Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Encouraged by his family to study the violin, Youngman began in show business as a musician. He led a small jazz band called the Swanee Syncopaters, and during performances, he often told jokes. One night, the club's regular comedian did not show up and the owner asked Youngman to fill in. He enjoyed it and began his long career as a comic.
NANCY (36A: Character in some Olivia Jaimes comics) The comic strip NANCY was first published in 1938, based on a character that first appeared in a comic called Fritzi Ritz. Ernie Bushmiller drew ...
IAN (24A: "X-Men" actor McKellen) The X-Men are a team of superheroes appearing in Marvel comic books, TV shows, films, and video games. X-Men are humans born with the X-gene, a genetic mutation ...
A crossword (or crossword puzzle) is a word game consisting of a grid of black and white squares, into which solvers enter words or phrases ("entries") crossing each other horizontally ("across") and vertically ("down") according to a set of clues. Each white square is typically filled with one letter, while the black squares are used to ...
A comic book, also known as a comic or floppy, is a periodical, normally thin in size and stapled together. [41] Comic books have a greater variety of units of encapsulation than comic strips, including the panel, the page, the spread, and inset panels. They are also capable of more sophisticated layouts and compositions. [40]
Simon Brint (born 1950), comic and composer of themes for numerous TV programmes; Doc Brown (born 1980) Alex Horne (born 1978) Adam Buxton (born 1969), radio host and television/sketch comedy personality; Jasper Carrott (born 1945) Edwyn Collins (born 1959), writer and performer on Channel 4's West Heath House and West Heath Yard; Billy ...
Yorick Brown is the last man on Earth. As such, he often has to travel in disguise to avoid drawing attention from groups like the Daughters of the Amazon.One possible reason he survived the plague is because he owned the monkey Ampersand, and handling Ampersand's feces in cleaning him up gave him Ampersand's resistance to the plague.
Carol Susan Jane Danvers is a character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.Created by writer Roy Thomas and artist Gene Colan, the character first appeared as an officer in the United States Air Force and a colleague of the Kree superhero Mar-Vell in Marvel Super-Heroes #13 (March 1968).