When Ray Billingsley’s gently funny, often insightful comic strip about an African-American family addressed the pandemic in real time, the story became heartbreakingly immediate.

In October 1988, King Features launched Billingsley’s comic strip “Curtis,” centering on the 11-year-old title character and brother Barry, and featuring a predominantly Black cast, which ...

While Curtis was not the first comic strip to focus on an African American family, it is still notable for being one of the few that has been nationally syndicated.

He’s Curtis, the latest addition to our comics page. Created by Ray Billingsley, the new weekday and Sunday strip follows 11-year-old Curtis Wesley Wilkins and his family.

Ray Billingsley, King Features Curtis, of the comic strip "Curtis," is taking on his bullies, Derrick and Onion, after more than 20 years of torment. The nationally syndicated strip was created by ...

Ray Billingsley's story is one of great tenacity and passion. A veteran cartoonist and comic artist, Billingsley is best known as the creator of the strip Curtis.. Debuting in 1988, Curtis was one ...

In one story line in Curtis, we meet an older Black cartoonist named Quincy Shearer, who tells Curtis about the old days.He’s clearly modeled after Ted Shearer, who created the comic strip Quincy.Did ...

The comic strip brings more edginess to the funny pages than most, ... Curtis, Shoe, and The Lockhorns "Hi & Lois" dates back to 1954 and was created by Mort Walker and illustrator Dik Browne.

The cartoon strip Curtis joins the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette comics pages beginning Monday, March 6. Curtis replaces Dilbert, which was dropped by newspapers across the country and then by Andrews ...

I am writing because of a change in the selection of comics in the Saturday edition of the Star. This may seem trivial, but you recently dropped Chuckle Bros and ...

Leave it to Curtis Friday’s Curtis comics strip is one of the most insightful in memory. Curtis explains to his mother that tattoos are no more an indication of gang membership than wearing a ...