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If a series becomes popular enough, not even the creator's death can stop it. If a series keeps going after its original creator has died, then it has Outlived Its Creator. Series that continue on after the creator's death are the ultimate Franchise Zombies. A deceased creator cannot complain about any changes to the casting, style or creative direction of the series. A series that has outlived its creator can (and often is) put through retcons, Character Derailment, Executive Meddling, etc. Sometimes this is simply for financial reasons; other times, it's because the current series-runner is also Running the Asylum. Or the creator passed on the torch before death. It can even be accidental. When a series outlives its creator, whatever comes next has a good chance of getting a negative reaction via "They Changed It, Now It Sucks!" and "Only the Creator Does It Right", whether for trivial reasons or because the new people in charge genuinely cannot replicate the beloved style of the original creator. On the other hand, if the original creator had Protection from Editors and was driving the series into the ground, this may be good for the franchise: there's a chance for the series to be turned around. If the creator is still alive, but the work continues to be made without their involvement, it becomes God Does Not Own This World. See also Character Outlives Actor. |
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Alley Oop is on its fourth set of creators. V.T. Hamlin, who created the strip in 1932, retired in 1971, and his assistant Dave Graue took over. When Graue retired in 2001 (and died a few months later), his assistant Jack Bender took over, with his wife Carol on helm as the writer, which went on until their retirement in 2018. The strip is now handled by Joey Alison Sayers (writer) and Jonathan Lemon (artist). | |
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Animated adaptations/reboots of Astro Boy, Kimba the White Lion, Unico and other works by Osamu Tezuka are still being produced, over 20 years after the man's death. Notably Saving our Fragile Earth: Unico Special Chapter marked the first animated project starring Unico after his passing, with the upcoming re-imagining of the manga series Unico: Awakening being the first Unico manga made after his death. | |
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Speaking of Clark, another one of his well-known projects, Pyramid, was revived the same year he died (five months after, in fact). Though that version sank like a stone, another edition has since popped up and is running on ABC hosted by Michael Strahan. | |
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The characters of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood were revived in the series Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood, released nine years after Fred Rogers' death. The same can also be said about Donkey Hodie. | |
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Versailles outlived original bassist and co-creator Jasmine You for around two years after his death before going on hiatus—to reform as a new band consisting of every one of the surviving members except the vocalist. | |
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Hi and Lois was a strip collaborated upon by the aforementioned Walker and Browne, with Robert "Chance" Browne taking over illustrations after Browne's passing. After Walker's passing, writing was taken over by Brian and Greg. | |
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The X-Men were co-created by Stan Lee (1922-2018) and Jack Kirby (1917-1994), but neither stayed for long in this team book. Kirby penciled and co-plotted all the stories from 1963 to 1965, and Lee was the main writer from 1963 to 1966. They created the team's founding members and a small cast of recurring villains. The series was continued by other writers and artists, who gradually added more characters to the cast. In The '80s, the team gained several spin-off series, forming a new lucrative franchise for Marvel. The deaths of the team's creators had no effect on the team's popularity, because they had nothing to do with the series' direction for decades. The X-Men cast has since expanded to include hundreds of characters, and the Lee-Kirby creations are relatively few among them. | |
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America's Funniest Home Videos has outlived original host Bob Saget, who died in 2022. | |
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Almost anything connected to an extremely popular musician who has died will fall under this, especially if cash-grabbing relatives or estates happen to be involved. Some of the more notorious examples would be Elvis Presley, Kurt Cobain, hide, Tupac Shakur, and Michael Jackson. | |
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Sub-Mariner was created by Bill Everett (1917-1973), who contributed stories from 1939 to his death. Other writers and artists have continued writing Sub-Mariner stories ever since. | |
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I Am NOT Going Through Puberty Again! features an In-Universe example where Naruto, Hinata, and Konahamaru have all ghostwritten new books in the Icha Icha series after Jiraya's death. | |
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Looney Tunes: All of the original creators and directors responsible for the shorts are dead, with the last major one (Chuck Jones) passing away in 2002. The original shorts are still played on TV today and also live on through DVD collections, new shorts, and direct-to-DVD movies, as well as (legal) internet streaming | |
