For 33 years, the flamboyant main character Sylvia sported a feather boa and bedrooms slippers while wise-cracking on numerous subjects.

Her best-known creation was a sendup of a certain kind of female stock character. But Ms. Noomin rendered her with compassion, and used her to tell important stories. By Penelope Green Diane Noomin, ...

Aline Kominsky-Crumb, a great and trailblazing cartoonist, died this week in her home in France at age 74 from pancreatic cancer. Kominsky-Crumb grew up in Long Island, and the agonies and ...

Cartoonist and writer Liza Donnelly began drawing some 60 years ago, when she was around 7, after her mother gave her a book by James Thurber. She started tracing his art, and it made her mom smile.

Our culture is wary of women controlling their own bodies. This fear of women’s agency extends beyond health care into creative freedom: The patriarchy wants to control how we use our bodies in our ...

Eli was five years old when we went to go see the original How to Train Your Dragon in 2010. When we walked out of the theater, I asked him if he liked the movie. “If I had seen that movie one million ...