Once upon a time, a comic book didn’t need to be dark, grim, or gritty to be successful. Comic books — evolving from newspaper comic strips — were often referred to as “funny books” or “the funnies.” ...

The comic book business is as hot as it’s ever been. Comic book superheroes are everywhere from movie screens to primetime TV shows to the clothing, merchandise, and food being sold in stores ...

Comic Tom Segura's best-selling book, "I'd Like To Play Alone, Please" Courtesy Grand Central Publishing. The other night Natasha, my adult-ish daughter, asked me to accompany her to a book author ...

From the madness of North Korea to memoirs of modern dating and caring for elderly parents, these books show how the best graphic artists can get a laugh out of almost anything.

Everywhere I look there is bad news. Not uplifting. Negative. Sad. There seems to be a competition going on to see who can deliver the worst news of the day. Let's have a column on funny books to ...

Trouble is brewing at OuBaPo, France's experimental-comic-book movement, which has been trying to revolutionize the genre for two decades. After years of infighting over artistic direction, at ...

"Funny Pages," Owen Kline's first feature, salutes the comic-book fringes of geeks and creeps. ... These two eat, breathe, and sleep comic books. But they’re not into superheroes.