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Others who have identified aspects of their bloodline as Cherokee include:. Not all superhero comics are necessarily science fiction; Marvel Comics' Daredevil, for example, despite an initial science-fiction premise, may be more usefully classified as a crime drama. Oral Roberts, a Pentecostal evangelist in the 1950's through the 1990's, is also of Cherokee descent. Frankenstein, for example, is a science fiction/horror novel; The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. is a Western/comedy TV series. The American blues-rock guitarist Jimi Hendrix was of Cherokee descent via his paternal grandmother, Nora Rose Moore. Note: As with film and literature, genres are rarely pure and often blend. Famous Cherokee politicians include Chad "Corntassel" Smith, Wilma Mankiller and Ross Swimmer. This was a more mature work than many had come to expect from the comics medium, and the critical and commercial success of A Contract with God helped to establish the term "graphic novel" in common usage.

Sequoyah never learned to speak, read or write the English language. The term was popularized when Will Eisner used it on the cover of the paperback edition of his work A Contract with God, and Other Tenement Stories (1978). Sequoyah is one of few people in history to invent a widely used writing system singlehandedly. The term graphic novel was first coined by Richard Kyle in 1964, mainly as an attempt to distinguish the newly translated works from Europe which were then being published from what Kyle saw as the more juvenile publications common in the United States. There were several famous Cherokees in American history, including Sequoyah, who invented the Cherokee writing system. This choice is still controversial, with critics feeling that Töppfer's work is perhaps somewhat unconnected to the genesis of the artform as it is now known in the region. For more informtion, see Joe Byrd Civil War. Although Switzerland contributes less to the body of work, it is significant that many scholars point to a Francophone Swiss, Rodolphe Töpffer, as the true father of comics.

His administration was subjected to intense scrutiny by the US Attorney General and US Secretary of the Interior amidst allegations of diversion, fraud, illegal wiretapping, mail fraud, and organized violence against the Cherokee People. Donald Duck's superhero alter ego, Paperinik, known in English as Superduck, was created in Italy. Chief Joe Byrd, elected 1995 as Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation, was nearly responsible for the destruction of the modern Cherokee Nation due to issues related to his veracity which almost cost the tribe its future and Sovereignty. Italy is also famous for being one of the foremost producers of Walt Disney comic stories, particularly. These are the only examples of same sex relationships known to have existed in ancient times. Italian cartoonists have and receive great influences from other countries including Belgium, France, Spain and Argentina. Provided all parties were in agreement, including the clan leaders, this conduct would be allowed. Author comics are published in the French BD format, with an example being Pratt's Corto Maltese.

There are historical instances of "extended families" where another male or female would cohabitate with a married couple. Collections of classic material for the most famous character, usually with over 200 pages, are also common. There were instances of same-sex cohabitation in the ancient culture, however, there was never a concept of same sex marriage or same sex courtships. Mainstream comics are usually published on the monthly basis, in a black and white digest size format, with about 100-132 pages of story. Numerous elders were consulted and no one could find concrete examples of same-sex marriage in Cherokee traditions. Best sellers remain popular comic books Diabolik or the Bonelli line, namely Tex Willer or Dylan Dog. Furthermore, the decision kept Cherokee law in line with Oklahoma state law, which outlawed gay marriage as the result of a popular referendum on a constitutional amendment in 2004. "Author" comics contain often strong erotic contents.

This was a decision made in response to an application for a union of a lesbian couple that was submitted on May 13. After World War II, however, artists like Hugo Pratt and Guido Crepax imposed Italian comics to an international audience. On June 14, 2004, the Cherokee Nation Tribal Council voted to officially define marriage as a union between man and woman, thereby outlawing gay marriage. In Italy, comics (known as fumetti) made their debut as humouristic strips at the end of the 19th century, and later evolved in adventure stories inspired to those coming from the U.S. Currently, there are thirty-nine (39) ITEC member tribes in Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Texas. DC Thomson also repackage The Broons and Oor Wullie strips in softcover A4 books for the festive season. To accomplish this mission ITEC provides technical support, training and environmental services in a variety of environmental disciplines. At Christmas time publishers will repackage and commission material for comic annuals, hardback A4 books.

