Anyone can publish now, and there are no restrictions of taste, approach, or subject matter. The gatekeepers are gone, so… [+]
Peanuts is long overdue for a serious reappraisal. Its ubiquitous licensing program unfortunately obscures what a well-crafted, beautifully written and… [+]
The visual attraction of the comics is largely a thing of the past. Until something is done to restore the… [+]
A beautiful strip like Pogo would be impossible to read at today’s sizes. Adventure strips are dead. Comics have been… [+]
To save space, newsprint, and money, newspapers have been reducing the size of comics for years. It has gotten to… [+]
New cartoonists don’t have to reinvent the wheel. They can build on others’ accomplishments. Books allow cartoons to live longer… [+]
I’m convinced that licensing would sell out the soul of Calvin and Hobbes. The world of a comic strip is… [+]
I have no interest in turning my characters into commodities. If I’d wanted to sell plush garbage, I’d have gone… [+]
Form follows function, as the architects say. With words and pictures, you can do just about anything.
The comics were invented for commercial purposes. They were, and are, a graphic feature designed to help sell newspapers. Cartoonists… [+]
We’ve got too many comic strip corpses being propped up and passed for living by new cartoonists who ought to… [+]
As comic strips are printed smaller and smaller, the drawings and dialogue have to get simpler and simpler to stay… [+]