Bill Mauldin, 1944 - Drawn while on active service in France and Italy - his cartoons annoyed Patton so much he complained to Eisenhower3mo ⋅ serverlessmom ⋅ r/comicstriphistory
This Far Side cartoon marks the first use of the term Thagomizer, which is now the accepted term for the spikes on a stegosaurus's tail.5yr ⋅ IHad360K_KarmaDammit ⋅ r/comicstriphistory
100 Years Ago Today (May 27, 1921) what is widely regarded as the first meme comic, how you think you look in flash photography vs. how you really look is published in Punch Magazine3yr ⋅ ClapboardArchipelago ⋅ r/comicstriphistory
Tullybubbles... VERY obscure strip that ran in a handful of newspapers on the East Coast in the early 1990s. It consisted of captioned photos from the Tribune Newspaper archives.2yr ⋅ Familiar_Big3322 ⋅ r/comicstriphistory
Violet debut in Peanuts on this day 70 years ago on February 7, 1951.3yr ⋅ Meester_Tweester ⋅ r/comicstriphistory
My love for Calvin & Hobbes is boundless. (fanart contest)3yr ⋅ Slartibartghast_II ⋅ r/comicstriphistory
A comic demonizing MLK with a handwritten annotation. Transcript in the comments.3yr ⋅ Hoovooloo42 ⋅ r/comicstriphistory
Nancy, from August 8, 1959. This strip--not Nancy in general, but this individual strip--was the subject of a 276-page book analyzing every possible detail of it.3yr ⋅ IHad360K_KarmaDammit ⋅ r/comicstriphistory
The urban-rural divide has always been vast, Nancy, 19442yr ⋅ askmeaboutmysciatica ⋅ r/comicstriphistory
Dick Tracy Sunday comic for March 15, 1964, featuring Moon Maid- People forget that it's canon that there was an advanced civilization of aliens on the moon in Dick Tracy!3mo ⋅ YanniRotten ⋅ r/comicstriphistory
When We All Have Pocket Telephones - From England's Daily Mirror (January 23, 1923)4yr ⋅ Corgana ⋅ r/comicstriphistory
Does anybody know this character, its author or where it was published?3yr ⋅ gearup7 ⋅ r/comicstriphistory
Treasure Island, a pan of buttered popcorn, and don't hafta go t'bed till ten o'clock — J.R. Williams's Out Our Way, 19252yr ⋅ AbacusWizard ⋅ r/comicstriphistory
A fake ad from one of the Bloom County collections (1980s)3yr ⋅ IHad360K_KarmaDammit ⋅ r/comicstriphistory
The first Peanuts Sunday strip was on this day 70 years ago on January 6th, 19522yr ⋅ Meester_Tweester ⋅ r/comicstriphistory
Bloom County (1981), featuring fundamentalist preacher Otis Oracle. Also: for anyone who still wants to enter the fanart contest, there's still three days (although if people need more time I can just extend it).3yr ⋅ IHad360K_KarmaDammit ⋅ r/comicstriphistory
One of the most memorable Calvin & Hobbes strips for me, I learned the vocab word halcyon thanks to this!2yr ⋅ 1000smackaroos ⋅ r/comicstriphistory
On this day in 1905, Winsor McCay's comic strip Little Nemo in Slumberland debuted.1yr ⋅ Timozi90 ⋅ r/comicstriphistory
Meet the Rels, an obscure 1992 album by an unsuccessful rock band, now almost impossible to find. As far as I can tell, none of their songs are online. It's notable only for the fact that the artist for the cover, Fang Wampire, is actually Calvin and Hobbes creator Bill Watterson!2yr ⋅ IHad360K_KarmaDammit ⋅ r/comicstriphistory
A Donald Duck strip without any character. Do you know of any other comic strips without any character appearing?2yr ⋅ Neutral_Switzerland ⋅ r/comicstriphistory