Since 1992 the Nation has served as the lead for the Inter-Tribal Environmental Council (ITEC).The mission of ITEC is to protect the health of Native Americans, their natural resources, and their environment as it relates to air, land, and water. The repackaging of European material has been less frequent, although the Tintin and Asterix serials have been successfully translated and repackaged in soft cover books. Today the Cherokee Nation is a leader in the environmental protection field. Marvel eventually established a UK office, with DC Comics and Dark Horse Comics also opening offices for periods in the 1990s. They are descended from the Old Settlers, or Cherokees that moved west before Removal, and the tribe requires a quarter blood quantum for enrollment. Several reprint companies were involved in repackaging American material for the British market, notably the importer and distributor Thorpe & Porter. The United Keetoowah Band took a different track than the Cherokee Nation and received federal recognition after the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934. The lack of reliable supplies of American comic books led to a variety of black and white reprints, including Marvel's 1950s monster comics, Fawcett's Captain Marvel, and some other characters such as Sheena, Mandrake the Magician and the Phantom.

Keeler, who was also the President of Phillips Petroleum was succeeded by Ross Swimmer, Wilma Mankiller, Joe Byrd and Chad Smith who is currently the chief of the Nation. The United Kingdom has also established a healthy market in the reprinting and repackaging of material, notably material originated within the United States. Keeler was elected chief by the people, via a Congressional Act signed by President Nixon. The content of Action, another title aimed at children and launched in the mid 1970s became the subject of discussion in the House of Commons, and although this was on a smaller scale to such similar investigations in the United States, it also led to a moderation of content published within comics, although such moderatiuon was never formalised to the extent of a creation of any code, and nor was it particularly lasting. W. Underground comics and "small press" titles have also been published within the United Kingdom, notably Oz and Escape Magazine. Keeler was appointed chief in 1949 but as federal government adopted the self-determination policy, the Cherokee Nation was able to rebuild its government and W. Popular titles within the United Kingdom have included The Beano, The Dandy, The Eagle, 2000 AD and Viz.

W. Although Ally Sloper's Half Holiday (1884), the first comic published in Britain, was marketed at adults, publishers quickly targeted a younger market, which has led to most publications being for children and created an association in the public's mind of comics being somewhat juvenile. W. Some comics, such as Judge Dredd and other 2000 AD titles, have been published in a tabloid form known as a "programme", or "prog" for short. Milam as principal chief, and as a goodwill gesture Franklin Delano Roosevelt confirmed the election in 1941. Although generally referred to as a comic, it can also be referred to as a comic magazine, and has also been known historically as a comic paper. B. Originally the same size as the comic book in the United States, although lacking the glossy cover, the British comic has adopted a magazine size, with The Beano and The Dandy the last to adopt this size in the 1980s.

They choose J. Most books are first published as a hard cover oversized book, usually 48 or 64 pages, with later re-releases in soft cover. However, the Cherokee Nation recognized it needed leadership and a general convention was convened in 1938 to elect a Chief. In France, most comics are published at the behest of the author, who will work within his self-appointed time frame, so a wait from six months to two years between installments is common. The Federal government appointed chiefs to the Cherokee Nation, often just long enough to sign a treaty. In North America, the more serious Franco-Belgian comics are often seen as equivalent to graphic novels, for various reasons, but whether they are long or short, bound or in magazine format, in Europe there is no need for a more sophisticated term, as the art's name does not itself imply something frivolous. These and other acts were designed to end tribal sovereignty to pave the way for Oklahoma Statehood in 1907. Relative to the respective size of their countries, the innumerable authors in the region publish huge numbers of comic books.

