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Since it first hit the funny pages back in 1980, Gary Larson’s The Far Side flipped the whole comic strip game.
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.” ...
Tove Jansson’s Moomin comic strips for the Evening News use satire to explore artistic creation, the role of the artist, and the art world.
With the modern newspaper funny pages so ingrained in everyone's minds, current readers likely couldn't fathom just how chaotic the early days of newspaper comic strips were.
(The Conversation) — Jewish American artists were at the heart of the comics industry – and a closer read of beloved characters reflects fears about assimilation and acceptance.
Jewish American artists were at the heart of the comics industry – and a closer read of beloved characters reflects fears about assimilation and acceptance.
You can find classic Doonesbury on our daily comics pages.” For months, The Dallas Morning News has run older Doonesbury strips on Sundays in place of those that assail President Donald Trump.
Newspaper comics are an original American art form and heroes like Dick Tracy and Dagwood Bumstead are still going strong in long-running comic strips ...
Apr. 15—At a time when digital art and photography — much of it created not just with but by computers — one Cochranton native has found success with traditional drawings in an old-school format. "I ...
It’s one of the only historically disposable art forms — think of those painstakingly conceived, drawn, inked, and colored newspaper funny strips smeared with wet from their hasty relegation ...
Many noteworthy comic strips were born in the World, including Ohio-born Richard F. Outcault's "Hogan's Alley," considered the first commercially successful newspaper comic strip.
If this column was a comic strip, it might show a nervous editor waving a white flag while peeking around a bullet-riddled wall plastered with copies of the funny pages. After two decades in the ...