On the pioneering New Yorker cartoonist.

A profile of “Cathy” creator Cathy Guisewite.

The creator of Wonder Woman makes the case for superheroes.

Elder abuse, secret recordings, shady memorabilia dealings and the sinister battle for the estate of 95-year-old Marvel legend Stan Lee.

Reg Smythe was the greatest British newspaper strip cartoonist of the 20th Century – and second only to Peanuts’ Charles Schulz on a global scale. So why don’t we treat him that way?

As an “angry young man,” Ghost World author Daniel Clowes insulted Stan Lee and Art Spiegelman in a graphic novel’s satirical alternate reality. It was born from a nagging self-doubt that, despite the cartoonist’s current recognition and status, lingers.

The true love story of Peanuts.

By the 1990s, the timeline of most superhero comics dipped back nearly 30 years, and beloved characters were saddled with impenetrable backstories and middle-age. Ultimate Marvel made Spider Man, X-Men, and the rest teens in the present day, rejuvenating the industry and setting the stage for Marvel’s string of hit films.

On Ilana Glazer and Abbi Jacobson, the duo behind Broad City.

Growing up with Charlie Brown.

A conversation with the author of Calvin and Hobbes.

What we can learn from a secret comic strip.

Meet Mark Millar, the brains behind our era’s most violent, ingenious comics.

On Japanese writer Gengoroh Tagame, who creates gay manga work “in the artistic tradition of Pasolini, de Sade, Yukio Mishima and Lolita.”

A consideration of Chris Ware.

On comics and journalism:

Now, when you draw, you can always capture that moment. You can always have that exact, precise moment when someone’s got the club raised, when someone’s going down. I realize now there’s a lot of power in that.

An interview with R. Crumb on how he adapted Genesis into comic form.