“Those in Washington have almost overlooked one of the niftiest propaganda mediums to be found in the USA—newspaper comic strips,” Crane wrote in a 1942 letter pitching his services to Elmer ...

In short order, advertisers began presenting their pitches in the form of comic strips. A decade later ... the effort as "purely political propaganda…designed entirely to promote a fourth ...

What are cold war comics? In American newspapers ... against one Communist menace or another. Some of these strips also serve as propaganda for the armed forces. This does not mean that they are ...

This is another wartime organization taking a different approach to comic books and propaganda. The WWB was embedding its stories inside commercial comic books, publishing them in English ...

By Brian Raftery One morning in early 1985, the comic strip creator Berkeley Breathed received a call from an unlikely fan: Ronald Reagan. Breathed had started “Bloom County,” the wily tale of ...