Welcome on this blog full of information about Newspaper Comic Strips, and offcourse the comics.
The first newspaper comic strips appeared in North America in the late 19th century. The Yellow Kid is usually credited as the first. However, the art form combining words and pictures developed gradually and there are many examples of proto-comic strips.
The Swiss teacher, author and caricature artist Rodolphe Töpffer (Geneva, 1799–1846) is considered the father of the modern comic strips. His illustrated stories such as Histoire de M. Vieux Bois (1827), first published in the USA in 1842 as The Adventures of Obadiah Oldbuck or Histoire de Monsieur Jabot (1831), inspired subsequent generations of German and American comic artists. In 1865, the German painter, author and caricaturist Wilhelm Busch created the strip Max and Moritz, about two trouble-making boys, which had a direct influence on the American comic strip. Max and Moritz was a series of severely moralistic tales in the vein of German children’s stories such as Struwwelpeter (“Shockheaded Peter”); in one, the boys, after perpetrating some mischief, are tossed into a sack of grain, run through a mill and consumed by a flock of geese. Max and Moritz provided an inspiration for German immigrant Rudolph Dirks, who created the Katzenjammer Kids in 1897. Familiar comic-strip iconography such as stars for pain, sawing logs for snoring, speech balloons, and thought balloons originated in Dirks’ strip.
Hugely popular, Katzenjammer Kids occasioned one of the first comic-strip copyright ownership suits in the history of the medium. When Dirks left William Randolph Hearst for the promise of a better salary under Joseph Pulitzer, it was an unusual move, since cartoonists regularly deserted Pulitzer for Hearst. In a highly unusual court decision, Hearst retained the rights to the name “Katzenjammer Kids”, while creator Dirks retained the rights to the characters. Hearst promptly hired Harold Knerr to draw his own version of the strip. Dirks renamed his version Hans and Fritz (later, The Captain and the Kids). Thus, two versions distributed by rival syndicates graced the comics pages for decades. Dirks’ version, eventually distributed by United Feature Syndicate, ran until 1979.
In America, the great popularity of comics sprang from the newspaper war (1887 onwards) between Pulitzer and Hearst. The Little Bears (1893–96) was the first American comic with recurring characters, while the first color comic supplement was published by the Chicago Inter-Ocean sometime in the latter half of 1892, followed by the New York Journal’s first color Sunday comic pages in 1897. On January 31, 1912, Hearst introduced the nation’s first full daily comic page in his New York Evening Journal. The history of this newspaper rivalry and the rapid appearance of comic strips in most major American newspapers is discussed by Ian Gordon. Numerous events in newspaper comic strips have reverberated throughout society at large, though few of these events occurred in recent years, owing mainly to the declining role of the newspaper comic strip as an entertainment form.
I only place newspaperstrips from before 2000, with the occasional exception.
You can access the information and comics through the sidebar.
The comics are mostly in packages from around 100mb, inside these rar-packages you will find the comics in cbr format.
You can view the comics with any cbr-reader like CDisplay or ComicRack.
I did not scan the comics myself only collect them from various sites on the internet, internet archive, Usenet Newsgroups and torrents.
So thanks to all the scanners and uploaders.
This blog is purely ment to preserve the comics and to enjoy them, no financial meanings are involved, if you like the comics buy them as long as they are availabe, because nothing can beat the feeling of reading a real comic.
If you find something wrong (downloads, numbering, information) please let me know so that i can correct the error.
Thanks to the following sites for information :
UPDATE 04-02-2024
Heart of Juliet Jones – Dailies 1953-1957
Heart of Juliet Jones – Sundays 1954-1957
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UPDATE 10-02-2024
Heart of Juliet Jones – Dailies 1958-1962
Heart of Juliet Jones – Sundays 1958-1962
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UPDATE 13-02-2024
Buck Rogers Daily Stories 1-11
With the sets of numbers that prevented a correct reading removed
and stories D04 – D07 – D08 – D09 completed with the missing strips
Thanks to Ar.
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UPDATE 13-02-2024
I’ve replaced Rip Kirby 168-182 with better quality ones.
