Run in more than 750 newspapers, Pearls Before Swine received the National Cartoonists Society's Division Award for Best Newspaper Comic Strip in 2003, 2006 and 2014.

Midweek Olivia Jaimes began what a series of Nancy strips riffing on her profession. While Richard Thompson in the throwback Cul de Sac show us how those unorganized underground cartoonists probably ...

Bill Blackbeard, an early scholar of newspaper comics who created an indispensable archive in San Francisco that helped legitimize the study of comics in popular culture, has died. He was 84.

It’s the end of an era on the funnies page,” says Henry Barajas, who has been writing “Gil Thorp” since July of 2022. “Rachel is the perfect artist to step in and take over the daunting ...

This is a way they can get better and the show will be entertaining.” Sunday Funnies will feature six comics with Kopczynski, 42, who has been a professional comic for a decade, closing the show.

Did you read the newspaper this morning? For many, like myself, the first stop is the comics, or funnies page (“Peanuts,” Pearls Before Swine” especially are my favorites). In the 1890s, two ...

“Newspaper comics, they’re basically there for people to visit every day. Dagwood is there trying to get to work on time. Dilbert is trying to survive in his cubicle. People see themselves.

Other stellar strips continued to attract many readers after 1995, and Watterson notes that in the early 2000s, Richard Thompson’s “Cul de Sac” proved that the launch of great new comics was ...

The first thing John did when he got to our house was pick through the sections of the Sunday newspaper until he found the comics. He read them aloud to us, always starting with Peanuts, so his ...

Next year the total went to $3,000,000. Last year it was $9,000,000. The $9,000,000 was small change compared to the $163,000,000 spent by national advertisers on all newspaper advertising.

Feature Funnies #19, showing initial logo transition (Quality Comics, 1939) Here's what Steranko said in 1970, in the context of having interviewed Arnold for this history: "Arnold was promptly ...