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Boris the Bear is a black and white independent comic book that was published for 34 issues. Created by James Dean Smith, it was one of the first titles published by Dark Horse Comics in 1986, until being self-published as of issue 13 under the name Nicotat Comics. Telling the story of an anthropomorphic bear (who is later revealed to be a robot), the book parodied many other comic books and satirized the comic book industry as a whole. Often extremely violent, the book was a black comedy that developed a cult following. This article is about the term as used in media and computing; for more specific uses, see Black and White. ... Boris the Bear is a black and white independent comic book that was published for 34 issues. ... Dark Horse Comics is an American comic book publisher, one of the largest independent publishers behind dominant publishers Marvel Comics and DC Comics. ... 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...


Boris the Bear often parodied current (at the time) industry trends, such as in the first issue, given the self-explanatory title Boris the Bear Slaughters the Radioactive Black Belt Mutant Ninja Turtles. Characters suspiciously resembling Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Usagi Yojimbo, Cerebus the Aardvark, Wile E. Coyote and the Smurfs get viciously murdered (although strangely enough, he allows Droopy to survive). He is implied to murder the Care Bears off-page. The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TMNT) are a fictional group of four anthropomorphic turtles, who, as one might infer from the name, are also teenagers, mutants and ninjas. ... Usagi Yojimbo book 11: Seasons Usagi Yojimbo (Literally Rabbit Bodyguard, can be written うさぎ用心棒 or 兎用心棒 Usagi Yojinbo) is a comic book series created by Stan Sakai. ... Cerebus issues 112 and 113, from 1988. ... Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote The Road Runner cartoons are a series of Looney Tunes cartoons created by Chuck Jones for Warner Brothers. ... The Smurfs (Les Schtroumpfs in French) are a fictional race of small blue creatures who live in a forest somewhere in Europe. ... A low-key character created by Tex Avery at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1943--essentially the polar opposite of his other famous character, loud, whacky Screwy Squirrel. ... The Care Bears are a set of characters created by American Greetings in 1981 for use on greeting cards. ...


The comic was cancelled after the production of issue number thirty-four sometime in the ’90s. There have been recent attempts by the creator (James Dean Smith) to relaunch the comic but so far nothing has come out.


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Don Markstein's Toonopedia: Boris the Bear (345 words)
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It was implied he offed The Care Bears off-stage.
Boris next did in a bunch of giant robots that resembled Transformers and/or Japanese imports.
Brown Bear - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (3339 words)
The grizzly bear (Ursus arctos horribilis), the Kodiak Bear (Ursus arctos middendorffi), and the Mexican brown bear are North American subspecies of the brown bear.
The largest subspecies of the brown bear are the Kodiak bear and the bears from coastal Russia and Alaska.
Bears eat an enormous number of moths during the summer, sometimes as many as 40,000 in a day[1], and may derive up to a third of their food energy from these insects[2].
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