Bill Watterson has a way of creating emotional, funny, and relatable comic strips in one go. It's why the Calvin and Hobbes comic strip has such a firm grasp on readers' minds. The comic strip has ...

Famed comic strip “Luann” from illustrator Greg Evans and daughter Karen Evans celebrate “Growing Up Luann: 40 Years of ...

As the USA TODAY network rolls out a new comics lineup, we dive into the history of the art form and its impact on American culture.

Many noteworthy comic strips were born in the World, including Ohio-born Richard F. Outcault's "Hogan's Alley," considered the first commercially successful newspaper comic strip.

Comics How ‘Funky Winkerbean’ became the darkest strip on the comics pages Over its 50 years, the sensitive comic has evolved from such subjects as high school gym class to suicide, abuse and ...

Sam Thielman writes about the Argentine comic-strip writer Héctor Oesterheld, who was disappeared by Argentina’s military regime during the country’s Dirty War.

In one strip, Mafalda explains to Felipe that the war in Vietnam must be about sex—why else would her father get so tongue-tied when she asks him to explain it?

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- “Crankshaft” is no stranger to serious. Tom Batiuk’s humorous and pithy comic strip has covered subjects such as adult illiteracy, Alzheimer’s disease and school ...

Web comic artist KC Green just marked the 10th anniversary of his 2013 comic strip that became a popular meme. He reflects on the meme's timelessness and the smiling dog's next chapter.

In the late 1990s, six semi-trucks hauled 75 tons of newspaper comic strips, Sunday features and other newspaper and print materials from San Francisco to Ohio State University in Columbus. The ...