Comic strips hold a special kind of power. Whether in the Sunday newspaper or in a graphic online, they can make us laugh or stir up emotions in the span of just a few panels and speech bubbles. I ...

“Nancy” is back, and this time you don’t need to be a snooty scholar to dig into this American comics classic. Several momentous incidents have drawn fresh interest in the cartoon character who has ...

In the first panel, the skin of the small girl with the spiky football helmet hair is crosshatched in shadow except for one untanned square smack in the center of her face. “How did you get that tan ...

Rarely in the history of comics has there been a turnaround as abrupt and pronounced as that of “Nancy.” As of just a few months ago, no discerning critic paid the long-running comic strip any mind.