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.

"PRINT FOUND DEAD; KILLER AT LARGE." So reads the splashy front-page headline on the 48-page print piece for "The Big Funny: A Wake for the Newspaper Comic Strip." The project is jointly produced ...

Robb said that newspapers had been publishing proto-comic strips and editorial cartoons starting in the 1880s, but on Nov. 18, 1894, a radical change in appearance — and a leap in sales — came ...

20 Best Comic Strips Still Running Today. Newspaper comics are an original American art form and heroes like Dick Tracy and Dagwood Bumstead are still going strong in long-running comic strips.

And he created comic strips for the city’s newspapers. He tried the Tribune but for a decade was unsuccessful. Then he came calling with drawings of a detective he called “Plainclothes Tracy.” ...

Creators of comic strips can laugh all the way to their automated tellers, the Oct. 5 Entertainment Weekly reminds. But some have reached the far side when it comes to quality. The Time Inc ...

Newspaper comic strips have always operated in a parallel universe, seldom reflecting the problems of the real world. No matter what the reader is going through, Dagwood has never had to apply for ...

The Daily News wishes a safe and enjoyable Independence Day holiday to all of its readers and advertisers. The Madison County ...