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 ...

2007-01-21 04:00:00 PDT Los Angeles-- "A nightmare," Joe Matt sighs. "All those years, all that money, all that work. None of which I'll ever get back." Matt, the graphic novelist best known for his ...

Adam Bresnick writes for several publications, including the (London) Times Literary Supplement. Above all, the underground comix of the late 1960s and early 1970s were dirty. Unlike the newspaper ...

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 ...

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 ...

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!, ...