Twain appeared in a comic strip story featuring The Phantom. The story featured the 16th Phantom meeting Twain in the Wild West.
In the 2009 webcomic Homestuck, Mark Twain is depicted as Colonel Sassacre.
Clemens appears in "Three Septembers and a January", issue 31 of The Sandman. Set in September 1864, Clemens is a journalist in San Francisco who strikes up a friendship with Emperor Norton I. After Clemens tells Norton his story about a jumping frog, the Emperor encourages Clemens to publish it.[4]
The Adventures of Mark Twain (1985), a Claymation fantasy film, focuses on Twain trying to "keep his appointment" with Halley's Comet, as he was born under Halley's Comet and said he would die upon its return, which he did. Twain was voiced here by James Whitmore.
Disney made a 1991 film titled Mark Twain and Me,[5] based on his acquaintance with young girl Dorothy Quick, during the final years of his life. Twain inspired Dorothy to later become an author. Jason Robards played Twain.
Dennis O'Connor voiced Twain in the 1998 IMAX documentary Mark Twain's America, directed by Stephen Low.
Nathan Osgood portrayed Twain in the 2018 comedy Holmes & Watson.
Literature
Singer/songwriter Jimmy Buffett gives Twain a nod in his own literature, most notably by naming a main character's horse Mr. Twain.[citation needed]
Sam Clemens is one of the main characters of the Riverworld science fiction series by Philip José Farmer (1971–1983), depicting the posthumous career of various famous people resurrected at the banks of a mighty river in a mysterious world . In particular, the second book of the series, The Fabulous Riverboat, describes the quest of the character Clemens to build a paddle-boat to travel the vast river, with many echoes from the life of the real Clemens.
Winston Churchill recounts being introduced by Mark Twain during his American lecture tour following the Boer War, and writes of making his friendship.[citation needed]
Clemens is a major character in Peter J. Heck's series of historical mysteries in which Clemens hires a travel secretary before leaving on a lecture tour, which provides a variety of settings (such as New Orleans and London) through the course of six books. The secretary, Wentworth Cabot, is the series' narrator as well as a prime player/suspect in each adventure. With Cabot, or to clear him, Clemens gets involved and uses detective skills, his intelligence and his insight into human nature to solve each mystery. The title of each volume is a spin on a work by Twain: Death on the Mississippi (1996), an homage to Life on the Mississippi; A Connecticut Yankee in Criminal Court (1997) for A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court; The Prince and the Prosecutor (1998) for The Prince and the Pauper; The Guilty Abroad (1999) for The Innocents Abroad; The Mysterious Strangler (2000) for The Mysterious Stranger; and Tom’s Lawyer (2001) for The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
Mark Twain appears in Joe R. Lansdale's Flaming Zeppelins: The Adventures of Ned the Seal (2010), an omnibus of Lansdale's novels Zeppelins West and Flaming London.
Samuel Clemens is a character in Kirk Mitchell's novel Never the Twain (1987), in which Howard Hart, the last living descendant of Western writer Bret Harte, a contemporary of Twain, travels back in time in an attempt to prevent Twain's literary career from taking off and overshadowing his ancestor's.
Samuel Clemens is a main character in Dan Simmons's Fires of Eden (1994). The main protagonist, Eleanor, follows in her aunt's footsteps, recreating a journey Aunt Kidder took with Clemens to the volcanoes on the Big Island of the then-Sandwich Islands (now Hawaii). The book alternates between Eleanor's modern day experiences and the events described in the diary.
Samuel Clemens appears in the alternate history novel How Few Remain (1997) as part of the Southern Victory Series by Harry Turtledove, in which one of the side-effects of the Confederacy's winning the American Civil War (known as the War of Succession in the series) in 1862 is that Clemens remains in San Francisco and becomes a newspaper editor there rather than an author, and never takes up a literary career or the pen name Mark Twain. When the Union and Confederate States go to war again during the Second Mexican War from 1881-1882 with the United Kingdom and France siding with the Confederacy, he writes many a scathing editorial. In this history he marries a different wife than in our history and has different children - one of whom, a daughter named Ophelia, appears in a sequel as a famous journalist herself.
Music
Singer/songwriter Jimmy Buffett has written three songs based on Twain's travelogue, Following the Equator ("That's What Livin' is to Me",[which?] "Take Another Road",[which?] and "Remittance Man"[which?]) and has paraphrased Twain in other songs.[which?]
The webcomic series Achewood features Mark Twain as a character in one of the strip's story arcs. This arc features a narrative written in an imitation of Mark Twain's style, as Twain journals his encounter with two of the strip's central characters, who time-traveled from the modern day to the late 19th century.[citation needed]
On December 4, 1985, the United States Postal Service issued a stamped envelope for "Mark Twain and Halley's Comet", noting the connection with Twain's birth, his death, and the comet.[8][9]
On June 25, 2011, the Postal Service released a Forever stamp in his honor.[10]
Sculptures
A statue of Mark Twain stands in his native town of Hannibal, Missouri, and was erected in 1913, three years after his death.
A statue of Mark Twain, and another of his wife Olivia, stands at Elmira College. The college library also has a statue of Twain seated on a bench.