Under the Curtis Act of 1898, Cherokee courts and governmental systems were abolished by the US Federal Government. Indeed, the distinction of comics as the "ninth art" is prevalent in Francophone scholarship on the form (le neuvième art), as is the concept of comics criticism and scholarship itself. The Dawes Act of 1887 broke up the tribal land base. It is not insignificant that the French term contains no indication of subject matter, unlike the American terms "comics" and "funnies," which imply an art form not to be taken seriously. Thomas' Legion was the last Confederate unit to surrender in North Carolina, at Waynesville, North Carolina on May 9, 1865. La bande dessinée is derived from the original description of the artform as "drawn strips". Other Cherokees in western North Carolina served as part of Thomas' Legion, a unit of approximately 1,100 men of both Cherokee and white origin, fighting primarily in Virginia, where their battle record was outstanding. Belgian comic books originally written in Dutch are influenced by the francophone "Franco-Belgian" comics, but have a different feel.

The discovery went unnoticed for a decade, but eventually became one of the primary sources of the Colorado Gold Rush of 1859. Belgium and France are two countries that have a long tradition in comics and comic books, where they are called BDs (from Bande Dessinée) in French. The group, which undertook gold prospecting in California, returned along the same route the following year, noticing placer gold deposits in tributaries of the South Platte. Along with the shift toward graphic novels among comics publishers, traditional book publishers such as Pantheon have released several dozen graphic novels, including works originally released by comics publishers with much less publicity. The route become known as the Cherokee Trail. In the early 2000s, sales of standard monthly comic books declined while graphic novels made increasing headway at retail bookstores. The expedition followed the Arkansas River upstream to Rocky Mountains in present-day Colorado, then followed the base of mountains northward into present-day Wyoming before turning westward. The "minicomics" form, an extremely informal version of self-publishing, arose in the 1980s and became increasingly popular among artists in the 1990s, despite reaching an even more limited audience than the small press.

In 1848 a group of Cherokee set out on an expedition to California looking for new settlement lands. A number of small publishers in the 1990s changed the format and distribution of their comics to more closely resemble non-comics publishing. The Cherokees were one of the five "civilized tribes" that concluded treaties with, and were recognized by, the Confederate States of America. By the 1980s, several such independent publishers as Eclipse Comics, First Comics, and Fantagraphics were releasing a wide range of styles and formats from color superhero, detective and science fiction comic books to black-and-white magazine-format stories of Latin American magical realism. One of the notable survivors was Stand Watie, who became a Confederate general during the American Civil War. The "small press" scene continued to grow and diversify. This started 15 years of civil war amongst the Cherokees. A few (notably RAW) were experimental attempts to bring comics closer to the world of fine art.

On June 22, 1839, after the adjournment of a tribal meeting, some of the prominent signers of the Treaty of New Echota were assassinated, including the drafter of the Blood Law, Major Ridge, along with John Ridge and Elias Boudinot. Some independent comics continued in the tradition of underground comics, though were generally less overtly graphic, and others resembled the output of mainstream publishers in format and genre but were published by smaller artist-owned ventures or by a single artists. Once the Cherokees reached Indian Territory (now Oklahoma), tensions ran high and the suspension of the Cherokee Blood Law was ignored. The rise of comic-book specialty stores in the late 1970s created a dedicated market for "independent" or "alternative comics"; two of the first were the anthology series Star Reach, published by comic-book writer Mike Friedrich from 1974-1979, and Harvey Pekar's American Splendor, published from the 1970s through the present day. Since then, Amazing Grace is often considered the Cherokee National Anthem. Natural, and published Gilbert Shelton's The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers. Instead, the singing of Amazing Grace had to suffice. Crumb later created the popular characters Fritz the Cat and Mr.

