Newspaper comic strips have been an important staple of the American experience since the late 19th century. They have their own genres and subgenres, from single-panel gags to slow-moving soap operas ...

AMSTERDAM (Reuters Life!) - From the simple sketches in America's turn-of-the-century Yiddish newspapers to Art Spiegelman's Holocaust narrative "Maus" 70 years on, comic strip art has long been used ...