Comic strips Archives

In 1970 comic strips were populated by cute kids, long-running adventure yarns, saccharine soap operas and stale punchlines They served as distractions, escapes, asides. Doonesbury might have started as the story of cocksure Mike Doonesbury and his football-playing roommate B.D., but quickly turned its attention to the war in Vietnam, the Watergate hearings, gonzo journalism, sex,[...]

With an innate inclination to help others and a natural beauty that makes her a magnet for men, Friday often finds herself in some very sticky situations and world-class adventures. In addition to including all 214 Friday Foster Sunday comic strips with completely remastered colors and letters, the book will include a significant bonus section including[...]

The Buck Rogers estate issued a cease and desist letter to Legendary for George Clooney's TV reboot over rights issues; Legendary responds.

A Hägar the Horrible animated series is coming courtesy of Fresh Off the Boat's Eric Ziobrowski, King Features, and The Jim Henson Company.

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

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

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