Fans love comic strips for all kinds of reasons. Some of them have great storylines. Others have spectacular, well-developed ...

“Nancy” is back, and this time you don’t need to be a snooty scholar to dig into this American comics classic. Several momentous incidents have drawn fresh interest in the cartoon character who has ...

As the USA TODAY Network debuts a new comics lineup across the nation, we are delving into the history and cultural impact of this uniquely American art form with experts from Ohio State University ...

A love letter – or perhaps it’s a love comic strip – to Spokane from Stephan Pastis? The mind behind the amusing comic strip “Pearls Before Swine” crafted a clever nod to the Lilac City. Pastis, who ...

There are movies about filmmaking, and novels about professors of literature, but there aren’t many comic-book biographies of cartoonists. Enter Bill Griffith, who, as the creator of a character ...

Even though some newspaper comic strips have endured for nearly a century, featuring characters with outdated hairstyles (sorry, Blondie) and outfits (really, Beetle Bailey?), who never learned not to ...

Richard F. Outcault's goofy, nightshirt-wearing, smart-alecky tyke became the breakout star of the newspaper strip Hogan's Alley, which debuted in 1895. As you may have heard (AND I DEARLY HOPE YOU ...

Harrisonburg resident John Rose knew from a young age that he wanted to become a cartoonist, and, as an adult, he became one, ...