Comics archivist Bill Blackbeard died last month, a man whose lifelong dedication to preserving the earliest examples of newspaper comics strips... Much of what we know today about the earliest days ...

My name is Lonnie Easterling, and I've been drawing “Spud Comics” for almost nine years. They're funny comic strips that I write, draw, ink, and color. You can find over 1100 on my website. Spud ...

At the turn of the 20th century in the United States, in the heat of a vicious newspaper war between tycoons Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst, a new art form burst onto the scene: the ...