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Pogo was the title and central character of a long-running (1948-75) daily comic strip created by Walt Kelly. Set in the Georgia section of the Okefenokee Swamp, Pogo often engaged in social and political satire through the adventures of the strip's funny animal. Since...

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...

Penny Arcade is a webcomic written by Jerry Holkins and illustrated by Mike Krahulik. It focuses mainly on video games, the video game industry, and gamer sub-culture. The webcomics are accompanied by a blog. Penny Arcade is among the most popular gaming webcomics...

Penny Arcade is a webcomic written by Jerry Holkins and illustrated by Mike Krahulik. It focuses mainly on video games, the video game industry, and gamer sub-culture. The webcomics are accompanied by a blog. Penny Arcade is among the most popular gaming webcomics...

Geech is an American comic strip, drawn by Jerry Bittle. The strip showcased the eccentricities and foibles of people in small town America. The title character is a lazy and unsuccessful, accident prone mechanic at a gas station. Other characters include Merle, the...

Broom-Hilda is an American newspaper comic strip created by Russell Myers. It is distributed by the Chicago Tribune Syndicate and first ran in 1970. Myers won the National Cartoonist Society Humor Comic Strip Award for 1975 for his work on the strip. The original...

Li'l Abner was a comic strip that appeared in many United States and Canadian newspapers, featuring a fictional clan of hillbillies in the impoverished town of Dogpatch, USA. Written and drawn by Al Capp, the strip ran from 1934 through 1977. Read daily by scores of...

Motley's Crew was a comic strip by Ben Templeton and Tom Forman that acquired a highly devoted but relatively small group of fans during its 23 years of operation. The comic strip in general was about a blue collar employee named Mike Motley and his wife Mabel Motley....

Between Friends is an internationally syndicated comic strip written by Canadian Sandra Bell-Lundy. The comic focuses on three middle-aged professional women and the problems that they face in their lives. Initially Maeve, Susan, and Kimberly were all childless, but...

The Angriest Dog in the World is a comic strip created by film director David Lynch. First appearing in 1983, it was one of the originators of the constrained comics movement. Many readers admired the strip's absurdity, while others derided it as pretentious and...

Mutts is a daily comic strip created by Patrick McDonnell in 1994 based on the day-to-day adventures of two house pets: a dog named Earl and a cat named Mooch. Earl and Mooch interact with each other, their human owners, and a large cast of neighborhood animals. The...

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...

Tank McNamara is a daily syndicated comic strip written by Jeff Millar and illustrated by Bill Hinds. The strip debuted in 1974. The title character is a local sports television reporter who used to be a defensive lineman in the National Football League, hence his...

Arnold was the title of a comic strip by Kevin McCormick that ran in a few newspapers, including the Detroit Free Press, from 1983 through 1988. The main characters were Arnold, a strange, volatile child, Tommy, his well-meaning and clueless friend, and Mr. Lester,...

Frumpy the Clown is a comic-strip written and illustrated by Judd Winick and appeared from 1996 to 1998. Despite the fact that it only ran for two years and appeared only in 30 newspapers (the largest being the Chicago Sun-Times), it had a fair sized fan base. The...

Pearls Before Swine is an American comic strip written and illustrated by Stephan Pastis, formerly a lawyer in San Francisco, California. It chronicles the daily lives of four anthropomorphic animals, Pig, Rat, Zebra, and Goat. Although created in 1997, it was not...

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...

Blondie is a popular comic strip created by Murat Bernard "Chic" Young and syndicated by King Features Syndicate. It has been published in newspapers since September 8, 1930. The success of the comic strip led to a long-run Blondie film series (1938-1950) and a popular...

Conchy was a critically-acclaimed but only modestly successful American comic strip that ran from 1970 to 1977. Set on a desert island, the strip included a diverse cast of characters and addressed serious issues of its time.James Childress (April 13, 1941-January 22,...

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,...

The Family Circus (originally The Family Circle) is a syndicated comic strip created and written by cartoonist Bil Keane and inked/colored by his son, Jeff Keane. The strip generally uses a single captioned panel with a round border, hence the original name of the...

Franklin Fibbs is the main character of and the name of a comic strip created and written by Hollis Brown and illustrated by Wes Hargis. The comic is distributed to newspapers worldwide and is a very popular cartoon. It began on September 6, 2004. The cartoon...

Monty (formerly Robotman) is the title of an ongoing American comic strip created, written and illustrated by cartoonist Jim Meddick. The comic strip began life as Robotman in 1985. It originally depicted the exploits of a small robot who believed he was an...

FoxTrot is an American comic strip written and illustrated by Bill Amend. As of December 2006, FoxTrot is carried by over 1,000 newspapers worldwide. It was published on a daily schedule from its inception in 1988 until December 31, 2006, when Amend switched it to a...

Opus is a Sunday strip by Berkeley Breathed. It is Breathed's fourth comic strip, following The Academia Waltz, Bloom County and Outland. Set in Bloom County, the strip documents the adventures of Breathed's popular character Opus the Penguin, parodying both pop...

Conrad was a comic strip written and illustrated by Bill Schorr that ran from 1982 to 1986. It was syndicated by Tribune Media Services. The main character, Conrad, was a frog who, needing money to pay off his bookie, convinced the fat, dim-witted fairy tale princess...

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...

Eek & Meek was a comic strip written and illustrated by Howie Schneider. The strip began in 1965 and ran until 2000. The strip featured the foibles of two title characters - Eek was an aggressive alcoholic who was always seen with a bowler hat and a beard stubble...

Dog eat Doug (often abbreviated DeD) is a comic strip written and illustrated by Brian Anderson. It began in 2004 as a webcomic that ran on the cartoonist's homepage and Comics Sherpa, and was later picked up for newspaper syndication through Creators Syndicate. The...

Motley's Crew was a comic strip by Ben Templeton and Tom Forman that acquired a highly devoted but relatively small group of fans during its 23 years of operation. The comic strip in general was about a blue collar employee named Mike Motley and his wife Mabel Motley....