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| x Charlie Brown |
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Peanuts |
Charles "Charlie" Brown is the main protagonist in the comic strip, Peanuts.
Charlie Brown and his creator have a common connection in that they are both the sons of barbers, but whereas Schulz's work is described as the "most shining example of the...
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| x Lucy van Pelt |
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Peanuts |
Lucille "Lucy" van Pelt is a fictional character in the syndicated comic strip Peanuts, written and drawn by Charles Schulz. She is the older sister of Linus and Rerun. Lucy is a crabby and cynical eight-year old girl, and is often bossy toward the...
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| x Linus van Pelt |
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Peanuts |
Linus van Pelt is a character in Charles M. Schulz's comic strip Peanuts. The best friend of Charlie Brown, Linus is also the younger brother of Lucy van Pelt and older brother of Rerun van Pelt. He first appeared on September 19, 1952; however, he...
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| x Rerun van Pelt |
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Peanuts |
Rerun James van Pelt is Linus and Lucy's younger brother in Charles M. Schulz's comic strip Peanuts.
Rerun was first mentioned in the strip on May 23, 1972, during a storyline in which Lucy threw Linus out of the house only to learn that yet another...
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| x Peppermint Patty |
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Peanuts |
Patricia "Peppermint Patty" Reichardt is a fictional character featured in Charles M. Schulz's comic strip Peanuts. A freckle-faced brunette, she is one of a small group in the strip who lives across town from Charlie Brown and his school friends....
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| x Pig-Pen |
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Peanuts |
"Pig-Pen" is a character in the comic strip Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz. He is a young boy who is, except on very rare occasions, very dirty.
"Pig-Pen" is a nickname, invariably written in quotation marks in the strip. In the character's first...
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| x Sally Brown |
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Peanuts |
Sally Ann Brown is the younger sister of Charlie Brown in the comic strip Peanuts by Charles Schulz. She was first mentioned in early 1959, having a large series of strips before her first appearance in August of 1959.
Sally Brown has blond hair...
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| x Franklin | Peanuts |
Franklin is a character in the long-running comic strip Peanuts, created by Charles M. Schulz. Introduced on July 31, 1968, Franklin was the first African-American character in the strip. He goes to school with Peppermint Patty and Marcie. In his...
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| x Schroeder |
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Peanuts |
Schroeder is a fictional character in the long-running comic strip Peanuts, created by Charles M. Schulz. He is distinguished by his precocious skill at playing the toy piano, as well as by his love of classical music and the composer Ludwig van...
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| x Marcie |
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Peanuts |
Marcie is a fictional character featured in Charles M. Schulz's comic strip Peanuts. She serves as comedic foil and best friend to tomboy Peppermint Patty (whom she refers to as "sir"), plays a supporting role in some of Snoopy's heroic fantasies,...
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| x Woodstock |
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Peanuts |
Woodstock is a fictional character in Charles M. Schulz's comic strip Peanuts. He is Snoopy's closest friend and, after Snoopy, the most recognized non-human in the strip.
Snoopy began befriending birds in the early 1960s, when they started using...
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| x Frieda |
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Peanuts |
Frieda is a character in the comic strip Peanuts by Charles Schulz. According to Schulz, Frieda's character was inspired by his longtime friend Frieda Rich, a local artist whom he met while taking classes at the Art Instruction Schools in...
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| x Shermy |
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Peanuts |
Shermy was one of the four original characters in the comic strip Peanuts, by Charles Schulz. Schulz named him after a friend from high school. When Peanuts made its debut on October 2, 1950, Shermy had the first line of dialogue in the series. As...
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| x Patty |
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Peanuts |
Patty is a character in the comic strip Peanuts, created by Charles M. Schulz (often confused with Peppermint Patty, a different and later character from the same strip). Her closest friend is Violet. The two appeared very early — Patty even...
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| x Snoopy |
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Peanuts |
Snoopy is a fictional character in the long-running comic strip Peanuts, by Charles M. Schulz. He is Charlie Brown's pet beagle. Snoopy began his life in the strip as a fairly ordinary dog, but eventually evolved into perhaps the strip's most...
