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 :
Newspaper Comic Strips 
New collections by Stefan:
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Thank you, i will update these somewhere this week.
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Forgive me for writing about this here, but I didn’t know if there was another forum in which to write to you. I collected a good number of your comics (like 10 or 15,000) from first Comicsworld back in 2008 or something, then Comics for All. What an amazing thing you did. I guess all those links are gone? It really is a shame, but I can’t imagine the work it was.
I know everyone must have asked, but do those still exist? I find that there are still titles and the odd missing issue that I want to get! The individual links don’t seem to show up on the Wayback Machine.
Anyway, thanks for your time.
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No sorry, all of those links don’t exist anymore.
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UPDATE 10-11-2025
Air Hawk (1984)
Air Hawk (1985)
Air Hawk (1986 – last year)
Flyin’ Jenny (1941 Dailies and Sundays – Revised)
Saint (1948 dailies and Sundays)
Saint (1949 dailies and Sundays)
New Title
Secret Heart (1973) (Complete)
All thanks to Eddie Drueding and Stefan
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New strips on my Drive. Scanned by Ger and Stefan; Compiled by me.
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Thank you very much, great work. I will update these coming weekend.
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UPDATE 06-12-2025
Buck Ryan (1938)
Captain Easy (1958)
Ella Cinders (1926 Sundays)
Ella Cinders (1927)
Flyin’ Jenny (1942 Dailies and Sundays – Revised)
Saint (1950)
New Titles
American Air Force Features (1955-1965 various)
Fantagraphics Sunday Press Book – Society Is Nix
Fourth Estate (1949-1959 various)
Laff-A-Day (June – August 1948)
Laff-A-Day (1949)
Laff-A-Day (January-March 1950)
Nubbins (1971-1982 various)
All thanks to Eddie Drueding, Ger and Stefan
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Hi. Not sure if this is the right forum for this question, but I’ve recently discovered the existence of a comic/magazine called Comics Revue, begun in 1984 (originally titled Comics Review), which reprinted various newspaper strips every month. I’d be interested to read some of those – does anyone know if there are any scans available of this magazine?
Thanks,
Dan
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Hi Dan,
Rick Norwood, C.R.’s editor, is ill. He stopped publication with issue 463/464 (December 2024). No one is currently able to continue. I don’t know of any such publication available for download online.
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Thanks for the reply, that’s a sad story. I wish Rick all the best. I didn’t realise the publication was still going until so recently – I was looking at 1980s comics when I discovered it existed.
Dan
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I see only a handful of issues scanned.
https://annas-archive.org/md5/0350eddbed1449b87b7f36ff25fcd644
https://www.sendspace.com/file/u2jqwf
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Eddie, thanks so much for this reply (and your successful reply to my previous query). Yes, these were the only issues I’d found – I guess that’s all there is. But I’m very grateful for your time and help.
Best,
Dan
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Thank you, Eddie! In addition I’ve found issues 13 and 47:
https://pixeldrain.com/l/4fqAdqGs
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There’s a page for the Muppets strip here, but only a small portion of its run. I don’t know if anyone would be interested in compiling it (I’m not sure how you guys do it!), but the Muppet Wiki has all of the strips available…
https://muppet.fandom.com/wiki/The_Muppets_(comic_strip)
Similarly, the Garfield Wiki has all of US Acres up.
https://garfield.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_comic_strip_pages
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Thanks for the links.
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This is not any way a reply but I want to ask because I don’t know where to ask. Where’s the Comics For All page?I used to download a lot of comics from there. Please make it appear again.
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Sorry, that blog does not longer exist and will not return.
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I know how to do the download, I will try these. Thanks, keep letting us know of resources like these.
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Done. Will share the files soon.
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Files matt02b.rar, matt03b.rar, and matt04b.rar under Matt Marriott all download as matt02b.rar
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Perhaps something with your cache ? I get 2,3,4, with the links.
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Merry Christmas!
Almost 3G of new files here, mostly 1990s but some golden age:
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Thank you, Merry Christmas and a healthy 2026.
Thanks for the link, i will download and sort these out, beginning next month/year i will update them to the blog.
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Wish you and everyone here the same!
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Update 22-12-2025
NP Nemo Classic Comics Library Annual 01
Thanks to kingdomwildly49395db7a7
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Hi,
I just want to tell you that I found a site that has backups to the UK Comics, but I don’t know if I should post the link or not. Let me know before then.
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Thanks for asking, no links for British comics indeed on the blog.
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