Nancy enjoying extra thick milkshakes free of charge, 196something2yr ⋅ askmeaboutmysciatica ⋅ r/comicstriphistory
Tullybubbles... VERY obscure strip that ran in a handful of newspapers on the East Coast in the early 1990s. It consisted of captioned photos from the Tribune Newspaper archives.2yr ⋅ Familiar_Big3322 ⋅ r/comicstriphistory
A Dress With No Pockets (1959, not sure of strip's title or author's name)4yr ⋅ AbacusWizard ⋅ r/comicstriphistory
An incredibly poorly-timed Garfield which ran on Veteran's Day 2010.2yr ⋅ IHad360K_KarmaDammit ⋅ r/comicstriphistory
After nearly 100 years since the last Everett True comic strip, twitter user @choochoobear decides to reintroduce the character for the modern day4yr ⋅ Lunarnarwhal ⋅ r/comicstriphistory
A Far Side cartoon which led to the cartoonist receiving a threatening letter from Jane Goodall's lawyers. (Goodall herself loved it.)5yr ⋅ IHad360K_KarmaDammit ⋅ r/comicstriphistory
Don’t think i’ve ever shown it off, so here is my current and growing comic strip collection!(Aside from Tintin and Little Lulu, but they fit!)1yr ⋅ FlubzRevenge ⋅ r/comicstriphistory
First appearance of Franklin, first peanuts black character. July 31, 19683yr ⋅ LKR15tye ⋅ r/comicstriphistory
The dishearteningly true story of my Bill Watterson original Calvin and Hobbes art.1yr ⋅ tikivic ⋅ r/comicstriphistory
I pulled up part of a old linoleum floor at my parents house and found this full page from November 1951.3yr ⋅ juice06870 ⋅ r/comicstriphistory
Sally the Sleuth, early female action hero, armed with a “single shot lipstick revolver”2yr ⋅ popeyesm ⋅ r/comicstriphistory
Mallard Fillmore (2008), a political comic by Bruce Tinsley. The judge caricatured here isn't a political figure; he was just the guy who sentenced Tinsley for a DUI.3yr ⋅ IHad360K_KarmaDammit ⋅ r/comicstriphistory
My old middle school has had this signed original Beetle Bailey strip on the wall for over 30 years.1yr ⋅ juice06870 ⋅ r/comicstriphistory
After a couple months without Internet, I'm back on this sub!2yr ⋅ IHad360K_KarmaDammit ⋅ r/comicstriphistory
99-year-old comic strip Nancy got a new cartoonist recently. It's now actually good again.3yr ⋅ IHad360K_KarmaDammit ⋅ r/comicstriphistory
The tribute comics on September 11th, 2011 were 10 years ago today. Here is Big Nate's contribution.2yr ⋅ Meester_Tweester ⋅ r/comicstriphistory
Your Hogan’s Alley Magazine Father’s Day Gallery of Comic Strip Dads3yr ⋅ popeyesm ⋅ r/comicstriphistory
Lockhorns started in 1968. Still going, it's distributed to 500 newspapers in 23 countries (per Wikipedia).1yr ⋅ ThePassedPast ⋅ r/comicstriphistory
Schroeder debuted in Peanuts 70 years ago today, on May 30th, 19513yr ⋅ Meester_Tweester ⋅ r/comicstriphistory
Remember, it’s not hoarding if it’s organized. The half of my Sunday funnies collection I can get to without moving boxes.1yr ⋅ tikivic ⋅ r/comicstriphistory
A Family Circus panel from 1980 with some old familiar faces... how many do you recognize?1yr ⋅ AbacusWizard ⋅ r/comicstriphistory
I'm as free from money as a turtle is from feathers - Bud Fisher, Mutt and Jeff (1910)4yr ⋅ sm4llcur10 ⋅ r/comicstriphistory
I tried to identify all 101 comic strip characters in the Mad magazine image posted here a couple days ago, but I only got 80 of them. Does anyone recognize the others?1yr ⋅ IHad360K_KarmaDammit ⋅ r/comicstriphistory