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| x Violet |
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Peanuts |
Violet Gray is a fictional character in the comic strip Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz.
Violet has shoulder-length dark hair, and she frequently wears green dresses (switching to pants and jeans in the winter and in later years). Schulz changed her...
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| x P. T. Bridgeport | Pogo | ||
| x Howland Owl | Pogo | ||
| x Albert Alligator | Pogo | ||
| x Tycho | Penny Arcade | ||
| x Gabe | Penny Arcade | ||
| x Helka | Mikrokivikausi | ||
| x Calvin |
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Calvin and Hobbes |
Calvin is a fictional character in the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson. He is one of the strip's primary characters, along with Hobbes. Calvin is most remembered for his "dastardly plots" (most of the time against girls), his humor,...
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| x Huey Freeman |
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The Boondocks |
Huey Freeman is the main character of The Boondocks comic strip written by Aaron McGruder as well as the main character and principal narrator of the animated TV series of the same name. Politically sapient, and borderline militant, he regularly...
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| x Riley Freeman |
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The Boondocks |
Riley Freeman is a fictional character from the comic strip The Boondocks and its TV series adaptation. He often refers to himself as "Riley Escobar," and in season two of the TV series, he has begun to refer to himself in some situations as "Young...
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| x Dilbert |
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Dilbert |
Dilbert is the eponymous main character of the Dilbert comic strip. He has a rare condition characterized by an extreme intuition about all things mechanical and electrical (and utter social ineptitude), an idea that was explored in the animated...
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| x Pointy-Haired Boss |
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Dilbert |
The Pointy-Haired Boss (often abbreviated to just PHB) is Dilbert's boss in the Dilbert comic strip. He is notable for his micromanagement, gross incompetence and unawareness of his surroundings, yet somehow retains power in the workplace. In the...
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| x Wally |
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Dilbert |
Wally is a character from the Dilbert comic strip, a lazy employee always trying to work the system.
Wally was inspired by a coworker of creator Scott Adams at Pacific Bell. In Seven Years of Highly Defective People and What Would Wally Do, Adams...
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| x Alice | Dilbert |
Alice is an engineer from the Dilbert comic strip. She is one of Dilbert's co-workers in the department. She has long curly hair, which transformed into a large and distinctive triangular hairstyle when the character became a regular. Her character...
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| x Asok | Dilbert |
Asok (pronounced "a-shook") is an Indian intern in the Dilbert comic strip. His first appearance was March 18, 1996. He is a brilliant graduate from the Indian Institute of Technology. The character is named after a friend and co-worker of strip...
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| x Dogbert |
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Dilbert |
Dogbert is Dilbert's anthropomorphic pet dog from the Dilbert comic strip, and has been said by creator Scott Adams as being based on, if not a member of, the beagle breed. He is a megalomaniac; one of his dreams is to conquer the world and enslave...
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| x Ratbert |
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Dilbert |
Ratbert is a regular character from the Dilbert comic strip. He was not originally intended to be a regular, instead being part of a series of strips featuring a lab scientist's cruel experiments (Ratbert's name at this stage was XP-39C²). Ratbert...
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| x Catbert |
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Dilbert |
Catbert is a fictional cat, and the "evil director of human resources" in the Dilbert comic strip. As with Ratbert, he was not a planned regular. In his first appearance from September 12, 1994 to September 16, 1994, he attacked Ratbert and rebooted...
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| x Carol | Dilbert |
Carol is the Pointy-Haired Boss's misanthropic and bitter secretary in the Dilbert comic strip, who feels she is underappreciated and demeaned by her job and therefore takes out her frustration on all employees, especially her boss. Occasionally,...
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| x Phil, the Prince of Insufficient Light |
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Dilbert |
Phil, the Prince of Insufficient Light, is the ruler of Lower Heck in Scott Adams' Dilbert comic strip. He punishes people (usually Dilbert) for minor infractions not worthy of damnation in hell, such as using copier paper for the printer or...
