When Arriola started his comic strip, words like ‘burrito’ were unknown in the United States Joan Boudreau “Gordo,” August 21, 1966. This pen-and-ink drawing shows Gordo’s nephew, Pepito, pulling ...

As the USA TODAY Network debuts a new comics lineup across the nation, we are delving into the history and cultural impact of this uniquely American art form with experts from Ohio State University ...

Rea Irvin, the magazine’s first art editor, is best known for creating Eustace Tilley, the monocled dandy whose upturned nose ...

Each day, LightWave Reports’ Daily Comic Strips brings together a smart, spirited mix of classic panels and contemporary ...

From the politics of the primaries to the politics of the funny pages, many of us go the comics section first thing when we get our newspapers. I'll cop to that. If you did that yesterday, you may ...

NEW YORK — In a dark booth at the Overlook, which resides in a little brick building that has defied demolition below the skyscrapers of East Midtown, two men were having a beer. The bar was rowdy ...

Gil Thorp, the veteran funnies-page high-school coach, is getting new help on the sidelines. Rachel Merrill takes over the drawing duties on the long-running comic strip, set on the playing fields of ...

There were many amazing things that one could see by joining the estimated 1 million people who came to the lakefront over the weekend for that annual festival of noise called the Chicago Air and ...

There are several abiding joys in my life. Postcards, for example. Yesterday, a friend who travels quite often and who knows my love of postcards brought me several really beautiful ones from a recent ...