One of only 14 comics from the extremely short-lived and utterly bizarre strip The Wiggle Much (1910).1yr ⋅ IHad360K_KarmaDammit ⋅ r/comicstriphistory
Double Eagle: a very, very 1970's comic about a teenager and his car.5yr ⋅ IHad360K_KarmaDammit ⋅ r/comicstriphistory
Hope this is of interest: Doonesbury strip mentioning my father, Nick von Hoffman (center, ashes) and his typewriter (bottom).3yr ⋅ 13curseyoukhan ⋅ r/comicstriphistory
How big game hunting should be, according to the baby Levi.3yr ⋅ morebartlesshomer ⋅ r/comicstriphistory
Popeye (1986) by Bobby London. London took over as the cartoonist on Popeye when the previous one retired, and got fired in 1992 for doing a joke about Olive Oyl getting an abortion. (More in comments.)4yr ⋅ AskMeWhatToDo ⋅ r/comicstriphistory
Lena the Hyena (1946). Al Capp held a contest (with Frank Sinatra, Boris Karloff and Salvador Dali as the judges) for fans to design a character for his comic strip Li'l Abner. This was the winning entry out of over 500,000 drawings.2yr ⋅ IHad360K_KarmaDammit ⋅ r/comicstriphistory
Wonder-Land (1937) predicts that people in the future will spend all their time looking at the news on tiny handheld TV screens. Not a bad guess, actually.3yr ⋅ IHad360K_KarmaDammit ⋅ r/comicstriphistory
In 1910, Little Nemo visits Mars, and discovers that it's a overpopulated, dystopian hell in which people must buy air to breathe, light to see by and words to speak.3yr ⋅ IHad360K_KarmaDammit ⋅ r/comicstriphistory
An officially licensed Calvin and Hobbes T-shirt, sold for a short time during a traveling exhibition on comics5yr ⋅ IHad360K_KarmaDammit ⋅ r/comicstriphistory
Woodstock debuted in Peanuts 55 years ago today. However, he would not be named until 1970.3yr ⋅ Meester_Tweester ⋅ r/comicstriphistory
Adventures Of Krazy Kat And Ignatz In Koko Land. (Saalfield 1934, 160 pgs)1yr ⋅ tikivic ⋅ r/comicstriphistory
For anyone who doubts that Dick Tracy is the most gloriously violent and nonsensical comic strip in history: Tracy's (alien) daughter-in-law died in a car bombing in front of her family. Mostly because the guy who had just taken over the strip hated the character and wanted to get rid of her.5yr ⋅ AskMeWhatToDo ⋅ r/comicstriphistory
Little Nemo fans, The Complete Little Nemo has just gotten reprinted (downsized from XXL to XL), but still a little bigger than Fantagraphics' Prince Valiant.1yr ⋅ FlubzRevenge ⋅ r/comicstriphistory
I am stumped as to what the joke is in this 1942 Krazy Kat Sunday strip. Anyone know what the missing context is?1yr ⋅ EmergencyThanks ⋅ r/comicstriphistory
Platinum Age Tijuana Bible (aka 8 pager) - Mae West Gets <wooed> By Flash Gordon. Exact date & creator unknown. Info in comments.1yr ⋅ tikivic ⋅ r/comicstriphistory
The Beelzebub Boys, a surprisingly meta comic from 1902.5yr ⋅ IHad360K_KarmaDammit ⋅ r/comicstriphistory
Great Moments in Cartooning: Rube Goldberg’s Foolish Questions (1909)3yr ⋅ popeyesm ⋅ r/comicstriphistory
The Original Boop Boop A Doop Girl, by Helen Kane. Kane was the inspiration for Betty Boop, but when Betty became more popular than she was, she started this comic about herself, where the only punchline is Look how popular I am! (She wasn't. Her career was basically over at this point.)5yr ⋅ IHad360K_KarmaDammit ⋅ r/comicstriphistory
Panel from Popeye, 1933. The word goon, in the sense of a hired thug, actually originated as a reference to Alice the Goon, the character on the right of this panel.4yr ⋅ IHad360K_KarmaDammit ⋅ r/comicstriphistory
