Barbelith Underground > Comic Books > Nelson Mandela becomes comic hero, how many others are there

Inside Woody Allen was often very funny and the collection has pride of place in many a fans collection.

Lots of examples that don't really fulfil the criteria of the initial question but are in the spirit of how this thread has turned out.

As noted there was a company that existed solely to make biographical comics of people, I have a copy of their 'Life of Sam Fox' which is very funny and also, bizarely, American.

The artwork on Life of Churchill in The Eagle is astonishingly good. It's truly beautiful in places and I feel privilaged to have seen it. And I know what a wanker I sound for typing that.

There's a Modesty Blaise comic 'Top Traitor' which features Micheal York which I won't describe but urge you to check out.

Hitler had his own strip in The Beano (or was it The Dandy) which was called Addy and Hermy and featured Der Fuhrer getting up to all sorts of japes along with with Mrs Goerings little boy. He got twatted by Desperate Dan a time or two too. Oh and Benito Musolini wouldn't have felt left out as The Dandy (or was it The Beano) ran a contemporaneous strip called Musso the Wop. I assume there must also have been appearances by Emperor Hirohito too at some point.

Sean Connery, Billie Connelly, Gregor Fisher and other cotable Scots have appeared in The Broons and Oor Wullie over the years.

The Beano celebrated its 60th(I think0 anniversary by having it's readers vote for who they wanted the strip characters to meet. I seem to recall it ended up with The Spice Girls teaming up with Beryl The Peril and Ronan Keating being called ugly by Plug. The Spices also appeared in Desperate Dan when it was rumoured he was being written out of The Dandy.

Look-In often ran biographies of people in comic form, I remember reading the Kylie one over and over again. I still love Kylie.

Other character comics produced by D.C. include Bob Hope and Jay Silverheels.

Jolly Jack and Scintillating Stan often had walk ons in Marvel comics and Cheerful Chris and Dashing Dave followed that tradition in their 'Super Special New Formula X-Men now with added Wolverine' days.

Alan Grant penned a story a year or two ago in which John Wagner faced off against Judge Dredd. John was reportedly not amused but the Cam Kennedy art was great and the likeness striking (though the best cartoon of John Wagner is on his business card. Carlos Ezquerra drew a wonderful image of John holding Dredds helmet as if he were Hamlet with Yorricks skull. Lovely image.)

And finally, this is a bit of a cheat but 2000 A.D. used to semi regularly run fun strips starring Tharg the Mighty which had Droids that bore more than a passing resemblence to creators at 2k. Of note would be the story about the death of the Alan Grantesque droid when the real one left his post as assistant editor.

The tradition was revived with a story that featured the new owners when 2K was bought by the Kingsley Brothers. The most prominent of Thargs droids, Burt, was based on Richard Burton (no not the actor, or the explorer, the piss poor essistant editor responsible for some terrible decisions that almost killed the comic).

Oh, and the droid who appeared the most often, the Frame robot was based on Tom Frame the letterer of much of 2ks output. He appears on the cover of the upcoming Winter Special along with several of the new generation of script and art droids.