For example, in Dothan, Ala., which has no television reception, comic-strip readership is 68%; in Anniston, Ala., which can tune in on six TV stations, readership is down to 31%.

While the comic-strip heroes teetered on various brinks, Venezuelan editors heard with dismay that a ship with a supply of mats had been sent to the bottom by a pigboat.

Cartoonists marked the 100th birthday of the late “Peanuts” creator and longtime Sonoma County resident Charles M. Schulz in comic strips over the weekend.

The Far Side was a surrealist comic strip, so it could sometimes get pretty strange. In this example of Gary Larson’s unusual sense of humor, a man knocks on a door for directions.

GREEN BAY – Three comic strips will debut in the daily and Sunday editions of the Green Bay Press-Gazette on Oct. 2. Since the late 19th century, comics have been part of daily newspapers.

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 ...

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