Author Archives: R.C. Harvey

Barney Google and Snuffy Smith: Billy DeBeck, Fred Lasswell, and John Rose
A legacy comic born out of a rollicking time and steered by three artists over many decades. Continue reading

One Good Apple Proves a Barrel’s Worth
Untangling the surprisingly confused origins of Mary Worth. Continue reading

Jud Hurd and Cartoonist PROfiles
A remembrance of the late, great comic strip gadfly, Jud Hurd. Continue reading

Max Eastman, The Masses and the Invention of the Modern Gag Cartoon
A Lost Moment in the History of Cartooning Continue reading

Forty and Counting: Bill Griffith’s Zippy
Zippy, the character, not the comic strip, passed the forty-year milestone late last year. Continue reading

John Goldwater, the Comics Code Authority, and Archie
How a Poor Orphan Boy Invented One but Not the Other.
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