A seated state of Twain on a bench was installed outside of the Finney County Library in Garden City, Kansas
Stage productions
Actor Hal Holbrook performed his one-man show Mark Twain Tonight! annually from 1959 to 2017, with each show presenting somewhat different Twain content.
Meteorologist Mike Randall has performed his own one-man show, Mark Twain Live!, since the early 1970s.
Actor Val Kilmer played Mark Twain in a traveling one-man show in 2017 that was turned into film presentation called Cinema Twain.[11][12]
Mark Twain/Samuel Clemens is played by Christopher Connelly in the 1977 made for TV film The Incredible Rocky Mountain Race, in which Twain is pitted in a rivalry against legendary "King of the Keelboaters" Mike Fink in a cross-country scavenger hunt, although the real-life Mike Fink died twelve years before Twain was born. Much of the story and its humor is culled from Twain's various works.
Irish actor Dan O'Herlihy portrayed Mark Twain in the 1979 television drama Mark Twain: Beneath the Laughter.[15]
Three episodes of Bonanza are about Samuel Clemens publishing The Territorial Enterprise in Virginia City. They were "Enter Mark Twain", from October 10, 1959; "The Emperor Norton", from February 27, 1966, and "The Twenty-Sixth Grave", from October 31, 1972
The Histeria! episode "Super Writers" featured a sketch about Samuel Clemens taking on the Mark Twain identity on suggestion from Chit Chatterson. Twain also appears in the same episode as a member of the Legion of Super Writers.
Late Show with David Letterman occasionally features a segment titled "Mark Twain Tonight", in which a man dressed as Mark Twain does a short comedy solo while sitting on a rocking chair.
The two-part Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Time's Arrow Pt. 1 & 2" (1992), features a fictionalized version of Mark Twain, played by Jerry Hardin, in which the crew of the starship Enterprise pursues malevolent alien life forms through a time portal to 1893 San Francisco, where their secretive actions arouse the suspicions of Samuel Clemens.
John Cullum plays Twain in a Season 4 episode of Touched by an Angel, “It Came Upon a Midnight Clear.”[16] The story was published as an illustrated novel on December 26, 1999.[17]
Cameron Daddo plays Samuel Clemens in the 2003 Riverworld feature-length pilot for the SciFi Channel.[18]Mark Deklin plays Samuel Clemens in the 2010 reboot, a Riverworld miniseries. See Literature, above, for the Riverworld novels.
A character named after Twain appears in Bungou Stray Dogs (2012), first debuting in chapter 18. The character has an ability named after Twain's Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn novels called "Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer". Hiroyuki Yoshino voices him in the anime adaptation.
Christopher Stone guest starred as Sam Clemens in the season two "Father Murphy" episode "Stopover in a One Horse Town" as a visiting newspaper editor who befriends two boys from the Gold Hill orphanage and gathers story ideas from their antics.
Awards
Awards in his name proliferate:
The Mark Twain Award is an award given annually to a book for children in grades four through eight by the Missouri Association of School Librarians.
Stetson University in DeLand, Florida sponsors the Mark Twain Young Authors' Workshop each summer in collaboration with the Mark Twain Boyhood Home & Museum in Hannibal. The program is open to young authors in grades five through eight.[21] The museum sponsors the Mark Twain Creative Teaching Award.[22]
The Mark Twain Bret Harte Historic Trail in Tuolumne County, California, is named after both writers. A plaque (Marker Number 431) was erected in 1948 by the California Centinal Commission.[24]
Mark Twain Cave in Hannibal, Missouri, the real-life cave that inspired Twain's tale of a lost Tom and Becky
Mark Twain High School operated from 1921 to 1965 in Stotesbury, West Virginia. The school was named by the junior high school students who would be attending the school. Its sports teams were the Authors. U. S. Senator Robert C. Byrd was the valedictorian in 1934.
Mark Twain Cabin on Mark Twain Bret Hart Trail (erected by Tuolumne County Chamber of Commerce in 1926), was a stopping place for packers carrying supplies to miners and the site where Twain wrote "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County", from notes made at Angels Camp Tavern.
Mark Twain Family Cabin, believed to have belonged to Twain's father, John Marshall Clemens, and may have been where the author's older siblings were born and where Twain was conceived (the Clemens family moved to Missouri a few months before he was born). The cabin was originally located in the Possum Trot community in Fentress County, Tennessee, where John Clemens served as a postmaster and circuit court clerk. The cabin's chimney was added around 1905. The Museum of Appalachia purchased and moved the cabin to the museum in 1995.
Mark Twain House and Museum, the family home Samuel Langhorne Clemens (a.k.a. Mark Twain) had built in Hartford, Connecticut and where he and his wife Olivia ("Livy") raised their three daughters from 1874 to 1891, is preserved and open to visitors. In 1962, it was declared National Historic Landmark.
Mark Twain Memorial Bridge, the name for two bridges over the Mississippi River at Hannibal, Missouri, Twain's childhood home
"Thatcher House", said to be the inspiration for his fictional character Becky Thatcher,[citation needed] is the home of Twain's childhood friend Laura Hawkins
In May 2007, a painstaking reconstruction of the home of Tom Blankenship, the inspiration for Huckleberry Finn, was opened to the public.[citation needed]