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Vampirella, being a long-runner comic that debuted in 1969 and has had several overhauls since then, has outlived its creator Forrest J. Ackerman, who died in 2008. Trina Robbins, who designed Vampirella's appearance including her iconic suit, followed in 2024. Vampirella comics and spinoffs set in the same universe are still regularly published by its current owner Dynamite Comics. | |
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Supergirl was created by Otto Binder (1911-1974) and Al Plastino (1921-2013). They contributed stories from 1959 to 1968. Other writers and artists continued writing Supergirl stories afterwards, and their deaths had no effect on the character or her popularity. | |
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The Comic Strip Doctor despises this trend in newspaper comics. He believes that keeping boring comics around long after their creators have moved on and the premise has run its course is what makes it next to impossible for talented newcomers to get into the business. | |
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Johan and Peewit and The Smurfs outlasted Peyo (1928-1992) with The Smurfs franchise still getting newer comic stories years after his death. | |
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Green Arrow was co-created by Mort Weisinger (1915-1978) and George Papp (1916-1989). Neither man continued working in the series for long after the 1941 debut. The character rose to fame under other writers and artists. Their deaths had no effect on the character. | |
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Similarly, after The Family Circus creator Bil Keane died in November 2011, his son Jeff (who started inking and coloring the strip in the 2000s) continued to work on it. | |
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Anpanman's creator Takashi Yanase died in October 2013 of congestive heart failure. However, the anime still continues being broadcast with new episodes to this day. | |
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Similarly, Cyborg 009 is one of many Shotaro Ishinomori series to be animated after his death. | |
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Sesame Street (first aired in November 1969) took more than 50 years to outlive its co-creator Lloyd Morriset (died in January 2023). | |
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Mia Ikumi, creator of Tokyo Mew Mew, died of a hemorrhage months before Tokyo Mew Mew New was slated to premiere. | |
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Popeye is still running new strips even though E.C. Segar died in 1938. | |
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Donald Duck: Scrooge McDuck was created by Carl Barks (1901-2000). He got his own series in 1952, with Barks contributing stories to 1966. The titles have changed publishers several times but is still ongoing. Many other writers and artists have created Scrooge stories into the 21st century. | |
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The two sequel series to Science Ninja Team Gatchaman, Gatchaman II and Gatchaman F, were produced after the death of original creator Tatsuo Yoshida. | |
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Family Feud and The Price Is Right have outlived producers Mark Goodson and Bill Todman. The former outlived its first three hosts, Richard Dawson, Ray Combs and Louie Anderson, as well as Gene Wood, who announced Dawson's and Combs' versions. The latter outlived its original creator, Bob Stewart, and its original host, Bill Cullen (the 70s version has also outlived two of its nighttime syndie hosts: Dennis James [d. 1997] and Tom Kennedy [d. 2020], and two of its announcers, Johnny Olson [d. 1985] and Rod Roddy [d. 2003], and now its founding daytime host, and one-time nighttime syndie host, Bob Barker [d. 2023]). | |
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The long-running countdown show American Top 40 has outlived three of its four creators — Tom Rounds, Ron Jacobs, and original host Casey Kasem. | |
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MAD was still in print despite Bill Gaines passing away in 1992. (He's still credited as the "founder" among "The Usual Gang of Idiots".) Also, Spy vs. Spy creator Antonio ProhÃas retired in 1987 and died in 1998, but his strip still appears in the magazine (after several rotating artists and writers, it was taken over by artist/writer Peter Kuper in 1997). | |
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The Co-Optional Podcast has continued after one of its founding members, John "TotalBiscuit" Bain, passed away from bowel cancer in May 2018. Following his death, his wife, Genna, took over his hosting duties. | |
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The lead writer for AdventureQuest (and a contributor for other games by Artix Entertainment) between 2003 and 2017, known to the general public by his screen name, Falerin Ardendor, suffered a fatal cardiac arrest on July 23, 2019. The game continues to receive updates to this day. | |
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Dungeons & Dragons has outlasted Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson. | |
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Momoko Sakura, the creator of Chibi Maruko-chan, died in August of 2018 of breast cancer. Although the manga ended in 1996,*However, there were three short-lived revivals during that time. The first was a continuation of the original manga in 2003, the second was a Four Koma version of the manga in 2007, and the third was a one-shot adaptation of the 2015 Chibi Maruko-Chan movie The Boy From Italy. the anime was still on the air, but she only participated in recent years during Milestone Celebration episodes. | |
