Comic Strip

Peanuts is a syndicated daily and Sunday comic strip written and illustrated by Charles M. Schulz, which ran from October 2, 1950, to February 13, 2000 (the day after Schulz's death), continuing in reruns afterward. The strip is considered to be one of the most popular and influential in the history of the medium, with 17,897 strips published in all, making it "arguably the longest story ever told by one human being," according to Professor Robert Thompson of Syracuse University. At its peak,...

Bloom County was an American comic strip by Berkeley Breathed which ran from December 8, 1980 until August 6, 1989. It examined events in politics and culture through the lens of a fanciful small town in Middle America, where children have adult personalities (and vocabularies) and animals can talk. It grew out of a strip called The Academia Waltz, which Breathed produced for the student newspaper while attending the University of Texas. For detailed summaries of all storylines, see the...

Urban Trash is a satirical South African comic strip created by Jeremy Nell, originating on 14 March 2005. It focuses on the exploits of urban street life in and around South Africa, and features a regular cast of characters. The strip's syndication medium is largely traditional, although untraditional formats (such as the internet) are used. Urban Trash is read via various printed publications around South Africa, Namibia, and England; as well as via a few prominent South African web portals. ...

Sherman's Lagoon is a cartoon strip by Jim Toomey that is syndicated daily in over 150 newspapers worldwide. It first appeared in the Escondido Times-Advocate on May 13, 1991. The strip takes place at the fictional Kapupu Lagoon by the island of Kapupu in the North Pacific Ocean, west of the Elabaob Islands in the Palau archipelago of Micronesia. Sherman - The main character and often called "Fat Boy" by Hawthorne. Although not the most intelligent of all the characters, Sherman is a good...

This Modern World is a weekly satirical comic strip by cartoonist and political commentator Tom Tomorrow (aka Dan Perkins) that covers current events from a liberal point of view. Tomorrow also runs a weblog that informs readers about stories of interest, often presented as a follow up to his cartoons. This Modern World appears mainly in alternative weekly newspapers, and is arguably the most popular of the "alt" comics. Visually This Modern World draws inspiration from a retro, 1950s...

Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer is a weekly comic strip written and drawn by Ben Katchor since 1988. It is published in The Forward and various alternative weekly newspapers. Katchor embodied his love of the fading small-business community of New York City in the title character, a downtrodden schlep who wanders the streets taking pictures and being sidetracked into surreal escapades. Strips often depict Knipl's chance encounters with obscure, marginal businesses (e.g. a company that...

Little Jimmy was a newspaper comic strip created by Jimmy Swinnerton. With a publication history from 1904 to 1958, it was one of the first continuing features and one of the longest running. The title character was a little boy who was constantly forgetting what he was supposed to do and ended up getting himself into trouble. The strip first appeared sporadically in The New York Journal, but soon became a regular in the Sunday comics section and was picked up as a feature in other...

Brevity is a single-panel newspaper comic strip created by Guy Endore-Kaiser and Rodd Perry. Brevity originally began on Comics Sherpa (a site which helps beginning comic strips make their work public over the web). It debuted in 55 various newspapers on January 3 2005. Today, Brevity is published in over 130 newspapers in the USA and Canada. There are currently two published collection of Brevity comics called "Brevity" and "Brevity 2". The comic strip's name presumably comes from the William...

For Better or For Worse is a comic strip by Lynn Johnston that began in September 1979. The strip is set in the fictitious Toronto-area suburb town of Milborough, Ontario; it chronicles the lives of a Canadian family and their friends. It is seen in over 2,000 newspapers throughout Canada, the United States and about 20 other countries, and is translated into eight languages from its native English. The title is a reference to the marriage service in the Anglican Book of Common Prayer: A ...

Doonesbury is a comic strip by G. B. Trudeau. It chronicles the adventures and lives of a vast array of different characters, of different ages, professions, and backgrounds — from the President of the United States to the title character, Michael Doonesbury, now a struggling, middle aged, remarried father. Frequently political in nature, Doonesbury features characters professing a range of affiliations, but the cartoon’s editorial slant is primarily noted for a liberal outlook. The name ...

Mallard Fillmore is a comic strip written and illustrated by Bruce Tinsley. The strip follows the exploits of its title character, a politically conservative anthropomorphic green-feather duck who works as a reporter at fictional television station WFDR in Washington, D.C., USA. Syndicated by King Features Syndicate since May 30, 1994, Mallard Fillmore appears in approximately 400-450 newspapers across the United States. During the 1980s, the name "Mallard Fillmore" was used by DC Comics's...

U.S. Acres (known as Orson's Farm outside the United States) is a comic strip that ran from 1986 to 1989 created by Jim Davis, author of the popular comic strip Garfield. The comic was launched on March 3, 1986 in a then-unprecedented 505 newspapers by United Feature Syndicate. At the peak of the comic's popularity, there were children's books, plush animals (particularly of the characters Booker, Sheldon, and Orson), and posters of the main characters. Its animated adaptation was included in...

Agnes is an American syndicated comic strip written and drawn by Tony Cochran. It was first syndicated in 1999. Agnes chronicles the adventures of an elementary school-aged girl living in an unspecified middle-American state in a trailer park called "The People's Court" with her kind yet weary grandmother (whom Agnes refers to as “Granma”). We are not told what happened to Agnes' parents or how she came to be in her grandmother's custody. Agnes is poor and not what one would consider a...

Outland was a Sunday-only comic strip written and illustrated by Berkeley Breathed from 1989 until 1995. It was a spin-off of Breathed's strip Bloom County, featuring many of the same characters. On September 31989, a month after retiring Bloom County, Breathed began his second syndicated strip with a minor character from the previous strip. Ronald-Ann Smith, a little girl from the "wrong side of the tracks" in Bloom County, entered a magic doorway in a grimy alley that looked down into a...

Dilbert (first published April 16, 1989) is an American comic strip written and drawn by Scott Adams. Dilbert is known for its satirical humor about a white-collar, micromanage office, featuring the engineer Dilbert as the title character. The strip has spawned several books, an animated television series, a computer game, and hundreds of Dilbert-themed merchandise items. Adams has also received the National Cartoonist Society Reuben Award and Newspaper Comic Strip Award in 1997 for his work on...