Now, we say “graphic novels,” with some rolling their eyes at the puffed-up earnestness of the name. ... comic strips became synonymous with low-brow, preliterate material.

While nothing more graphic than bones is actively shown, some of the subjects in the panels presented below are on the morbid side, whether through the direct implication of the caption or the ...

From political cartoons to the Sunday funnies, from D.C. and Marvel to Zap and ‘Maus,’ the evolution of an all-American art form.

For Better or for Worse is one of the world's most popular comic strips, appearing in 2,000 newspapers in 23 countries, according to Linda D'Angelo, promotions manager for United Media.

There are graphic novels turned films, such as Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi, comic strips at this year's Frieze Art Fair (by pioneer Robert Crumb and Sarnath Banerjee who introduced the graphic ...

Here's today's half-baked theory. The comic strip is, I'd suggest, principally, an urban form. It's a manifestation of city literature. It grew up in tandem with the rise of the city, responding ...

The Swiss artist Rodolphe Töpffer (1799-1846) was a pioneer of the sequential image format that we think of today as the cartoon or comic strip. His first cartoon sequence Histoire de Mr. Vieux Bois ...

Kessler published comics in the New York Globe and Advertiser, New York Evening Graphic, New York World, and other papers from around 1914 into the 1940s. ... 201 five panel zinc plates are for the ...

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Patrick McDonnell's long-running comic strip Mutts has a graphic novel spinoff. Check out an exclusive preview of Breaking the Chain: The Guard Dog Story.