Question: Hardware is a fictional character created by an American comics artist and television what?

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Don Newton: Don Newton (November 12, 1934 — August 19, 1984) was an American comics artist.  During his career, he worked for a number of comic book publishers including Charlton Comics, DC Comics, and Marvel Comics.  He is best known for his work on The Phantom, Aquaman, and Batman.  Newton also drew several Captain Marvel/Marvel Family stories and was a fan of the character having studied under Captain Marvel co-creator C. C. Beck.

Hardware (comics): Hardware (real name Curtis Metcalf) is a fictional character, a comic book superhero published by DC Comics.  An original character from DC's Milestone Comics imprint, he first appeared in "Hardware" #1 (February 1993), and was created by Dwayne McDuffie and Denys Cowan.

John Byrne (comics): John Lindley Byrne ( ; born July 6, 1950) is an American comics artist and writer.  Since the mid-1970s, Byrne has worked on many major superheroes.  Byrne's better-known work has been on Marvel Comics' "X-Men" and "Fantastic Four" and the 1986 relaunch of DC Comics' "Superman" franchise, the first issue of which featured comics' first variant cover.  Coming into the comics profession as penciller, inker, letterer and writer on his earliest work, Byrne began co-plotting the "X-Men" comics during his tenure on them, and launched his writing career in earnest with "Fantastic Four" (where he also served as penciler and inker).  During the 1990s he produced a number of creator-owned works, including "Next Men" and "Danger Unlimited".  He scripted the first issues of Mike Mignola's "Hellboy" series and produced a number of "Star Trek" comics for IDW Publishing.  In 2015, Byrne and his X-Men collaborator Chris Claremont were entered into the Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame.

Jim Mooney: James Noel Mooney (August 13, 1919 – March 30, 2008) was an American comics artist best known for his long tenure at DC Comics and as the signature artist of Supergirl, as well as a Marvel Comics inker and Spider-Man artist, both during what comics historians and fans call the Silver Age of comic books.  He sometimes inked under the pseudonym Jay Noel.

Dan Spiegle: Dan Spiegle (December 10, 1920 – January 28, 2017) was an American comics artist and cartoonist best known for comics based on movie and television characters across a variety of companies including Dell Comics, DC Comics, and Marvel Comics.

Norm Breyfogle: Norman Keith "Norm" Breyfogle (born February 27, 1960) is an American comics artist, fine artist, illustrator, and writer.  He was involved with the character of Batman consistently from 1987 to 1995.  Breyfogle has worked on many different characters for most comic book publishers at one time or another.  He co-created the character of Prime for Malibu Comics, and created and owns the copyright and trademark for the character Metaphysique.

Brian Bolland: Brian Bolland (born 26 March 1951) is a British comics artist.  Best known in the United Kingdom as one of the definitive Judge Dredd artists for British comics anthology "2000 AD", he spearheaded the 'British Invasion' of the American comics industry, and in 1982 produced the artwork on "Camelot 3000" (with author Mike W. Barr), which was DC Comics' first 12-issue comicbook maxiseries created for the direct market.

Donald Ault: Donald D. Ault ( ; born 1942) is professor emeritus at the University of Florida and is primarily known for his work on British Romantic poet William Blake and American comics artist Carl Barks.  He is also known as a foundational figure in the development of American comics studies, and is the General Editor of the academic journal devoted to comics called "ImageTexT".

Sal Buscema: Silvio Buscema ( ; born January 26, 1936) is an American comics artist, primarily for Marvel Comics, where he enjoyed a ten-year run as artist of "The Incredible Hulk".  He is the younger brother of comics artist John Buscema.

Denys Cowan: Denys B. Cowan (born January 30, 1961) is an American comics artist and television producer and was one of the co-founders of Milestone Media.

Supporting paragraphs: Hardware (comics) Denys Cowan
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