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Jean-Yves Raimbaud, the creator of Oggy and the Cockroaches, died ten weeks before the show premiered. Oggy still aired new episodes well into 2019, 21 years later. | |
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Doraemon was created by two cartoonists, Hiroshi Fujimoto and Moto Abiko, who worked together under the pen-name Fujiko Fujio. Fujimoto died in 1996 and the manga ended with his death, while Abiko died 26 years later in 2022. Despite this, the anime still airs to this day with more than 2,000 episodes made. | |
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Blondie (1930), which has been running daily since 1930; creator Chic Young died in 1973. | |
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Star of Africa received an expansion in Retkikunnat eight years after the death of its designer. | |
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Lucky Luke started in 1946 and is still ongoing. His most notable writer was René Goscinny (1926-1977) and his creator and main artist was Morris (1923-2001). Their deaths had notable effects on the direction of the series but not on its longevity. | |
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Password Plus ended up outliving original host Allen Ludden by about a year. Password as a franchise would continue on with three more incarnations, Super Password, Million Dollar Password and back to simply Password, over the course of the next four-plus decades. | |
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Batman was co-created by Bob Kane (1915-1998) and Bill Finger (1914-1974). They contributed stories from 1939 to the 1950s (Finger) and 1960s (Kane). The series and wider franchise have continued without them, and their deaths had no real impact. | |
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Star Trek, whose creator Gene Roddenberry died partway through the fifth season of Star Trek: The Next Generation. | |
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Kamen Rider; Shotaro Ishinomori died in 1998 during the pre-production of Kamen Rider Kuuga. Ishinomori's death is officially used as a franchise era delimiter by the Toei Company as of Heisei Rider vs. Showa Rider: Kamen Rider Taisen feat. Super Sentai: Kuuga is the beginning of the franchise's Heisei era (2000-2019) while the films Shin Kamen Rider: Prologue, Kamen Rider ZO and Kamen Rider J (1991-1994) are canonically counted as the end of its Showa era despite being released in Japan's Heisei era (1989-2019) because Ishinomori was alive to oversee their production. Super Sentai is another Ishinomori creation, although he was only involved with the first two shows in the franchise: Himitsu Sentai Gorenger and J.A.K.Q. Dengekitai. All the shows from Battle Fever J onward were made independently by Toei without the involvement of Ishinomori or his company. |
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The Rolling Stones (began in 1962) have outlived founding members Brian Jones (died 1969) and Ian Stewart (died 1985), as well as Charlie Watts (joined in 1963, died in 2021). | |
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Little Orphan Annie was continued by various other hands after Harold Gray's death in 1968, most successfully by Leonard Starr, who wrote and drew the strip from 1979 to 2000. In the hands of Starr's successor, Jay Maeder, the strip's popularity faltered, and it was cancelled in 2010, over forty years after its creator's death. | |
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Rieko Kodama, a key staff member on the first four Phantasy Star titles and commonly considered to be their greatest contributor, passed away in May 2022 for unspecified reasons during the lifespan of the series' latest release, Phantasy Star Online 2: New Genesis. | |
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The Pink Panther was co-created by David H. DePatie and Friz Freleng, both of whom are dead now; Freleng in 1995 and DePatie in 2021. By the time DePatie died, there was already a second reboot of the film series in the production phase, which, unlike the past movies, actually stars the Pink Panther himself (in contrast, "Pink Panther" referred to a pink diamond in the previous films, with the actual character limited to the intro/outro). | |
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Loudness (began 1982) has outlived original co-creator Munetaka Higuchi (died 2008) and 1992 bassist Taiji Sawada (died 2011). | |
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Crayon Shin-chan: Creator Yoshito Usui died in a hiking accident in 2009. His assistants and editors who'd worked with him for years decided – with his widow's permission – to continue the manga under the title New Crayon Shin-chan (ending the original run with the already-completed 50th volume). The anime continued as normal, under the original title. | |
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Fujio Akatsuka, the original creator of Osomatsu-kun passed away in 2008. Seven years later, it was revived as the originalnote i.e., not based on an existing manga. anime series Osomatsu-san (known internationally as "Mr. Osomatsu"), featuring older versions of the characters.note Unlike his original creation, however, this series was made specifically for older viewers. It doesn't help that this version was the first to be seen in North America (on the internet streaming site Crunchyroll), which may end up coloring the reputation of the franchise as a whole. | |
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Wonder Woman was created by William Moulton Marston (1893-1947). He contributed stories from 1941 to 1947. The series continued without him and the character remains popular. | |
