Vintage Treasures

The founding geniuses of the funny pages — strips from the 1900s to the 1940s that invented the language every cartoonist still speaks.

Barney Google and Snuffy Smith

by Billy DeBeck

It gave English the words "heebie-jeebies," "hotsy-totsy" and "google" (yes, that Google traces its name here…

📜 Vintage Treasures est. 1919

Bringing Up Father

by George McManus

Jiggs wins the lottery, his wife Maggie wants high society, and Jiggs just wants corned beef with his old pal…

📜 Vintage Treasures est. 1913

Felix the Cat

by Otto Messmer & Pat Sullivan

The mischievous black cat was the world's first animation superstar before he ever hit newsprint. His strip r…

📜 Vintage Treasures est. 1923

Gasoline Alley

by Frank King

In 1921 a baby was left on Walt Wallet's doorstep — and unlike anyone else in comics, Skeezix grew up, went t…

📜 Vintage Treasures est. 1918

Krazy Kat

by George Herriman

A kat loves a mouse, the mouse throws bricks at the kat, and the kat takes each brick as a love letter. Surre…

📜 Vintage Treasures est. 1913

Li'l Abner

by Al Capp

Hillbilly satire from Dogpatch, USA that mocked everything America held dear — and America loved it, 60 milli…

📜 Vintage Treasures est. 1934

Little Nemo in Slumberland

by Winsor McCay

Every night a little boy dreams his way into the spectacular kingdom of Slumberland; every final panel he tum…

📜 Vintage Treasures est. 1905

Mutt and Jeff

by Bud Fisher

A tall schemer and a short stooge chasing racetrack money — widely considered the first successful daily comi…

📜 Vintage Treasures est. 1907

Pogo

by Walt Kelly

A gentle possum and the swamp critters of Okefenokee delivered the sharpest political satire of the 1950s. Wa…

📜 Vintage Treasures est. 1948

Popeye (Thimble Theatre)

by E.C. Segar

Thimble Theatre ran for a decade before a one-eyed sailor walked on as a bit player in 1929 and stole the who…

📜 Vintage Treasures est. 1919

Skippy

by Percy Crosby

A philosophical street kid in a giant checked hat, drawn with some of the loosest, liveliest brushwork the fu…

📜 Vintage Treasures est. 1923

The Katzenjammer Kids

by Rudolph Dirks

Hans and Fritz tormented der Captain for 109 years, making this the longest-running comic strip in history wh…

📜 Vintage Treasures est. 1897

More flavors of funny

Classic Funnies 14 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