There's a scene in the Vertigo "Prez" one-shot (by Ed Brubaker and I-froget-the-artist-plus-it's-late-at-night) wherein a friend of Prez's son sees a shot of Prez with Morpheus and asks the kid when his old man met Robert Smith.
Mark H. | Homepage | 11.30.04 - 2:07 am | #

Frogurt? What...?
Mark H. | Homepage | 11.30.04 - 2:08 am | #

If you find a super-deformed Galactus picture, I hope for the sake of the world that you will publish it so we all can see it too.
Rose | Email | Homepage | 11.30.04 - 2:45 am | #

I swear this one is true:

Dr. Gargunza from the Moore-era Marvelman and Penn State football coach Joe Paterno.
Tom Spurgeon | Email | 11.30.04 - 4:31 am | #

The John Cleese JLE character was called the Beefeater, I think.

A couple more for you: according to one of the GL Archives, Gil Kane based Hal Jordan's early look on Paul Newman; and David Mazzucchelli's Bruce Wayne was based on Gregory Peck.
Tom Bondurant | Email | Homepage | 11.30.04 - 5:09 am | #

As I recall, when Power Pack met Numinus, one of them made a vague comment along the lines of "You can't be who you look like, so who are you?"

Although it's probably been over a decade or so, so my memory's a bit fuzzy.
Steve Pheley | Email | Homepage | 11.30.04 - 5:47 am | #

I thought it was super cool that Grant Morrison had King Mob from the Invisibles look exactly like Barry Andrews from the band Shriekback, until I asked Morrison about it at a con and he denied it. Jerk.
Dave Lartigue | Email | Homepage | 11.30.04 - 6:11 am | #

A few recent ones..

Pantha from Terra Obscura certainly resembles Jennifer Connelly.

One of the recent covers of Rogue was obviously (I think) modelled after Laura Prepton, the red-headed Donna from 'That 70's Show'.
PopeImpiusXXIII | Email | 11.30.04 - 6:13 am | #

PAD also had characters named "Edmund Atkinson" and "Baldrick" show up in his run on *X-Factor*.

Plus if I remember right, in the first issue of that run, Jamie Madrox was housesitting for the "Rosenfields", in another Miguel Ferrer connection.
Kitty | Homepage | 11.30.04 - 6:26 am | #

I'm guessing the cutest Galactus would be found in the Marvel Mangaverse, but don't quote me on that. I haven't read it, either.
Augie De Blieck Jr. | Email | Homepage | 11.30.04 - 6:39 am | #

Robert Smith? Morpheus is sooo obviously ripped off from Peter Murphy of Love and Rockets (the band) fame. 'Cuz Gaiman and company obviously couldn't have come up with it themselves ....
Daniel Crawford | 11.30.04 - 7:24 am | #

Steve's right about the Numinus line. The likeness is probably a little more debatable inside the two issues she appears in, but only because they were done by sketchy fill-in artists. The cover (by Bogdanove and Barta) of the issue she first appears in (#51, I believe) makes the connection obvious, though.
Jason Kimble | Homepage | 11.30.04 - 8:23 am | #

Mark: The artist on the Prez one-shot was Eric Shanower of Age of Bronze fame.
Ian Brill | Email | Homepage | 11.30.04 - 8:42 am | #

There's been a whole bunch of celebrity lookalikes recently on the pages of Gotham Central. Reporter Ashley Banfield and Al Pacino come to mind without much effort.
Matt M. | Email | Homepage | 11.30.04 - 9:07 am | #

I think the whole Numinus debate is ignoring the important thing: That Jon Bogandove is an extraordinarily shitty writer. God, I felt like half my brain was destroyed after reading that arc.

In the final (seriously awful) arc of HITMAN, there was an FBI agent drawn to look like Gillian Anderson. Considering that Anderson is rumored to be the one who went apeshit over Charlie Adlard's interpretation of her, I wonder if this ever got back to her.

Of course there's THE ULTIMATES, with Shannon Elizabeth (who gave her permisson as a birthday present to her husband) and Samuel L. Jackson, who knows about Nick Fury but doesn't mind.
Dan Coyle | Email | 11.30.04 - 9:29 am | #

"There are a whole bunch more real-life inspirations for Marvel Family characters"

Hoppy the Marvel Bunny? Based on Frank Sinatra. True story.
Bob | 11.30.04 - 10:40 am | #

Daniel Crawford -- I dunno, its too early to tell if you're being ironic, but Gaiman flat out admitted that Sandman was designed to look like a thin Robert Smith.

--m4
mojo_iv | Email | Homepage | 12.01.04 - 8:49 am | #

Steve: You're spot on about the Numinous line... that's probably the funniest thing about that comic.

--m4
mojo_iv | Email | Homepage | 12.01.04 - 8:49 am | #