From an indie book about mental health to bestselling books of renowned newspaper comics, these are the best comic strip collections. Hal Foster first pitched the idea of Prince Valiant to ...
Comics have been running in American newspapers since the 1890s, when they were marketed to urban audiences who didn't necessarily speak English. The longest-running strip, The Katzenjammer Kids, ...
The variety of comic strip themes and genres respond to different and individual interests ... By the 1920s two American innovations had greatly expanded the readership of the newspaper comic: the use ...
“People still read the newspaper, so those books were essentially being advertised by the comic strips every day.” For the writer and cartoonist Jeff Kinney, the daily strips — and the books ...