Encyclopedia of Comic Books and Graphic Novels

BYRNE, JOHN 77 a time-displaced team and featuring art by Arrowsmith ’s Carlos Pacheco. During this period, he also wrote I r o ...

78 BYRNE, JOHN cover of Time magazine when the venerable news weekly honored the milestone. Byrne would continue to refashion co ...

C CAGES. Cages, originally serialized between 1990 and 1996, and collected into a single volume in 1998, is an unusually dense a ...

80 CAGES Cages runs to nearly 500 pages, and is McKean’s longest solo work to date. Th e book off ers an extended rumination on ...

CAMPBELL, EDDIE 81 always stack the deck in their favor. Th is landmark solo project off ers a procession of memorable and somet ...

82 CAPTAIN AMERICA being interviewed about his disappearance which, when juxtaposed with his trademark scratchy pen-and-ink draw ...

CAPTAIN AMERICA 83 an unstated idea that he would not fi ght “dirty” like the enemies of America. Th e Captain America concept w ...

84 CAPTAIN MARVEL In the 1990s, Cap took on a diff erent attitude and physical appearance. He became almost grotesque in stature ...

CAPTAIN MARVEL 85 to do is speak the Wizard’s name, Shazam, which is an acronym for six biblical and mythological char- acters: ...

86 CASPER THE FRIENDLY GHOST Marvel, Uncle Dudley Marvel (a loveable con man without powers based on comedian W. C. Fields), Mr. ...

CASTLE WAITING 87 school-age girl; and Richie Rich, the poor little rich boy. Casper had a relatively simple backstory, as the g ...

88 CASTLE WAITING stand-alone title to test the market (Guilbert). Th e Curse of Brambly Hedge heralds the individual issues of ...

CATWOMAN 89 the new story arc. Th ey have published 15 issues to date, all written and illustrated by Medley and lettered by Kle ...

90 CATWOMAN intention was to devise a villainess with great sex appeal who could be a romantic interest for Batman. Originally a ...

CATWOMAN 91 as a formidable fi ghter with expertise in various martial arts. Unlike many of the more psychotic criminals of Goth ...

92 CEREBUS THE AARDVARK charged era. Former Miss America Lee Meriwether portrayed Catwoman in the motion picture spin-off of the ...

CEREBUS THE AARDVARK 93 who is depicted in a style reminiscent of Groucho Marx in the fi lm Duck Soup. Another of Sim’s recurrin ...

94 CHARLTON COMICS composed the essay “ Tangents,” a multi-part discourse on his thoughts about women, to be published in the ba ...

CHAYKIN, HOWARD 95 Comics did have in the 1970s came from its mild horror comics and licensed material such as Flash Gordon, and ...

96 CITY OF GLASS living dead, and Black Kiss (Vortex 1988), a gleefully depraved tale of sex, horror, and Hollywood. Th e 1980s ...