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Dennis the Menace (UK) and Roger the Dodger in The Beano, and Desperate Dan in The Dandy, as their original artists David Law (1908-1971), Ken Reid (1919-1987) and Dudley Watkins (1907-1969) died decades ago. The respective series are still ongoing. Applies to other characters from those comics as well. | |
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Dennis the Menace (US) creator Hank Ketcham died in 2001, and his former assistants have carried on the strip ever since. | |
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The Who (evolved from an earlier band, Detours, in 1964) has outlived co-founder John Entwistle (died in 2002), original drummer Doug Sandom (left in April 1964, died in 2018), and the drummer of its classic lineup, Keith Moon (joined in May 1964, died in 1978). | |
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Bob Montana (1920-1975), the original creator of Archie, has been dead for decades. Dan DeCarlo (1919-2001), the codifier of Archie's "house-style" as well as creator of Sabrina and Josie and the Pussycats, died shortly before the Josie film came out. | |
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The Godzilla franchise has outlived Tomoyuki Tanaka (who served as the series' producer from the first film up until Godzilla vs. Destoroyah), Eiji Tsuburaya (head of the special effects team up until All Monsters Attack), and Ishirō Honda (the director of several ShÅ�wa era films, including the first film). | |
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X Japan (began 1982, obtained these members in 1987) has outlived lead guitarist hide (died 1998) and 1987-92 bassist Taiji Sawada (died 2011). | |
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This includes Scooby-Doo, with co-creators Joe Ruby and Ken Spears both passing away in 2020. | |
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Yu-Gi-Oh! creator Kazuki Takahashi died on July 4, 2022, while trying to save two people from drowning. However, the franchise would continue on without him. | |
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The Ministry of Time co-creator Pablo Olivares died from ALS three months before the series premiered, only getting to see an unfinished cut of the first episode. | |
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Video-game website Giant Bomb and its flagship podcast, the Giant Bombcast, continue after the untimely 2013 passing of Ryan Davis, who was a co-founder and instrumental in establishing the tone and direction of the site. | |
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Peanuts and Krazy Kat are among the few strips that ended with their creators.note Calvin and Hobbes, The Far Side, and some other strips have ended too, but their respective authors are still alive. Peanuts is an especially notable aversion of this trope; the very last ever Peanuts strip ran one day before the death of author Charles Schulz, who specifically forbade anyone to continue the strip after his death. The only things Peanuts-related that are still being produced are adaptations in other media, like new television specials or the 2015 movie by Blue Sky. For a while Bill Melendez, the director of nearly every Peanuts special since A Charlie Brown Christmas, was still in charge of the Specials, but then he died too, which also failed to stop new Peanuts TV specials from being made. | |
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Despite Machiko Hasegawa's retirement in 1974 (With the original manga ending at the same time) and her eventual death in 1992, the Sazae-san anime marched on to become the longest-running anime of all time, with more than 8,000 segments aired, and it is still being broadcast with new ones for over 50 years. | |
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The Ultra Series; Eiji Tsuburaya passed before Return of Ultraman was finished being written. | |
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AC/DC has outlasted lead singer Bon Scott and guitarist (as well as song composer) Malcolm Young. | |
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Aquaman was co-created by Mort Weisinger (1915-1978) and Paul Norris (1914-2007). Neither man continued working in the series for long after the 1941 debut. The character rose to fame under other writers and artists. Their deaths had no effect on the character. | |
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The two comic strips drawn by Jeff MacNelly, Shoe and Pluggers, are both examples of this. Jeff started the former in 1977 but handed Pluggers over to artist Gary Brookins only four years after starting it in 1993. When Jeff died in 2000, Brookins took over on Shoe, as well as many of the side jobs that Jeff had previously done (mainly political comic strips and the drawings in Dave Barry columns). | |
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Super Sentai is another Ishinomori creation, although he was only involved with the first two shows in the franchise: Himitsu Sentai Gorenger and J.A.K.Q. Dengekitai. All the shows from Battle Fever J onward were made independently by Toei without the involvement of Ishinomori or his company. | |
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Isaac Asimov Presents: The Great Science Fiction Stories, Volume 25 (1963): [Invoked] At the end of the collection, Martin H. Greenberg writes a short explanation for why this volume and the previous did not contain any text from Isaac Asimov; he had died in April 1992, implying his illness made him unable to contribute, as both volumes were published that same year (January and July). | |