The Cherokees hardly had time to realize what was happening as they were prodded like so many sheep toward the concentration camps, threatened with knives and pistols, beaten with rifle butts if they resisted."^[2] In the terror of the forced marches, the Cherokee were not always able to give their dead a full burial. The underground-comics movement is often considered to have started with Zap Comix #1 (1968) by cartoonist Robert Crumb, a former Cleveland greeting-card artist living in San Francisco. From the jagged-walled stockades the troops fanned out across the Nation, invading every hamlet, every cabin, rooting out the inhabitants at bayonet point. Underground comics were virtually never sold on newsstands but in such youth-oriented outlets as head shops and record stores, and by mail order. there came the reign of terror. Many were notable for their uninhibited, irreverent style; their frankness in graphic sex, nudity, language and overt politics hadn't been seen in comics outside of their precursors, the pornographic and even more underground "Tijuana bibles". Samuel Carter, author of Cherokee Sunset, writes, "Then .. These comics were published and distributed independently of the established mainstream, and most reflected the youth counterculture and drug culture of the time.

Georgia, and Trail of Tears. During the late 1960s and early 1970s, a surge of underground comics occurred. See: Indian Removal, Cherokee Nation v. comic book industry created the Comics Code Authority in 1954 and drafted the Comics Code, a move which saw the particularly targeted EC change its satirical comic book Mad from comic book to magazine format in order to circumvent the Code. Cherokees were displaced from their ancestral lands in North Georgia and the Carolinas because of rapidly expanding white population, as well as a Gold Rush around Dahlonega, Georgia in the 1830's. In response to this attention from government and the media, the U.S. John Ross became the chief of the tribe in 1828 and remained the chief until his death. Notable events in the history of the American comic book include the psychiatrist Frederic Wertham's criticisms of the medium in his book Seduction of the Innocent, which saw the Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency investigate comic books.

The Cherokee Nation was founded in 1820, with elected public officials. However, these eras are refered to far less frequently than the traditional metalic eras. He began his public career in 1809. 1961 are sometimes refered to as being from the Marvel Age (refering to the advent of Marvel Comics). His mother was a quarter-blood Cherokee woman whose father was also from Scotland. Comics published after World War II in 1945 are sometimes refered to being from the Atomic Age (refering to the dropping of the atomic bomb), and books published after Nov. His father emigrated from Scotland prior to the Revolutionary War. The start of the Modern Age (occassionally refered to as the Copper Age) has even more potential starting points, but is most likely the publication of Alan Moore's Watchmen in 1986.

John Ross was an important figure in the history of the Cherokee tribe. 1970) or Amazing Spider-Man #96 (May 1971) (the non-Comics Code issue). Mails, "Myths of The Cherokee" by James Mooney, and The Lost Cherokee Nation). 1970), Green Lantern/Green Arrow #76 (Apr. (see "We Are Not Yet Conquered" by Beverly Northrup, "The Cherokee People" by Thomas E. Starting points that have been suggested for the Bronze Age of comics are Conan #1 (Oct. Today, there are thousands of Cherokee living in Arkansas or Southern Missouri who are relatives of these pre-Trail of Tears Cherokee. Indeed, some suggest that we are still in the Bronze Age.

The US Government has ignored their pleas. The beginings of the Bronze and Modern ages are far more disputable. Those who stayed on the old Arkansas Cherokee Reservation lands have lobbied the US Government since the early 1900s to be considered a Federally recognized Cherokee tribe. 1956) — and last through the early 1970s, during which time Marvel Comics revolutionized the medium with such naturalistic superheroes as the Fantastic Four and Spider-Man. Others disobeyed the US Government and stayed on the old Reservation lands in Arkansas. The Silver Age of Comic Books is generally considered to date from the first successful revival of the dormant superhero form — the debut of the Barry Allen Flash in Showcase #4 (Sept.-Oct. Around 1828, the tribe split, some going to Indian Territory. Both of these were simply reprints of newspaper strips.