Comparing new Popeye Sundays reprint with former oversized reprint, both from Fantagraphics2yr ⋅ popeyesm ⋅ r/comicstriphistory
Art's Gallery, which ran from 1962 to 1981. It used 19th-century woodcuts with captions added at the bottom.5yr ⋅ IHad360K_KarmaDammit ⋅ r/comicstriphistory
In Pulp Fiction (1994), when the main characters change into T-shirts, Samuel L. Jackson's character is wearing a shirt featuring the characters from early comic strip Krazy Kat.5yr ⋅ AskMeWhatToDo ⋅ r/comicstriphistory
Early in Popeye’s introduction to Thimble Theatre, things get hot and heavy with Miss Oyl2yr ⋅ popeyesm ⋅ r/comicstriphistory
Panel from Terry and the Pirates (1939) featuring Sanjak, the first lesbian character in comics. Although she was intended as a villain, she ended up popular enough that some readers wrote in to recommend that the protagonist's girlfriend dump him and run off with Sanjak.4yr ⋅ IHad360K_KarmaDammit ⋅ r/comicstriphistory
Can anyone ID the characters on these Cracker Jack or gum ball machine charms?2yr ⋅ crabnox ⋅ r/comicstriphistory
Mannikinland, an extremely dark comic from 1900. A toy soldier attempts to commit suicide, only to realize he can never die.5yr ⋅ IHad360K_KarmaDammit ⋅ r/comicstriphistory
Fearless Fosdick (circa 1952). Link to full storyline in comments.4yr ⋅ IHad360K_KarmaDammit ⋅ r/comicstriphistory
Terry And The Pirates And The Dragon Lady. Large Feature Comics #6 (1939 - oversized). Reprints TATP strips.1yr ⋅ tikivic ⋅ r/comicstriphistory
Karl and Fritz (1906). Like many early comics, it featured two children playing pranks on an adult. The pranks just tended to be a bit darker.4yr ⋅ IHad360K_KarmaDammit ⋅ r/comicstriphistory
The Phantom (1939) was the pulpiest of the 30s adventure strips. Blowguns!3yr ⋅ popeyesm ⋅ r/comicstriphistory
Another Wonderland. Apparently Alexa existed in 1938.3yr ⋅ IHad360K_KarmaDammit ⋅ r/comicstriphistory
Crazy Quilt (1914). A (literal) crossover comic--there are strips going from top left to bottom right, bottom right to top right, and bottom left to top right, all with the characters interacting when the panels happen to cross. (Each strips is numbered, if you can't figure out the order.)5yr ⋅ IHad360K_KarmaDammit ⋅ r/comicstriphistory
Rudy in Hollywood, by William Overgard. This strip was about a talking chimp, formerly a movie star during the Golden Age of Hollywood, who tries to stage a comeback in the mid-1980's. More strips in comments.4yr ⋅ IHad360K_KarmaDammit ⋅ r/comicstriphistory
Voice For Children, an art project brought together by the Child Welfare League of America, 19861yr ⋅ YanniRotten ⋅ r/comicstriphistory
This book started the modern era of comics. Famous Funnies A Carnival Of Comics (1933). Sold by MC Gaines to companies for promotions. Like most Platinum Age books, it reprinted popular newspaper strips. Considered by panelologists to be the first true modern era American comic. Info in comments.1yr ⋅ tikivic ⋅ r/comicstriphistory
Gasoline Alley Sunday (1925). One of King’s regular dream sequences gives him the opportunity to animate the landscapes and nature he loved to render in the Sundays.2yr ⋅ popeyesm ⋅ r/comicstriphistory
What Can a Poor Woman Do (1910), featuring one of the most...unique art styles I've ever seen.5yr ⋅ IHad360K_KarmaDammit ⋅ r/comicstriphistory
