Classic Funnies

The legends of the newspaper funny pages — comic strips that defined the art form and still make millions laugh decades later.

B.C.

by Johnny Hart

Cavemen, talking anteaters and a clam with legs ponder modern problems from the Stone Age. Johnny Hart's preh…

📰 Classic Funnies est. 1958

Beetle Bailey

by Mort Walker

The laziest private in the U.S. Army has been dodging Sarge's fists since 1950. Mort Walker's gag-a-day milit…

📰 Classic Funnies est. 1950

Blondie

by Chic Young

Dagwood's towering sandwiches and collisions with the mailman have been running since 1930. One of the longes…

📰 Classic Funnies est. 1930

Bloom County

by Berkeley Breathed

Opus the penguin, Bill the Cat and a meadow full of misfits skewered 1980s politics and pop culture. Berkeley…

📰 Classic Funnies est. 1980

Broom-Hilda

by Russell Myers

A 1,500-year-old green witch, a buzzard named Gaylord and a hairy Irwin haunt an enchanted forest. Russell My…

📰 Classic Funnies est. 1970

Calvin and Hobbes

by Bill Watterson

A six-year-old with a transmogrifier and a tiger who may or may not be stuffed. Bill Watterson's ten-year mas…

📰 Classic Funnies est. 1985

Cathy

by Cathy Guisewite

Career, chocolate, swimsuit season and "AACK!" — Cathy Guisewite turned modern womanhood's four basic anxiety…

📰 Classic Funnies est. 1976

Crock

by Bill Rechin & Don Wilder

The French Foreign Legion as run by the despicable Commandant Crock, marooned in a desert fort with the world…

📰 Classic Funnies est. 1975

Hägar the Horrible

by Dik Browne

A scruffy Viking raider who sacks England on weekdays and gets henpecked at home on weekends. Dik Browne's wa…

📰 Classic Funnies est. 1973

Momma

by Mell Lazarus

Tiny, mighty Sonya Hobbs guilt-trips her three grown children with Olympic-level precision. Mell Lazarus drew…

📰 Classic Funnies est. 1970

Monty

by Jim Meddick

Born as "Robotman" to sell a toy license, the strip outlived the robot and became a gloriously weird showcase…

📰 Classic Funnies est. 1985

Peanuts

by Charles M. Schulz

Charlie Brown, Snoopy and the gang turned childhood anxiety into the most beloved comic strip ever drawn. Cha…

📰 Classic Funnies est. 1950

Wee Pals

by Morrie Turner

The first nationally syndicated strip by a Black cartoonist, whose integrated "Rainbow Power" kid gang quietl…

📰 Classic Funnies est. 1965

Wizard of Id

by Brant Parker & Johnny Hart

A pint-sized tyrant rules a medieval kingdom of peasants, a soused jester and a wizard whose spells rarely wo…

📰 Classic Funnies est. 1964

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Vintage Treasures 12 strips Adventure & Story Classics 16 strips Story Webcomics 17 strips Animal Antics 17 strips Family Life 25 strips Geeky & Nerdy 22 strips Indie & Alt Web 26 strips Wholesome Web 19 strips Politics & Satire 17 strips World Funnies 16 strips Work & Office 9 strips Kids & School 14 strips Single Panel Gags 24 strips