Arkansas Cherokees had two choices: cooperate with the US government and move to Indian Territory (later Oklahoma), or defy the US Government and refuse to leave the Arkansas Reservation area. While comics as an artform could arguably extend as far back as sequential cave paintings from thousands of years ago, comic books are dependent on printing, and the starting point for them in book form is generally considered to be the tabloid-sized The Funnies begun in 1929, or the more traditional sized Funnies on Parade from 1933. A delegation of Arkansas Cherokees went to Washington, D.C., and were forced to sign a treaty to vacate the Arkansas Reservation. The Platinum Age refers to any material produced prior to this. By the late 1820s, the Territory of Arkansas had designs on acquiring the land held by the Arkansas Cherokee. The Golden Age is generally thought as lasting from 1938's introduction of Superman until the early 1950s, during which comic books enjoyed a surge of popularity, the archetype of the superhero was invented and defined, and many of comic books' most popular superheroes debuted. Other Cherokee leaders who lived in Arkansas were The Bowl, Sequoyah, Spring Frog and The Dutch. The exact boundaries of these eras, the terms for which originated in fandom press, is a debatable point among comic book historians.

Led by Chief Dragging Canoe, the Chickamauga made alliances with the Shawnee and engaged in raids against colonial settlements. The history of the comic book in the United States is split into several ages or historical eras: The Platinum Age, The Golden Age, The Silver Age, The Bronze Age, and The Modern Age. Many of these dissidents became known as the Chickamauga. are marketed at younger teenagers, though the market also produces work for general as well as more mature audiences. Eventually, there were such large numbers of Cherokees in these areas the US Government established a Cherokee Reservation located in Arkansas, with boundaries from north of the Arkansas River up to the southern bank of the White River. The majority of all comic books in the U.S. Francis and the White Rivers by 1800. Since the invention of the comic book format in the 1930s, the United States has been the leading producer, with only the British comic (during the inter-war period through the 1970s) and Japanese manga as close competitors in terms of quantity of titles (although, Japan outweighs America currently in overall sales by a vast margin).

Their settlements were established on the St. . These early dissidents would eventually move across the Mississippi River to areas that would later become the states of Arkansas and Missouri. The analogous term in the United Kingdom is a comic, short for comic paper or comic magazine. Beginning at about the time of the American Revolutionary War (late 1700s), divisions over continued accommodation of encroachments by white settlers, despite repeated violations of previous treaties, caused some Cherokee to begin to leave the Cherokee Nation. In the U.K., the term comic book is used to refer to American comic books by their readers and collectors, while the general populace would mainly consider a comic book a hardcover book collecting comics stories. It is now believed that a more ancient Syllabary that predated Sequoyah and may have inspired his great work for the Cherokee people was handed down through the Ah-ni-ku-ta-ni, an ancient priesthood of the Cherokee people. American comic books have become closely associated with the superhero sub-genre.

However, since the fairly recent addition of the Cherokee syllables to Unicode, the Cherokee language is experiencing a renaissance in its use on the Internet. Like jazz and a handful of other cultural artifacts, comic books are a rare indigenous American art form, [1] [2] though prototypical examples of the form exist. For years, many people wrote transliterated Cherokee on the Internet or used poorly intercompatible fonts to type out the syllabary. Long-form comic books, generally with hardcover or trade-paper binding came to be known as graphic novels, but as noted above, the term's definition is especially fluid. The Cherokee speak an Iroquoian language which is polysynthetic and is written in a syllabary invented by Sequoyah. The commercial success of these collections led to work being created specifically for the comic-book form, which fostered specific conventions such as splash pages. However, modern Cherokee call themselves Cherokee, or Tsalagi. The earliest comic books were simply collections of comic strips that had originally been printed in newspapers.

Most native American tribes have a name for themselves which means approximately this. In the last quarter of the 20th century, greater acceptance of the comics form among the general reading populace coincided with a greater usage of the term graphic novel, often meant to differentiate a book of comics with a spine from its stapled, pamphlet form, but the difference between the terms seems fuzzy at best as comics become more widespread in libraries, mainstream bookstores, and other places. It was derived from the Choctaw word "Cha-la-kee" which means "those who live in the mountains" or "those who live in the caves." The name which the Cherokees originally used for themselves is Ah-ni-yv-wi-ya (literal translation "these are all the human people"). The term "comics" in this context does not refer to comic strips (such as Peanuts or Dilbert). The word "Cherokee" is a derived word which came originally from the Choctaw trade language. Although the term implies otherwise, the subject matter in comic books is not necessarily humorous, and in fact its dramatic seriousness varies widely. For more information, and to view the 1984 video Spirit of the Fire, see www.keetoowahsociety.org. Comic books are often called comics for short.

