Spawn

Noseless undead black soldier with the glowing chains and the prehensile cape, creation of Calgary-born artist [Todd McFarlane]. Spawn was the breakout star of the early Image Comics lineup and consequently due to the coincidental timing of his launch wound up the all-time single most frequently-drawn subject of underground ANSI art. The aesthetic and narrative particulars of the character and his media spin-offs are largely immaterial to his weird prominence in the artscene, but it is worth noting that technically, the Spawn comic currently holds the record (taken from Dave Sim's Cerebus in 2019) for the longest-running (this must surely be measured in issues-released) creator-owned comic book series.