel newspaper comic strip created by George Gately, debuting September 3, 1973, about a silent, mischievous orange tabby who torments dogs and raids fish markets; distinguished from Garfield by its silent single-panel format and its succession to Peter Gallagher in 1998.
Héctor Germán Oesterheld
Héctor Germón Oesterheld (1919–disappeared 1977) was an Argentine comic-book scriptwriter who created El Eternauta, founded Editorial Frontera, and was disappeared by the military dictatorship in 1977.
Hello Kitty (ハローキティ)
Hello Kitty (ハローキティ), full name Kitty White, is Sanrio's mouthless white character with a red bow, designed by Yuko Shimizu in 1974; a global kawaii licensing icon, 50th anniversary 2024, ranked 5th in the 2025 Sanrio poll.
Hentai
Hentai (変態, "pervert") is the English umbrella term for sexually explicit Japanese anime, manga, games, and doujinshi; in Japan the genre is called ero-manga or seijin-muke. Covers etymology, history from shunga to the 1980s lolicon boom, and regulation.
Hergé
Hergé (Georges Remi, 1907–1983), Belgian cartoonist, pen name from reversed initials R.G., creator of The Adventures of Tintin (debut 1929), pioneer of the ligne claire style, 23 albums, 150 million copies sold.
Heroes Reborn (1996 comic)
Heroes Reborn (ヒーローズ・リボーン) was Marvel's 1996 event outsourcing Avengers, Captain America, Fantastic Four, and Iron Man to Jim Lee's WildStorm and Rob Liefeld's Extreme Studios, rebooting all four at #1 for a 13-issue run inside Franklin Richards's pocket universe.
Hiro Mashima (真島ヒロ)
Hiro Mashima (真島ヒロ, Mashima Hiro), born 1977 in Nagano, is a Japanese manga artist behind RAVE, FAIRY TAIL, and EDENS ZERO in Weekly Shonen Magazine, a 2009 Kodansha Manga Award winner known for fast, hiatus-free serialization.
Hirohiko Araki (荒木飛呂彦)
Hirohiko Araki (荒木飛呂彦), legal name Araki Toshiyuki, born 1960 in Sendai, is the manga artist behind JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (since 1986, 120 million copies, nine parts) and the first living manga artist with a solo show at a Japanese national museum.
Hiromu Arakawa (荒川弘)
Hiromu Arakawa (荒川弘), pen name of Hiromi Arakawa, Japanese manga artist born 1973 in Tokachi, Hokkaido; creator of Fullmetal Alchemist, Silver Spoon, Hyakushō Kizoku, and Yomi no Tsugai.
Hitman (DC Comics)
Hitman (DC Comics) is a Garth Ennis and John McCrea comic series (1996-2001) about Tommy Monaghan, a telepathic contract killer in Gotham's Cauldron, spun off from DC's 1993 Bloodlines event.
House of Mystery
House of Mystery is a DC Comics horror and mystery anthology (1951-1983, 321 issues), later a Vertigo series (2008-2011) about five people trapped in a supernatural bar, hosted in its horror era by Cain the Caretaker.