Curated playlist
Comics adapted into video games
- The Addams FamilyThe Addams Family appears in a Christmas cartoon from 1946 in which the household greets a group of carolers by pouring boiling oil on them. Charles Addams drew the scene, and readers liked it enough that it was later sold on Christmas…
- PopeyePopeye the Sailor Man began as a hired hand who was supposed to leave the story. In 1938, the newspaper strip that carried him ran in 500 newspapers. Over 600 licensed Popeye products were on sale, and his creator, Elzie Crisler Segar, was…
- Judge DreddJudge Joseph Dredd carries the whole legal system on his belt. On the streets of the future city of Mega-City One, this street judge can arrest a suspect, convict them, pass sentence and carry it out on the spot. Writer John Wagner and…
- GarfieldAs of 2013, the comic strip Garfield ran in roughly 2,580 newspapers and journals. That reach earned it a Guinness World Record as the world's most widely syndicated comic strip. American cartoonist Jim Davis created it, and it grew into a…
- Hägar the HorribleThe Viking in Hägar the Horrible pillages Paris, then can't make his stolen palace plumbing work at home.
- Scott PilgrimScott Pilgrim began as a line in a song. Bryan Lee O'Malley, the Canadian cartoonist behind the series, heard a 1998 single by the band Plumtree. It was called "Scott Pilgrim." One lyric caught him: "I've liked you for a thousand years."…
- The Adventures of TintinThe Adventures of Tintin first reached readers on the 10th of January 1929, in the youth supplement of a Belgian newspaper. Its creator was the cartoonist Hergé, a pen name for Georges Remi. By 2007, a century after Hergé's birth, the…
- Flash GordonGeorge Lucas made Star Wars after he could not get film rights to Flash Gordon. Producer Dino De Laurentiis refused.
- PeanutsPeanuts, the comic strip by Charles M. Schulz, filled 17,897 installments before it ended. One description called that run "arguably the longest story ever told by one human being." The strip began in 1950, and its stars were small…
- Spawn (character)Spawn, the antihero of Image Comics, debuted in Spawn #1 in May 1992, and that first issue sold 1.7 million copies. The hero is Albert Francis Simmons, called Al, who is better known simply as Spawn. Todd McFarlane created him. Simmons…
- DilbertDilbert first appeared in newspapers on the 16th of April 1989, written and drawn by Scott Adams. By 2013 the strip ran daily in 2,000 newspapers in 65 countries and 25 languages. It follows an engineer who works in a micromanaged…
- HomestuckHomestuck is an Internet fiction series by the American author and artist Andrew Hussie, and one of its Flash animations, Cascade, once crashed Newgrounds, Megaupload, and Twitter when it went online. So many people rushed to watch it that…
- AsterixAsterix, the French comic album series, usually opens with a small joke at Rome's expense. The standard introduction reads: "The year is 50 BC. Gaul is entirely occupied by the Romans. Well, not entirely..." That hesitating last line has…
- Teenage Mutant Ninja TurtlesIn November 1983, in Dover, New Hampshire, the artist Kevin Eastman drew a masked turtle standing on its hind legs and gripping nunchucks. He drew it to make his fellow artist Peter Laird laugh. Laird answered by adding two words above it:…