Comic strips

Looks like Buck Rogers' trip to the 25th Century is going to be making a pit stop in court. Deadline Hollywood is reporting exclusively that the Buck Rogers estate, overseen by the Nowlan Family Trust, is looking to put an end to Smokehouse's George Clooney and Grant Heslov efforts at their own take on the […]

Hägar the Horrible, who's been plundering comics since 1973, will be making his way to television as an animated series thanks to King Features and The Jim Henson Company, according to Deadline. Based on the Dik Browne strip, the family sitcom comes courtesy of producer and writer Eric Ziobrowski (Fresh Off the Boat). The series […]

Alt weeklies and newspapers in general are in a sickly state right now, and newspaper comic strips are on life support This experiment with the City Paper is a beautiful anachronism I'm excited to see how far we can drag the past, kicking and screaming, into the future.  [Colonial Comics] NF: You and artist James Comey contributed[...]

By Josh Hechinger Welcome once more to From Strip to Script, where I take a shot at reverse-engineering a script from a finished page of someone else's comic. Did y'all catch that #fourcomics wave on Twitter? Jim Zub asked the Internet to name four comics that influenced them growing up, and the whole thing kinda […]

I have never read Moomin even though it has been recommended to me at least 50 times, and that's a conservative guestimate. I have seen Moomin in shops in several countries over a period of years. I have even seen fluffy toys of Moomin for sale. Come to think of it, I have seen a […]

Harvey read several definitions, but concluded that comics are “Victorian pictorial narratives,” which would focus comics to the later 19th Century world.Often mentioned in terms of early comic strips is of course The Yellow Kid, documenting the under privileged immigrant class of New York Joseph Pulitzer’s New York World and William Randolph Hearst’s New York[...]

I couldn't believe how artistically sophisticated yet psychedelic those early 20th century comic strips were I hardly read them because, like the pyramids and Stonehenge, they appeared other-worldly Dick Tracy and Calvin & Hobbes made much more sense to me.When I was given the opportunity to contribute to Locust Moon Comics' ambitious Dream Another Dream[...]

P. Alessandro Polito writes: I'm a musician. I taught composition at the Conservatory – in Italy, is the highest school grade for musical studies – for several years. Often, some books that try to teach you how compose music are boring. Others are very boring. I felt my students were in need of something special. […]