At 21, he's a precocious professional comic: youthful belligerence is right and proper.

Totally agree - these professional comics use social misery and the movements against it as merely a boost for their careers.

Oliff broke into professional comics by attending comic book conventions and meeting people.

"It gives professional comics and those in the business a chance to meet each other," he said.

Curt's background as professional improv comic has helped create a comfort in public speaking.

In 1970, Franz left Charlton and, for the most part, the world of professional comics.

Belgium has more than 700 professional comics creators, making it the country with the most comics artists per km2.

Breeding got his first professional comics work three months after graduating high school in 1979.

At the Comic Strip, auditioners never know what professional comics will be performing with them.

"His presentation is a riot," she said of her instructor, Steve Verret, a professional comic.