ILLUSTRATION CREDITS

Unless otherwise indicated, images are from the author’s collection.

Big Ben Bolt, © King Features Syndicate, Inc., world rights reserved.

Courtesy of Mort Walker and the family of Jerry Dumas, used by permission.

Courtesy of Mort Walker, used by permission.

Courtesy of James Stevenson, used by permission.

Photograph © SEPS, licensed by Curtis Licensing, Indianapolis, Indiana.

The Ohio State University, Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum.

Herbert Gehr/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images.

The Ohio State University, Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum.

Reprinted by permission of the Norman Rockwell Family Agency; © the Norman Rockwell Family Entities. Illustration provided by Curtis Licensing.

George Bridgman, Constructive Anatomy.

Courtesy of the family of Jerry Dumas, used by permission.

Courtesy of Mort Walker and the family of Dik Browne, used by permission.

The Ohio State University, Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum.

Courtesy of the Charles M. Schulz Museum and Research Center, Santa Rosa, California.

Courtesy of Mort Walker, used by permission.

Big Ben Bolt, © King Features Syndicate, Inc., world rights reserved.

Hi and Lois, © King Features Syndicate, Inc., world rights reserved.

Photograph by Chance Browne; courtesy of the family of Dik Browne, used by permission.

The Heart of Juliet Jones, © King Features Syndicate, Inc., world rights reserved.

The Little King, © King Features Syndicate, Inc., world rights reserved.

Milton Caniff Collection, The Ohio State University, Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum.

Prince Valiant, © King Features Syndicate, Inc., world rights reserved.

Prince Valiant, © King Features Syndicate, Inc., world rights reserved.

The Ohio State University, Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum.

Photograph by Victoria Garagliano/© Hearst Castle®/CA State Parks.

James Montgomery Flagg.

Milton Caniff Collection, The Ohio State University, Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum.

Bettman/Getty Images.

Big Ben Bolt, © King Features Syndicate, Inc., world rights reserved.

Walt Kelly Collection, The Ohio State University, Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum.

Courtesy of Mort Walker, used by permission.

Big Ben Bolt, © King Features Syndicate, Inc., world rights reserved.

Martin Sheridan, Comics and Their Creators (Boston: Cushman and Flint, 1942; Westport, CT: Hyperion, 1971).

Courtesy of Mort Walker, used by permission.

Reprint courtesy of Classic Cool/Milton Caniff Estate. © 2017 Classic Cool/Milton Caniff Estate. All rights reserved.

Photograph copyright © The Harold R. Foster Estate, and appears with the estate’s permission.

Sam and Silo, © King Features Syndicate, Inc., world rights reserved.

Courtesy of the family of Dik Browne, used by permission.

Otto Soglow/The New Yorker Collection/The Cartoon Bank.

Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester; photograph courtesy of Dartmouth College Library.

Reprinted by permission of the Norman Rockwell Family Agency; © the Norman Rockwell Family Entities; Norman Rockwell Museum Digital Collection.

Courtesy of 18 Stafford Terrace (Linley Sambourne House), Kensington, London.

Sam’s Strip, © King Features Syndicate, Inc., world rights reserved.

Prince Valiant, © King Features Syndicate, Inc., world rights reserved.

Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (London: T. Becket and P. A. Dehondt, 1762).

Anne S. K. Brown Military Collection, John Hay Library, Brown University.

Courtesy of Mort Walker, used by permission.

Courtesy of Joseph G. Farris, used by permission.

Courtesy of Peter and Tanner Saxon, used by permission.

Courtesy of the family of Dik Browne, used by permission.

Anne S. K. Brown Military Collection, John Hay Library, Brown University.

Courtesy of Joan Byrne Murphy, used by permission.

Anne S. K. Brown Military Collection, John Hay Library, Brown University.

Anne S. K. Brown Military Collection, John Hay Library, Brown University.

Anne S. K. Brown Military Collection, John Hay Library, Brown University.

Courtesy of Joan Byrne Murphy, used by permission.

Anne S. K. Brown Military Collection, John Hay Library, Brown University.

Anne S. K. Brown Military Collection, John Hay Library, Brown University.

Anne S. K. Brown Military Collection, John Hay Library, Brown University.

Prince Valiant, © King Features Syndicate, Inc., world rights reserved.

Courtesy of Joan Byrne Murphy, used by permission.

Milton Caniff Collection, The Ohio State University, Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Company.

Courtesy of Cait Murphy, used by permission.

The Ohio State University, Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum.

Artwork copyright © and TM Rube Goldberg Inc. All rights reserved. RUBE GOLDBERG ® is a registered trademark of Rube Goldberg Inc. All materials used with permission. rubegoldberg.com.

The Ohio State University, Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum.

Courtesy of the family of Dik Browne, used by permission.

Bernard Hoffman/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images.

The Ohio State University, Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum.

Courtesy of Joan Byrne Murphy, used by permission.

Courtesy of Joan Byrne Murphy, used by permission.

National Cartoonists Society.

Hägar the Horrible, © King Features Syndicate, Inc., world rights reserved.

Courtesy of Mort Walker, used by permission.

Courtesy of Tim Dumas, used by permission.

Courtesy of Mort Walker, used by permission.

Courtesy of the Jerry Dumas family, used by permission.

Sam’s Strip, © King Features Syndicate, Inc., world rights reserved.

Courtesy of Mort Walker, used by permission.

The Heart of Juliet Jones, © King Features Syndicate, Inc., world rights reserved.

The Heart of Juliet Jones, © King Features Syndicate, Inc., world rights reserved.

Courtesy of Peter and Tanner Saxon, used by permission.

Courtesy of Joan Byrne Murphy, used by permission.

Prince Valiant, © King Features Syndicate, Inc., world rights reserved.

Photograph copyright © The Harold R. Foster Estate, and appears with the estate’s permission.

Creepy, © 2017 New Comic Company.

Prince Valiant, © King Features Syndicate, Inc., world rights reserved.

Murphy family collection.

Prince Valiant, © King Features Syndicate, Inc., world rights reserved.

Prince Valiant, © King Features Syndicate, Inc., world rights reserved.

Prince Valiant, © King Features Syndicate, Inc., world rights reserved.

Prince Valiant, © King Features Syndicate, Inc., world rights reserved.

Prince Valiant, © King Features Syndicate, Inc., world rights reserved.

Courtesy of Mort Walker, used by permission.

Murphy family collection.

Courtesy of Joan Byrne Murphy, used by permission.