About the Comic Strip Archive
March 12, 2008Thanks for visiting my site. I’ve had this site up and running for a while, and I started it primarily as an easy way for me to catch up on the storylines of some comics I had missed after they got canceled from my local newspaper. After a few months, I realized that I was getting hundreds of new visitors a day, so I guess I’m not the only one looking for comic archives.
Later on, I figured it would be fun to add a bit of commentary, so that’s what the blog is for.
Please keep in mind that ComicStripArchive.com does not own the rights to these comic strips, nor do we host them on our server. We just provide an easy-to-navigate group of links to publicly available pages on the web.
Peruse the site to your heart’s content, and be sure to check back and post comments.
Thanks for visiting!
Not sure if your into looking at new comic strips or not. I have a comic strip called “The Bureaucrats” Its new, and I’m getting about 6,000 hits a month on my website to view my comic strip. If you think it is good for your site, I would be happy to provide links on my site to yours.
Comment by Robert Renaud — December 24, 2008 @ 10:15 am
Love the website.
Could you reverse the order of the links so that the most recent would be at the top of the page? It would make the site easier to use.
Thanks
Comment by Frank Light — December 26, 2008 @ 11:46 am
Any ideas on where I can find 1960’s vintage archives of barney google comics strips?
Thanks
Comment by Glenn — January 5, 2009 @ 12:48 pm
I am looking for particular Marmaduke comics (if more than one that I have originally seen) that depicted Marmaduke laying on a therapist’s couch with a psychiatrist asking Marmaduke, “So tell me how long you have believed that you are human”? I am a therapist and really would like to have a copy of this comic for myself as well as patients to see as well. Marmaduke is one of my favorite comic characters, thus as I fan I feel a deep desire to obtain this comic as well as others that have a thread of this same “therapy” theme. I appreciate any help and/or direction that you can provide me. Douglas Riddle 2335D. Kratky Rd. St. Louis, MO. 63114
Comment by Douglas Riddle — January 27, 2009 @ 12:30 pm
Howdy,
Love the site and catching up on a lot of strips.
Question: On your comic strip archives from the Houston Chronicle on the right column; When I click on a particular strip that falls under their “color” strips heading, I can’t seem to call up any of the strips prior to June 26th of 2004. I’ve tried resetting my security settings as they’ve suggested, but nothing seems to work (running Firefox on a Mac…). I have no problems calling up the B&W ones, however. Do you know if their color comics only go back that far? Can you yourself access them further back?
thanx
brian
Comment by brian clark — February 10, 2009 @ 7:41 pm
Hello, and thanks for writing. I’ve found that strips in early 2004 are often hit or miss. I’m not sure if there’s a rhyme or reason to it. I know I’ve viewed some strips from January and February 2004 in the past, but they were usually interspersed with the error image, so I’m not sure if there’s a specific cut-off date.
I actually just did some checking and I called up some color comics from 2003. I never even realized those were still there. Maybe I’ll make the color archive links go back further and see what happens.
Comment by admin — February 10, 2009 @ 9:14 pm
I am in need of some info on an old comic strip called, Andy Gump. Andy Gump was the lead character in a Chicago Tribune comic strip that was wildly popular in the 1920,s till 1959. Andy Gump was created by Sidney Smith. Do you know where I can get old comic books or some picture of this magazine?
Comment by Garry in Ohio — February 13, 2009 @ 9:18 pm
Hello, my name is Basil Zaviski. I would like the deployed Troops to enjoy sites like yours. feel free to check out gunstonstreet.com
Its a comic for the Soldier drawn by a Soldier. I am currently running Gunston Street weekly in the Stars & Stripes.
Thank you for your time.
Basil
Comment by Basil Zaviski — February 15, 2009 @ 12:22 pm
Love the site and visit it every day because it’s the fastest way to get my fix. One question, though. Have you considered chronologically reversing the presentation on the archive pages so that 2009 is at the top and 2001 at the bottom?