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UPDATE 20-02-2024
Buck Rogers Daily Story 036 Martians Invade Jupiter
In this story there was missing strip BRO 420812 261
Now complete
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UPDATE 24-02-2024
Heart of Juliet Jones – Dailies 1963-1965
Heart of Juliet Jones – Sundays 1963-1965
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UPDATE 26-02-2024
Matt Mariott 45 Last of the Cattle Barons
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Tumbleweeds Sunday 1993,1999
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UPDATE 27-02-2024
Matt Mariott 01 Vengeance Trail
Matt Mariott 47 Zincville Colorado
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UPDATE 28-02-2024
Dickie Dare 1939-1943
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UPDATE 01-03-2024
Big Ben Bolt Dailies 1963
Big Ben Bolt Sundays 1963
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Heart of Juliet Jones – Dailies 1966
Heart of Juliet Jones – Sundays 1966
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UPDATE 02-03-2024
Matt Mariott 02 Buffalo Hunters
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UPDATE 07-03-2024
Brick Bradford – S021 Cities In The Precipice (461013- 470105)
Brick Bradford – S028 The Way Of Stars (500108– 500827)
Brick Bradford – S029 Shada, Prince Of The Black Planet (500903-510318)
These three stories were launched with some strips in French, now complete with all the strips in English.
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UPDATE 09-03-2024
Dickie Dare 1944-1948
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UPDATE 12-03-2024
Mandrake the Magician – S184 – The Bank Mystery
Mandrake the Magician – S185 – The Trouble with Hobbies
Thanks to Gregorio Esteban Ortega and Ar.
You can find them in the pack Sunday 181-187.
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UPDATE 14-03-2024
Matt Mariott 01 Vengeance Trail
Matt Mariott 02 Buffalo Hunters
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Both updated with a new presentationpage.
Thanks to Leonardo De Sá who kindly informed me that these
stories were written by Reginald Taylor.
Matt Mariott 05 Wesley Greer Church
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Just a reminder.
I still see comments, about not being able to download files. I can’t help that, it can be caused by so many reasons, i suggest to note the errormessage, and do a search on the internet with this message, 9 out of 10 you will find useful information.
For Google, at first make sure you are logged in by Google Drive. In general check or delete your cache. Sometimes a VPN causes problems also. I can only do something when the message said link deleted or expired, all the other errors you have to find a solution for yourself.
When you encounter problems with reading or extracting, keep in mind that not all comics can be read with the same readers, just try another reader in that case.
All issues are extracted with Winrar 6.02, i can read all comics with CDisplayEx and most also with ComicRack.
I use a desktop computer with Windows 10 as OS, so Apple or tablets can cause other problems also but i don’t have any experience with these.
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UPDATE 19-03-2024
Alley Oop 1997 – 1999 Sundays
Thanks to Ar and Mulo Kibizer
Dickie Dare 1949-1953
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Tumbleweeds 13 – Upgrade with the correct 126 pages
Thanks to Ar and Mulo Kibizer
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UPDATE 19-03-2024
Matt Mariott 11 Trail Boss
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UPDATE 23-03-2024
Buck Rogers Daily Stories 37-40,42-46
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Rip Kirby 183-197
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UPDATE 24-03-2024
Matt Mariott 12 Marshall of Fireweed
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UPDATE 26-03-2024
Dickie Dare 1954-1957
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UPDATE 27-03-2024
Matt Mariott 44 Sheriff Hayden
Matt Mariott 59 The Quiet Man
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UPDATE 31-03-2024
Flash Gordon Daily D2 016 Space circus
Corruption on pages 5-8-11-15-19-21-22-23 are repaired
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UPDATE 31-03-2024
Matt Mariott 55 Gospel Mary
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UPDATE 04-01-2024
Dickie Dare 1945
As by mistake the strip of 04/02/1945 did not belong to this character and is replaced by the correct strip
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UPDATE 05-04-2024
Matt Mariott 03 Belle Benson’s Daughter
Matt Mariott 55 Gospel Mary
With a correction on the cover
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UPDATE 08-04-2024
Matt Mariott 10 Ghost Town
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UPDATE 12-04-2024
Matt Mariott 04 Showdown In Dodge City
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UPDATE 17-04-2024
Buck Rogers Daily Story 044 P2 Brain Ray Threat(001-073)
Was missing in the pack Buck Rogers Daily Stories 37-40,42-46
Thanks to Ar
Matt Mariott 13 Nigger
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UPDATE 22-04-2024
Dick Tracy Dailies 1972-1975
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