Nuclear weapons can wipe out an entire city in the blink of an eye, but what about all the good they can do? That was the pitch from this 1965 comic strip that extolled the virtues of nuclear bombs to ...

An installation view of work by artist Ivan Brunetti and others in the exhibition “Chicago Comics: 1960s to Now.” Credit: Nathan Keay, courtesy of the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago Does a comic ...

Comic strips could easily be considered the godfathers of cartoon storytelling. Over the decades, they have touched hearts and sparked laughter for generations. These simple yet hilarious and poignant ...

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Dean Young started helping his father write the "Blondie" comic strip in the 1960s. He took over the job when his father died n 1973, and he's still at it today. Hold them side by side. The "Blondie" ...

It’s a little known fact—so little-known as to be essentially untrue—that the popular AMC series Mad Men is based on an obscure comic strip from the early 1960s. The strip, Those Madison Avenue Men!, ...

Part of my daily routine in the 1960s and early ‘70s was tearing into the newspaper comic section. Well actually, Dad was always the first to touch the Bridgeport Post. Then I got to look at the ...