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n. (Regional) A mason who specializes in brickwork.
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Brickman is a humour comic strip and character created by UK cartoonist Lew Stringer. A parody of Batman, the spoof features the adventures of zillionaire Loose Brayne and his partner Tina Trowel who fight crime in Guffon City, fighting villains such as the Poker, the Mad Cobbler and Gnat-Woman. The strip's humour uses heavy amounts of puns, sight gags and absurdism.
The strip began in the fanzine After Image No.3 in 1979, before moving on to other small press fanzines and minicomics. Brickman then turned up in his own title published by short-lived UK independent Harrier Comics in 1986, featuring guest pages drawn by Dave Gibbons, Mike Collins, Mark Farmer, and Kevin O'Neill (with an introduction written by Alan Moore). He also made a cameo, alongside discontinued Marvel UK comedy characters in a The Prisoner homage, in Stringer's Combat Colin.
After a ten-year gap while Stringer focused on his other comic characters, Brickman was revived in 1996 in the small press comic Yampy Tales; the character returned to a crime-stricken Guffon City to defeat the evil Mr Cheese and his own sidekick Tina, who had gone rogue. In 2005, the Los Angeles publisher Active Images released a digest size collection of all the Brickman stories under the title Brickman Begins!, with a brand-new opening story by Stringer and Brickman illustrations by guest artists including Hunt Emerson, Alan Davis, Tim Sale and Charlie Adlard.
A new Brickman series titled Brickman Returns, initially with new strips retelling Brickman's early days and then moving on to modern-day strips set after Yampy Tales, began running as full-colour back-up strips in Image Comics/ Active Images' Elephantmen comic in 2006. It concluded in 2009.
Brickman is a surname of English origin. Notable people with the surname include:
- Arlyne Brickman, American mafia informant and prostitute
- Jason Brickman (born 1991), American basketball player
- Jim Brickman (born 1961), American pianist and New Age composer
- Lester Brickman, American law professor and legal scholar
- Marc Brickman (born 1953), American lighting designer
- Marshall Brickman (born 1941), Brazilian-American screenwriter and banjo player
- Paul Brickman (born 1949), American screenwriter and film director (Risky Business)
Category:English-language surnames
Usage examples of "brickman".
The entire range of Brickman's talents, skills and knowledge were now his to command.
It was the same motor that Brickman had fitted to Bluebird and then discarded just before his escape because he could not make it work properly.
It carried two riders: a long-dog called Brickman and his escort, a female Mute warrior from the clan M'Cail, who were the donors of this long-awaited object.
The workshops had not yet been constructed at the time of Toshiro's first visit, but he had brought back sketches of the alien craft together with verbal portraits of Brickman, the brown-skinned long-dog, and Clearwater, his blue-eyed Mute escort.
The dark-haired, brown-skinned Brickman quickly revealed himself to be' an ideal overseer, totally dedicated to the task he had been assigned.
And so it was, as if by magic, that Brickman was installed in a small but elegant dwelling-house, staffed by Korean female body-slaves.
I don't know what prompted her to remove her disguise, 'but she's clear-skinned -just like Brickman.
The gift had, admittedly, been delivered in the guise of damaged goods, but that merely lent plausibility to Brickman's claim to have built it from salvaged bits and pieces while held captive by the Mutes.
Only one thing mattered: he, Steven Roosevelt Brickman, was still up and running.
He was employed by the section handling internal assignments - and two of his current files bore the names of Steve and Roz Brickman.
The presence of mind-blocks suggested that maybe it was not the President-General's seed which had fertilised the eggs placed to hatch in Annie Brickman's womb.
He and his kin-sister were lying naked under a quilt in his bunk-space in the quarters allotted to the Brickman family at Roosevelt Field.
He had let it be understood that if Brickman did all that was asked of him, he and his two Mute prisoners would be granted safe passage out of the country.
For his scheme to succeed and to protect his own position, it was vital that Brickman did not discover the identity of his benefactor.
He could not put the spies and informers who worked for him in Lord Min-Orota's domain on to Brickman's case.