Comment by Bob Shore — February 21, 2009 @ 3:45 am
Hi
I love this site. This is great, thank you so much!
I really enjoyed a particular comic by Ziggy. The comic was published before 2001, because I do not see it in your archives. The comic is about Ziggy looking for LOVE. I think it ran as a Sunday comic at the time because it has a lot of blocks. After Ziggy searched high and low for LOVE he found it in the last block or frame as he pulled up the grass from the ground. It may have ran near or on Valentine’s Day.
I didn’t save it, but I never forgot that comic.
I would appreciate if you could post it, if you had access to it.
Thank you once again!
Comment by savvy_artist — February 24, 2009 @ 8:55 am
Why don’t you have Reynolds Unwrapped on your list. I think it’s one of the, if not the best cartoons offered by gocomics?
What’s up with that?
Mike
Comment by mike jones — March 14, 2009 @ 9:59 pm
Thanks again for keeping this up — it’s the best thing around for locating an old strip to check continuity or look up an image.
I don’t mean to be picky, but why no Phantom?
Comment by Uncle Lumpy — April 5, 2009 @ 5:55 pm
I have written this website with hopes of getting a response to my request for information. Do you answer the comments that are sent to you? am wanting a response to this comment!!!!!!!!!!
Comment by Douglas Riddle — May 7, 2009 @ 10:59 pm
Uh-oh!
It looks like Chron.com cleared out there archives. I’m not getting anything more than a month or so old.
Bummer.
This is probably all part of a big push by newspapers to charge a little badly needed dinero for archived material.
Comment by mike — May 8, 2009 @ 12:20 am
Hi, I was wondering if there is something wrong with the 9 Chickweed Lane archive. I have been looking at it almost daily and now it is listed as “feature unavailable”.
Any idea why?
Thanks,
David
Comment by David — May 8, 2009 @ 6:28 am
The Houston Chronicle has essentially dropped its comic archive. Only the last 30 days are now available. For that reason, all of your archive links that point to chron.com are now dead. Bummer.
Comment by CoBass — May 10, 2009 @ 1:07 am
HChron, as of 9 May 2009, has taken down (or is in process of taking down) all its archives. Most of your links are dead.
Comment by Sisyphos — May 10, 2009 @ 1:07 am
Most of the 9 Chickweed Lane and Kudzu archives are no longer available.
Do you know when the Houston Chronicle will make them available again?
Comment by Henry — May 12, 2009 @ 11:28 am
I’m looking for a very old comic character called Scudnubbin’. My father is 82 and he he said that this was his nickname when he was little. There was a comic strip character of this name that everyone thought he looked like. Anyone ever heard of it?
Comment by Amy — May 20, 2009 @ 12:31 pm
Hello,
The only thing I could find was an old strip called “John Law”, where there was a character called “Nubbin”. Perhaps that is what you’re looking for - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Law_(comics)
Comment by admin — May 28, 2009 @ 3:42 pm
Hello,
I try to respond to comments as often as possible, but the world of actual work always seems to get in the way. This site is just a side project for me, and sites that I actually make money from have to take precedence.
What type of information request do you have?
Robert
Comment by admin — May 28, 2009 @ 3:45 pm
I gotta say, I’m VERY disappointed I can’t access ANY of the links for 9 Chickweed Lane. It’s one of my favorite comic strips. Any idea where extensive archives might be?
Thanks,
S.Gordon
Comment by Shannon Gordon — June 8, 2009 @ 12:23 pm
Why is it you cannot view strips from years other 2009? Also it is
only the last month of 2009 up to current month that you can view.
Comment by S Baker — July 7, 2009 @ 2:01 pm
Hello, and thanks for writing.
I actually explain about that at this link - http://www.comicstriparchive.com/uncategorized/recent-changes-to-comic-archives though it actually looks like some of the archives on Chron.com are back. I’m not sure what happened, but I’m still looking into other methods of linking. For now, it looks like the archive is working, at least to some extent.