Elder Red Hat was born into the Long Hair Clan and raised in the Old Cherokee Religion, and later convereted to Judaism and became a Rabbi. A comic book is a magazine or book containing sequential art in the form of a narrative. The late John Red Hat Duke, a prominent enrollee in both the Cherokee Nation and the United Keetoowah Band, remebered that his full-blood grandmothers who spoke the now considered-to-be-dead Keetoowah dialect, pronounced Keetoowah as Kee-too-rah, with a trilled "R" sound. Zap Comix (United States-Last Gasp, Apex Novelties). The Cherokee language (at least as it is spoken today) does not contain any "r" based sounds, and as such, the word "Cherokee" when spoken in the language is expressed as Tsa-la-gi (pronounced Jah-la-gee or Cha-la-gee) by native speakers, since these sounds most closely resemble "Cherokee" in the native language. X-Men (United States - Marvel Comics). The spelling "Cherokee" is likely due to the Cherokee language's name, "Tsalagi" - this then may have been rendered phonetically in Portuguese (or more likely a barranquenho dialect, since de Soto was Extremaduran) as chalaque, then in French as cheraqui, and then by the English as cherokee. Wonder Woman (United States - DC Comics).

Today there are seven ceremonial dance grounds in Oklahoma and these either belong to the Keetoowah tradition or the Four Mothers Society. Viz (British). Redbird Smith was an influential Nighthawk member and the group revitalized traditional spirituality among Cherokees, beginning in the 19th century. Tintin (Belgian - Casterman). A 1984 KJRH-TV documentary, "Spirit of the Fire" called the Keetoowah Nighthawk Society the "spiritual core" of the nation in reference to the traditional ceremonies and rituals practiced and maintained by the Keetoowah. Superman (United States - DC Comics). Other large and small non-recognized Cherokee organizations are located in Arkansas, Missouri, Tennessee, and other locations in the United States. Spike and Suzy (Belgian Flemish, originally called Suske en Wiske).

State-recognized Cherokee tribes have headquarters in Georgia and Alabama. Sandman (United States - DC Vertigo Comics, 1988 World Fantasy Award (unique win for a comic-book series). Bands recognized by the United States government, but representing only 250,000 Cherokees, have headquarters in Tahlequah, Oklahoma (the Cherokee Nation), and United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians and at Cherokee, North Carolina (Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians). The Amazing Spider-Man (United States - Marvel Comics). . The Smurfs (Belgium - Dupuis). They were one of the tribes referred to as the Five Civilized Tribes. Raw (United States - Raw Books).

The Cherokee (ah-ni-yv-wi-ya in Cherokee) are a people native to North America who at the time of European contact in the 16th century inhabited what is now the eastern and southeastern United States before most were forcefully moved to the Ozark Plateau. Mickey Mouse (United States-Disney). Chief Joe Byrd, Former Chief Cherokee Nation, Attempted to Overthrow the Cherokee Nation Government in the early 1990s which resulted in deployment of Federal Troops by the United States to restore order on Cherokee Nation Tribal Lands, and was accussed of embezzlement of Cherokee Nation funds by the Cherokee Nation Judicial Branch. Mortadelo y Filemón (Spain). Ned Christie, Famous Outlaw and Frontiersman during Oklahoma Settlement, Tribal Member, Cherokee Nation. Monica's Gang (Turma da Mônica) (Brazilian). Redbird Smith, Cherokee Leader and Statesman, Tribal Member, UKB. Lucky Luke (Belgium - Dupuis and Dargaud).

