Comic Strips

It all started when someone wrote to The Black Mountain News of North Carolina to point out a shocking misstatement in a recent Mark Trail comic strip: There was a very misleading cartoon in the...

  Comics very own JD Salinger*, Calvin & Hobbes artist Bill Watterson has been making very very tentative moves to emerge from his hobbit hole, helping out with some of the Richard Thompson benefits, and...

Designer Steven Heller profiles the latest in Pete Maresca's oversized collections of turn of the century comic strips Society Is Nix: Gleeful Anarchy at the Dawn of The American Comic Strip 1895-1915. Maresca's Sunday...

In 1983, the Dayton Daily News accidentally switched the captions for "Dennis the Menace" and "The Far Side".  And then, a few days later, they did it again. So that got me to thinking... Scott...

Artist Stan Lynde, creator of the comic strip Rick O'Shay and one of the best known Western comics artists, has died at age 81. The cause was cancer. Back in November, it was...

Here's a window into comics as social history as Nat Gertler write about this history of Franklin, the black kid in Peanuts which began with a request from a white schoolteacher named Harriet...

As the newspaper industry slowly spirals into the birdcage lining industry, acclaimed cartoonist Derf Backderf (My Friend Dahmer) has announced that his strip The City will cease running in The Cleveland Plain Dealer, which is going to three-times-weekly home delivery among other budget cutting measures. Yesterday's strip was the last one. Derf waxes philosophical about the end of newspaper strip cartooning and muses on his future:

For several dozen people out there, this will be the biggest news of the year. Katherine Collin's Neil The Horse is going to be reprinted by Hermes Press later this year! Originally published in the...

Kerry Callen's back with another of his great super parody strips, this time solving the mystery behind Batman's cluttered Bat-cave. If you've ever wondered just why a rather grim soul like old Bats keeps...

When I went up to the Toronto Comics and Art Fest, I came across Every/body in my search for comics, zines, or books that focus on gender, body issues, feminism, abuse, and similar topics. ...

The annual Reuben Awards were handed out on Saturday Night, and the top award, known as the Reuben for cartoonist of the year, ws shared by Brian Crane of “Pickles” (above) ...

Okay I guess you have to live in or around Brooklyn, land of entitled single child families and artisinal everything—to get Park Slope Family Circus...but maybe not. Park Slope is a region of Brooklyn...