comics - Humor Times

Book Review: ‘The Mind of a Horse’

This graphic novel style book, “The Mind of a Horse,” is an excellent way to learn about horses and their inner lives. The Mind of a Horse, by … Read more

CrockerCon 2024: Visit the Humor Times Booth!

By Humor Times, August 6, 2024August 6, 2024

Swing by our booth at CrockerCon 2024 and peruse back issues while hanging out with the Humor Times editor and staff. CrockerCon is back, celebrating all things comics, … Read more

Who Really Invented the Comic Character ‘Archie’?

By R.C. Harvey, May 7, 2022

Funnies Farrago reveals who, actually, invented Archie. THE COMIC BOOK Archie is so durable an American cultural artifact that it is surprising to discover that the newspaper comic … Read more

In Latest Round of Sanctions, Biden Cancels Putin’s Subscription to Humor Times

By Ted Holland, March 4, 2022March 4, 2022

Dispatches from SNN (Slobovian News Network) President levels the most brutal of sanctions yet on Putin: No more political humor for you! SNN political correspondent Proppah Ghandah reports … Read more

Funnies Farrago and the Age of Schulz

By R.C. Harvey, March 2, 2022February 28, 2022

How Charles Schulz and his Peanuts strip re-shaped the comics medium. When he announced his retirement after producing a comic strip every day, seven days a week, for … Read more

Mister Oswald

By R.C. Harvey, February 8, 2022February 7, 2022

Funnies Farrago encounters the longest-running comic strip: Mister Oswald. IN 1968 WHEN A BOOK COLLECTION of Mister Oswald was published, Forty Years with Mister Oswald, almost no one … Read more

Farrago Funnies: Fay King, Prize-Fighting Cartoonist

By R.C. Harvey, January 6, 2022

Fay King: The greatest woman cartoonist, caricaturist and ‘kidder’ in the world — and where did she disappear to? IF FAY KING HADN’T MARRIED A PRIZE FIGHTER named … Read more

Ray Billingsley Gets the Reuben

By R.C. Harvey, October 27, 2021November 25, 2021

Funnies Farrago celebrates the first African-American to get the Reuben Trophy for Cartoonist of the Year. The National Cartoonists Society made history on a week or so ago … Read more

Peter Arno and the Untrammeled Life

By R.C. Harvey, October 2, 2021October 2, 2021

The Roaring Twenties and the Essence of The New Yorker: Funnies Farrago Meets Peter Arno. THE DECADE THAT HAS ENTERED AMERICAN MYTHOLOGY as “the roaring twenties” was created, … Read more

Funnies Farrago on Another Stan Lee Biography

By R.C. Harvey, September 3, 2021September 30, 2021

What Stan Lee REALLY did at Marvel Comics Marvel Comics’ Stan Lee, editor, publisher and comics guru, is the subject of an article in last spring’s anniversary issue … Read more