The Citizen Times and many other USA TODAY Network newspapers are rolling out a new comic strip lineup on Monday, Oct. 2, 2023.

Cartoonist Dan Piraro accepts an award in 2006 in the Los Angeles area. He says his strip “Bizarro” has been affected by changes to comics at the newspaper publishing company Lee Enterprises.

During his lifetime, Bill Blackbeard collected and preserved 2.5 million artifacts of comic strips dating back to 1893; highlights are featured in the exhibit "Man Saves Comics," at the Billy ...

Current holdings include more than: 300,000 original cartoons, 45,000 books, 67,000 serials and comic books, 6,300 boxes of archival materials and 2.5 million comic strip clippings.

Even though some newspaper comic strips have endured for nearly a century, featuring characters with outdated hairstyles (sorry, Blondie) and outfits (really, Beetle Bailey?), who never learned ...

Comic strips are an American newspaper tradition. From Dick Tracy to Gasoline Alley, some of these strips ran in syndication for over 100 years.

Robb said that newspapers had been publishing proto-comic strips and editorial cartoons starting in the 1880s, but on Nov. 18, 1894, a radical change in appearance — and a leap in sales — came ...

But now in the Hendersonville Times-News, it’s time for a comic strip refresh. If you love having your “Peanuts” in the morning paper with some coffee and a sulking “Garfield” and “Dennis the Menace” ...

In the daily edition we'll go from 18 to 17 comic strips. Also in today's edition, we have a story on the evolution of newspaper comics strips, how they've grown and their impact on society.