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The Hogan’s Alley website is the online companion to the print edition, and here you’ll find features from past issues, Web Extras supplemental material, and other exclusive content you won’t find anywhere else! Dive right in, and we hope you’ll return often to discover the wonders of the award-winning Hogan’s Alley magazine! (And please note that the website contains only a small fraction of what the print edition features.)
Great content (old and new) from Hogan’s Alley
Johnny Hart, the innovative cartoonist behind The Wizard of Id and B.C., also produced clever and creative Christmas cards for his friends and family. Hogan’s Alley shares some of these holiday treasures with you.
Examining the Christmas strips of the master cartoonist Milton Caniff, we note that comic strips aren’t always funny—sometimes they can even carry a serious message.
Harold Gray, creator of Little Orphan Annie, America's favorite plucky cartoon orphan, created a Christmas card each year for decades, and it’s our privilege to share these cards with Hogan's Alley readers.
We are proud to present a collection of the Christmas card art of the late and very great Roy Doty. Doty, who had been a freelance cartoonist and illustrator since 1946, also that year drew a Christmas card to send to friends and colleagues, and he drew one each year afterward.
Cartoonists don't limit their expression to their published work. These Christmas cards show the warmth and humor that cartoonists sent to their friends and colleagues. So grab a cup of cheer and prepare to experience Christmas from a wide range of perspectives—spiritual and secular, symbolic and personal.
Dik Browne, the legendary cartoonist behind Hi and Lois and Hagar the Horrible, produced Christmas cards that showed the evolution of his family and their lives over the course of decades. Take a look at them and appreciate the singular talent of a giant of a man and a giant talent.
Cartoonist extraordinaire Arnold Roth has been creating entertaining, idiosyncratic Christmas cards for decades. We present a gallery of his holiday images and talk to Roth about his efforts to spread holiday cheer, one card at a time!
Are you looking for just the right issue of Hogan’s Alley? We’ve got you covered with this handy index, which lists the content to each issue as well as the creators and strips in each issue!
It’s our photo album from the National Cartoonists Society’s 2025 awards gala in Boston, filled with exclusive, behind-the-scenes images you won’t find anywhere else! It’s your chance to see dozens and dozens of your favorite cartoonists as you’ve never seen them before!
Despite our best efforts, we couldn’t fit everything that we wanted into Hogan’s Alley #24, so take a look at these great Web Extras, which we hope will enhance your reading experience.
We’ve published the long-awaited Hogan’s Alley #24, and you can now order a copy to be mailed to you! Read about the amazing issue we’ve published and place your order now!
Here’s your chance to own a signed copy (inscribed, if you want) of The Complete Betty Brown, Ph.G., the book compiling strips from 1934 to 1948 that tell the remarkable story of the first female professional in comics! (Each purchase includes an exclusive 8x10 print showcasing an image from the strip.)
Cartoonist Patrick McDonnell discusses his newest book, The Super Hero’s Journey, which is a nostalgic look at the Silver Age of Marvel Comics as well as a treatise on finding contentment in the world.
Our intrepid photographer was seemingly everywhere during the National Cartoonists Society’s 2023 Reuben Awards, so let this photo album take you behind the scenes at the gala event. You’ll see attendees mingle with their peers, receive awards, make speeches and even consume some adult beverages—it’s the next best thing to being there!
Cartoonist Bill Griffith talks with Hogan’s Alley editor Tom Heintjes about Three Rocks, his new graphic biography of Nancy creator Ernie Bushmiller.
In this interview, author Eliot Borenstein talks with Tom Heintjes of Hogan’s Alley about his new book, Marvel Comics in the 1970s: The World Inside Your Head, touching on topics including how the Marvel revolution in the 1960s laid the groundwork for the next decade’s author-driven point of view, how the new editorial philosophy germinated and grew, and why it ultimately couldn’t last.
Even cartoonists who became household names had to start somewhere. CAROL L. TILLEY surveys one path that helped some boys realize their professional dreams.
Even cartooning giants had to start somewhere. MIKE LYNCH talks to New Yorker legend George Booth about the early days of his illustrious career.
BILL BLACKBEARD examines Hearst’s scheme to expand his comics empire by creating “toppers,” or strips within strips. Though the gambit failed, it left behind some memorable work.
As expansive as the print edition of Hogan’s Alley #23 is, we always end up with lots of material we can show. So we invite you to gorge yourself on the Web Extras for this issue, the overflow from the print magazine and the material we couldn’t show in its original glorious color!
As Lincoln Peirce’s “Big Nate” prepares to make the jump from children’s books and newspaper comic strips to the small screen, Tom Heintjes talks to Peirce about the character’s evolution to animation and how he helped adapt his creation to a new medium.
Jack Mendelsohn had a hand in many iconic comics properties, from the animated Beatles cartoon Yellow Submarine to his fondly remembered newspaper strip Jackys Diary. JOHN PROVINCE interviews the creative chameleon Mendelsohn about his long and eclectic career.
Comic strips exist squarely at the intersection of art and commerce, and this has perhaps never been more true than in the case of Robotman (later rechristened Monty), Jim Meddick’s innovative strip that began its life as a children’s toy tie-in. TOM HEINTJES talks with Meddick about the circuitous path to creating a strip whose vision eventually became his own.
Journalists have a storied role in the history of comics, from breaking news to breaking hearts and heart-stopping antics in between. MICHELLE NOLAN gets the scoop on the fictional Fourth Estate.
ANDY BROOME looks back at the highs and (literal) lows of the career of Ted Mullings, a cartoonist who toiled for many years in extreme conditions.
An Atlanta-area university is hosting a major exhibit of original comic art, including works by legends such as Winsor McCay, Bill Watterson, Will Eisner, Neal Adams and dozens more. DOUG DeLOACH walks you through the exhibit’s many wonders and includes information on attending.
Three Black cartoonists—Barbara Brandon-Croft, Ray Billingsley and Lonnie Millsap—discuss the challenges of working in syndicated cartooning as African Americans in a conversation with Hogan’s Alley editor Tom Heintjes.
Cartoonist Bill Holbrook discusses his new graphic novel, Dethany and the Other Clique—an exploration of the younger years of Dethany the Corporate Goth—in an interview with Hogan’s Alley editor Tom Heintjes.
Comics veteran Hy Eisman has had more ghostly adventures than Casper. Mark Squirek talks to the man who has drawn a who’s who of famous characters.
Once almost entirely the professional domain of men, cartooning has seen its practitioners diversify considerably in recent years. Hogan’s Alley editor Tom Heintjes sat down with some female cartoonists to discuss their experiences in the industry and changes they’ve seen during their careers.
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