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| x The World's Smartest Garbageman | Dilbert |
Dilbert's "sanitation engineer" is a mysterious character who has inexplicable knowledge of all subjects from science to philosophy. He shows up occasionally to solve impossibly complex problems for Dilbert or Dogbert.His role has diminished...
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| x Bob | Dilbert |
One day Dilbert determined that it was impossible for all dinosaurs to be extinct. Lo and behold, Bob the Dinosaur appeared from behind the couch.Bob is dumb, cheerful and follows Dogbert's commands without question. Dinosaurs may no longer rule the...
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| x Dawn | Dilbert |
Dawn is the mate of Bob the Dinosaur in the Dilbert comic strip
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| x Rex | Dilbert |
Rex is the son of Bob and Dawn the Dinosaurs in the Dilbert comic strip
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| x A.J. Garrett | User Friendly | ||
| x Mike Floyd | User Friendly | ||
| x Miranda Cornielle | User Friendly | ||
| x Pitr Dubovich | User Friendly | ||
| x Sid Dabster | User Friendly | ||
| x Stef Murky | User Friendly | ||
| x Erwin | User Friendly | ||
| x Dust Puppy | User Friendly | ||
| x Greg Flemming | User Friendly | ||
| x Smiling Man | User Friendly | ||
| x Pearl Dabster | User Friendly | ||
| x The Chief | User Friendly | ||
| x Caspar Milquetoast |
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Caspar Milquetoast was a comic strip character created by H. T. Webster in 1924 for his cartoon series, The Timid Soul, published in the New York World. When the World folded in 1931, The Timid Soul moved to the New York Herald Tribune, where a...
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| x Milquetoast the Cockroach | Outland |
Milquetoast the Cockroach is a fictional character in Berkeley Breathed's comic strips Bloom County and Outland. The character has also appeared in other works by Breathed.
Though Breathed had sporadically used cockroaches in Bloom County beforehand...
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| x Ronald-Ann Smith | Outland |
Ronald-Ann Smith was a character in Berkeley Breathed's comic strips Bloom County and Outland.
Named after Ronald Reagan, Ronald-Ann was a young African American girl "from the wrong side of the trax" in Bloom County. Appearing late in the strip's...
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| x Mortimer Mouse | Outland |
There have been multiple fictional characters named Mortimer Mouse. Mortimer Mouse was the original name for Mickey Mouse. However, Lillian Disney, Walt Disney's wife, believed the name "Mortimer" sounded too pompous and suggested the name Mickey...
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| x Opus the Penguin |
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Outland |
Opus the Penguin (Opus T. Penguin) is a character in the comic strips and children's books of Berkeley Breathed, most notably the popular 1980s strip Bloom County. Breathed has described him as an "existentialist penguin" and the favorite of his...
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| x Bill the Cat |
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Outland |
Bill the Cat, or Bill D. Cat, according to the final Outland strip, is a fictional cat appearing in the works of cartoonist Berkeley Breathed, beginning with the comic strip Bloom County in the 1980s and continuing in Outland and Opus in the...
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| x Oliver Wendell Jones | Outland |
Oliver Wendell Jones is a fictional character in Bloom County, Outland and Opus, three comic strips by American cartoonist Berkeley Breathed.
The genius of the bunch, he was always hacking into forbidden files with his Banana Jr. 6000 computer, and...
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| x Michael Binkley | Outland |
Michael Binkley was a major character in Berke Breathed's cartoon strip Bloom County.
Michael, known to all simply as 'Binkley,' was a 10-year-old boy who lived at the Bloom County Boarding House with his father Tom (his mother, Margret, had...
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| x Steve Dallas |
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Outland |
Steve Dallas is a fictional character in the American comic strips of Berke Breathed, most famously Bloom County in the 1980s.
He was first introduced as an obnoxious frat boy in the college strip The Academia Waltz, which ran in the University of...
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