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.

Different comic strips have been released over the years, but some characters in particular have earned global recognition that refuses to fade. One such example is Garfield.

While always remaining off-panel, the mysterious adults of the Peanuts comics have become the focus of many hilarious moments ...

Comic strips break the color barrier amid the civil rights movement. ... At the time, that was really a brave thing to do in the comics page. Many people thought comics should just be funny, ...

Many comic strips are defined not by their plot but by the hysterical kids like Charlie Brown and Big Nate, ... Charlie Brown's outbursts are notably more funny and hilarious than the other children.

IN an upcoming “Opus” Sunday comic strip, Berkeley Breathed’s affable waterfowl Opus comes across an iPod-toting twentysomething who has no clue what a newspaper is. In the strip’s eight ...

The reality facing the comics section is anything but funny, because with the newspaper business hemorrhaging readers and money, newspapers are slicing the number of strips they carry.

When I was in grade school, they called the comics section the funny-pages, because all the comic strips would at least bring a smile to your face. I still read the funny-pages first thing in the ...

FUNNY THINGS: A Comic Strip Biography of Charles M. Schulz | By Luca Debus and Francesco Matteuzzi | Illustrated by Luca Debus | 440 pp. | Top Shelf Productions | $39.99 | Ages 8 and up.