28 scrapbooks containing proofs and newspaper clippings (i.e., reproductions) of the comic strip "Winnie Winkle" from 37 complete years (1920, 1922-45, 1950-61) of daily black-and-white strips and ...
Comics archivist Bill Blackbeard died last month, a man whose lifelong dedication to preserving the earliest examples of newspaper comics strips... Much of what we know today about the earliest days ...
Many a managing editor worries more about his comic strips than his front page. Last week Philadelphia Bulletin Managing Editor Walter Lister gave the editors more to worry about. Said he: “Comics, ...
“Peanuts,” the most popular comic strip of all time, was born right here at the St. Paul Pioneer Press Dispatch — sort of. Charles M. Schulz was a struggling 24-year-old cartoonist looking for a break ...
IN an upcoming “Opus” Sunday comic strip, Berkeley Breathed’s affable waterfowl Opus comes across an iPod-toting twentysomething who has no clue what a newspaper is. In the strip’s eight little boxes, ...
Al Hartley, 81, who spent nearly three decades illustrating the “Archie” comic strips and also drew for Marvel Comics, died Tuesday in Fort Myers, Fla. He had undergone heart surgery earlier this ...
As the mind behind the hit newspaper comic Pearls Before Swine, Stephan Pastis appreciates the time he’s able to get away from the drawing board and interact with his fans. “When you’re a cartoonist, ...
Snoopy Museum Tokyo currently has a special exhibit pegged to the 75th anniversary of the “Peanuts” comic strip.
To our readers: Herman's days are done here at The Eagle. We were as offended as many of our readers were by the "Herman" comic strip in Friday's paper, and we've taken immediate steps to replace it. ...
As I am still a child at heart, on Dec. 14 I opened the Sunday comics to look at my favorite comic on the front page, "For Better or for Worse." But the first comic strip, "Pearls Before Swine," stood ...