Daily newspaper comic strips are not the same, as many newspapers are either out of print or have minimal distribution. Now, ...
When Macy’s first introduced a helium-filled character balloon into the Thanksgiving Day Parade in 1927, people watching from the sidewalks of New York didn’t quite know what they were looking at.
In 1927, three years after the parade launched, Felix the Cat debuted as its first big balloon. Felix was a cartoon cat that was created in 1919 and was featured in animated shorts and comic strips.
Nancy” is back, and this time you don’t need to be a snooty scholar to dig into this American comics classic. Several ...
Black Cat #5 hits stores this Wednesday with Felicia trapped and desperate. Can her mystery redhead ally save the day?
Mark Leckey, “Inflatable Felix” (2014), installation view (all image courtesy the artist and Cabinet, London, all photos by Jonathan Lynch) The artist’s win came just 80 years after the first-ever ...
As a kid in Tucson in the 1990s, Henry Barajas would pick up the Arizona Daily Star, read the front page and skip to the comics section. “I was obsessed. There was just nothing better I could do than ...
Charles Nicholas and future Marvel legend Sol Brodsky deliver a war-era sage directly inspired by the Operation Pastorius ...
Portland’s newest museum is an ode to the region’s vibrant comic arts scene. The Northwest Museum of Cartoon Arts opened last week in Portland’s North Park blocks. Inside the 5,000-square-foot space, ...
An original copy of the first edition of the first "Superman" comic from 1939 — which had been lying undiscovered in an attic for decades — was sold at auction on Thursday for more than $9 million, ...
40 years ago — on November 18, 1985 — a new comic strip appeared in the newspaper: Calvin and Hobbes. Hobbes was a stuffed tiger, but in the mind of 6-year-old Calvin he was a wryly observant ...
God Bless The Child That Got Their Own It’s very possible that the ages of the kids in Crabgrass and Frazz has been mentioned ...