Brad Carson, Former United States Congressman, Head of Cherokee Nation Enterprises, Tribal Member Cherokee Nation. Lone Wolf and Cub (Japanese). Jeffrey Vernon Merkey, American Computer Scientist, Former Chief Scientist of Novell, Author of Multiprocessor NetWare Operating System, Tribal Member Cherokee Nation. The Incredible Hulk (United States - Marvel Comics). Tony Joe White, singer (Caucasian, Cherokee). Green Lantern (United States - DC Comics). Michelle White, singer (father Tony Joe White is Caucasian, Cherokee). The Fantastic Four (United States - Marvel Comics).

Steven Tyler, singer of Aerosmith (Cherokee, Russian, Italian). Donald Duck (United States - Dell Comics, Gold Key Comics). Liv Tyler, actress (father Steven Tyler is Cherokee, Russian, and Italian, mother Bebe Buell is of French descent). The Dandy (British). Tina Turner, singer (Black, Cherokee, Navajo). The Beano (British). Wes Studi, actor (full Cherokee) Tribal Member Cherokee Nation. Batman (United States - DC Comics).

Ronnie Spector, singer (Caucasian father & Black-Cherokee mother). Asterix (French). Robert Rauschenberg, painter (German, Cherokee). Akira (Japanese). Salli Richardson, actress (Black-Cherokee mother & Italian-Irish father). Acme Novelty Library (United States - Fantagraphics). Burt Reynolds, actor (Cherokee, Irish, Italian). 2000 AD (British).

Nikki Reed, actress (Jewish father and Cherokee-Italian mother). Western comics. Elvis Presley, singer, actor (Welsh, English, Scottish, Irish, French, Dutch, German, Jewish and Cherokee ancestors). War comics. Chuck Norris, actor and martial artist (both parents are half Cherokee and half Irish). Science-fiction comics. Joe Nichols, country singer. Satiric comics.

Wayne Newton, actor and singer (Irish-Powhatan father and German-Cherokee mother)　. Romance comics. Charlie Musselwhite, blues harmonica player and bandleader. Religious comics. Mandy Moore, singer and actrees (English, Irish, Cherokee). Journalistic comics. Demi Moore, actress (Welsh, French, and Cherokee heritage). Humor comics.

Karen McDougal, model, Playboy Playmate of the Year 1998 (Cherokee and Irish ancestors). Horror comics. Hawk Littlejohn, Native American flute maker and player. Historical comics. Sonny Landham, Hollywood and pornographic actor (Cherokee and Seminole). Dramatic adventure comics. Eartha Kitt, singer (Caucasian father & Black-Cherokee mother). Crime comics.

Val Kilmer, actor (Mongolian, Irish, Scottish, Cherokee, German, Sephardic, Swedish ancestors, paternal great-grandmother was Cherokee). Autobiographical comics. Michael Jackson, singer (Black, Cherokee). Anthromorphic/funny animal comics (see also furry). Jimi Hendrix, guitarist, singer (Black, Caucasian, Cherokee). Adaptations of narratives in other media, often movies. Rebecca Gayheart, actress (Irish, Italian, German and Cherokee descent). Action/adventure comics (of which superhero is a sub-genre).

James Garner, actor. Political and religious comics. Shannon Elizabeth, actress (Syrian-Lebanese father and mixed Cherokee mother). Adult comics. Jerry Ellis, nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for his 1991 book Walking the Trail, One Man's Journey Along the Cherokee Trail of Tears. Alternative comics. Carmen Electra, actress (Irish, German, Cherokee). Underground comics.

Johnny Depp, actor (mother half-Irish/half-Cherokee, father German). Tijuana bible (aka 8-pagers). Kevin Costner, actor (Cherokee, Irish, German). Brazilian comics - Histórias em Quadrinhos, HQ. Rita Coolidge, singer. Italian comics - Fumetti. Ward Churchill, activist, writer and academic claims Cherokee ancestry on his mother's side although this disputed (see article) Ward Churchills membership in the United Keetoowah was revoked based on false claims of his Cherokee Ancestry according to a news release issued by the Tribal Council of the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians. Franco-Belgian comics - Bande Dessinée, BD.

Bryan Callen, actor (1/2 Cherokee, 1/4 Scottish, 1/4 Irish). European comics