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Last week we discovered The Cartoon Factory Ltd. a small syndicate servicing weekly and bi-weekly newspapers that distributed ...
Earlier this year we noted that Advance Publications’ newspapers, known as Advance Local, were following in the paths of ...
Comic book popularity is measured by volume sales, not just single-issue popularity. Belgian comics like Spike and Suzy and ...
Regardless, he is still and always will be the first face to come to mind when people think of the best Peanuts comic strips. Peanuts had plenty of competition in the newspaper funnies ...
Artist, editor and writer Peter Richardson recalls the orign of Ian Gibson’s newspaper strip, “Annie Droid”, published in The ...
What secrets do their comics hold? Which ones are as relevant today as when they were penned 20 or 40 years ago? And how do their comic strips fit into the long, storied history of newspaper ...
I use the word comix to describe my art form not as a misspelling of comics, which would stress the medium’s roots in the ...
The “comics” or “funnies” can offer us a daily bit of humor ... An artist who also inspires a resonating message should be celebrated as rarity. The variety of comic strip themes and genres respond to ...
The Columbian’s managing editor for production turned to me after a daily news meeting had just ended and said something like, “Will, we need to pick a new comic to replace ‘Phoebe an ...
Comics have been in existence since the end of the 19th century, but it was after the depression that the popularity of newspaper cartoons ... A comic strip featuring a red-head named Archibald ...