Comic Strip Character

Popeye the Sailor is a fictional hero famous for appearing in comic strips and animated films as well as numerous TV shows. He was created by Elzie Crisler Segar, and first appeared in the daily King Features comic strip Thimble Theatre on January 17, 1929. Although...

Spider-Man aka Peter Parker is a fictional character, a Marvel Comics superhero, created by writer-editor Stan Lee and artist Steve Ditko. The character first appeared in Amazing Fantasy #15 (August 1962), and has since gone on to become one of the most popular,...

Charles "Charlie" Brown is the main character in the comic strip Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz. Charlie Brown is a lovable loser, a child possessed of endless determination and hope, but who is ultimately dominated by his insecurities and a "permanent case of bad...

Olive Oyl is a cartoon character created by Elzie Crisler Segar in 1919 for his comic strip "Thimble Theater." "Thimble Theater" later became Popeye after the sailor character became the most popular member of the comic strip's cast. Olive Oyl was a character in the...

Bluto (sometimes known as Brutus) is a cartoon character created in 1932 by Elzie Crisler Segar as a one-time character, named "Bluto the Terrible", in his Thimble Theatre comic strip (later renamed Popeye); he made his first appearance September 12 of that year....

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 dynamic character — and...

The Pointy-Haired Boss (often abbreviated to just PHB) is Dilbert's boss in the Dilbert comic strip. He is notable for his gross incompetence and unawareness of his surroundings, yet somehow retains power in the workplace. In the Dilbert TV series, in which he is...

Mortimer Mouse is a fictional character created by Floyd Gottfredson for The Walt Disney Company. He is Minnie Mouse's ranch-owning cattleman uncle. He first appeared in the comic strip Mickey Mouse in Death Valley (1930). After that, he appeared in many Mickey Mouse...

Bill the Cat 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 following decades. Bill also appeared in some of Breathed's illustrated children's...

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 many characters. He...

Bamse – Världens starkaste björn ("The world's strongest bear") is a Swedish cartoon created by Rune Andréasson. The highly popular children's cartoon first emerged as a series of television short film as well as a weekly half page Sunday strip in 1966, before being...

Dogbert is Dilbert's anthropomorphic pet dog from the Dilbert comic strip. He is a megalomania; one of his dreams is to conquer the world and enslave all humans, and he has achieved this status several times through methods such as hypnosis and masquerading. However,...

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, originally introduced (without glasses) for a series involving an attack on Ratbert the optimist. When the two got home ...

Milo Bloom was a central character in the American comic strip Bloom County. He was originally the main character, but was soon overshadowed by his best friend Michael Binkley, and later on, Opus the penguin. Milo was the most worldly and cynical of all the...

Caspar Milquetoast was a comic strip character created by Harold Webster in 1924 for his comic strip The Timid Soul, published in the New York World. From this character the term "milquetoast" has come to mean "weak and ineffectual." Webster continued to produce the...

Linus van Pelt is one of the characters in Charles M. Schulz's comic strip Peanuts. Probably 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...

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. Generally displaying...

[[Image:RerunVanPelt.jpg|thumb|320px|Rerun on the back of his mother's bicycle. Image taken from the "It's Arbor Day, Charlie Brown" special.]]Rerun van Pelt is Linus and Lucy's younger brother in Charles M. Schulz's comic strip Peanuts. Rerun was "born" into the...

Marcie is a bespectacled fictional character featured in Charles M. Schulz's comic strip Peanuts. She serves as comedic foil and best friend to tomboy Peppermint Patty, plays a supporting role in some of Snoopy's heroic fantasies, and displays a romantic interest in...

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 Texas's Daily...

Cutter John is a fictional character in the 1980s comic strip Bloom County by Berke Breathed. Cutter was a wheelchair-bound Vietnam War veteran and one of the county's most well-liked citizens. Despite being somewhat childish and awkward at times, he was very...

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 Beethoven in particular...

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 mean to the other characters in the...

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 Peanuts matured,...

Sally Brown is the younger sister of Charlie Brown in the comic strip Peanuts by Charles Schulz. Sally has flipped blonde hair with a cluster of curls and sometimes a bow in front, and she wears a polka dot dress, usually pink or light blue. In the winter, and most...

Violet Gray is a 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 in the winter and in later years). Schulz changed her hairstyle between braids and a ponytail...

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 first story arc, he...

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 Minneapolis Art Instructions School. She was a regular in...

Woodstock is a fictional character in Charles M. Schulz's comic strip Peanuts. Snoopy began befriending birds in the early 1960s, when they started using his doghouse for various purposes: a rest stop during migrations, a nesting site, or a place to play cards. None of...

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 divorced Tom and moved...