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Following Stephen Hillenburg's sudden passing of ALS in November 2018, SpongeBob SquarePants continued with Vincent Waller and Marc Ceccarelli as the show-runners. | |
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Hart's other strip, The Wizard of Id, continued after both Hart and co-creator Brant Parker died in 2007 under the control of Parker's son Jeff. Jeff himself handed the strip over to Mason Mastroianni, Hart's grandson, who also works on B.C. | |
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Going back further in the game show field, The Joker's Wild outlived its creator and original host, Jack Barry, by two years. Bill Cullen was named Barry's successor. Revivals were also made in 1990 and 2017, hosted by Pat Finn and Snoop Dogg respectively. | |
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Beetle Bailey is a strip that still receives new issues daily despite its creator, Mort Walker, having passed away in January 2018 at the age of 95. It is currently written by his three sons, Neal, Brian, and Greg, as well as being illustrated by Mike Yates and Janie Walker-Yates. Hägar the Horrible also continues to see new strips despite Dik Browne, the man behind the cartoon, having retired from the strip in 1988 and passing away the following year. It's currently written by Chris Browne with artwork by Gary Hallgren. Hi and Lois was a strip collaborated upon by the aforementioned Walker and Browne, with Robert "Chance" Browne taking over illustrations after Browne's passing. After Walker's passing, writing was taken over by Brian and Greg. |
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Doctor Who has outlived Sydney Newman (who came up with the initial idea), Verity Lambert (who was the original producer), David Whitaker (the original script editor), Anthony Coburn (who wrote the first story), and William Hartnell (the first actor to play the Doctor). | |
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The creation of Felix the Cat is attributed to Pat Sullivan (1885-1933) and Otto Messmer (1892 –1983). The extend of their role in the creation is a matter of ongoing dispute, as they both claimed the solo credit at various points. The last television series about Felix ended in 2001, decades after their respective deaths. | |
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Asterix was originally written by René Goscinny (1926-1977) and drawn by Albert Uderzo (1927-2020), Uderzo taking over the writing as well after Goscinny's death. And by extension, anything by "Goscinny and X"; Goscinny worked as a writer for many artists. Uderzo appointed a new duo in 2013 to take over the series. 2021's Asterix and the Griffin is the first album to be published after Uderzo's passing. | |
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Dick Tracy was continued by other writers and artists after creator Chester Gould's retirement in 1977. This is generally considered one of those cases where the creator's departure improved the series, as Gould had spent the previous 20 years trying gimmick after gimmick in an attempt to keep the strip popular... when he wasn't having his characters go on long rants against the Warren Court's expansions of rights for the accused. | |
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Hägar the Horrible also continues to see new strips despite Dik Browne, the man behind the cartoon, having retired from the strip in 1988 and passing away the following year. It's currently written by Chris Browne with artwork by Gary Hallgren. Hi and Lois was a strip collaborated upon by the aforementioned Walker and Browne, with Robert "Chance" Browne taking over illustrations after Browne's passing. After Walker's passing, writing was taken over by Brian and Greg. |
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Geoff Mcqueen, the creator of The Bill, died in 1995. The series ended in 2010. | |
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Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman have long outlived its creators: Siegel and Shuster, Bill Finger and Bob Kane, William Moulton Marston, and the rest of the DC Universe. Likewise, unlike Marvel, a good number of DC's stable comes from them swallowing other competitors and rival comics, such as Fawcett Comics (the original creators of the superhero now known as Shazam!), Quality Comics (the originators of Plastic Man), and Charlton Comics (whose acquisition in the '80s directly led to Watchmen). | |
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Just Imagine... Stan Lee Creating the DC Universe had the premise of Stan Lee (1922-2018) doing his own interpretations of the DC Comics characters, with a one-shot of new stories taking place in this continuity published in December 2022 (but dated February 2023) and titled Tales from Earth-6: A Celebration of Stan Lee. | |
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Shortly before his death, Heathcliff creator George Gately handed it over to his nephew, Peter Gallagher. | |
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The Katzenjammer Kids were created in 1897 by Rudolph Dirks (1877 –1968). He continued writing the series until March 1913. The series was continued by other writers. The last original strip of the series was produced in 2006, and the series is still in syndication. It is the longest-running comic strip ever, and outlived both Dirks and most of its other writers. | |
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Eddsworld's creator, Edd Gould, passed away on March 23rd, 2012 from leukemia. Episodes would continue under the direction of Thomas Ridgewell from 2012 to 2016 and Matt Hargreaves from 2020 onwards. | |