Comment by admin — July 7, 2009 @ 2:15 pm
Dear Sir;
My name is Dariush Ramezani. I am a cartoonist. I have published some cartoon books and won some prizes in international cartoon contests such as Grand prize in EUROHUMOUR (2006) in Italy and first prize in India (2007)…
I am working on a comic strip collection about a dear. DEAR DEER has a funny character. He has a good friend too! A sheep! I have written and draw many comic stories about it.
Now, I am trying to publish them in a magazine or a newspaper.
what can I do?
Sincerely yours,
Dariush Ramezani
My site: http://www.dariushramezani.com
My email: dariushramezani2003@yahoo.com
dariush.ramezani@gmail.com
Comment by dariush — July 28, 2009 @ 5:09 am
what happened to non sequitur archives been missing for months
Comment by anthony — August 6, 2009 @ 4:34 pm
the houston chronicle site comes up not avaialble on Kudzu
any other venues?
Comment by JL Byrd — August 20, 2009 @ 9:51 pm
Hi
This is a great site. If you happen to miss a couple of days it is easy to catch up. Archives of Funky Winkerbean were sometimes hard to find….not anymore.
I was looking to find some “Far Side” comics. Do you know anywhere that I might be able to find them, or if you are able to put them on your site?
Comment by Blair Porter — August 28, 2009 @ 7:21 am
I am a librarian at a public library who is helping one of our patron to find the Spider-Man comic strips which ran from December 1993 to February 1994 — does anyone know which newspapers this might have run in?
Thank you.
Comment by BA McCann — September 1, 2009 @ 10:40 pm
How does one get the Sunday Comics from the Chronicle. Is there something to put in he URL. Comics.Com has been down for a couple of days so there are some Sunday Comics I can not get from other papers.
Comment by sanford sklansky — September 6, 2009 @ 3:08 pm
All of the links for “Heart of the City” are broken. It’s one of my favorite strips and was recently dropped by Northern N.J.’s largest newspaper, the Star-Ledger. I miss it terribly.
Comment by Ann — October 4, 2009 @ 12:40 pm
My father used to call us by nicknames. My sister’s was Baby Dookins/Dukens/Dukins? Not sure of the spelling. He told us it was from an old comic strip in the 40’s. Dad’s gone now and I don’t remember the name of the comic strip and never knew how to spell Baby Dookins…. Anybody out there have any idea what I’m talking about?
Comment by ann — November 13, 2009 @ 7:59 pm
I am a teacher, and there was a curtis comic strip where curtis was playing basketball with another boy, when he realized he had to come home for dinner. The other boy said ‘my parents don’t care how late I stay out’, which curtis kept thinking about on the way home until he isolated the phrase ‘my parents don’t care.’ If you have any idea of the date that comic was printed or the title, or where I can find it, I would be greatly appreciative. Thank you for your time.
Comment by Mr. Kabrovich — November 21, 2009 @ 2:55 am
Great website, anybody know who wrote the comic strip called the astronaut and the bird? Thanks!
Comment by lisa — December 6, 2009 @ 7:23 pm
Okay, I’ve got a question about identifying an old strip, and I swear that anybody who can answer will be put in my will! I saw a strip in the paper (probably between 1988 and 1998) that showed a man and woman talking to a doctor. I can’t remember if he was a regular doctor, a shrink or a vet, but they wanted to know why their cat liked her but not him. The man said “Why doesn’t the cat like me?” and the doctor said “Let me ’splain,” and pulled down a screen chart covered with pics of electric tools and the lawnmower and said that the cat didn’t like the guy because he smelled of oil and machinery and cats don’t like that. Then the woman said “Well, then, why does the cat like ME?” and the doctor again said “Let me ’splain” and pulled down another big screen…with a picture of a fish on it. I laughed until there was pain involved and meant to save it, but I didn’t and now I can’t remember which strip it was. It was one about ordinary people, like Sally Forth or Rose is Rose, but I can’t remember. Anybody out there have a better memory than mine?
Comment by Dorothy — January 4, 2010 @ 1:35 am