Might not be an artist, might be a comic writer.
Previous IQs:
Were you, in some telling of the Arthurian tales, Launcelot’s son? - Sir Galahad
Did you face off against the Green Knight? - Yes, Sir Gawain(e)
Were you Celeborn’s wife? - Yes, Galadriel
DQ:
Best known for B&W comics?
IQs:
Did you play Buck Rogers on TV?
Do your characters include B.D., Boopsie, Duke and Joan Caucus?
Were you the effeminate non-Crane guy on Frasier?
IQ1: Before writing Batman, X-men and other popular titles, did you write surreal comics like Doom Patrol and The Invisibles?
IQ2: Are you a 70’s era Spider-man writer who also wrote episodes for the Law & Order franchise?
IQ3: Did you write DC/Vertigo’s Preacher?
IQ1: I am not Greebo.
IQ2: Take a DQ.
IQ3: Take a DQ.
Respectively:
I am not Gil Gerard.
I am not Garry Trudeau.
Take a DQ.
IQ1: I am not Grant Morrison.
IQ2: Take a DQ.
IQ3: I am not Garth Ennis.
DQs:
- real
- male
- first name begins with G
- living
- American
- not political/military
- born after 1950
- known for the arts
- born before 1969
- visual artist (painting, comics, photography, etc.)
- known for comics
- not known from DC Comics
- best known for most of the time black-and-white comics
Shoot, I really thought it was the *Doonesbury *guy.
Previous IQs:
Did you play Buck Rogers on TV? - Yes, Gil Gerard
Do your characters include B.D., Boopsie, Duke and Joan Caucus? - Yes, Garry Trudeau
Were you the effeminate non-Crane guy on Frasier? - Gil Chesterton
DQ:
Best known for superhero comics?
IQs:
Did Ed Harris play you early in his career?
Did a fictional head of NASA claim you as his alter ego?
Are you the best-known person from New Rumley, Ohio?
Oops. never mind. Thinking.
Knew you were a Pterry fan. Right on Greebo; for the rest, the murderer (who I believe was profiled by Norman Mailer) was Gary Gilmore; the monk I had in mind, who wrote about Arthur, was Gildas. I would also have accepted Geoffrey of Monmouth, whose Chronicles of the Kings of Britain is the major medieval source of Arthur lore.
IQ1: Are you an Ohioan Civil War general who became the second President to be assassinated in office?
IQ2: Did you play Spider-Man?
IQ3: Did biologists name a species of tick after you, and paleontologists informally call the stegosaurus’ spiky tail a “thagomizer”, in honor of your cartoons,which often featured scientists and mathematicians?
DQ1: Did you write a daily feature?
DQ2: Single-panel cartoon?
I am not Gene Kranz, George Custer, James Garfield, or Andrew Garfield, but I am indeed Gary Larson! Next game (and thread) goes to Slow Moving Vehicle.
Woot! It came to me when I was out running tonight.
Well, since it’s a new month, I’ll start a new thread.
I used to run a copier that was the size of a cadillac, and I taped Far Side cartoons all over it. Nice choice. Grats SMV!
Gary Larson! :: headsmack ::
Woulda coulda shoulda got that - I’m a Far Side fan from 'way back. Good one, DLR, and well done, SMV!
Previous IQs:
Did Ed Harris play you early in his career? - Gene Kranz later, in Apollo 13, but John Glenn earlier, in The Right Stuff
Did a fictional head of NASA claim you as his alter ego? - Jeff Daniels says he wants his codename to be “Glorfindel” in The Martian
Are you the best-known person from New Rumley, Ohio? - Yes, George Armstrong Custer
The game thread for May: https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=874957
Honestly, EH, I got this because of you. I was thinking about comic book artists, when your IQ about Garry Trudeau made me realize that DLR’s answers also applied to comic *strip *writers as well. From there it was a short jump to the other famous Gary in comics.