William “Bill” Nightingale ’53, an active alumnus of Yale for 65 years, recently donated his collection of more than 300 cartoon books to the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library. The Beinecke ...

Filmmaker George Griffin is donating his collection of nearly 400 books to the Prelinger Library. Founded by Rick Prelinger and his wife, Megan Shaw Prelinger, in 2004, The Library is an appropriation ...

Bill Ward used to say he always knew art was his destiny—his surname was “draw” backward. Starting out as a layout man laboring on the two-fisted adventures of Doc Savage and the Shadow, he spent ...

James Sturm, Andrew Arnold, and Alexis Frederick-Frost. Roaring Brook/First Second, $9.99 paper (64p) ISBN 978-1-59643-730-2 Kids are asking for high-tech gifts instead of old-fashioned ones, and ...

Go to the art section of your local bookstore and you'll find any number of books on How to Be a Cartoonist. It's a staggering number, and they'll all offer the beginner an introduction the basics of ...

Steve Martin's new comedy book satirizes the eating habits of dogs among other animal habits. Casey Curry/Invision/AP; Alamy “I’ve always looked at cartooning as comedy’s last frontier,” writes Steve ...

Three of Sturm's previously released graphic novels are gathered to create a Howard Zinn–like look at lesser-known episodes of America's past. "The Revival" is a short, sharp piece dramatizing the ...