Brickman
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Brickman is a humour comic strip created by UK cartoonist Lew Stringer. A parody of Batman, the spoof features the adventures of zillionaire Loose Brayne and his partner Tina Trowel who fight crime in Guffon City. The strip began in the fanzine After Image No.3 in 1979, before moving on to other small press fanzines and mini-comics. Brickman then turned up in his own title published by short-lived UK independent Harrier Comics in 1986, featuring guest pages drawn by Dave Gibbons, Mike Collins, Mark Farmer, and Kevin O'Neill (with an introduction written by Alan Moore).
After a ten year gap while Stringer focused on his other comic characters, Brickman was revived in 1996 in the small press comic Yampy Tales. In 2005, the Los Angeles publisher Active Images released a digest size collection of all the Brickman stories under the title Brickman Begins!, with new pages by Hunt Emerson, Alan Davis, Tim Sale, Charlie Adlard, and many more.
Brickman appears to be Stringer's most recurring character, as a brand new series of full colour strips began in the American comic Elephantmen in 2006, published by Image Comics.
