The reality facing the comics section is anything but funny, because with the newspaper business hemorrhaging readers and money, newspapers are slicing the number of strips they carry.

But in recent weeks, when a handful of daily newspaper cartoonists began running strips inspired by the coronavirus, it felt unusually vibrant and immediate; we spoke with six of them. These are ...

Since it first hit the funny pages back in 1980, Gary Larson’s The Far Side flipped the whole comic strip game.

Life after 60 may not be all laughs. But it’s proving to be fertile territory for the wit and insights of Andy Landorf and John Colquhoun, the funny creators of The New 60, a twice-a-week comic ...

At 54 years of age, the fabulously successful proprietor of the world-famous “Joe Palooka” newspaper comic strip creator of beloved prizefighter Joe, cigar-chomping fight manager Knobby Walsh ...

Once upon a time, a comic book didn’t need to be dark, grim, or gritty to be successful. Comic books — evolving from newspaper comic strips — were often referred to as “funny books” or “the funnies.” ...

Seattle-based flight attendant Kelly Kincaid lampoons the everyday challenges and frustrations of crewing commercial jetliners in "Jetlagged Comic."   ...

The first newspaper comic strip character was featured in Joseph Pulitzer’s New York World in 1895. He was “The Yellow Kid,” a gap-toothed, jug-eared urchin dressed in a nightshirt.