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

The 1990s were a golden age for comic strips. Newspapers during the '90s featured some of the most famous comic strips of all time, from long-running strips like Peanuts and Doonesbury to staples ...

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 ...