Dreamers Rise

Three installments from Anne Barnetson's droll comic about the adventures of a lupine bookshop clerk. Having served in that role for ma...

His face each downward held; their mouth the cold, Their eyes express'd the dolour of their heart. "B.R.T.'s Icy Inferno...

From George Herriman's Krazy Kat, April 23, 1921. Click to enlarge the full strip below. Source: the Comic Strip Library .

I'm not sure of the origin of this panel, which I found on Tumblr with no further credit given. Herriman sprinkled a fair amount of Span...

I dust off this piece, which I wrote more than fifteen years ago, in celebration of Michael Tisserand's splendid new biography, Krazy:...

All of the Little Nemo pages below are from the collections of the Comic Strip Library . Click through the images for the original full-siz...

McCay's work had its limitations. His dialogue is, for the most part, utterly lifeless, and displays none of the dazzling wordplay and p...

Now that we may have entered the twilight of the newspaper, this may be as good a time as any to look over some souvenirs from what was, at ...