Newspaper comic strips have been an important staple of the American experience since the late 19th century. They have their own genres and subgenres, from single-panel gags to slow-moving soap operas ...

Comic strips have been popular for centuries, traditionally printed in newspapers and magazines, featuring some now widely known characters that hold a dear place in contemporary society and culture.

At New York Comic Con, CEO Milton Griepp painted a picture of an industry entering a new, but still lucrative, era, with ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through the links below." “This is a thing that started in our heads and now it’s out in the world,” Brian K. Vaughn, one of ...

In 1977, the Amazing Spider-Man made the leap from comic books to the newspaper funny pages. A daily strip by comic legends Stan Lee and John Romita Sr. brought the adventures of Peter Parker to a new ...

Each time Teppi Zuppo taught a workshop at the Center for Cartoon Studies in White River Junction, the Vermont cartoonist and CCS grad told students about the Ladybroad Ledger. Zuppo hoped someone ...

I take it to be a matter generally admitted by all who have tried on the mask of comic journalism, that it is no velvet one, but rather suggestive than otherwise of that iron visor behind which a ...

Comic books, more than many printed media, are vulnerable to issues with printing. Paper stock, and image reproduction are more of an issue for a graphic novel than a novel. Bleeding Cool has been ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Paper Girls follows four young girls who, while out delivering papers on the morning after ...

It's probably safe to assume that only one comic book this year will feature four tween girls, two iconic creators and a hugely strange happenstance. Set in the late 1980s, the ongoing series — ...

Over the weekend, Marvel Unlimited released the Spider-Man & Hulk Toilet Paper as an infinite-scrolling digital comic. Mostly dismissed as an April Fool, it really wasn't, because they actually did it ...

Writer Brian K. Vaughan and artist Cliff Chiang have described their collaboration on the comic book series "Paper Girls" as "Stand by Me" meets "War of the Worlds." Yet the oddest part of this period ...