Since it first hit the funny pages back in 1980, Gary Larson’s The Far Side flipped the whole comic strip game.

Team India wicketkeeper Rishabh Pant and comedian Kapil Sharma were involved in a hilarious banter on the upcoming episode of ...

Fear and humor shouldn’t mix, yet Larson’s Far Side comics have always thrived on subverting expectations, especially when it ...

Once upon a time, a comic book didn’t need to be dark, grim, or gritty to be successful. Comic books — evolving from newspaper comic strips — were often referred to as “funny books” or “the funnies.” ...

"Funny Pages," Owen Kline's first feature, salutes the comic-book fringes of geeks and creeps. If only it were more believable.

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 ...

Judd Apatow's latest movie, a study of the stubbornness of personality, also manages to be a very funny movie. What it's not: one of those movies about a dying guy who suddenly sees the light.

IN 1948, A GROUP OF SCHOOLCHILDREN in Binghamton, New York, organized a crusade against one of the most feared and controversial threats facing America at the time. They weren’t after Communists ...

Comic Art: A funny kind of exhibition A new show of British humorous art will have its share of laughs. But, says Tom Lubbock, there are risible omissions.

Joseph Pulitzer, the New York World and the birth of comic strips. Joseph Pulitzer's sensationalistic New York World was one of the first newspapers to publish comic strips, beginning around 1890.

Remembering Matthew Perry’s comic genius: Funny bone was in his DNA By . Michael Starr. Published Oct. 30, 2023, 7:13 a.m. ET. Explore More ...