Comic Strips

Morrie Turner, creator of Wee Pals, and the first African-American cartoonist with a nationally syndicated strip, passed away Saturday at the age of...

It all started when someone wrote to The Black Mountain News of North Carolina to point out a shocking misstatement in a recent Mark...

  Comics very own JD Salinger*, Calvin & Hobbes artist Bill Watterson has been making very very tentative moves to emerge from his hobbit hole,...

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...

In 1983, the Dayton Daily News accidentally switched the captions for "Dennis the Menace" and "The Far Side".  And then, a few days later,...

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....

Here's a window into comics as social history as Nat Gertler write about this history of Franklin, the black kid in Peanuts which...

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...

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...

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...

The annual Reuben Awards were handed out on Saturday Night, and the top award, known as the Reuben for cartoonist of the year, ws...