Comic Strips

In a story that proves that owning your good ideas gives the biggest payout, R Stevens has announced he's ending print syndication of DIESEL SWEETIES: As of mid-August, DS is ending its run in newspapers...

As usual when we're too busy to post, we'll just try to distract you with pretty pictures. Courtesy of ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive -- gaze upon the newspaper comic strip sections of yore and weep,...

§ ICv2 reports the thrilling news that Fantagraphics will begin reprints of Prince Valiant and Wash Tubbs and Captain Easy, two more incredible comic strips that deserve to be seen once again. Prince...

Thelma Keane, wife of cartoonist Bil and inspiration for the mom in FAMILY CIRCUS has died at age 82 of Alzheimer's disease. "She was the inspiration for all of my success," Bil Keane,...

Funky Winkerbean creator Tom Batiuk remarks on the passing of comics artist Jim Mooney -- it turns out a strip Mooney drew for the comic strip may be his last published work: I was saddened...

Longtime alt-paer mainstay Keith Knight joins the ranks of daily strip artists with Knight Life. The strip covers the usual topics: "political and social satire, humor about daily life, and other elements. The autobiographical...

Cartoonist Stephanie McMillan writes to tell us of several upcoming events: Resistance Through Ridicule: Two Evenings with Political Cartoonists Ted Rall and Stephanie McMillan Kick-ass, controversial cartoonists Ted Rall (www.rall.com) and Stephanie McMillan (www.minimumsecurity.net) will present...

Nancy, the comic strip beloved of ontologists every where, will be appearing in color starting Monday, E&P reports. The strip is currently drawn by Guy Gilchrist. In the first color strip, Nancy will start...

Buck Rogers, the early sci-fi comic strip icon is coming back to the comics from Dynamite Entertainment. Rogers debuted as "Anthony" Rogers in a couple of stories in Amazing Stories by Philip Francis...

Introducing Amazing Facts...and Beyond! Click for larger version.

Jason's new comic is being serialized in The New York Times Magazine. It's called LOW MOON and it's a Western. We're in.

Dan Clowes Mr. Wonderful strip ends this weekend in the New York Times and you can catch up with the whole thing right here. Next up in the Times: Jason! Technorati Tags: Jason, New York Times,...