Jenny E. Robb and Richard D. Olson examine Madge, the Magician’s Daughter by the little-known W.O. Wilson. In 1906 and 1907, W.O. Wilson… more »
Fritzi Ritz Before Bushmiller: She’s Come a Long Way, Baby!
Who created Nancy? You’re unlikely to stump any reasonably knowledgeable comics fan with that question. (If you don’t know that the response to… more »
Whatever Happened to Total TeleVision productions?
The story behind the Total TeleVision studio—birthplace of Underdog and Tennessee Tuxedo, among many other characters—has contained more questions than answers. Mark Arnold… more »
Everybody’s Friend: Remembering Stan Lee and Dan DeCarlo’s “My Friend Irma”
You’re not familiar with Irma Peterson? In the ’50s, she was Queen of All Media. Andrew Pepoy examines her comic strip incarnation (Note:… more »
Excavating Bedrock: Reminiscences of “The Flintstones”
John Province talks to some of the key architects of the modern Stone Age family. When you’re with the Flintstones, you’ll have a… more »
(Not) Home for the Holidays: Milton Caniff’s Christmas Strips
Editor’s note: The following article was originally published in the Henderson (N.C.) Daily Dispatch. By David Irvine Comic strips aren’t always funny—sometimes they… more »
Not a Bird, Not a Plane…
For this post, we depart from our customary practice of presenting archival material from Hogan’s Alley. We recently came into possession of a… more »
Funny Business: The Rise and Fall of Johnstone and Cushing
Dik Browne ran through the lobby shrieking, his bloody shirt tattered and flapping in his wake. Al Stenzel, art director at Johnstone and… more »
The Oral History of SpongeBob SquarePants
More than a decade has passed since Stephen Hillenburg’s porous protagonist established Bikini Bottom as a must-see outpost of popular culture. Tom Heintjes… more »
Ethel Hays, Pioneering Female Cartoonist
Allan Holtz looks at the life and career of trailblazing cartoonist Ethel Hays. The current fashion in academia is to discuss cartoonists in… more »