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B.C.: Johnny Hart's daughter and grandson continued the strip after he died in 2007. Like Dick Tracy, listed below, Hart's death is generally considered to have made the comic better, as over the previous decade he had used it (especially Sunday strips) as a platform for his fundamentalist Christianity. | |
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Pokémon: The Series has managed to outlive Takeshi Shudō, the head writer of the original series (Kanto, Orange Islands, and Johto); he left the series after Johto concluded in late 2002 and died in October 2010 while the anime was airing its fourth series. The creators of the franchise as a whole are all alive and well though. | |
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Alvin and the Chipmunks, well outlived their original creator, Ross "David Seville" Bagdasarian Sr., who passed away in 1972. His son, Ross Bagdasarian Jr., took over the franchise in the 1980s. | |
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Mark Trail has outlived two generations of its creators. Ed Dodd started the strip in 1946, handed it off to his long-time assistant Jack Elrod in 1978, and then died in 1991. Elrod in turn passed the strip to his assistant James Allen in 2014, who drew the strip until he was replaced by Jules Rivera in 2020. | |
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Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Goofy and the rest of the Disney gang created by or under the supervision of Walt Disney (the man), who died in 1966. In fact, we can thank Disney (the corporation) for the current length of U.S. Copyright — 70 years after the author's death or 95 years after publication — for while the Walt Disney Corporation will not lose control of the characters when the original shorts finally fall into the Public Domain, since the characters are trademarked (and trademarks can be renewed indefinitely), they'll still lose the ability to be the only ones to profit on those shorts and films. And we can't have that, now can we? In general, the entire Disney brand has outlived Walt Disney by quite a lot. Note how, out of the ten Disney Princesses, only three are from movies made during Walt's lifetime (those being Snow White, Aurora, and Cinderella). |
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Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune have outlived their creator, Merv Griffin. The former has outlived its original host-announcer pairing of Art Fleming (d. 1995) and Don Pardo (d. 2014), as well as its second host, Alex Trebek (d. 2020); and the latter has outlived two of its announcers: Jack Clark (d. 1988) and Charlie O'Donnell (d. 2010). | |
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Erik Cassel, who co-founded Roblox alongside David Baszucki, passed away of cancer in early 2013, which was confirmed in a community post by administrator Keith. David, however, is still alive as of a decade later and continues to serve as the CEO of the Roblox company. | |
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A Chorus Line and 42nd Street competed as long-running Broadway musicals of the 1980s, and both productions continued running for years after the deaths of their respective director-choreographers, Michael Bennett and Gower Champion. Champion died before his show's opening performance; producer David Merrick famously announced his death at the Curtain Call, without informing the cast and crew beforehand. | |
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Doctor Strange was co-created by Stan Lee (1922-2018) and Steve Ditko (1927-2018). They only worked on Strange's stories from 1963 to 1966. An ever increasing number of writers and artists have worked on solo stories for Strange since then, and the character has been prominently featured in several team books. Strange has never been one of Marvel Comics' best-selling characters, but he has always managed to maintain a cult following. Both of the creators coincidentally died in the same year, but their deaths had no effect on Strange's popularity. | |
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Even after Gegege No Kitaro creator Shigeru Mizuki's death in 2015, there will always be an anime adaptation of Kitaro, such as the 2018 adaptation and its 2023 movie prequel, The Birth of Kitaro. Similarly, a few manga works created by Mizuki Productions were published, such as the Showdown in Mt. Atago oneshot in 2019. | |
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Metroid outlasted Gunpei Yokoi, the producer of the first three games. The director of the original Metroid, Yoshio Sakamoto, is still alive and has been involved in all of the recent games in some form or another. | |
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The Wolfenstein franchise has outlived Silas Warner, the creator of the original DOS game Castle Wolfenstein. Although he wasn't involved with further games, he endorsed the use of the name. | |
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Captain America was co-created by Jack Kirby (1917-1994) and Joe Simon (1913-2011). They contributed stories from 1941 to 1942. Kirby was in part responsible for reviving and updating the character in the 1960s. He also took over the series of the character from 1976 to 1977. But both co-creators had no further involvement with the further development of Captain America from the 1970s to their respective deaths. Their deaths had no effect on the popularity of the character. | |
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The Muppets are still alive and kicking, even after Jim Henson and many of the other people involved with the Muppets have died. There have been several cases of The Character Died with Him that never lasted long, Scooter being a notable example. | |
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