The Tick vs. Origin Stories. The Tick is the creation of cartoonist Ben Edlund, who started drawing the character for newsletters distributed by New England Comics in 1986.Big, blue, and nigh ...

Most of fans became aware of his existence in 1994, when The Tick got his own Saturday morning cartoon on Fox. There The Tick was joined by assortment of other deranged, G-rated heroes and criminals.