Feature Articles

The Rise and Fall of a Comics Company

The tale of the Johnstone and Cushing art studio is one of the little-known stories in the industry's history. Explore the time when cartooning played an important role in advertising--with an a--star cast!

The Ad That Made an Icon Out of Mac

You don't just "become" the World's Most Perfectly Developed Man...you have to be bullied and humiliated, and you have to exercise for seven whole days! Read this fascinating examination of the evolution of the Charles Atlas ad campaign, as well as the numerous homages and parodies it has inspired over the years!

Alex Raymond's Last Ride
Stan Drake talks about surviving the fatal car wreck that took Alex Raymond's life -- was it an accident or was it suicide?

The Inspired Mutts
How Mutts creator Patrick McDonnell tips his hat to classic comic strips, comic books, and fine art in his Sunday strips

Coming Out in the Comics
Gay characters have been in newspaper comic strips a lot longer than you think.

Reminiscences On My Cartooning
John Updike looks back on his aspirations to be a cartoonist in this essay written exclusively for Hogan's Alley