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 ...

The 1990s were a golden age for comic strips. Newspapers during the '90s featured some of the most famous comic strips of all time, from long-running strips like Peanuts and Doonesbury to staples ...

Robb said that newspapers had been publishing proto-comic strips and editorial cartoons starting in the 1880s, but on Nov. 18, 1894, a radical change in appearance — and a leap in sales — came ...

As a lifelong fan of the comics, I was thrilled to see the interview with returning artist Berkeley Breathed (“Stand-up Comics,” by David L. Ulin, Nov. 22). So devoted to the strips am I, I ...

FUNNY THINGS: A Comic Strip Biography of Charles M. Schulz, written by Luca Debus and Francesco Matteuzzi. Illustrated by Luca Debus. Charles M. Schulz was a complicated man.