Linus van Pelt is among the most underrated characters in the Peanuts comic strip series. The little brother of Lucy van Pelt adds so much more to the comics than people give him credit for. Often ...

2007-01-21 04:00:00 PDT Los Angeles-- "A nightmare," Joe Matt sighs. "All those years, all that money, all that work. None of which I'll ever get back." Matt, the graphic novelist best known for his ...

Hans Bjordahl is the quintessential new-media cartoonist. Bjordahl, a 36-year-old program manager for Microsoft's Outlook e-mail program, has also been a cartoonist for years, first at his college ...

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 ...

Newspaper comic strips have an uncanny relationship to the flow of time. They can function like historical records — I remember doing deep dives into my father’s Doonesbury collections as a kid, ...

The great cartoonist Wally Wood once observed that not reading Ernie Bushmiller’s long-running newspaper comic strip, Nancy, is harder than reading it. Its minimalism makes the strip into something ...