Newspaper comic strips have been an important staple of the American experience since the late 19th century. They have their ...

Calvin and Hobbes is a beloved comic strip, but there are some other major comic strips that are almost as good as Bill Watterson's work.

The first newspaper comic strip character was featured in Joseph Pulitzer’s New York World in 1895. He was “The Yellow Kid,” a gap-toothed, jug-eared urchin dressed in a nightshirt.

As a lifelong fan of the comics, I was thrilled to see the interview with returning artist Berkeley Breathed (“Stand-up Comics,” by David L. Ulin, Nov. 22). So devoted to the strips am I, I ...

Many noteworthy comic strips were born in the World, including Ohio-born Richard F. Outcault's "Hogan's Alley," considered the first commercially successful newspaper comic strip.

A Hoarder for History: Comic-Strip Archivist Bill Blackbeard, 1926-2011 Comics archivist Bill Blackbeard died last month, a man whose lifelong dedication to preserving the earliest examples of ...