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.

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 ...

Comics have been running in American newspapers since the 1890s, when they were marketed to urban audiences who didn't necessarily speak English. The longest-running strip, The Katzenjammer Kids ...

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.

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 ...

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.

“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 newspaper reported Sept. 11 that as a result, its print section would cut back to “a half-page of comics” Mondays through Saturdays.

Comics Newspaper comics hardly ever feature black women as artists. But two new voices have arrived. April 20, 2020 More than 5 years ago Summary ...